Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 22 March
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
There comes a point, when a book or film becomes a text, that study can take the joy out of reading. Every Tuesday afternoon in terms one and two, we try to rediscover a sense of love and wonder about the texts on the VCE English list.
This week, it’s Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama.
Featuring
Glenn Moore
Glenn Moore is an academic at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne with a research emphasis on American labour and the American labour movement.
Glenn completed a Masters at Penn State University, and his PhD at the University of Melbourne. He has lectured at the Australian National University, the University of Western Australia, and currently at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University. His research has been focussed mostly on work and unions in America, and he has made regular appearances on radio WERE Cleveland discussing the plight of working people today.
Glenn’s most recent work deals with the craft of teaching, with articles in the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association journal, and the Japanese journal Ekleksographia. Glenn followed Barack Obama’s career since his senate days. Although in the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election he publicly predicted a Hilary Clinton victory, Glenn continues to lecture on Obama. He is making no predictions about results in 2012.
Jenny Niven
Jenny Niven was the Wheeler Centre’s Associate Director. She is currently Portfolio Manager for Literature, Publishing and Languages at Creative Scotland.
Jenny came to Australia in early 2010 after 6 years in Beijing, where she directed the events program at The Bookworm, China’s foremost English-language literary events venue. She was director and co-founder of The Bookworm International Literary Festival, which runs annually across the three Chinese cities of Beijing, Chengdu and Suzhou.
Jenny was books editor at Time Out Beijing from 2006 to 2008. She contributed to Beijing: Portrait of a City, published by Odyssey in March 2008, as well as numerous travel guides. She joined the Wheeler Centre staff after holding the position of Program Manager at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Jenny is originally from Scotland where, prior to leaving in 2004, she gained an undergraduate degree in Scottish Literature and Film and a masters degree in journalism. She was an arts researcher for Hopscotch Films and BBC Scotland and spent April and May 08 and 09 working on the PEN World Voices Festival in New York. In case it isn’t already crystal clear, she likes books and travel.