2026 Festival
Speaker Profile
Clara Tuite
Clara Tuite is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. She teaches and researches the literary and cultural history of Romanticism, with a particular interest in the works of Jane Austen and Lord Byron. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and the co-author with Claudia L. Johnson of 30 Great Myths About Jane Austen (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020).
Frankenstein And Heathcliff Crushes: Gothic films are reviving the classics
Thursday April 23
Sorrento Bowls Club
12.00pm
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60 mins
Dierdre Coleman and Clara Tuite with Seth Robinson
Be Still My Heart: The engine of human expression, unpacked
Thursday April 23
Sorrento Bowls Club
3.00pm
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60 mins
Jane Montgomery Griffiths, Norman Swan, Clara Tuite and Steph Vizard with Fiona Gruber
Going back to the Ancient Greeks and Romans, the heart has always inspired artists, writers, poets, musicians and thinkers. Our panel reflects of the curious allure of this remarkable human organ.