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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University is delighted to announce that the inaugural SASS Annual Public Lecture will be presented by Professor
Anna Gibbs (</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Western Sydney University)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Abstract</span></b></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">"Undoing Things With Words: Fictocriticism and the Futures of Writing"</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">If the hyphen attempts to join the ‘ficto’ with the ‘critical’ it also inevitably severs them and holds them apart. In this tense and quivering gap between
them arises the possibility of a writing </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">otherwise</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">: a writing in which the confident authority of argument gives way to hesitation and doubt, and the house of fiction begins to fall
apart. Here place is displaced; setting becomes unstable; site gives way to constantly shifting situation. We are in the middle of something, immersed in the materiality of writing as doing and making, a thinking taking shape in action, and then shifting that
shape again at the very moment it forms. It is in this process that writing </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">takes place</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">.</span></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">About the Presenter</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif; font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Professor Anna Gibbs (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">School
of Humanities and Communication Arts, </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Western Sydney University) is a practitioner and theorist of fictocriticism and publishes across textual,
media and cultural studies,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> focusing on affect theory, mimetic communication, corporeality, feminism, new materialism, and experimental/conceptual writing. </span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Times New Roman',serif; font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Professor
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Gibbs is a </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">member of the Writing and Society Research
Centre, the Digital Humanities Research Group and the Longford Project artists’ group, and </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">has received funding from the </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">ARC
and </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Australia Council as well as </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">a Bundanon residency.
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">as places are limited, please RSVP to</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">: elizabeth.stephens@scu.edu.au.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:medium">E</span><span style="font-size:medium">lizabeth Stephens</span><br>
<span style="font-size:medium">Associate Professor in Cu</span><span style="font-size:medium">ltural Studies</span><br>
<span style="font-size:medium">Deputy Head of School (Research)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:medium">School of Arts and Social Sciences</span><br>
<span style="font-size:medium">Southern Cross University</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri">Lismore NSW 2480 Australia </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium">Email</span><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium">: elizabeth.stephens@scu.edu.au</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium">Phone: +61 2 6626 9331</span>
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