Writers Revealed Experts Lecture Series

Writers Revealed Public Program

Sat 10 May - Sat 19 Jul

Writers Revealed Experts Lecture Series

Join us for our Experts Lecture Series where academics will tease out the themes and content in the blockbuster exhibition Writers Revealed.

Each session will be delivered by an academic specialist in the field of literature. Join us for this incredible opportunity to hear firsthand from the experts in our region.

Sat 10 May - Jane Austen: Authorship, Fashion and Celebrity - Associate Professor Lisa O’Connell

Sat 21 Jun - Desire, Gender, and Changing Views of Authorship in the Seventeenth Century - Dr Lisa Walters

Sat 19 Jul - In Search of BlackWords: Exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literary Voices- Dr Melanie Saward

Dates

Sat 10 May - Sat 19 Jul

Where

The Studio - HOTA Gallery

Duration

1 hr

Tickets

Lecture $20
Lecture + Writers Revealed exhibition ticket $40

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Times

Sat 10 May - 2:00pm

Sat 21 June - 2:00pm

Sat 19 July - 2:00pm

#Speaker bios

Lisa O’Connell

Lisa O’Connell is Associate Professor of English Literature in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University and a specialist in eighteenth-century British literature. Her book publications include The Origins of the English Marriage Plot (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge, 2004).

Dr Lisa Walters

Dr Lisa Walters is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She has published on Renaissance women authors, particularly the science fiction writer Margaret Cavendish, as well as Shakespeare and Milton in relation to science, philosophy, gender, sexuality and political thought.

Dr Melanie Saward

Melanie Saward is a proud Bigambul and Wakka Wakka woman. She is a lecturer of Australian Studies in the University of Queensland’s School of Communication and Arts and has recently been appointed as the coordinator of BlackWords. Her research looks at Indigeneity in romantic comedy fiction with a focus on diversity, intersectionality, and the Australian publishing industry.

Melanie is a writer and editor. Her debut fiction book, Burn, was published in 2023 and her first romantic comedy novel, Love Unleashed, was published in 2024 and her most recent book, a young adult novel called A Good Kind of Trouble, co-written with Brooke Blurton was published in 2025.