Sub sections:
Dr Jennifer McDonell
Lecturer, School of English, Communication and Theatre
Qualifications
BA (Hons), MA (Hons) and PhD
Contact
| Email: | jmcdonel@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG18 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2517 (or +61 2 6773 2517 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
| Mobile: | 0407 466 405 |
Jennifer McDonell completed her BA (Hons), MA (Hons) and PhD at the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research was on Robert Browning and her master's work on the American poet, John Ashbery with reference to relevant parallels between poetry and painting.
Areas of Teaching
Teaching: Jennifer has held full time teaching positions at the University of Sydney, University College-Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW) and Macquarie University. Since coming to the University of New England in 1996 her teaching has been primarily in the areas of nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, and concentrated until 2002 in the coordination and teaching of English 100, the School's introductory undergraduate unit.
Research interests
Research: Her main research continues to be in the Victorian period, in particular the work of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Other interests include: the relationship between Victorian literature and photography; British-India relations in the nineteenth century; issues pertaining to animals and ecology in Victorian literature and culture.
Other
Together with colleagues Dr Cathy Waters, Dr Elizabeth Hale and Dr Robert Dingley, Jennifer is editor of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association Journal (AVSJ), an international refereed journal devoted to the literature and culture of the Victorian period.
Jennifer is co-director, with Dr Leonie Rutherford, of an interdisciplinary cultural studies project (with the working title Australia Unleashed: A Cultural History of the Dog) which aims to map the social history of the human-canine relationship in Australia. The international domain names associated with the project's website are: www.australiaunleashed.com ; walkingwithdogs.net