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elese dowden is a pākehā writer and philosopher from aotearoa living on unceded wurundjeri country in naarm.

Reviews & essays

Poetry

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Conference presentations

  • ‘Beached As: Imagining Forbes Imagining Cook Imagining Australia’ at the John Forbes Symposium: 50 Years of Tropical Skiing, University of Melbourne (2026).
  • “Girlboss Leviathan: Femininity, Power and Romanticism after the 1960s” at the Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy Conference, Deakin Geelong (2024).
  • ‘”He do the police in different voices”: Colin Thiele, T.S. Eliot and the myth of the Fisher King’, for a panel entitled ‘Ern Malley and the Spectre of the ANZAC’ with Jonathan Dunk and Abigail Fisher for the Association for the Study of Australasian Literature, RMIT Melbourne (2023).

Short courses

MEDIA

Theses

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  • skyline
  • critique
  • fecklesss
  • libras
  • abruzzo
  • romunculus
  • train
  • batty
  • beware
  • rainbow
  • docklands
  • modelling
  • fish
  • rangitoto
  • banana
  • auckland
  • library
  • to the sea