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 The Australian Ballet.

Key research

Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

Romanticism

Neo-Victorian Studies

Screen and Adaptation Studies

Film Studies

Feminism and Gender Studies

Popular Culture and Fiction

Australian Literature and Culture

Ballet and Dance

Publications

Books:

Hila Shachar. Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
(Featured in The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune. Nominated for the 2013 Premier’s Book Awards.)

Scholarly Book Chapters:

Hila Shachar. “Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic.” In A Companion to the Historical Film. Ed. Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Pp. 199-219.

Hila Shachar. “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.

Hila Shachar. “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.

Hila Shachar. “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:

Forthcoming essay: “Touching”, to be published in the June & September (2013) issue of Meanjin.

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

Funding received

OLT (formely 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

OTL Innovation and Development Grant
Office for Learning and Teaching (Australian Government)
2011

Publication Subsidy Scheme
The Australian Academy of the Humanities
2011

Spilling Ink Review Short Story Competition Winner
Spilling Ink Review and Unbound Press
2010

School of Social and Cultural Studies Publications Grant
The 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, The University of Western Australia
2007

UWA Postgraduate Teaching Internship Scheme
The University of Western Australia’s Teaching and Learning Committee
2006

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

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

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

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

Teaching

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.

Useful links

OLT project: http://www.adapt.edu.au/

Research profile

Research profile and publications