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Jo Jones

Jo Jones is Lecturer in English Studies in the Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania. She has a PhD in Australian colonial historical novels and has taught extensively at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia. Jo has a forthcoming monograph, Dark Times: Australian Historical Novels and the History Wars (UWA Publishing), and is currently undertaking studies of the Gothic and its reception in Tasmanian schools.

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    Tim Dolin, Joanne Jones and Patricia Dowsett

Events

Open Access Week 2024 – Explore our newest titles

Monash University VIC, Australia

Monash University Publishing is proud to celebrate Open Access Week with the release of The AI (Re)volution. Explore our full Open Access list here.

Author Talk: No One Knows Their Destiny – Inside the Dunera Story

The Theatre, Australian National Maritime Museum 2 Murray Street, Sydney, NSW

A moving portrait of two Dunera Boys, from Kristallnacht in Vienna to VE Day in Melbourne, that complicates the traditional story of the Dunera. Popular culture has mythologised the Dunera Boys...

Leigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow at the Canberra Writers Festival

Theatrette, NFSA McCoy Circuit, Acton, ACT, Australia

Trans and gender diverse people have always been present in Australian life, whether they have lived quiet lives in the country, performed in cabaret shows, or run for parliament. Join...

$28

Meet the author: Tonia Eckfeld at the Sydney Jewish Museum

Sydney Jewish Museum 148 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst, NSW

Join us for an afternoon with Tonia Eckfeld, the acclaimed art historian and author of No One Knows Their Destiny. In this compelling work, Eckfeld delves into the deeply personal...

Kim Carr at the Canberra Writers Festival

Members Dining Room, MOAD 18 King George Terrace, Parkes, ACT, Australia

In 1975, as Gough Whitlam’s government hurtled towards its demise, a nineteen-year-old arts student at the University of Melbourne, Kim Carr, began a long march. Join the former Victorian senator...

$28