Staff profile

Dr Sofia Ahlberg-MacInnes

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Arts:2.20, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

BA Hons (Melbourne), PhD (Melbourne).

Area of study

Creative Arts
English

Research interests

Literary Studies

- Transatlantic literary studies

Literary Theory

- Hemispheric studies and world literature

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

  • Ahlberg, S “There is Something In Between: Detection, Duplicity and Terrorism in The Quiet American by Graham Greene,” The Role of the Detective in Literary Fiction, ed. Deborah Shaller (forthcoming 2011).
  • Ahlberg, S “Activism in the Classroom, Reading To Kill a Mockingbird,” Collected Essays on To Kill a Mockingbird, ed. Michael Meyer (forthcoming late 2010).
  • Ahlberg, S, 2009, ‘Within Oceanic Reach: The Effects of September 11 on a Drought-Stricken Nation,’ in From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 From Outside the U.S, ed. Cara Cilano. Amsterdam + New York: Rodopi.
  • Ahlberg, S 2009, ‘The Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Novel,’ in Teaching Nineteenth Century Fiction, The New English Series, ed. Andrew Maunder, Palgrave Macmillan in conjunction with the English Subject Centre.

Select Articles

  • Ahlberg, S “The Incorrigible Other: Representations of the American Girl in European Twentieth-Century Literature,” Journal of Modern Literature (forthcoming 2010).
  • Ahlberg, S 2009, “Women and War in Contemporary Love Stories from Uganda and Nigeria.” Comparative Literature Studies 46.2: 407-424.
  • Ahlberg, S 2008, “Günter Grass as Literary Intellectual: Memory, Ambiguity, and Constructive Conflict.” Studies in the Humanities 35.2: 216-230.
  • Ahlberg, S 2009, “‘Becoming a Different Me’: Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom and Transatlantic Sexual Stereotypes.” New Readings: Cardiff School of European Studies, Vol. 10.

Research projects

A book-length project detailing the transatlantic and circumatlantic transferral of knowledge in literature from the twentieth and twenty-first century