Visiting Professor Paula Rabinowitz will be in conversation with co-authors Ruth Barraclough (ANU), Nicole Moore (ADFA), and Daniel Sanderson to discuss their contribution to the book Red Love Across the Pacific. This collection of essays examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and follows its trails throughout the twentieth century. Encouraging both political and sexual liberation, Red Love was a transnational movement demonstrating the revolutionary potential of love and desire.

Paula Rabinowitz's research and teaching are in the areas of American materialist feminist cultural studies. Her work considers the interlocking roles of cinema, photography, painting and material culture in and through twentieth-century literature. She focuses on contemporary and modernist American women’s art and literature; her work explores hidden histories within working-class, pulp and popular cultures. She is a 2016 Visiting Fellow at United States Studies Centre (USSC) at the University of Sydney. Her full biography and list of publications are available here.

This event is supported by the ANU Gender Institute and by the UNSW @ ADFA.