Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 01 May
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
No matter how compelling a novel or a film might be, if you have to study it, there’s always the risk you’ll end up hating it. Not any more! A gift to VCE students, their teachers (and of course life-long learners) Texts in the City is a weekly exploration of the classic texts – both old and new – that appear on the VCE English reading lists.
For our brand new season of Texts in the City, we’ve asked schools to nominate which texts on the curriculum they’d most like to see discussed. By presenting speakers who are intimately familiar with each chosen work, as a writer, reviewer, publisher or performer, we’ll offer new perspectives on these classic books, creating the chance to take the obligation out of – and put the joy back into – reading for the VCE.
Sessions run at the student-friendly timeslot of 4.30pm – 5.15pm and are subsequently hosted on the Wheeler Centre website.
This week, we look at Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Featuring
Grace Moore
Grace Moore teaches Victorian literature and culture at the University of Melbourne. Her book Dickens and Empire (Ashgate, 2004) was shortlisted for the 2006 NSW Premier’s Award for Literary Scholarship.
Grace is the editor of Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2011) and the co-editor (with Andrew Maunder) of Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation (Ashgate, 2004). She has written student text guides on A Christmas Carol and Wuthering Heights (Insight, 2011), as well as a number of articles on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature.
Grace is currently working on a book-length study of bushfires in 19th-century settler literature. She teaches in the English and theatre programme at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her latest book is The Victorian Novel in Context (Continuum, 2012).
Ruby Murray
Ruby J Murray is a writer and researcher whose work appears regularly in Australian magazines, journals and newspapers. Her first novel, Running Dogs, is out now through Scribe.
Ruby is a regular moderator and host at public events and writers festivals including the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Emerging Writers Festival, The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival and the Melbourne Free University.