Articles

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Charles Barbour
Irony Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Literary Language, and the Opacities of Trust

This essay begins with an exploration of recent efforts among computational scientists to create Large Language Models (LLMs) capable of detecting irony. It notes the…

22 December 2025
Anders Villani
Less and More: The Poetics of Trauma and Transition in Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s What Runs Over

This article discusses the representation of trauma in What Runs Over, the lyric memoir by the transgender American poet Kayleb Rae Candrilli. I consider the…

15 December 2025
Jake Goetz
The ‘Settler Problem’: Country and the (Im)Possibilities of a Settler Ecopoetics

Ecopoetry is often praised for creatively reckoning with humanity’s place in the greater nonhuman biosphere. However, recent research has argued that the genre’s planetary framework…

15 December 2025
Josh Stenberg
Australian Triptych in Chinese-Language Migrant Fiction: Three Tales, Three Periods, Three Images

This article takes three examples of Sinophone (Chinese-language) Australia-set fiction to examine how images of Australia in this corpus are keyed to moments of migrant…

15 December 2025
Brett Heino,
Luke C Jackson
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab as Spatial Artefact: Exploring Class and the Spatial Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Australia’s Favourite Whodunnit

Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab has long been celebrated for its portrayal of the spaces and places of late-nineteenth century Melbourne. In…

19 December 2024