Dr Hilary Emmett
Lecturer in American Literature
BA Hons (University of Sydney), MA, PhD (Cornell University)
Office: 523 Michie
Phone: 3365 1437
Email: h.emmett@uq.edu.au
Articles:
- “Medea to Morrison: Towards a Genealogy of Mourning Mothers,” Classicum: Journal of the Classical Association of New South Wales 31.2 ( 2005): 29-38.
- “Lost Mothers and ‘Stolen Generations’: Representations of Family in Contemporary Aboriginal Writing,” in Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard & Jeanette Corbiere Lavell (eds), Aboriginal Mothering: Oppression, Resistance, Rebirth, (Toronto: Demeter Press, 2006), 224-238.
- “Rhizomatic Kinship in Kim Scott’s Benang.” Westerly 52 (2007): 165-173.
- “The Maternal Contract in Beloved and Medea,” forthcoming in Anne Simon & Heike Bartel (eds), Medea: Mutations and Permutations of a Myth, (Oxford: Legenda Press, 2008).
- “Locating the Voice of Mourning in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne Books,” forthcoming in Holly Blackford (ed), The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables, (Scarecrow Press, 2008).
Research Interests:
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture; psychoanalytic theory; literature and trauma; kinship; and children’s literature.
Current Projects:
- “Passion More then Fraternal”: book project detailing the ethics and aesthetics of sisterhood in nineteenth-century American literature.
- The Discipline of Girls: planned comparative study of forms of feminine discipline in novels written for girls in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US, Australia and Britain.
Grants and Fellowships:
- John S. Knight Institute Recognition of Achievement in Teaching Award (2007)
- Martin Sampson Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of English, Cornell University (2007)
- Graduate School Research Travel Grant, Cornell University (2006)
- Sage Completion Fellowship, Department of English, Cornell University (2005-2006)
- Robert Butler Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, Cornell University (2004)
- Fulbright Postgraduate Student Award (2000)