Janet McCalman
Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books, Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering, all published by MUP. She co-edited with Emma Dawson What Happens Next: Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19 in 2020. For over twenty years she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
Related posts
- Read Janet McCalman's chapter from WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
When this pandemic crisis ends, things will be very bad for those with weak, corrupt and incompetent governments. For those with good governments, critical moral decisions will be required: do we reinvest and rebuild positively, or do we inflict austerity to pay down the debt quickly?
- Read Anthony Albanese's chapter from WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
COVID-19 emerged while Australians were trying to recover from the worst bushfire season experienced in recent memory. Now, as we’ve begun to come to terms with the impact of this crisis, the nation’s gaze has turned towards recovery. In doing so, we ask ourselves what will Australia look like on the other side?
- Meet the Vandemonians
Before you uncover the Vandemonian’s fates, and the lives they lived and loved ones they valued; glimpse the most renown of Vandemonians to understand why Janet McCalman felt the need to discover their stories and individual places within Victoria’s convict history.
- October new releases
This month at MUP we are excited to publish two uniquely significant and timely new titles. Australia’s most respected experts chart the way forward from the COVID-19 pandemic in What Happens Next?, while Australian prose poetry receives its long overdue spotlight in The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry.