DR JENNA MEAD
English
[email protected]
03 6226 7160 [current]
Research Interests and Current Projects
Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe is a book-length project on Chaucer’s
only scientific text and categories of reading.
“The Look of the Past” is a project that investigates cinematography in films of
cinematic medievalism.
Medievalists and the genre of biography is a contribution to the history of the
discipline in Australia.
“Margery’s Times: Margery Through the Looking Glass,” is a collaborative
sound and text project with Helen English, University of Newcastle.
Recent Publications
‘Geoffrey Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe,’ Literature Compass 3 (Jul
2006): http://www.blackwellcompass.com/subject/literature/section_home?section=lico-medieval (A1)
‘Chaucer and the Subject of Bureaucracy,’ festschrift for Sheila Delany, ed.
Lynn Arner, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and
Renaissance Studies 19.1 (May 2006):
http://www.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/SD/Mead.htm; republished
Exemplari: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
19.1 (Jul 2007) [A1]
‘Amanda Lohrey,’ Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 325 Australian Writers,
1975-2000, ed. Selina Samuels (Detroit, London: The Gale Group,
2006) 208-13 [C1]
‘Medievalism and Memory Work, Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian
Culture, ed. Stephanie Trigg, Making the Middle Ages, vol. 8 (Turnhout:
Brepols, 2005) 99-118; republished Melbourne University Publishing,
2006 [C1]
Performance
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2007 with Helen English, ‘Margery’s Times: Margery Through the Looking
Glass,” sound-scape, ‘Temporalities,’ Symposium for Carolyn Dinshaw,
ARC/NEER Research Cluster, UTAS, Dec 17-18; IMC, Leeds University,
Jul 2008 [K5]
Research Leadership
2008 Organising Committee, ANZAMEMS 7th Biennial Conference, UTas 2-6
Dec
2007 convenor, ‘Temporalities,’ Symposium for Carolyn Dinshaw, ARC NEER
Research Cluster, UTAS, Dec 17-18
— co-curator with Rodney Thomson, ‘From Manuscript Page to Early Printed
Book,’ exhibition, Morris Miller Library, UTAS, Nov
— co-convenor with Michael Bennett, ‘Useful Knowledges and
Vernacularities,’ UTAS, Nov 10-11, ARC NEER Research Cluster
— ‘Reading Plimpton 254,’ ‘Useful Knowledges and Vernacularities,’ UTAS,
Nov 10-11, ARC/NEER Research Cluster
— convenor, seminar, Professor David Wallace, 'Imperium, Commerce, and
National Crusade: the Romance of Malory's Morte,' UTAS, Feb 20
2006- co-convenor, with Michael Bennett, Knowledge Networks and
Communities of Reading Research Cluster, ARC NEER-supported
http://www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/neer_research_clusters
Service to the Discipline—Editorial Committees
2008- Editorial Board, Postmedieval. A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies,
The Babel Group [Palgrave]
http://www.siue.edu/~ejoy/postmedievalProspectus.htm
2002- peer referee, Screening the Past, La Trobe Universtiy
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/people.html
1994- Editorial Committee The UTS Review A Journal of Cultural Studies and
New Writing now Cultural Studies Review, UTS and University of
Melbourne http://www.csreview.unimelb.edu.au/about.html
Membership of Professional Associations
New Chaucer Society
Medieval Academy of America
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern
Studies
Teaching and Supervision—University of Tasmania
Awards and Grants
2008 Lecturer of the Year, UTas, http://lectureroftheyear.com.au/
— Awarded Teaching Merit Certificate [second award]
2006 UTAS, Faculty of Arts, Strategic Funds Grant, Codex: An Online Journal
for Professional Medieval Studies ($5 855)
Research
2006- Inquiry into online postgraduate teaching in Medieval Studies; funded
by Faculty of Arts Strategic Funding Grant as part of Codex project
[ongoing]
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Recent Initiatives—Postgraduate Training
2007 convenor and participant, ‘Theory seminar,’ Postgraduate Advanced
Training Seminar, Network for Early European Research, UTAS, ARC
NEER-supported
2006 ‘Literary Manuscripts,’ presenter, Postgraduate Advanced Training
Seminar, Network for Early European Research, UTAS, ARC NEERsupported, 30 June
2005-06 convenor, research training seminar series for Research Higher
Degree candidates; fortnightly program for graduates’ thesis
presentations, conference papers, master classes (Dr Leigh Dale, UQ;
Professor John Frow, UniMelb), generic skills training (including liaison
with Morris Miller Library)
Recent Initiatives—Undergraduate Program
2008 HEA313 (advanced level) Medieval Tales of Wonder; HEA410
Fourteenth-Century Literature (Honours)
2006- HEA330 (advanced level) Literary Theory (pre-requisite for Honours
entry)
2003 HEA213/313 Medieval and Gothic Fiction (medieval, 18thc and modern
forms of Gothic fiction); HEA410 Rereading Chaucer (Honours unit)
revised
Recent RHD Supervisions/Associate Supervisions
2006- Eleni Pavlides, PhD (co-supervisor) ‘Multiculturalism Today-Texts,
Contexts and Writing Practice’
2005- Jane McGennisken PhD (co-supervisor) ‘Literary texts in the
primary/secondary school curriculum-the cultural, social & educational
implications’
2003-06 Margaret Blow, English MA, ‘Anita Brookner and the discourse of
food’ (lapsed)
2002-05 Deane Blackler, PhD (associate), ‘Adventurous Travels of a
Disobedient Reader- A Reading Practice for the Fiction of W.G. Sebald
(graduated)
2004-07 Stuart Solman, Masters, (associate) ‘The Space of the Australian
City- Representations and Contestation (1990-2005’) (graduated)
2000-05 Joanna Richardson, PhD (associate), ‘An Annotated Edition of the
Journals of Mary Morton Allport’ (graduated)
Recent Honours Supervisions
2008
— Joanna Longbottom (David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas) H1
— Elisabeth van de Wetering (Elizabeth Jolley, The Orchard Thieves and
Amanda Lohrey, Camille’s Bread) H1
2007
— John-Alexander Barr (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) HU
— Hayley van Beek (Feminism and film) HU
2004
— Eleni Pavlides (Chaucer, the Wife and Me) H1
— Emily Campton (Chaucer’s Boece) H1
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