A/Prof. Ann Vickery

Ann Vickery is Associate Professor in Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She has held a Monash University Research Fellowship, a Macquarie University Research Fellowship, and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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

Ann has particular teaching interests and expertise in contemporary literature, modernist literature, Australian literature, poetry, Romanticism, Gothic and supernatural literature, and gender and sexuality studies. She is interested in bringing together intersections between literary studies and creative writing, and literary studies and gender and sexuality studies.

Ann is interested in supervising in the areas of: poetry and poetics; modernism; Australian literature; gender and sexuality studies; social poetics (literary collaboration, coterie, community, and network); literary archives; and women's writing from the 19th century to the present. She has supervised Honours, Masters and PhD theses in the following areas: colonial poetry and print culture, American poetry, contemporary Australian poetry, British poetry, Turkish poetry, domestic noir, cyberpunk, dystopic literature, Gothic women's writing, Australian modernism, representations of transgender in children's and YA texts, and representations of disability in literature, film, and television (including children's and YA).

ALL201 From Romanticism to Realism

ALL202 Modernism/Postmodernism

ALL201 Love, Death, and Poetry

ALL202 Writing Modern Worlds

ALL256 Gender, Sex and Literature

ALL727 Contemporary Poetry

AAR410 Honours Research Methods

AAR412 Honours Research Theory

Poetry, Australian literature, literary archives, women's writing, gender and sexuality.

• Literature & creative writing

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.

> Managing editor, Journal of Poetics Research

> Poetry editor, Puncher and Wattmann

> Editorial Advisory board member, Rabbit

> Editorial Advisory board member, Zone

> Editorial Advisory board member, Cordite Scholarly

Contemporary Histories Research Group

Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow
Monash University Research Fellowship
Macquarie University Research Fellowship.

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.