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Elizabeth Leane

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Dr Elizabeth Leane

Senior Lecturer

"BSc Adel, BA Adel, M.Stud. Oxon, D.Phil. Oxon"

Elizabeth Leane

Contact Details

Contact Campus Sandy Bay Campus
Building Humanities Building
Room Reference 569
Telephone +61 3 6226 2894
Fax +61 3 6226 7631
Email Elizabeth.Leane@utas.edu.au

Teaching Responsibilities

Units
Current and Supervised Project/s

Publications

Books
  • Considering Animals: Contemporary Case Studies in Human-Animal Relations. Ed. Carol Freeman, Elizabeth Leane and Yvette Watt. Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming (2011)
  • Reading Popular Physics: Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate. 2007. (Shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize)
  • Imagining Antarctica. Ed. Ralph Crane, Elizabeth Leane and Mark Williams. Hobart: Quintus, forthcoming (2011)
Book Chapters
  • "'A place of ideals in conflict': Images of Antarctica in Australian Literature." The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and Their Writers. Ed. C. A. Cranston and Robert Zeller. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 261-89
  • “Going Outside: Captain Oates’s Literary Legacy.” Imagining Antarctica. Hobart: Quintus, 2011. Forthcoming.
  • “Introduction.” Co-authored with Mark Pharaoh. The Adelie Blizzard. Ed. Archie McLean and Douglas Mawson. Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2010. xi-xx.
  • "The Land that Time Forgot: Fictions of Antarctic Temporality." Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses.  Spatial Practice 5. Ed. Ralph Pordzik. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. 199-223
  • "Marching on Thin Ice: The Politics of Penguin Films." Co-authored with Stephanie Pfennigwerth. Considering Animals: Contemporary Case Studies in Human-Animal Relations. Ed. Carol Freeman, Elizabeth Leane and Yvette Watt. Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming (2011)
  • “Popular Cosmology as Mythic Narrative: A Site for Interdisciplinary Exchange.” Crossing Boundaries: Thinking Through Literature. Ed. Julie Scanlon and Amy Waste. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. 84-97
 
Articles
  • "The Adelie Blizzard: Neglected Newspaper of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914)." Polar Record 41.1 (Jan. 2005):11-20. Available here
  • "Antarctica as a Scientific Utopia." Foundation : The International Review of Science Fiction 32.3 (Autumn 2003): 27-35
  • "Antarctica in the Australian Imagination." Polar Record 38 (2002): 309-312. Co-authored with Stephanie Pfennigwerth
  • "Antarctic Theatricals: The Frozen Farce of Scott's First Expedition." Theatre Notebook: A Journal of the History and Technique of the British Theatre 57 (2003): 143-157
  • "Antarctic Travel Writing and the Problematics of the Pristine: Two Australian Novelists' Narratives of Tourist Voyages to Antarctica." Proceedings of Imaging Nature: Media, Environment and Tourism, Cradle Mountain, 27-29 June 2004. Ed. L. Lester and C. Ellis. 2005.  Available at: http://www.utas.edu.au/arts/imaging/
  • "Captain John King Davis on F.I.S. Endeavour: Preparing for Oceanographic Work in Antarctic and Subantarctic Waters." Co-authored with Anna Lucas and Lorne Kriwoken. Polar Record. Forthcoming (2011)
  • "Charismatic Krill? Size and Conservation in the Ocean." Co-authored with Steve Nicol. Anthrozoös 24.1 (Dec. 2010). Forthcoming
  • "Chromodynamics: Science and Colonialism in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy." Ariel : A Review of International English Literature 33.1 (2002): 83-104. Reprinted in Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable. Ed. William Burling. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 144-56.
  • "Eggs, Emperors and Empire: Apsley Cherry-Garrard's 'Worst Journey' as Imperial Quest Romance." Kunapipi 31.2. Forthcoming
  • "A Flight of the Imagination: Mawson's Antarctic Aeroplane." Co-authored with Anna Lucas, Chris Henderson and Lorne Kriwoken. Polar Journal 1.1. Forthcoming (2011)
  • "Isolation, Connectedness and the Uses of Text in Heroic-Era Antarctica: The Cases of Inexpressible and Elephant Islands." Island Studies Journal 2.1 (2007): 47-56
  • "Knowing Quanta: The Ambiguous Metaphors of Popular Physics." Review of English Studies 52 (Aug. 2001): 411-31
  • "Locating the Thing: The Antarctic as Alien Space in John W. Campbell's 'Who Goes There?'" Science Fiction Studies 32.2 (2005): 225-39
  • "Placing Women in the Antarctic Literary Landscape." Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society 34.3 (Special Issue: Gender and Polar Studies) (Spring 2009): 509-14
  • "Polar Newspapers as Colonising Fictions: The Frontier Journalism of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition." new literatures review 42 (2005): 24-43
  • "Romancing the Pole: A Survey of Nineteenth-Century Antarctic Utopias." ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia 23 (2004):147-171
  • "Reading Aldiss and Penrose's White Mars as 'Science Faction.'" _ Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 34.1 (Spring 2005): 18-25
  • "'Stirring Things Up': Chaos, Complexity and the Hard-Boiled PI." Essays in Arts and Sciences 32 (2003): 45-60
  • "What's Left of Theory?" Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 16.3 (2002): 253-8. Co-authored with Ian Buchanan
Special Issue Journal Editions
  • Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 16.3 (2002). Special issue “What’s Left of Theory? ”
  • ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia 23 (2004). Special issue: "Futures Exchange." Co-edited with Jenny McFarlane
Grants
  • ARC Discovery Grant (with Helen Tiffin and Steve Nicol), “Creatures of the Ice: A Cultural Analysis of Human-Animal Relations in Antarctica” (2008-10, extended to 2012 due to maternity leave)
  • Rising Stars Grant (UTas), 2010-12
  • IRGS Grant (UTas), “Of Persons and Penguins: A Pilot Project for a Study of Representations of Antarctic Animals,” 2007
  • ARC Discovery Grant, “Antarctic Imaginations: A Study of Creative Responses to the Continent for Science,” 2004-2006
  • Australian Antarcttic Arts Fellowship, 2003-04
  • IRGS Grant (UTas), “Representations Of Antarctica As A Scientific Utopia: A Pilot Project For A Book-Length Study Of Fictional Antarctic Utopias,” 2002
  • IRGS Grant (UTas), “Comparative Analysis of Fictional and Popular Non-fictional Representations of Antarctic Science and Scientists since 1950,” 2001

Research Project/s