Australia to Paraguay: Collaborating in a Colonial Archive
Australia to Paraguay: Collaborating in a Colonial Archive
Antiracism: Communities + Collaborations presents Australia to Paraguay: Collaborating in a Colonial Archive, featuring UMD graduate students and faculty, Aaron Bartlett, Lindsey O'Neil, and Justin Thompson with Jason Rudy, who will discuss their co-authored essay, "Australia to Paraguay: Race, Class, and Poetry in a South American colony," recently published in Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (Manchester UP, 2021)
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Bios
Aaron Bartlett is a PhD candidate in English at UMD working in Victorian poetry and book history. His dissertation focuses on the voice in nineteenth-century poetry as a bridge between the body and the text. He holds an MA from the University of Victoria.
Lindsey E. R. O'Neil received her PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2021. Her work has appeared in Victorian Studies and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing, and she currently coordinates NAVSA's Race and Transimperialism Reading Group.
Justin Thompson is a PhD candidate completing his dissertation, "'The Native Question': Genre, Gender, and Governance in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing." His writing has appeared in Women's Writing, Worlding the South, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Jason Rudy is a Professor of English at UMD and author most recently of Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies (Johns Hopkins 2017). He's currently writing an authorized biography of the Indigenous Australian painter Gordon Syron.
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