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Drawing on personal antarctic research in a literature course

Overview

Dr Elizabeth Leane, lecturer in English, is engaged in frontier research into Antarctic literature and culture, and her students gain from the primacy of this research. Examining the place of Antarctica in literature, and literature in Antarctica, is a path seldom travelled-Elizabeth must draw heavily upon her own research when teaching this topic, including her own experiences of visiting the Antarctic, and utilising personal narratives and photographs.

Major Case Themes

  • Teaching-research nexus

Elizabeth Leane

School of English, Journalism & European Languages
Faculty of Arts

Elizabeth.Leane@utas.edu.au

'I think when you're giving a lecture there's nothing like making some kind of personal connection for getting the students interested.'

 

 

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