The University of Western Australia

Dr Hila Shachar

Honorary Research Fellow
English and Cultural Studies

Contact details

Address

English and Cultural Studies
The University of Western Australia (M202)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2101

Fax

6488 1030

Email

hila.shachar@uwa.edu.au

Biography

I completed my doctorate in the Discipline of English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia in 2009. I am now an Honorary Research Fellow within English and Cultural Studies. I also work as a writer for Desktop Magazine and The Australian Ballet. I am currently working in coordination with Rose Mulready, the Publications Editor of The Australian Ballet, and Alison Copley, the Editorial Assistant of Desktop Magazine.

Key research

Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

The Works of the Brontë Sisters

Romanticism and the Gothic Tradition

Literary Biopics

Neo-Victorian Studies

Screen and Adaptation Studies

Film Theory

Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies

Post-Feminism

Popular Culture and Fiction

Australian Literature and Culture

Women’s Fiction

Biography and Life Writing

Trauma and Memory Studies

Ballet and Dance

Publications

Books:

Shachar, Hila. Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming 31 August, 2012, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan (completed and currently in the production phase).

Scholarly Book Chapters:

Shachar, Hila. “Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic.” In The Blackwell Companion to the Historical Film. Ed. Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming early 2012 (completed and under contract).

Shachar, Hila. “The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender and Domesticity in MTV’s Adaptation of Wuthering Heights.” In Neo-Victorian Families: Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics. Ed. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Amsterdam; New York, NY: Rodopi, 2011. Pp. 221-244.

Shachar, Hila. “A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga.” In Theorizing Twilight: Essays on What’s at Stake in a Post-Vampire World. Ed. Natalie Wilson and Maggie Parke. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2011. Pp. 147-161.

Shachar, Hila. “The Legacy of Hell: Wuthering Heights on Film and Gilbert and Gubar’s Feminist Poetics.” In Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years. Ed. Annette Federico. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. Pp. 149-169.

Fiction:

Shachar, Hila. “Miranda in Red.” In Spilling Ink. Ed. Amy Burns. Glasgow: Unbound Press, 2011. Short Story Competition Winner.

Funding received

ALTC Innovation and Development Grants Programme (Curriculum Renewal), 2011.

Languages

English
Hebrew

Memberships

The Brontë Society
Australasian Victorian Studies Association
Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Honours and awards

Publication Subsidy. The Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2011.

Innovation and Development Grant. The Australian Learning and Teaching Council, 2011.

Spilling Ink Review Short Fiction Competition Winner, 2010.

School of Social and Cultural Studies Publications Grant. University of Western Australia, 2009.

Australian Bicentennial Scholarship. Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College, London, 2007.

Dean’s Postgraduate Award. Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, 2007.

UWA Postgraduate Teaching Internship Scheme. Teaching and Learning Committee, University of Western Australia, 2006.

Australian Postgraduate Award. Scholarships Committee, University of Western Australia, 2005-2009.

Ernest & Evelyn Havill Shacklock Scholarship in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Scholarships Committee, University of Western Australia, 2005-2009.

James Bourke Memorial Prize in English. Board of Examiners in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, 2003.

UWA Graduates Association Prize in Arts – English. Graduates Association, University of Western Australia, 2003.

Teaching

I have taught in the undergraduate courses Ideas of Modernity, Romanticism and Revolution and Romance: Narratives of the Imagination, in the Discipline of English and Cultural Studies.

My primary teaching areas include Victorian Studies, Cultural Studies, Romanticism and the Gothic tradition, Gender and Feminist Studies, Popular Culture and Literature and Screen and Film Studies.

Current external positions

Writer, Desktop Magazine
Writer, The Australian Ballet

Useful links

ALTC project pages:

http://www.olt.gov.au/project-bridging-gap-teaching-adaptations-across-disciplines-and-sharing-content-curriculum-renewal-

http://www.teaching-learning.utas.edu.au/designing/open-educational-resources/open-education-resources

Current projects

I am currently working on three separate projects:

* An ALTC Innovation and Development Grants Programme (Curriculum Renewal) project. I am part of an ALTC project team headed by Professor Imelda Whelehan at the University of Tasmania. The title of this project is “Bridging the Gap: Teaching Adaptations Across the Disciplines and Sharing Content for Curriculum Renewal”.

* A research project titled, “The Literary Biopic: Adapting the Author on Screen”. This project examines screen adaptations of well-known English authors’ lives, and draws from current debates within the fields of Film, Adaptation, Trauma, Memory and Neo-Victorian Studies.

* I am co-editing a book collection of short stories and essays on how literary narratives intersect with personal narratives of loss and trauma, with Dr Sophie Sunderland (The University of Western Australia). The working title for the collection is 'Attached to Fiction: Trauma, Loss, Pleasure'.

Research profile

Research profile and publications