Biography
Currently Head of Writing, Literature, and Culture at Deakin, Ann works across the fields of literary studies, creative writing, and gender and sexuality studies.
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- Ann is Associate Professor in writing and literature and specialises in poetry, modernism, and literary feminisms. She is currently co-leader of the Literature & Its Readers research cluster at Deakin. She co-founded the Australasian Modernist Studies Network with Lorraine Sim and James Smith, and remains on its advisory board. She was co-founder and editor-in-chief (2000-2001) of HOW2, a journal of innovative women's writing and scholarship. She has been poetry editor of Puncher and Wattman and remains a consulting editor. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne. This was followed by a Macquarie University Research Fellowship, a Fulbright Postdoctoral Award (Yale University and Temple University), and a Monash University Research Fellowship. She joined Deakin in 2009.
Books
- Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (Salt, 2007)
- Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (Wesleyan UP, 2000).
- The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (National Library of Australia, 2009) (with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman)
- Poetry and the Trace (Puncher and Wattmann, 2013) (co-edited with John Hawke)
- Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines (Australian Literary Studies, 2007) (co-edited with Margaret Henderson)
Poetry Collections
- Devious Intimacy (Hunter Publishing, 2015)
- The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon (Vagabond Press, 2014)
Feature Journal Issues
- Vickery, Ann, Daniel Marshall, and Emma Whatman. “Queer Legacies, New Solidarities,” Hecate 44.1-2 (2018).
- Sim, Lorraine and Ann Vickery, eds. “Modernism, Intimacy, and Emotion,” Affirmations: Of the Modern 1.2 (2014).
- Alizadeh, Ali and Ann Vickery, eds. “The Political Imagination: Postcolonial and Diasporic Contemporary Poetries,” Southerly 73.1 (2013).
- Vickery, Ann, ed. “Masque,” Cordite Poetry Review 43 (2013). http://cordite.org.au/content/poetry/masque/.
Research interests
Social Poetics, 20th and 21st century American poetry, Australian poetry, Australian and American modernism, archival methodologies, literary feminisms
Affiliations
Australian Modernist Studies Network
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Modernist Studies Association
Australian Women and Gender Studies Association
Teaching interests
Ann is particularly interested in supervising students in the areas of poetry, literary feminisms, modernism, Australian literature, American literature, and archival methodologies.
Units taught
ALL201 From Romanticism to Realism
ALL202 Modernism/Postmodernism
ALL201 Love, Death, and Poetry
ALL202 Writing Modern Worlds
ALL256 Gender, Sex and Literature
AGS102 Histories of Sex and Gender
ALL727 Contemporary Poetry
ALL727 Sex, the Body and American Poetry
AAR410 Honours Research Methods
AAR412 Honours Research Theory
Knowledge areas
Poetry and poetics, Australian literature, literary archives, modernism, literary feminisms.
Conferences
Conference Convenor
(with Daniel Marshall and Emma Whatman), "Queer Legacies, New Solidarities" conference, 22-24 November 2018, Deakin University, Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA), Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives (ALGA). Held at Deakin University and the State Library of Victoria. Also celebrating the 40th anniversary of ALGA.
(with Lyn Hejinian, Eric Falci, and Kate Fagan), "Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry" conference, 14-16 April 2016, University of California, Berkeley.
(with Jessica L Wilkinson, Cassandra Atherton, Anna Poletti, and Melinda Harvey), "Women's Writing and Environment," 5th Contemporary Women's Writing conference, 3-5 July 2014, State Library of Victoria.
(with Lorraine Sim) "Modernism, Intimacy and Emotion," Inaugural Modernist Studies Network Symposium, 6-7 February 2012, University of Western Sydney.
(with Michael Farrell), "Poetry and the Contemporary" Symposium, 7-10 July 2011, Victorian Trades Hall. With John Hawke and Rose Lucas. "Poetry and the Trace: An International Conference," 13-16 July 2009, State Library of Victoria.
(with Margaret Henderson). "Manifesting Literary Feminisms: Drafts, Grafts, Nexus and Faultlines," 13-14 December 2007, Monash University.
(with John Hawke and Rose Lucas), "Poetry and the Trace," July 2008, Monash University.
Professional activities
Organisations
- Vice-President (Admin) of the Australian University Heads of English and Victorian representative.
Advisory Boards
- Australasian Modernist Studies Network,
- Palgrave Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
- Anthem Press (Australian Literature)
- Rabbit: A Journal of Nonfiction Poetry
- Cordite Poetry Review.
Editor
- Past poetry editor and consulting editor, Puncher and Wattmann
Judge
- AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship (2019-20)
- Voss Literary Prize (2018, 2020)
Research groups
Literature & Its Readers
Creative Writing & Community
Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network
Contemporary Histories Research Group
Awards
Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Womens Poetry (2007) was shortlisted for the Walter McRae Russell Award in 2009 and the NSW Premiers Prize for Literary Scholarship in 2008.
The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon (2015) was commended in the FAW Anne Elder Award. An earlier version was shortlisted for the Helen Bell Bequest Award (2013).
Projects
- Practices of Care in The New York School: how did the cross-disciplinary interactions of the New York School imaginatively explore alternative models of care and how might they provide valuable models for care in the contemporary era?
- Bridging Feminist Care across Lyric and Memoir: how is contemporary women’s poetry crossing traditional forms to articulate feminist models of care? This project has a particular focus on motherhood and friendship
- Mapping Histories and Pedagogies of Australian Poetry: how might histories of Australian poetry provide insights into Australian culture and what kinds of approaches might we bring to Australian poetry to better understand its significance within Australia and internationally?
Publications
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Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
Ella O'Keefe
Thesis entitled: Mobile Image: Reading Modes of Vision in Forrest-Thomson and Guest
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Dylan Gregory Holdsworth
Thesis entitled: Dis-topias: The Government of Disability in Dystopian Children's Literature
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Thomas Dylan Sandercock
Thesis entitled: Telling Trans: Reading Transgender Representation in Texts for Young People
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Megan Jane Mooney Taylor
Thesis entitled: Mythmaking and Masculinity in the Fiction of Norman Lindsay
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Katrina Hansord
Thesis entitled: 'spirit-music' Unbound: Romanticism and Print Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (1830-1905)
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Daniel Joshua Lewis
Thesis entitled: "Dead-Channel" : Writing Cyberpunk
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Autumn Lace Royal
Thesis entitled: Poetry and the Elegiac Self: A Creative Thesis with Exegesis
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Andrew Lindsay Gaylard
Thesis entitled: Poetic Neologism in English from the Renaissance to Modernism
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Shelley Lee Buerger
Thesis entitled: Tell Me Something: The Poetics of Maternal Subjectivity
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Janine Gibson
Thesis entitled: Australian Elegy: Landscape and Identity
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Kathryn Keeble
Thesis entitled: Lord of the ring: redressing the white oliphant
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts