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Dr Jennifer Lawn (Jenny)
BA(Hons)
(Otago), MA (UBC), PhD (UBC) English and Media Studies Programmes | |
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Room AT2.36
Phone (09) 414 0800, Extn 9047
Email j.m.lawn@massey.ac.nz
Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland
Private Bag 102 904
North Shore
MSC
Auckland, New Zealand | |
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| Teaching
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- Gothic literature and film
- NZ literature and cultural studies
- The
representation of trauma
- Women's writing and gender studies
- Written
communication for information sciences
- Literary theory
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| Research
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| Edited Book: |
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Gothic NZ. Ed. Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn and Mary Paul.
Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2006. ISBN 10: 1 877372 23 4 ISBN 13: 978 1 877372 23 0
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" Interview: NZTrio in Conversation." Followed by: "Afterword: 'Mixing Things Up' in the Business of the Arts." Aesthesis 3.1 (2009): 30-36.
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“'Capitalism for new entrants': Rogernomics and the literary critique of neoliberalism. Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures and Society 1.1 (2010). Read this article online.
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"Playing with Freud: Radical Narcissism and Intertextuality in Frame’s Intensive Care and Daughter Buffalo." Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. Ed. J. Cronin and S. Drichel. Amsterdam:Rodopi, 2009. 25-47. Download this article in .pdf format
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"What the Dickens: Storytelling and Intertextuality in Mister Pip." Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction. Ed. Anna Jackson and Jane Stafford. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2009. 142-63, 174-77.
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"Settler Society and Postcolonial Apologies in Australia and New Zealand." Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology & Cultural Studies 5.1 ( June 2008): 20-40.
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"Introduction: Warping the Familiar." Gothic NZ. Ed. Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn and Mary Paul. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2006. pp. 1-7.
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"Creativity
Inc.: Globalising the Cultural Imaginary in New Zealand." In Global Fissures:
Postcolonial Fusions. Ed. Janet Wilson and Clara A.B. Joseph. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. pp.225-245.
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Spectral to the Ghostly: Postcolonial Gothic and New Zealand Literature." Australasian-Canadian
Studies 24.2 (2006): 143-169.
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"'On the Brink of a New Threshold of Opportunity': The Lord of the Rings and
New Zealand Cultural Policy." With Bronwyn Beatty. The Lord of the Rings:
Popular Culture in Global Context. Ed. Ernest Mathijs. London: Wallflower, 2006.
pp. 43-60. Purchase
this book
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"Arts, Culture and Heritage." Social and Cultural Studies 5 (August 2005): 16-34. Purchase this article.
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"The Word as Remnant: Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame." In New Windows on a Woman's World: A
Festschrift for Jocelyn Harris. Ed. Colin Gibson and Lisa Marr. Dunedin, NZ: Dept of English, University of Otago, 2005. pp385-401. Download this article in .pdf format
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| | "Creativity
Inc.: Globalising the Cultural Imaginary in New Zealand." In Global Fissures:
Postcolonial Fusions. Ed. Janet Wilson and Clara A.B. Joseph. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. pp.225-245.
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| | "Getting
to Wellywood: National Branding and the Globalisation of the New Zealand Film
Industry" With Bronwyn Beatty. Post Script 24.2-3 (2005): 125-143. | |
| | "Janet Frame," "Ian Wedde," "R. H. Morrieson."
Author entries in The Literary Encyclopedia Online. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and
Janet Todd. London: The Literary Dictionary Company. http://www.litencyc.com.
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| | "Scarfies,
Dunedin Gothic, and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism." JNZL: Journal of New
Zealand Literature 22 (2004): 124-140. | |
| | "Born Under the Sign of Joan: Margaret
Atwood's Lady Oracle, Mommie Dearest, and the Uses of Maternal
Ambivalence." Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering
5.1. (2003): 33-44. | |
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"Domesticating Settler Gothic in New Zealand Literature." New
Literatures Review 38 (2002): 46-62. | |
| | "Redemption, Secrecy, and the Hermeneutic
Frame in Scented Gardens for the Blind." Ariel [Calgary, Alberta]
30.3 (1999): 105-126. | |
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"Developing a Web-based Interactive Module for Distance Teaching of Paragraphing
Skills through 'Drag-and-Drop' Textual Manipulation." Tertiary Writing
Network Proceedings. Ed. Lisa Emerson. Hamilton: Waikato Polytechnic/Waikato
University, 2000. 65-74. | |
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"Tofu, Green Tea, and Alzheimer's Disease: Critical Thinking
as Quantitative Literacy in First-Year Composition for Information and Mathematical
Science Students." With Russell Poole. Re/Searching Writing Horizons:
Tertiary Writing Network: Colloquium Proceedings. Ed. Lisa Emerson and Grant
Harris. Palmerston North: Massey University, 1998. 66-80.
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| | "Our Bodies Their
Selves: Gender, Language, and Knowledge in Chapter Seventeen of Cat's Eye."
LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 6 (1995): 269-83. | |
| | "Pakeha Bonding." Meanjin
53.2 (Winter 1994): 295-304. | |
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"Four Characters in Search of a Narrator:
Focalization and the Representation of Consciousness in Under the Volcano."
Studies in Canadian Literature 18.2 (1993): 11-31. | |
| | "Docile Bodies: Normalization and the
Asylum in Owls Do Cry." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
11 (1993): 178-87. | |
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"The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib
and the Prisonhouse of Language." Canadian Literature 132 (Spring
1992): 16-30. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism.
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| | "The Many Voices
of Owls Do Cry: A Bakhtinian Approach." JNZL: Journal of New
Zealand Literature 8 (1990): 87-105. | |
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Editorial boards : |
| | Co-editor,
Social and Cultural Studies (School of Social and Cultural Studies, Massey
University, Albany) | |
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Co-editor (with Mark Williams), Literary Encyclopedia.
(General Editor: Robert Clark). Available online: http://www.litencyc.com/LitEncycFrame.htm
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Guest editor (with
Mark Williams and Michael Hall), "The Idea of Place: New Zealand Issue."
Special issue of Australian-Canadian Studies 18.1-2 (2000)
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