Dr Marea Mitchell
Representing Women and Female Desire from Arcadia to Jane Eyre
The Book of Margery Kempe: Scholarship, Community, and Criticism
Associate Professer Marea Mitchell
Position: Associate Professer in English
Contact Details
Office: W6A 634
Phone: 61-2-9850 8754
Fax: 61-2-9850 6593
Email: marea.mitchell@humn.mq.edu.au
Qualifications
BA (London), MA DPhil. (Sussex)
Profile
My main research interests are in medieval and Renaissance English studies,
specifically, Margery Kempe, John Donne, Ben Johnson, Philip Sidney, Mary
Wroth, and Anna Weamys. I am currently working on a study of the work of
Philip Sidney, and those who read and re-wrote his work, such as Weamys,
Mrs Stanley, Gervase Markham, Richard Bellings and Stanley Frith. My approaches
to literary texts are informed by feminist, marxist and cultural materialist
ideas. I am also researching in Cornish studies, and have long-standing
interests in the work of the late British playwright Dennis Potter. I have
taught at all levels of undergraduate studies, and supervised postgraduates
to successful completions. I am also concered with the relationships between
modern scholarship and historical texts, and with current representations
of feminism and feminist thinkers.
Selected publications
Books
Representing Women and Female Desire from Arcadia to Jane Eyre, Marea Mitchell & Dianne Osland (London): Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Anna Weamys' Continuation of Sidney's Arcadia,ed. Marea Mitchell (London: Ashgate, 2005)
The Book of Margery Kempe: Scholarship, Community, and Criticism (New York: Peter Lang, 2005)
Love's Cure by Beaumont & Fletcher (Nottingham: Nottingham Drama Texts, 1992).
Articles
"Performing Sexual Politics in the The Taming of the Shrew," Norton Critical Edition ed. Dympha Callaghan ( forthcoming Dec.2008)
"Johnson's Politics of Gender and Genre: Mary Wroth and "Charis" Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre eds A D Cousins and A V Scott ( Cambridge University Press, 2008, forthcoming)
"'Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildstern Are Dead: Transformations and Adaptions," Sydney Studies in English, 2007 pp. 39-55
"Commanding Perspectives on the Isles of Scilly: Robert Maybee's ballad of Sir Cloudesley Shovel," Refereed papers from the 2nd International Small Island Cultures Conference (Sydney: SICRI) 2006 pp. 93-103
"Gender, Genre and the Idea of Donne in the Anniversaries," in Donne and the Resources of Kind, A.D.Cousins and Damian Grace, Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2002, pp. 106-119.
'Uncanny Dialogues: "The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn," and The Book of Margery Kempe, in Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women and Modern Scholarship, eds. Louise d'Arcens and Juanita Feros Ruys, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002)
"Strange But Vain Conceits": Re-writing Romance in the Arcadias,' Sidney
Journal, 20.2, 2002, pp. 1-20.
'The Ever-Growing Army of Serious Girl Students': The Legacy of Hope Emily Allen,' Medieval Feminist Forum, No. 31,
Spring 2001. pp. 17-28.
'Ambitious Women and Strange Monsters: Simone de Beauvoir and Germaine Greer,' Hecate XXVI/i. 2000, pp. 98-105.
'Beyond the Fragments Again: Germaine Greer and the Politics of Feminism,' Marea Mitchell, Journal of the Interdisciplinary Studies, Volume 5 No 1, June 2000, pp. 67-77.
"What's at Stake: Cultural Materialism and Marxism," Marea Mitchell, The Point of Change: Carole Ferrier Marxism/Australia/History/Theory ed. and Rebecca Phelan
(Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1998) pp.274-280.
"Who on earth is George W. M. Reynolds? Literature, Teaching, Politics," Robert Mackie & Marea Mitchell, Literary Theory in the Classroom, ed. J.M.Q. Davies, Locust Hill Press, 1994, pp. 97-111.
Teaching
ENGL 267 Medieval Literature
ENGL 325 Feminism and Literature
Administrative Roles
Associate Dean, Higher Degree Research, Division of Humanities
Division of Humanities Executive, member
Academic Programs Committee, University,
NTEU, departmental delegate