25 October 2022

Has Halloween won Australia over?

Dr Rodney Taveira
Senior Lecturer in American Studies, and Undergraduate, Honours, and Postgraduate Coordinator, United States Studies Centre

USSC lecturer Rodney Taveira spoke about Australia's increasing interest in the Americanised-Gaelic tradition on ABC"S RN.

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Dr Rodney Taveira
Senior Lecturer in American Studies, and Undergraduate, Honours, and Postgraduate Coordinator, United States Studies Centre
Rodney Taveira is a Senior Lecturer in American Studies, and Undergraduate, Honours, and Postgraduate Coordinator at the United States Studies Centre. He was awarded his PhD in English from the University of Sydney in 2010 and has published on contemporary American fiction, book reviews, and television, and the interrelation of cinema, photography, painting, and literature.

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