Staff profile
Dr Rebecca Waese
Honorary Associate, Lecturer
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Communication, Arts and Critical EnquiryMelbourne (Bundoora)
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- E: r.waese@latrobe.edu.au
Area of study
English
Brief profile
Rebecca's work compares the dramatization of history in contemporary Canadian and Australian fiction. She is co-author of an upcoming article of Jane Austen's Persuasion and Roger Michell's film Persuasion for inclusion in a volume titled, Adaptation: British Literature of the Nineteenth Century and Film.
Research interests
Literary Studies
- literary
- Modernist and contemporary literature
- performative writing
- post colonial contexts
- theatrical and film adaptations
- women’s writing
Recent publications
- (With Laura Carroll, Chris Palmer, and Sue Thomas) “Austen’s and Michell’s Persuasion in the University Classroom: Pedagogical Strategies” in Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation, eds. Abigail Burnham Bloom and Mary Sanders Pollock, Cambria, 2011.
- “History and Mystory in the Mystery of the broken fether” in Canadian Literature, Summer 185: 2005.
