[Sfts-faculty] Speculating: That Intelligent Wonderment with Dr. Merlinda Bobis, 5 February

[andré carrington]

“Speculating: That Intelligent Wonderment”

A Talk By Dr. Merlinda Bobis
The Australian National University
Wednesday, 5 February 2025 Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8)
This talk will be held online.

Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/mbucrfeb2025

Dr. Merlinda Bobis is an award-winning trilingual Filipino-Australian
writer, performance maker, and scholar. Her creative and critical works
explore issues on gender, environment,
migration, borders, memory, language, ethics and care, and decoloniality.
She published 4 novels, 6 poetry books, 2 collections of short stories, a
monograph of lectures on creative
research and had 10 dramatic works performed internationally, some by the
author herself.
Her new novel on trees will come out later this year. Influenced by
Philippine ways of ‘feeling-thinking-doing’, her scholarly articles emerge
from grassroots theorising and creative-critical empathy. She developed and
facilitated community arts and advocacy projects on environment, resilience
of women and girls, migration and language, and cross-cultural engagement.
Composing songs is her latest creative preoccupation. She is
currently Honorary Senior Lecturer at The Australian National University.
Among her literary awards are the 2021 Canberra Critics’ Circle Award for
her collection of short stories The
Kindness of Birds, which in 2022 was also shortlisted for the Christina
Stead Prize for Fiction in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards
and the Queensland Literary Awards; the 2016 Christina Stead Prize for
Fiction for her novel Locust Girl. A Lovesong;
and three Philippine National Book Awards (2016: Locust Girl, 2014:
Fish-Hair Woman, 2000: White Turtle). She also received recognition for her
poetry, among them the Philippines’ Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in
Literature and shortlistings in major Australian awards. Her play Rita’s
Lullaby won the 1998 Prix Italia, 1998 Australian Writers’
Guild Award, and 1995 Ian Reed Radio Drama Prize.

This talk is co-sponsored by UCR’s Department of English, Speculative
Fictions and Cultures of Science Program, Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, and
Performance Program, in
partnership with with the American Association of Australasian Literary
Studies (AAALS).

For inquiries please contact Professor Weihsin Gui at weihsing at ucr.edu.
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