Suzie Gibson

Springer — Suzie Gibson Dean Biron Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror (2011-2016) provides a timely commentary upon digital technologies that increasingly mediate human relationships. Its fantasy elements-which more often than not feel also like a prophesy-prompt reflection upon our own agency and how it is modified and filtered through devices that, more than simply enabling communication, to a large extent determine the nature and even the ethics of our interactions.

Sydney University Press — Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane’s diverse body of work. Tags: Anthony Uhlmann, Arka Chattopadhyay, Brigid Rooney, Emmett Stinson, Gerald Murnane, Ivor Indyk, Literary studies, Luke Carman, Mark Byron, Samantha Trayhurn, Shannon Burns, Suzie Gibson, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature, Tristan Foster

gale.com — Depicting a ten-year-old Aboriginal boy's struggle to reconcile his cultural identity with the demands of a Western school system, Maya Newell's documentary raises timely questions about how to synthesise traditional culture and mainstream education - as well as framing its subject's story within the lingering history of Indigenous dispossession, as SUZIE GIBSON discusses.

wayne.edu — Recommended Citation Gibson, Suzie (2019) "The Embrace of Ambiguity in Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock and Henry James's The Turn of the Screw," Antipodes: Vol. 33 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/antipodes/vol33/iss1/1 DOWNLOADS

Queensland Review Journal — Memoir style of analysis: The spaces of our childhood maintain a particularly enduring hold when they cease to exist or are so reconstructed that the previous version is effectively obliterated. Recollections of an early home that no longer exists provide the framework for David Malouf’s celebrated 12 Edmondstone Street. In this article, I juxtapose Malouf’s experiences with recollections of my own family home in Kyogle, coincidentally situated at the other end of the old railway line that began just a couple of hundred metres from Malouf’s childhood dwelling. In addressing both the similarities and differences between Malouf’s and my own example, the discussion will develop around the fact that in contrast to the physical non- existence of the address of 12 Edmondstone Street, my own family home in Kyogle has not been extinguished; instead, it is today a disfigured ‘renovation’ of its former self. Ultimately, 12 Edmondstone Street – a piece of writing whose poetic power and mnemonic resonance go beyond the mortal limits of physical space – will operate as a literary shelter through which the power of memories of former living spaces can be articulated.

Overland Magazine — Recently, the University of Western Australia decided to close down its eighty-five-year-old publishing house and Sydney University abandoned its long-running Chair in Australian Literature. At the same time, dire bush fires have destroyed lives, properties, and countless animals across vast swathes of the country.

SYN Media — The Bachelor continues to be a guilty pleasure for many Australians, but is it light hearted fun or does it entrench misogyny ...

youtube.com — Suzie Gibson speaking at 'Another World in this One: Gerald Murnane's Fiction' 7 December 2017. A symposium held at Golf Club, Goroke, Victoria. Further details at http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/another-world-one-gerald-murnanes-fiction/

csu.edu.au — Currently Involved in research at Charles Sturt University. Dr Gibson's research analyses the intersection between literature and philosophy. She has published in internationally distinguished journals and volumes that examine the rich and complex relationship between literary and philosophical texts.

The Conversation — This year marks 25 years since the release of Oliver Stone's JFK (1991), starring Kevin Costner and a flamboyant supporting cast including Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci, Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek. The three hour-plus film reignited debate over the 1963 assassination of US president John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

The Conversation — Since Senator George Brandis launched his arts funding bombshell there has been much discussion and debate - and even dancing protests - around Australia. Plans are also rumoured to be underway for a national day of action on June 18, as artists and cultural leaders call the government to reverse the diversion of $104.7 million from the Australia Council to fund a contentious new body, the National Programme for Excellence in the Arts.

The Conversation — Nothing is produced in a cultural or social vacuum. All forms of representation intersect and interact with our contemporary world, whether we like it or not. This includes recently acclaimed television programs such as True Detective, Breaking Bad, House of Cards and Game of Thrones.

The Conversation — The anxiety attached to gift giving is worth considering. The Christian commemoration of Christmas is about celebrating God's ultimate gift, his only son. Such an exceptional gift reaches its destiny in the crucifixion of Jesus: a sacrifice that can never be acquitted. The extraordinary nature of this gift, which ends in death, is resonant of a debt economy.

The Conversation — Since July, Mozart's popular opera, The Magic Flute, has been touring regional Australia. The Opera Australia production, a version of Mozart's classic reinvented by Australian playwright Michael Gow and designer Robert Kemp, has a contemporary edge. Last week, it provided Bathurst's regional community with an enchanting evening of extraordinary voices, delightful acting, sharp comic timing and sophisticated orchestration.

Overland Magazine — But surely the question of genius is not an economic concern? Or is it? We certainly live in a world where economics is central in all areas of life, including art. Genius is a tantalisingly vague concept.

Overland Magazine — There are countless zombie narratives out there in film, TV, books and comics. Zombies are big business because they tap into a wide range of fears and anxieties. Many of these revolve around disease and contamination. In recent years, for instance, the success of first world medicine has given rise to threatening 'super bugs' that can resist antibiotics.

Overland Magazine — December 1972. Edward Gough Whitlam is elected as Australia's first Labor prime minister in twenty-three years. In the United States, the Watergate scandal is smouldering, and former president Harry Truman, the man responsible for the 1945 nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, dies aged eighty-eight.

Overland Magazine — In such circumstances, the eminently sensible voice of Richard Rorty is sorely missed. Rorty, who died in 2007, was one of our most compassionate philosophers. You can gauge his worth by the fact that he seemed to get under the skin of just about everybody, occupying a transient between-space in a manner off-putting to commentators who spend careers building conceptual fortresses behind which to protect their worldview.

Overland Magazine — The feminist literary critic Lillian Robinson has argued that the mere questioning of received cultural tradition on behalf of women will tend to result in accusations of relativism and the politicisation of aesthetics. Yet in many areas of the arts, a widespread ignorance of women as leaders and visionaries persists.

Australian Book Review — Saint Antony in His Desert by Anthony Uhlmann UWA Publishing, $26.99 pb, 184 pp, 9781742589787 With his maiden voyage into fiction, Anthony Uhlmann, a professor of English at Western Sydney University, has produced an ambitious novel that dramatises the intertwining of time and memory.

Australian Book Review — Whackademia: An Insider's Account of the Troubled University by Richard Hil NewSouth Publishing, $34.99 pb, 239 pp, 9781742232911 J.M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace (1999) dramatises a cynical middle-aged professor of literature reduced to teaching communication skills at a university whose great rationalisation has turned scholars into mere clerks.

ArtsHub Australia — A wicked and hilarious adaptation. Volpone (Jesse Alston) and Celia (Taylah Evans) in The Fox. Photo by Jaimi-Lee Bennett Charles Sturt University's third year theatre/media students of 2017 have provided a wicked and hilarious adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Fox (also known as Volpone, 1605-6).

ArtsHub Australia — There is an important cautionary tale in this version of The Bacchae and it has to do with not losing sight of one's self. Briony Osei, Eve Beck and Jack Griffiths in The Bacchae. Image supplied. The Bacchae opens with a group of cool youths strutting their stuff on stage while taking selfies, laughing and enjoying each other's company.

ArtsHub Australia — A courageous and clever adaptation of Euripides' ancient play with contemporary relevance and more than a little political bite. Image: Georgie Rose Wohlfiel, Madelaine Reid, Jessica McKenzie, Em Rose and Alessandro Zotti in The Trojan Women; photograph supplied.