Chris Murray
Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
- “What struck me most flying over the Otways during the fires—seeing scorched forest, blackened and dead trees with fires still smouldering nearby, followed by ... gas drilling equipment emerging from the ocean—was the price we are all paying for the bottomless greed of fossil fuel corporations.”
- The Irish Books Podcast begins in January. If you’re interested, you can subscribe on the major platforms via the link. www.monash.edu/arts/languag...
- Authors discussed in Season 1 include Emma Donoghue, Paul Lynch, Eimear McBride, Colm Tóibín, Sally Rooney, and Sebastian Barry
- Re-reading #Milkman by Anna Burns ahead of a podcast. Hard to express how much I admire this novel. If you haven't read it you must put down your phone right now and find a copy
- Irish Studies (post)graduate student essay prize now open. The chance of a cash prize and publication in our refereed journal isaanz.org/ajis/postgra...
- Beckford's Tower, recently reopened. With Ant Howell
- Just one Romanticism in-joke amid the assorted Australiana I've brought a colleague: Byron Bay was named for the poet's uncle, "Foul Weather Jack" Byron (not to be confused with "Mad Jack" Byron)
- Getting to our Manchester hotel was an odyssey, but now relaxing, and enjoying Holmes on Tennyson hugely
- Enjoying time in Oxford as Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Fellow in Romantic Literature. It's an ever-evolving institution, as I see at the beautiful and brand-new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
- Sad to learn of the death of Simon James, Professor of Victorian literature at Durham University. I have lost a friend
- Irish Studies 6-week fellowship at the University of Melbourne isaanz.org/odonnell-fel...
