Senior Lecturer – Modern History, Macquarie University
Leigh Boucher is an historian in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney. He teaches the history of war and peace, history on and of film, and feminist and queer theory. His research centers on representations of gender, sexuality and race in Australian political and cultural life.
Writers' festivals aren't an imaginary republic of letters – they are political arenas
Aug 06, 2018 02:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Once again, we are in the middle of a public spat about who should get to speak at a writers festival in Australia. It appears the Brisbane Writers Festival uninvited Bob Carr and Germaine Greer (the festival has said...
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