A/Prof. Ann Vickery

Ann is Associate Professor in Writing and Literature and specialises in poetry, modernism, and gender studies. She is the author of Devious Intimacy (Hunter Publishers, 2015), The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon (Vagabond Press, 2014), Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (Salt, 2007) and Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (Wesleyan UP, 2000). She co-wrote The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (National Library of Australia, 2009) with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman, co-edited Poetry and the Trace (Puncher and Wattmann, 2013) with John Hawke, and co-edited Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines (Australian Literary Studies, 2007) with Margaret Henderson. 

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 is a member of the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University. In 2016, she was the Australasian representative at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.

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.

Social Poetics, 20th and 21st century American poetry, Australian poetry, Australian and American modernism, archival methodologies, literary feminisms 

Australian Modernist Studies Network 
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Modernist Studies Association
Australian Women and Gender Studies Association

Ann has particular teaching interests and expertise in contemporary literature, modernist literature, Australian literature, poetry, Romanticism, Gothic and supernatural literature, archival methodologies, and gender and sexuality studies. 

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
AAR410 Honours Research Methods
AAR412 Honours Research Theory

Poetry and poetics, Australian literature, literary archives, modernism, gender and sexuality.

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.

Advisory Boards

Ann is on the advisory board of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Palgrave Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Anthem Press, Rabbit: A Journal of Nonfiction Poetry, and Cordite Poetry Review.

Editor

Ann has been a past poetry editor and continuing consulting editor at Puncher and Wattmann, editor-in-chief of HOW2, and a managing editor at Journal of Poetics Research.

Judge

Ann has been the chair of the AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship (2019, 2020), a judge of the Mary Gilmore Prize (poetry), the Voss Literary Prize (fiction), and the Western Australia Premier's Prize for Poetry.

Contemporary Histories Research Group

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).

Building on her interest in social poetics, Ann is exploring the interaction between (predominantly women) writers and artists associated with the New York School from the mid 40s to mid 60s.

Ann is also working on a study of the impact of second and third-wave feminism in Australian poetry from 1968 onwards. It extends to a consideration of changes in the practices of editing, the role of small press, community formations, performance and cross-media experimentation, and the impact of digital technologies.