Rebecca Harkins-Cross

Rebecca Harkins-Cross is a writer and cultural critic. Based in Melbourne, her work has been published widely in journals and periodicals across Australia and the world. She is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Monash University and finalising her debut essay collection Terror Australis: Essays on Film and Home. Rebecca will be a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia School of the Arts’ Writing Program in New York City in 2021.

All essays by Rebecca Harkins-Cross

Review: Rebecca Harkins-Crosson The Ferrante Letters
  • The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards Columbia University Press
    288 pp
    Published January 2020
    9780231194570

A Dying Art

These letters may refuse the methodological stringency of academic literary criticism, but beyond some epistolary scaffolding (an addressee, a conversational tone, questions answered or posed) they are largely close textual analyses performed by astute readers with comp lit bona fides and early-career positions at Yale, Princeton and Oxford.
Nov. 2020 • •
Review: Rebecca Harkins-Crosson Ellena Savage
  • Yellow City by Ellena Savage The Atlas Review
    41pp

The Monster is Nobody at All: Yellow City

Ellena Savage knows intrinsically that the self of memoir or personal essay is never singular, fixed and stable.
Aug. 2019 • •