Dr Elizabeth Hale
Senior Lecturer, School of Arts
Qualifications
BA Honours (1st Class) in English Literature and Latin, University of Otago; MA, PhD in English Literature, Brandeis University.
Contact
| Email: | ehale@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG12 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2356 (or +61 2 6773 2356 overseas) |
Elizabeth Hale is a scholar of nineteenth-century literature, children’s literature, and classical reception studies. She has taught at UNE since 2002.
Areas of Teaching
- Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Children’s Literature
- Children’s Media
- Creative Writing
Research interests
- Nineteenth-century literature
- Children’s and young adult literature
- Classical reception studies
- Children’s television and film
- Gender studies
Publications
“Sickly Scholars and Healthy Novels: The Classical Scholar in Victorian Fiction.” International Journal of the Classical Tradition (June 2010)
“The Pursuit of Youth: Adolescence, Seduction, and the Pastoral in Act One of The Lost Echo.” Australasian Drama Studies (April, 2010)
“Disability and the Talented Adolescent Girl in The Pillars of the House and What Katy Did.” Special Issue on Charlotte M. Yonge. Women’s Writing (2010).
“The Case of Mr. Casaubon: Gothic Monstrosity in Middlemarch” in Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature. Ruth Anolik, Ed. Jefferson: North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2010)
“Beastly Children and Childlike Beasts in Edwardian Fiction.” Worlds Enough and Time: Childhood in Edwardian Fiction. Eds. Adrienne E. Gavin and Andrew F. Humphries. London: Palgrave Macmillan January 2009.
“Truth-telling Englishmen: Classics as a Test of Character in Victorian School Stories”. New Voices in Classical Reception Studies. Spring 2008.
“Underworlds Down Under: The Navigator and Under the Mountain.” Gothic NZ. Eds. Jennifer Lawn and Misha Kavka. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 2006.
Marvellous Codes: the Fiction of Margaret Mahy, a collection of critical essays on the New Zealand writer Margaret Mahy. Eds. Elizabeth Hale and Sarah Fiona Winters. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2005.
“Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny-Lit.” Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction. Eds. Mallory Young and Suzanne Ferriss. New York: Routledge, 2005.
‘Anthony Trollope’—entry in Dictionary of British Classical Scholars, 1600-1950. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004.
‘William Makepeace Thackeray’—entry in Dictionary of British Classical Scholars, 1600-1950. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004.
“Turning Away from Formal Education: John Ruskin and the Scholar Within,” Scholarships in Victorian Britain: Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, 1 (1998): 114 –125.
“A Close Reading of Longfellow’s ‘Mezzo Cammin’,” Deep South, electronic journal, University of Otago, 1995: http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol1no1/hale1.html