Biography
Ann Vickery is Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She is co-leader of Reading Writing Futures research group and a member of the Contemporary Histories Research Group.
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- Ann 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 was co-founder and editor-in-chief (2000-2001) of HOW2, an early online journal of innovative women's writing and scholarship. She joined Deakin in 2009 and co-founded the Australasian Modernist Studies Network with Lorraine Sim and James Smith the same year. In 2021, she became series editor of Palgrave's Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. She has edited The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry (in press) and co-editing The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry.
Books
- The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (National Library of Australia, 2009) (with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman)
- 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)
Edited Collections
- Ann Vickery and Philip Mead, eds. The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024).
- Ann Vickery, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024).
- 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
- Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Care Pack (Vagabond Press, 2021)
- 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/.
Career highlights
Australasian representative at the 47th Poetry International Festival Rotterdam in 2016.
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, archival methodologies, and dementia and literature.
Units taught
Present units:
ALL202 Writing Modern Worlds; ALL727 Sex, the Body and American Poetry
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
- President of the Australian University Heads of English
Advisory Boards
- Overland
- Australasian Modernist Studies Network
- Anthem Press Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
- Rabbit: A Journal of Nonfiction Poetry
- Cordite Poetry Review.
Editor
- Series editor of Palgrave's Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Judge
- AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship (2019-20)
- Voss Literary Prize (2018, 2020-2022)
- Mary Gilmore Award (2017, 2021)
Fellowships
- S.W. Brooks Fellowship, University of Queensland, 2022
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 Poetry was shortlisted for both the NSW Premier's Prize for Literary Scholarship and the biennial Walter McRae Russell Award.
The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon was commended for the FAW Anne Elder Award. Its manuscript was shortlisted for the biennial Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award.
Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Care Pack was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, 2022, Its manuscript was shortlisted for the biennial Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award.
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
"Against the Violence of Gravity"
Ann Vickery
(2023), pp. xxv-xxxiii, Harsh Hakea: Collected Poems Volume Two (2005-2014), Crawley, W.A., B1
Dementia, Ageism and the Limits of Critique in Thea Astley's Satire
Ann Vickery
(2022), Vol. 22, pp. 1-8, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
Changing Topographies, New Feminisms, and Women Poets
Ann Vickery
(2021), pp. 71-89, Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry, Cambridge, Eng., B1
Ann Vickery
(2021), pp. 217-228, New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry, Basingstoke, Eng., B1
ART AND ACTS OF SEEING IN THE WORK OF JOHN KINSELLA
A Vickery
(2021), Vol. 26, pp. 16-31, Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, C1
Towards a hospitable poetics: Accommodating dementia through contemporary lyric
Ann Vickery
(2021), pp. 1-16, TEXT, Nathan, Qld., C1
Richard Mahony's Most August Imagination
Ann Vickery
(2021), pp. 1-1, Australian Book Review, Melbourne, Vic., JO3
Revaluing Memoir and Rebuilding Mothership in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts
Ann Vickery
(2020), Vol. 35, pp. 1-15, Australian Literary Studies, Wollongong, N.S.W., C1
Ann Vickery
(2019), Vol. 9, pp. 109-114, Australian poetry journal, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Cassandra Atherton
(2019), pp. 1-1, Personal Structures: Identities Exhibition, Venice, Italy, J3
Australian women's poetry and feminism
A Vickery
(2018), Oxford research encyclopedias literature, Oxford, Eng., B1
Between housework and carrying her home: Natalie Harkin's reparative poetics
A Vickery
(2018), pp. 337-356, Feeding the ghost 1: criticism on contemporary Australian poetry, Waratah, N.S.W., B1
Ann Vickery
(2018), Vol. 18, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Hobart, TAS, C1
Listed land uses of Moonee Ponds creek
A Vickery
(2018), Vol. 5, Plumwood Mountain: an Australian journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics, Seaford, Vic., J3
Ann Vickery
(2018), Vol. 8, pp. 34-34, Australian Poetry Journal, Melbourne, Vic., J3
'In the merry foam : the minor intimacy of Frank O'Hara and Jane Freilicher
A Vickery
(2017), pp. 233-251, Lovers of my orchards: Writers and artists on Frank O'Hara, Paris, France, B1
Ann Vickery
(2017), Vol. 44, pp. 127-141, Paideuma: modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, Orono, Me., B1
Un(dis)closed: Reading the Poetry of Emma Lew
A Vickery
(2017), pp. 1-1, Cordite poetry review, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Crossing geographies, crossing languages
A Vickery
(2016), pp. 274-288, A history of twentieth-century American women's poetry, Cambridge, Eng., B1
A Vickery
(2016), Vol. 31, pp. 68-73, Wasafiri, London, Eng., C1
Ghostly sisters: feminist collaborative performance in Australia
A Vickery
(2016), pp. 1-1, Axon: creative explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1
An object exists only as it exists to another
A Vickery
(2016), Cordite poetry review, Melbourne, Vic., J3
A Vickery
(2016), Vol. 18, pp. 18-19, Rabbit: a journal of nonfiction poetry, Melbourne, Vic., J3
On the Occasion of Gig Ryan's Sixtieth Birthday
M Farrell, O Yu, L Armand, B Cassidy, K Lilley, J Hand, T Fitch, T Ryan, J Kinsella, E O'Keefe, K Fagan, A Rolfe, M Bufton, N Tien Hoang, L Gorton, L Ferney, A Vickery
(2016), pp. 1-1, Overland, Melbourne, Vic., J3
A Vickery
(2015), pp. 181-181, Vlak: Contemporary poetics and the arts, Prague, Czech Republic, J3
New feelings: modernism, intimacy, and emotion
L Sim, A Vickery
(2014), Vol. 1, pp. 1-14, Affirmations: Of the modern, Sydney, N. S. W., C1
"Against Colony Collapse Disorder; or, Settler Mess in the Cells of Contemporary Australian Poetry"
A Vickery
(2014), pp. 58-76, Arc Poetry Magazine, Ottawa, C1
"Kind of, In Kind: The Politics of Circulating Feelings in the Writing of Juliana Spahr"
A Vickery
(2014), Vol. 4, Axon: Creative Explorations, Canberra, C1
In/complete : locating origins of the poet in Jennifer Moxley's 'in memoriams' to Helena Bennett
A Vickery
(2013), pp. 191-207, Among friends : engendering the social site of poetry, Iowa City, Iowa, B1-1
To hold the hole: poetry and the trace
A Vickery
(2013), pp. 9-23, Poetry and the trace, Glebe, N.S.W., B1
The political imagination : postcolonialism and diaspora in contemporary Australian poetry
A Vickery, A Alizadeh
(2013), Vol. 73, pp. 7-21, Southerly : the political imagination, Sydney, NSW, C1
Anthologies and the anti-republic of Australian gay and lesbian poetry
A Vickery
(2012), pp. 257-266, Republics of letters : literary communities in Australia, Sydney, N.S.W., B1
A Vickery, A Vickery
(2012), pp. 22-22, The best Australian poems 2012, Melbourne, Vic., J3
Bourdieu at Balmain, or a few field notes on John Tranter and contemporary Australian poetry
A Vickery
(2010), pp. 116-139, The salt companion to John Tranter, Cambridge, England, B1-1
M Dever, S Newman, A Vickery
(2010), Vol. 38, pp. 94-137, Archives and Manuscripts, Sydney South, N.S.W., C1-1
The intimate archive : journeys through private papers
M Dever, S Newman, A Vickery
(2009), Canberra, A.C.T., A1
Manifesting Australian literary feminisms : nexus and faultlines
A Vickery, M Henderson
(2009), pp. 1-19, Australian literary feminisms : nexus and faultlines., Ipswich, Qld., B1
An uncanny vernacular : comparing the radical modernisms of Lorine Niedecker and Lesbia Harford
A Vickery
(2009), Vol. 35, pp. 77-93, Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, St Lucia, Qld., C1
Stressing the modern : cultural politics in Australian women's poetry
A Vickery
(2007), Cambridge, England, A1-1
A Vickery
(2007), Vol. 7, pp. 71-84, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature : JASAL, Toowoomba, Qld., C1-1
A Vickery
(2007), Vol. 22, pp. 265-285, Australian feminist studies, Adelaide, S.A., C1-1
A Vickery
(2006), pp. 133-159, Avant-post, Prague, Czech Republic, B1-1
A 'Lonely Crossing' : approaching nineteenth- century Australian women's poetry
A Vickery
(2002), Vol. 40, pp. 33-54, Victorian poetry, Morgantown, W. Va., C1-1
From 'girl-gladness' to 'honied madness' : pleasure and the girl in the poetry of zora cross
A Vickery
(2001), pp. 219-226, Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Conference (22nd : 2001 : Melbourne, Vic.), Melbourne, Vic., E1-1
The quiet rupture: Susan Howe's The 'Liberties' and the feminine marginalia of literary history
A Vickery
(), Vol. 57, pp. 91-102, SOUTHERLY, AUSTRALIA, SYDNEY, C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
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