Michelle Arrow is Associate Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University. Her books include Upstaged: Australian Women Dramatists in the Limelight at Last (Currency Press, 2002) and The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia (NewSouth, 2019).
Essays & reportage
Oriel Gray makes her mark
Michelle Arrow
28 October 2020
The playwright and screenwriter’s widely praised memoir returns to print
Essays & reportage
When the personal became political
Michelle Arrow
6 October 2020
The seventies were a decade of extraordinary social upheaval, writes the presenter of this year’s Ernest Scott Lecture
Books & arts
A play that came in from the cold
Michelle Arrow
6 August 2019
Theatre | A new staging of Oriel Gray’s The Torrents allows its ideas to shine
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