Dr Antonina Harbus
Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend
The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry
Germanic Texts and Their Latin Models: Medieval Reconstructions
Miracles and the Miraculous in Medieval Germanic and Latin Literature
Verbal Encounters In Old English and Old Norse Literature: Studies
for Roberta Frank
Dr Antonina Harbus
Position: Senior Lecturer in English
Contact Details
Office: W6A 506
Phone: 61-2-9850 6802
Fax: 61-2-9850 6593
Email: antonina.harbus@humn.mq.edu.au
Qualifications
BA Hons (Qld), MA (Toronto), PhD (Toronto), Grad. Cert. Ed. (Higher Ed.) Sydney
Profile
Antonina Harbus convenes the first-year foundation unit,Approaches to English Literature, and teaches units on genre, narrative, poetry, and metaphor. Her research interests include poetry and poetic language; literary rhetoric and semiotics; constructing the self in narrative; dreams and the unconscious in English literature; modes of reading; and Old English and Middle English language and literature. Her current major research project treats metaphor and poetic language.
Selected publications
Books
Miracles and the Miraculous in Medieval Germanic and Latin Literature. Germania Latina V, ed. K.E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra (Louvain: Peeters, 2005)
Verbal Encounters In Old English and Old Norse Literature: Studies for Roberta Frank, ed. A. Harbus and R. Poole (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005)
Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002)
The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002)
Germanic Texts and Their Latin Models: Medieval Reconstructions. Germania Latina IV, ed. K.E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra (Louvain: Peeters, 2001)
Articles
‘A Renaissance Reader's English Annotations to Thynne's 1532 Edition of Chaucer's Works ',The Review of English Studies 59.238 (2008)
‘Anglo-Saxon Mentalities and Old English Literary Studies', forthcoming Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 55 (2007) 13-22
‘Metaphors of Authority in Alfred's Prefaces', Neophilologus 91.4 (2007) 717-727
‘Travelling Metaphors and Mental Wandering in Old English Poetry', The World of Travellers , Germania Latina VI, ed. K. Olsen, K. Dekker, and T. Hofstra (Leuven : Peeters, forthcoming)
‘Expressing Love in English and Russian: Common and Language-Specific Features', Scando-Slavica 3 (2007) 95-108 (with M. Kalyuga)
‘Colchester on Stage: The Emperor Constantine by Dorothy L. Sayers', Modern Drama 48.1 (2005) 87-107
‘The Presentation of Native Saints in the Old English Translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History ', Miracles and the Miraculous in Medieval Germanic and Latin Literature, Germania Latina V, ed. K.E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra (Louvain : Peeters, 2005) 155-174
‘Transforming Miracles in Medieval Hagiography', Miracles and the Miraculous in Medieval Germanic and Latin Literature, Germania Latina V, ed. K.E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra (Louvain : Peeters, Louvain ,2005) 1-11 (with K.E. Olsen)
‘Articulate Contact in Juliana ', Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank , ed. A. Harbus and R. Poole (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005) 183-200
‘Introduction', Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank , ed. A. Harbus and R. Poole (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005) 1-12 (with R. Poole)
‘Thinking in Metaphors: Figurative Language and Ideas on the Mind', Sydney Studies in English 30 (2004) 3-20
‘The Situation of Wisdom in Solomon and Saturn II ', Studia Neophilologica 75.2 (2003) 1-7
‘The Medieval Concept of the Self in Anglo-Saxon England', Self and Identity 1.1 (2002) 77-97
‘A Mind for Hagiography: The Psychology of Resolution in Andreas ', Germanic Texts and Their Latin Models: Medieval Reconstructions, Germania Latina IV, ed. K.E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra ( Louvain : Peeters, 2001) 127-140
‘Introduction', Germanic Texts and Their Latin Models: Medieval Reconstructions , Germania Latina IV, ed. K.E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra ( Louvain : Peeters, 2001) 1-5 (with K.E. Olsen)
‘ Exeter Book Riddle 39 Reconsidered', Studia Neophilologica 70.2 (1998) 139-148
‘Old English swefn and Genesis B line 720', Studies in English Language and Literature: ‘Doubt Wisely': Papers in Honour of E. G. Stanley , ed. M.J. Toswell and E.M. Tyler (London and New York: Routledge, 1996) 157-74
‘Deceptive Dreams in The Wanderer ', Studies in Philology 93.2 (1996) 164-179
‘Dream and Symbol in The Dream of the Rood ', Nottingham Mediaeval Studies 40 (1996) 1-15
‘The Prophetic Dreams of Gisli, the Unlucky Man', The Treasures of the Elder Tongue: Fifty Years of Old Norse in Melbourne , ed. Katrina Burge and John Stanley Martin ( Melbourne , 1995) 105-118
‘Text as Revelation: Constantine 's Dream in Elene ', Neophilologus 78.4 (1994) 645-653
‘Nebuchadnezzar's Dreams in the Old English Daniel ', English Studies 75.6 (1994) 489-508, anthologised in The Poems of MS Junius 11: Basic Readings , ed. Roy Liuzza (New York and London : Routledge, 2002) 261-286
‘The Use of the Noun olehtung in Vercelli Homily VII', Notes and Queries 235 [37].4 (1990) 389-391
External Grants
2008-2010: ARC Discovery Project ('Metaphor and Mind')
1996-1998: ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Sydney
1996-1998: ARC Institutional Grant, University of Sydney
Internal Grants
2007: Macquarie University Safety Net Grant
2005: Macquarie University New Staff Grant
2004: University of Sydney Sesqui Grant
2003: University of Sydney Start-up Research Grant
1999-2003: University of Sydney U2000 Research Fellowship
1999: University of Sydney Research Grant
Fellowships
2006: Visiting Fellow, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
2000: Visiting Fellow, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge University
Teaching
ENGL 120 Approaches to English Literature
ENGL 265 Literature, History and Cultural Memory
ENGL 300 Dreams and the Imaginary in Early English Literature
ENGL 300 Marvellous Poetry: Reading the Supernatural in Verse
ENGL 302 Narrative and the Novel
ENGL 452 Metaphor and Meaning
LIT 801 Nineteenth Century Literature
LIT 805 Gender and Genre
Administrative Roles
Convenor of ENGL 120, Approaches to English Literature
Convenor of the MA in English Literature
Convenor of English Higher Degree Research
Member of the Divisional Higher Degree Research Committee
Member of the Divisional Learning and Teaching Committee
Member of the Divisional Library Committee
Member of the University Peer Observation of Teaching Working Party