... © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 Erratum for Leigh Dale and Jennifer McDonell, “Lessons from the Past MLQ 75 (2014): 119–27. On page 124, the last two sentences of the full paragraph should read as follows: “Almost twenty years after Cultural Capital,” Rachel Sagner Buurma...

...Leigh Dale; Jennifer McDonell Leigh Dale is professor of English at the University of Wollongong. Her most recent work is The Enchantment of English: Professing English Literatures in Australian Universities (2012) and, with Chris Tiffin, essays on Australia for The Year’s Work...

...Jennifer McDonell The installation of Browning studies in the early Australian academy challenges the dominant narrative that the rise of English was underpinned by a modernist doxa predicated on notions of a historical break—with the Victorians in particular. Sir Mungo William MacCallum, the first...

... by James F. English and Ted Underwood 2015 Inevitability . Edited by Ryan Vu and Sharif Youssef 2014 Lessons from the Past: The History of Academic English . Edited by Leigh Dale, Jennifer McDonell, and Marshall Brown 2013 What Counts as World Literature? Edited by Caroline Levine and B...

... not just to Bir- mingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, and other Brit- ish outposts of redbrick academe but, thanks to the focus on W. J. Alex- ander and Mungo MacCallum in the essays by Heather Murray and Jennifer McDonell, to the academic cultures at Toronto and Sydney (plus a few...

... Gilbert, of Economies of Representation, 1790-2000: Colonialism and Commerce (2007). Her book on representations of self-harm in medical, criminological, and literary texts is nearing completion; her project on Robert Browning and the emergence of the study of English, with Jennifer McDonell, has come...

.... I am grateful to Leigh Dale and Jennifer McDonell, the organizers of the “Lessons from the Past” seminar (University of Wollongong, April 27, 2012), for the opportunity to develop and present this work and to the presenters and participants for thought-provoking discussion on the role...