Robyn Ferrell

Dr Robyn Ferrell is a writer and researcher, and honorary professor in cultural studies at the University of Sydney. Her later book Philosophical Essays on Free Stuff was published with Lexington in 2021. She writes regularly on art and books for various magazines and newspapers.

All essays by Robyn Ferrell

Review: Robyn Ferrellon John Keane
  • The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane Black Inc
    240pp
    Published February 2022
    ISBN: 9781760642563

‘The Friend of Contingency’

Democracy, John Keane tells us, is the friend of contingency.
Aug. 2022 • • •
Review: Robyn Ferrellon Eleanor Hogan
  • Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates by Eleanor Hogan New South Books
    448pp
    Published March 2021
    ISBN: 9781742236599

Three Kinds of Loneliness

These figures in Into the Loneliness are imbued with pathos and pity of a more particular, feminine frailty, no doubt more realistic. But this may be the strange effect of a woman biographing women subjects.

Aug. 2021 • •