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The media trope negates the work done by archivists, who are often well-aware of the existence of ‘long-lost’ letters, journals and stories.
Leonard Cohen’s letter to his former girlfriend on her death bed became a viral phenomenon. But the words that circulated on social media were a paraphrased version, not his own.
Stacks of treasured love letters can tell the intimate stories of war.
In order to avoid being labeled a communist sympathizer, King needed to publicly distance himself from the controversial poet. Privately, King found ways to channel Hughes’ prose.
Essays On Air: Reading Germaine Greer’s mail
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The Germaine Greer Archive offers a powerful, often amusing, sometimes perplexing glimpse into the lives of people affected by her work, as well as the many faces of Greer herself.
A newly published batch of Ernest Hemingway’s letters could change the way we think about the author’s influences, relationships with other writers and views on race.
New research gives weight to Noam Chomsky’s idea of a universal language ability.
The recently translated letters of Latvian poet and journalist Arsenii Formakov depict everyday life – and suffering – in the Gulag.
Going as far back as the Bible, and as widely known as the phrase ‘Open, Sesame,’ passwords are a textual link to our past. But they may not be around much longer.
Australians might now prefer to send emails over private letters but let’s not overlook the letter’s unique, tactile role, particularly in its most intimate expressions.
“My dearest Theresa,” Lord Byron wrote to his mistress in his garden, August 1819. A century later, on a July afternoon in 1916, Captain Alfred Bland, a British officer in World War I, sat down before…
In the near future a trip to the Post Office in regional and remote Australia may mean picking up a parcel or a letter. It could also mean a virtual meeting with your tertiary education provider, a virtual…
Earlier this week, as you may have read, the University of Melbourne announced it had acquired the archives of a former student, feminist scholar and writer Germaine Greer. The total cost of the archive…
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Professor of English, North Carolina State University
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Curator of Scientific Collections, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
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PhD Student in History, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer and Senior Digital Learning Developer, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The Open University
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Regents' Professor of English, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor of Russian, University of Oklahoma
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Assistant Archivist, Germaine Greer Archive, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director, Digital Culture and Media Initiative, Penn State
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Deputy CEO, Regional Australia Institute
