Staff profile
Ms Laura Jean Carroll
Lecturer
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Communication, Arts and Critical EnquiryHU2 518, Melbourne (Bundoora)
- T: +61 3 9479 2398
- E: l.carroll@latrobe.edu.au
- W: http://sites.google.com/site/laurajcarroll/
Qualifications
BA Hons (La Trobe).
Membership of professional Associations
Modern Language Association, Jane Austen Society of Australia.
Area of study
Creative Arts
English
Research interests
Literary Studies
- Jane Austen
- Literature to film adaptation
- Textual transmission
Teaching Units
ENG1TCV - Text, Criticism and the Visual. ENG2/3RJA - Rethinking Jane Austen. ENG2/3WWB - Women Writing B.
Recent Publications
“Mansfield Park’s Textual Metamorphoses.” in Approaches to Teaching Mansfield Park, ed. Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire, MLA, 2010.
(With Chris Palmer, Sue Thomas, and Rebecca Waese) “Roger Michell’s Persuasion.” in Adaptation: British Literature of the Nineteenth Century and Film, ed. Abigail Burnham Bloom, Cambria, 2010.
“The ‘Down Under’ Copyright Case’.” Newsreel, Meanjin 69.2 (2010): 11-12.
(With John Wiltshire) "Jane Austen, Illustrated." in The Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen, ed. Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite, Blackwell, 2009: 62-77.
"The Bill Henson Affair." Newsreel, Meanjin 67.3 (2008): 14.
"Jane Austen's Abandoned Romances." Meanjin 67.2 (June 2008): 16-26.
"Weary." in True Blue? On Being Australian, ed. Peter Goldsworthy, Allen & Unwin, 2008, 106-8.
Shakespeare's Good Daughters?" in Agamemnon's mask: Greek tragedy and beyond, ed. Terry Collits and Anjara Sharma, Macmillan, 2006.
Introductory Note on Inchbald's Lovers' Vows for Cambridge University Press edition of Mansfield Park (ed. Wiltshire), 2005.
"'A consideration of times and seasons': two Jane Austen adaptations." Literature/film Quarterly 31.3 (2003): 169-176.
Research projects
Textual transmissionSome Assembly Required:Re-enacting Jane Austen - book-length study of re-enactment and roleplay within the Jane Austen fan community
