Dr Hila Shachar
Honorary Research Fellow
English and Cultural Studies
- Contact details
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- 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
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Research profile and publications