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  1. 21 December 2023 - Humanities

    Why children’s stories are full of orphans, evil stepmothers and boarding schools

    While ideas of family are changing, from Dickens to Rowling, absent parents are an enduring element of kid's books says University of Melbourne experts.

  2. 27 October 2023 - Humanities

    Homicide on Hydra

    A new book by a University of Melbourne expert explores the more-or-less forgotten crime novels of one of Australia’s most successful authors, George Johnston.

  3. 20 December 2022 - Humanities

    Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas?

    While Charles Dickens didn’t actually invent Christmas, he did renew and redefine its generous spirit in A Christmas Carol, says University of Melbourne expert.

  4. 14 September 2021 - Music, Arts & Screen

    Using music and words to bridge dementia

    An international trial led by University of Melbourne is showing how home-based music and reading activities can help families care for dementia sufferers.

  5. 9 July 2021 - Humanities

    Poetry as a surveillance survival guide

    Amid pervasive surveillance and social media, it is poetry that can help us navigate our technologically-led society, says a University of Melbourne expert

  6. 11 June 2021 - Humanities

    How literature helps us interpret the human face

    New University of Melbourne research looks at how the human face and our emotions are represented in literary texts from the medieval to the contemporary eras.

  7. Podcast7 March 2021 - Humanities

    If our animals could speak

    Dr Laura Jean McKay, winner of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for literature and University of Melbourne graduate discusses writing her first novel

  8. 22 November 2020 - Legal Affairs

    Rescuing Australia’s lost literary treasures

    A new University of Melbourne project is digitising some of Australia’s most important lost books and getting them into libraries for authors and readers alike.

  9. 5 October 2020 - Learning & Teaching

    Australian literature’s great silence

    A new University of Melbourne study says we must question the very white stories told in our classrooms and the lack of Indigenous authors in the curriculum.

  10. Podcast15 April 2020 - Eavesdrop on Experts

    How have plagues and pandemics influenced the arts?

    University of Melbourne experts describe how throughout history, writers and artists have explored the impact of plagues and pandemics on humanity.