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Elizabeth Leane
Elizabeth Leane
Professor of Antarctic Studies
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Professor Elizabeth Leane is studying the passion for literature that the hostile continent of Antarctica evokes, and the power in turn of literature to influence what we think and feel about Antarctica. Her work highlights the need for a presence of the humanities as well as the sciences in Antarctic research.
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Elizabeth Leane - Hobart
Most of us will never get to visit that great frozen continent to the south, even though it looms large in our imaginations. That’s not the case for Professor Elizabeth Leane. For her, spending time “on the ice” has been part of understanding the ways humans have responded to this challenging place.
With degrees in physics and literary studies, Leane is now Professor of Antarctic Studies in the School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education. She studies human interaction with the ice continent past and present, with a focus on cultural responses and perceptions. She explores the way we use stories to create our different ideas of the continent – as a travel destination, a site of scientific inquiry, a symbol of changing global climate, and a place with a particular set of meanings for Tasmania and Australia.
Having held a joint appointment between the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the College of Arts, Law and Education for some of her career, Professor Leane is immersed in the world of Antarctic research, while remaining methodologically grounded in the humanities and social sciences. Her research has established the humanities as central to Antarctic studies.
“Within IMAS, I was based in the Oceans and Cryosphere Group, a very interdisciplinary cluster of researchers who work on topics ranging from international law to the processes that affect sea-ice. My first degree was in Science, so I felt very much at home in that mix,” Professor Leane said.
“Antarctica is a place that, even now, very few people will ever go to. However, increasingly we are understanding its enormous impact on the planet – its role in global climate systems and its potential impact on sea-level rise.
“It is a place that is in people’s minds more and more, but their knowledge of it is entirely mediated through what they hear, what they read and what they see on screens.
“Attitudes towards Antarctica thus depend on stories, images and sounds that are circulated through culture, so it is important that we understand what ideas are being encoded in these cultural products and how they reflect and impact on other aspects of human relationships to Antarctica, including science, geo-politics and tourism.”
Her research ranges widely, from writing a historical account of the Geographical South Pole as both a cultural and natural place, to challenging the ways we think about Australia’s Antarctic history, to working with tourism operators to understand how visitors’ cultural backgrounds can affect their experience of Antarctica.
“On an international scale, I’ve been working within the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research to incorporate humanities perspectives into the research they coordinate.”
Professor Leane has also collaborated with researchers from Western Sydney University – together with local and state government stakeholders – on what it means to be an Antarctic “gateway” city.
“We argue that Hobart and its counterparts in New Zealand, South America and South Africa are cities that not only provide routes to the far south, but also embody Antarctica’s values, such as environmental protection, international collaboration, and scientific understanding.”
As a gateway to the far south, Tasmania is in a privileged position from which to undertake this research.
“For people interested in Antarctica – and not just through a scientific lens – Hobart is an ideal place to study or conduct research, as you are immersed in an Antarctic culture that is found in very few other places throughout the world.
“In Tasmania, and particularly Hobart, Antarctic imagery and narratives are embedded in our history, our communities, our cultural institutions, and our urban infrastructure, making it an ideal place from which to study human understandings of Antarctica, past and present, and to speculate on how these might change into the future.”
Professor Leane has visited the continent several times as a writer, research and educator, travelling by ship and plane to the Antarctic Peninsula, the Ross Sea region and East Antarctica.
“What strikes me overall is how different these experiences are – where you travel, where you stay, the role you travel in, who you travel with, and the way you travel, can all give you quite different perspectives on the place that is often talked about as one single thing, Antarctica.”
Elizabeth Leane is Professor of Antarctic Studies in the School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education. With degrees in both science and literature, she is interested in building bridges between disciplines, and particularly in bringing the insights of the humanities to the study of the Antarctic. She is interested in how people form their ideas of Antarctica through both cultural texts and lived experience of the environment, and how these two ways of knowing the region interact. She has visited Antarctica as a writer-in-resident, an educator and a researcher, with the Australian, New Zealand and Chilean national programs. In addition to her Antarctic work, her research areas include literature and place; literature and science, particularly in relation to science communication; popular fiction; and human-animal studies.
Biography
Elizabeth began her academic career in science, finishing a BSc in physics, for which she was awarded the Silver Bragg Medal, before moving into English studies. She undertook her doctorate in English literature at the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
After coming to the University of Tasmania to work in the English program, Elizabeth developed a research interest in the Antarctic, where she traveled as an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow in early 2004. From 2013-19, she held an ARC Future Fellowship split between UTAS's School of Humanities and Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. She began collaborating with researchers in a wide range of disciplines, using methods anchored in textual analysis to examine diverse cultural texts, including travel and exploration writing, diaries, film and television, musical works and museums.
Elizabeth currently co-leads (with Katie Marx) the Public Engagement with Antarctic Research Action Group within the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. She is Arts and Literature Editor of The Polar Journal. Her books include Antarctica in Fiction and South Pole: Nature and Culture and the co-edited collections Anthropocene Antarctica and Performing Ice. She communicates her work through the media, podcast interviews and online resources. She is currently leading several large funded projects focussed on the Antarctic region, including partnered research with government agencies nationally and internationally, and tourism operators.
From 2020-2022, Elizabeth was the Associate Dean, Research Performance in the College of Arts, Law and Education, supporting researchers in and beyond the College to develop and deliver high-quality, high-impact research.
Career summary
Qualifications
| Degree | Title of Thesis | University | Country | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Contemporary Popular Physics: An Interchange between Literature and Science | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 2003 |
| MSt | (Research Methods in English - Modern Period) | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 2003 |
| BA(Hons) | University of Adelaide | Australia | 1995 | |
| BSc | University of Adelaide | Australia | 1992 |
Memberships
Professional practice
- Co-lead, Public Engagement with Antarctic Research Action Group, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). This group brings together international researchers in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in public engagement with the Antarctic and Southern Ocean region.
- Arts and Literature Editor, The Polar Journal. This journal is a peer-reviewed forum for the scholarly discussion of polar issues from a social science and humanities perspective.
- Member, Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia and New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ)
- Member, Australasian Animal Studies Association
Administrative expertise
In addition to her Associate Dean role, Elizabeth has held a range of administrative positions. She was Secretary for the Tasmanian Rhodes Scholarship (2015-19), running a selection committee chaired by the Governor. From 2016-18, she was co-director of UTAS’s cross-institutional Marine, Antarctic and Maritime Research Theme, managing a large budget to progress innovative team-based interdisciplinary research projects.
Elizabeth is currently a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts.
Teaching
Teaching expertise
Elizabeth has designed and coordinated units focused on the literary canon, nineteenth-century British literature, science and literature, literary representations of Antarctica and science fiction. In 2017-18, she was an Erskine Fellow at Gateway Antarctica (University of Canterbury) in Christchurch, where she helped deliver the Postgraduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies, including the Antarctic fieldwork.
Research Invitations
- Keynote speaker, Wireless Institute of Australia annual conference (“Antarctic Gateway” theme), Hobart and online, 7 May 2022.
- Keynote speaker, “Ice St(ages) 1: Moving Environments, Fleeting Encounters and Performative Gestures,” Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, online, 19-20 May 2021.
- Keynote speaker, 10th AICCM (Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials) Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium, Melbourne Museum, Nov. 2018.
- Keynote speaker, South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference, U. of New England Future Campus, Sydney, Feb. 2018.
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Expertise
Elizabeth uses textual analysis, archival research and a range of qualitative methods to better understand human engagement with the Antarctic region, past and present. She partners with tour operators, national Antarctic programs, NGOs and government agencies. She has received public funding to produce a cultural history of Australian artists and writers in Antarctica; to survey public attitudes towards Antarctica; to examine Antarctic tourist experience and related policy; to examine the way to progress the re-imagining of ‘gateway’ cities; to integrate humanities approaches into Antarctic research; and to write a thematic history of Anglophone fiction set in Antarctica. Her accessible books, essays, reports, podcasts and presentations inform and enrich the ways we think about the region to our south.
Areas of research expertise include:
- Cultural responses to the Antarctic region
- Polar travel and tourism
- Public engagement with Antarctica
- Antarctic ‘gateways’
- Place and popular fiction
- Literature and environment
- Human-animal studies
- Science writing, particularly popularisation of science
Collaboration
Elizabeth frequently collaborates with other researchers in a range of disciplines, co-authoring and co-editing publications with scholars in cultural geography, tourism studies, sociology, media studies, geopolitics, musicology, visual arts, film studies and marine biology.
From 2017-2020, Elizabeth was a Chief Investigator on the ‘Antarctic Cities’ Linkage Project led by Prof. Juan Francisco Salazar at UWS, with partners including Antarctic Tasmania, Hobart City Council, Christchurch City Council, the University of Canterbury, the University of Magallanes (Chile) and the Chilean Antarctic Institute.
Currently, Elizabeth is leading two collaborative ARC-funded projects: a Linkage Project focussed on tourist mediation of the Antarctic, partnered with Intrepid Travel; and a Discovery Project looking at Australian artists and writers in Antarctica, which involves investigators from RMIT, Flinders University, the Australian Antarctic Division and the Centre for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, as well as UTAS colleagues.
She is also an investigator on an international project focussed on the future of Antarctic tourism, led by the European Tourism Futures Institute at NHL Stenden University in the Netherlands. This project includes researchers and partners at the University of Rotterdam, University of Surrey, Nissiping University; tourism industry body IAATO; and NGOs such as the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition.
Awards
- South Pole shortlisted for the 2017 Margaret Scott Prize, Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes and for the 2018 William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Books.
- 2010 University of Tasmania 'Rising Stars' Award ($75,000); this award recognises 'outstanding research talent' in staff at Level B and C
- 2007 Reading Popular Physics short-listed for the British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize
- 2004 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship (Aurora Australis Voyage 7 to Casey and Macquarie Island stations, Feb-March)
Current projects
- ‘Transforming Tourists’ Antarctic Experience’
- Public Engagement with Antarctica
- ‘Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South'
- Antarctic ‘Gateway’ Cities
- Place, space and bestselling fiction – for the Cambridge Elements series “Publishing and Book Culture”
- ADAPT: Adaptation pathways through knowledge co-production to anticipate Antarctica's uncertain tourism futures
Fields of Research
- Ecocriticism (470509)
- Cultural geography (440601)
- British and Irish literature (470504)
Research Objectives
- Literature (130203)
- Understanding past societies (130799)
- Management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments (180499)
Publications
Elizabeth is the author of South Pole (2016), Antarctica in Fiction (2012) and Reading Popular Physics (2007), and the co-editor of Performing Ice (2020), Anthropocene Antarctica (2019), Considering Animals (2011) and Imagining Antarctica (2011). She has published in a diverse range of journals, including recently Environmental Humanities, Geographical Research, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Polar Record, the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Studies in Higher Education, and Studies in Travel. She is regularly invited to contribute to essay collections, such as The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions, The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry, Ice Humanities (Manchester UP), the Oxford History of the Novel (vol. 9), the Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions and Handbook on the Politics of the Antarctic (Edward Elgar). She is the Arts and Literature Editor of The Polar Journal.
Elizabeth has also communicated her research in more popular formats, including The Conversation, The Griffith Review and Ted-Ed. With Mark Pharaoh of the South Australian Museum, she co-wrote the introduction to the facsimile edition of The Adelie Blizzard, the newspaper of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
Total publications
143
Journal Article
(57 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Leane E, Lavery C, Nash M, ''The only almost germ-free continent left': Pandemics and purity in cultural perceptions of Antarctica', Environmental Humanities, 15, (1) pp. 109-127. ISSN 2524-5708 (2023) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2022 | Leane E, 'Where borders break down: recollections of a polar traveller', Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World pp. 40-50. ISSN 1448-2924 (2022) [Professional, Refereed Article] | |
| 2022 | Nash M, Leane E, Norris K, 'It's just that uncertainty that eats away at people: Antarctic expeditioners' lived experiences of COVID-19', PLOS ONE, 17, (11) Article e0277676. ISSN 1932-6203 (2022) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277676 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Nash M; Norris K | |
| 2022 | Salazar JF, Leane E, Roldan G, Fraser C, Diaz KM, et al., 'The Antarctic youth coalition: an experiment in citizen participation and south - south cultural diplomacy', The Polar Journal, 12, (1) ISSN 2154-896X (2022) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/2154896X.2022.2062560 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Power C | |
| 2021 | Leane E, Lucas CH, Marx K, Datta D, Nielsen H, et al., 'From gateway to custodian city: Understanding urban residents' sense of connectedness to Antarctica', Geographical Research, 59, (4) pp. 522-536. ISSN 1745-5863 (2021) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12490 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 3Web of Science - 2 Co-authors: Lucas CH; Marx K; Datta D; Nielsen H | |
| 2021 | Philpott C, Leane E, 'Silent continent? Textual responses to the soundscapes of Antarctica', ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment pp. 1-32. ISSN 1076-0962 (2021) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1093/isle/isab025 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Web of Science - 1 Co-authors: Philpott C | |
| 2020 | Alexander KA, Liggett D, Leane E, Nielsen HEF, Bailey JL, et al., 'What and who is an Antarctic ambassador?', Polar Record, 55, (6) pp. 497-506. ISSN 0032-2474 (2020) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1017/S0032247420000194 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 10Web of Science - 8 Co-authors: Alexander KA; Nielsen HEF; Brasier MJ; Haward M | |
| 2020 | Philpott C, Leane E, Quin D, 'Vaughan Williams and the soundscapes of Scott of the Antarctic', The Musical Quarterly, 103, (1-2) pp. 105-138. ISSN 0027-4631 (2020) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1093/musqtl/gdaa006 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Philpott C; Quin D | |
| 2019 | Leane E, 'A polar explorer in insanity's archives: transmitting the story of Antarctic wireless operator Sidney Jeffryes', AICCM Bulletin, 40, (1) pp. 50-59. ISSN 1034-4233 (2019) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2019 | Leane E, Maddison B, Norris K, 'Beyond the heroic stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the mythologising of Australian Antarctic history', Australian Humanities Review, 64 pp. 1-23. ISSN 1325-8338 (2019) [Refereed Article] Co-authors: Maddison B; Norris K | |
| 2019 | Nielsen HEF, Lucas CH, Leane E, 'Rethinking Tasmania's regionality from an Antarctic perspective: flipping the map', M/C Journal, 22, (3) Article 1528. ISSN 1441-2616 (2019) [Refereed Article] Co-authors: Nielsen HEF; Lucas CH | |
| 2019 | Wainschenker P, Leane E, 'The 'alien' next door: Antarctica in South American fiction', The Polar Journal, 9, (2) pp. 324-339. ISSN 2154-896X (2019) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/2154896X.2019.1685178 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 2 | |
| 2018 | Frame B, Leane E, Lindeman RW, 'Geocaching in Antarctica: heroic exploration for the digital era?', The Polar Journal, 8, (2) pp. 397-406. ISSN 2154-896X (2018) [Non Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/2154896X.2018.1541839 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 2 | |
| 2018 | Hardy A, McDonald J, Guijt R, Leane E, Martin A, et al., 'Academic parenting: work-family conflict and strategies across child age, disciplines and career level', Studies in Higher Education, 43, (4) pp. 625-643. ISSN 0307-5079 (2018) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1185777 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 18Web of Science - 14 Co-authors: Hardy A; McDonald J; Guijt R; Martin A; James A; Jones M; Corban M; Green B | |
| 2018 | Leane E, 'Introducing SC-HASS: The new SCAR standing committee on the humanities and social sciences', The Polar Journal, 8, (2) pp. 409-410. ISSN 2154-896X (2018) [Letter or Note in Journal] | |
| 2018 | Leane E, 'Newspapers from the edge of the world', Ernest, (8) pp. 38-45. ISSN 2055-723X (2018) [Professional, Non Refereed Article] | |
| 2018 | Leane E, Maddison B, 'A biography of iceberg B09B', Australian Humanities Review, (63) pp. 99-115. ISSN 1835-8063 (2018) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2017 | Leane E, 'A brief history of Stephen Hawkings blockbuster', Nature: Books and Arts, 541 pp. 28-29. ISSN 0028-0836 (2017) [Non Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1038/nature16881 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 2Web of Science - 1 | |
| 2017 | Leane E, 'Literatura Antartica: un analisis tematico', Boletin Antartico Chileno, 33, (2) pp. 95-99. ISSN 0716-0763 (2017) [Professional, Non Refereed Article] | |
| 2017 | Leane E, Fletcher L, Garg S, 'Co-authorship trends in English literary studies, 1995-2015', Studies in Higher Education, 44, (4) pp. 786-798. ISSN 0307-5079 (2017) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2017.1405256 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 6Web of Science - 4 Co-authors: Fletcher L; Garg S | |
| 2017 | Leane E, Miles G, 'The poles as planetary places', The Polar Journal, 7, (2) pp. 270-286. ISSN 2154-896X (2017) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/2154896X.2017.1373913 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 3 Co-authors: Miles G | |
| 2017 | Leane E, Nielsen HEF, 'American cows in Antarctica: Richard Byrd's polar dairy as symbolic settler colonialism', Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History, 18, (2) pp. 1-13. ISSN 1532-5768 (2017) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1353/cch.2017.0024 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Nielsen HEF | |
| 2016 | Leane E, 'Tasmania from below: Antarctic travellers accounts of a southern 'gateway'', Studies in Travel Writing, 20, (1) pp. 34-48. ISSN 1364-5145 (2016) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2015.1131513 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 2 | |
| 2016 | Leane E, Philpott C, 'What's wrong with 'expeditioner'?', Polar Record pp. 1-2. ISSN 0032-2474 (2016) [Letter or Note in Journal] DOI: 10.1017/S0032247416000772 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Philpott C | |
| 2016 | Leane E, Winter T, Salazar JF, 'Caught between nationalism and internationalism: replicating histories of Antarctica in Hobart', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 22, (3) pp. 214-227. ISSN 1352-7258 (2016) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2015.1114010 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 11Web of Science - 6 | |
| 2016 | Philpott C, Leane E, 'Making music on the march: sledging songs of the 'heroic age' of Antarctic exploration', Polar Record, 52, (6) pp. 698-716. ISSN 0032-2474 (2016) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1017/S0032247416000255 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 4Web of Science - 4 Co-authors: Philpott C | |
| 2015 | Hemmings AD, Chaturvedl S, Leane E, Ligget D, Salazar JF, 'Nationalism in Today's Antarctic', Yearbook of Polar Law, 7 pp. 531-555. ISSN 1876-8814 (2015) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2014 | Leane E, 'Icescape theatre: staging the Antarctic', Performance Research, 18, (6) pp. 18-28. ISSN 1352-8165 (2014) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2013.908051 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1 | |
| 2014 | Leane E, Philpott C, Nielsen H, 'Scott at the opera: interpreting Das Opfer (1937)', Polar Journal, 4, (2) pp. 354-376. ISSN 2154-896X (2014) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/2154896X.2014.954884 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 3 Co-authors: Philpott C; Nielsen H | |
| 2014 | Philpott C, McIntyre S, Leane E, 'Songs of the South: a song cycle for mezzo soprano and piano based on lyrics from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration', International Journal of Contemporary Composition, 9 pp. 1-43. ISSN 2304-4098 (2014) [Refereed Article] Co-authors: Philpott C; McIntyre S | |
| 2013 | Leane E, 'Yesterday's tomorrows and tomorrow's yesterdays: Utopian literary visions of Antarctic futures', Polar Journal, 3, (2) pp. 333-347. ISSN 2154-8978 (2013) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/2154896X.2013.854599 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 7 | |
| 2013 | Lucas A, Leane Elizabeth, 'Two pages of Xavier Mertz's missing Antarctic diary: a contextualization and reconstruction', Polar Record, 49, (250) pp. 297-306. ISSN 0032-2474 (2013) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1017/S0032247412000460 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Web of Science - 1 Co-authors: Lucas A | |
| 2013 | Nielsen H, Leane Elizabeth, ''Scott of the Antarctic' on the German Stage: Reinhard Goering's Die Sudpolexpedition des Kapitans Scott', New Theatre Quarterly, 29, (3) pp. 278-293. ISSN 0266-464X (2013) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1017/S0266464X13000468 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1 Co-authors: Nielsen H | |
| 2011 | Brady A, Jabour JA, Haward MG, Nuttall M, Hemmings A, et al., 'The Polar Journal', 1, (1) ISSN 2154-896X (2011) [Edited Journal] Co-authors: Jabour JA; Haward MG | |
| 2011 | Leane E, 'The Cultural Turn in Antarctic Studies', 1, (2) ISSN 2154-896X (2011) [Edited Journal] | |
| 2011 | Leane E, Nicol S, 'Charismatic krill? Size and conservation in the ocean', Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal on The Interactions of People and Animals, 24, (2) pp. 135-146. ISSN 0892-7936 (2011) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.2752/175303711X12998632257549 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 4Web of Science - 5 Co-authors: Nicol S | |
| 2011 | Leane E, Tiffin HM, 'Dogs, Meat and Douglas Mawson', Australian Humanities Review, 51, (November) pp. 185-199. ISSN 1835-8063 (2011) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2011 | Lucas A, Henderson C, Leane E, Kriwoken L, 'A Flight of the Imagination: Mawson's Antarctic Aeroplane', Polar Journal, 1, (1) pp. 63-75. ISSN 2154-896X (2011) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/2154896X.2011.568791 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Lucas A; Kriwoken L | |
| 2011 | Lucas A, Kriwoken L, Leane E, 'Captain John King Davis on F.I.S. Endeavour: Preparing for Oceanographic Work in the Southern Ocean', Polar Record, 47, (243) pp. 356-370. ISSN 0032-2474 (2011) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1017/S0032247410000690 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1 Co-authors: Lucas A; Kriwoken L | |
| 2010 | Leane E, 'Eggs, emperors and empire: Apsley Cherry-Garrard's 'Worst Journey' as imperial quest romance', Kunapipi, 31, (2) pp. 18-34. ISSN 0106-5734 (2010) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2009 | Leane E, 'Placing women in the Antarctic literary landscape', Signs, 34, (3) pp. 509-514. ISSN 0097-9740 (2009) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1086/593347 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 6Web of Science - 2 | |
| 2007 | Leane E, 'Isolation, Connectedness and the Uses of Text in Heroic-Era Antarctica: The Cases of Inexpressible and Elephant Islands', Island Studies Journal, 2, (1 ) pp. 67-76. ISSN 1715-2593 (2007) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2005 | Leane E, 'Reading Aldiss and Penrose's White Mars as 'science fiction'', Foundation, 34, (1) pp. 18-25. ISSN 0306-4964 (2005) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2005 | Leane E, 'Locating the thing: The Antarctic as alien space in John W. Campbell's 'Who Goes There?'', Science Fiction Studies, 32, (2) pp. 225-239. ISSN 0091-7729 (2005) [Refereed Article] Citations: Scopus - 3Web of Science - 6 | |
| 2005 | Leane E, 'Polar Newspapers as Colonising Fictions: The Frontier Journalism of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition', New Literatures Review, 42 pp. 25-43. ISSN 0314-7495 (2005) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2005 | Leane E, 'The Adelie Blizzard: the Australasian Antarctic Expedition's neglected newspaper', Polar Record, 41, (216) pp. 11-20. ISSN 0032-2474 (2005) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1017/S0032247404003973 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 4Web of Science - 3 | |
| 2004 | Leane E, 'Romancing the Pole: A Survey of Nineteenth-Century Antarctic Utopias', Australian Cultural History, 23, (Futures Exchange) pp. 147-171. ISSN 0728-8433 (2004) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2004 | Leane E, 'Antipodean Utopias', Australian Cultural History, 23 pp. 103-104. ISSN 0728-8433 (2004) [Letter or Note in Journal] | |
| 2004 | Leane E, McFarlane J, 'Australian Cultural History: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia', 23, (Futures Exchange) ISSN 0728-8433 (2004) [Edited Journal] | |
| 2003 | Leane E, 'Antarctica as a Scientific Utopia', Foundation the International Review of Science Fiction, 32, (89) pp. 27-35. ISSN 0306-4964 (2003) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2003 | Leane E, 'Antarctic theatricals: the frozen farce of Scott's first expedition', Theatre Notebook, 57, (3) pp. 143-157. ISSN 0040-5523 (2003) [Refereed Article] Citations: Scopus - 2 | |
| 2003 | Leane E, ''Stirring things up': Chaos, Complexity and the Hard-Boiled PI', Essays in Arts and Sciences, 32, (Fall) pp. 45-60. ISSN 0361-5634 (2003) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2003 | Leane E, 'Chromodynamics: Science and Colonialism in Kim Stanley's Mars Trilogy', Ariel, 33, (1) pp. 83-104. ISSN 0004-1327 (2003) [Refereed Article] Citations: Web of Science - 3 | |
| 2002 | Leane E, 'Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies', 16, (3) ISSN 1030-4312 (2002) [Edited Journal] | |
| 2002 | Leane E, Buchanan IM, 'What's Left of Theory', Continuum:, 16, (3) pp. 253-258. ISSN 1030-4312 (2002) [Non Refereed Article] Co-authors: Buchanan IM | |
| 2002 | Leane E, Pfennigwerth SC, 'Antarctica in the Australian Imagination', Polar Record, 38, (207) pp. 309-312. ISSN 0032-2474 (2002) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1017/S003224740001799X [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 1 Co-authors: Pfennigwerth SC | |
| 2001 | Leane E, 'Knowing quanta: The ambiguous metaphors of popular physics', Review of English Studies, 52, (207) pp. 411-431. ISSN 0034-6551 (2001) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1093/res/52.207.411 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 5Web of Science - 4 |
Book
(7 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Philpott C, Leane E, Delbridge M, 'Performing Ice', Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 238. ISBN 978-3-0304-7387-7 (2020) [Edited Book] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47388-4 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Philpott C | |
| 2019 | Leane E, McGee J, 'Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences', Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 196. ISBN 9781138367593 (2019) [Edited Book] DOI: 10.4324/9780429429705 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 9 Co-authors: McGee J | |
| 2016 | Leane E, 'South Pole: Nature and Culture', Reaktion Books, London, pp. 232. ISBN 9781780235967 (2016) [Authored Research Book] | |
| 2012 | Leane E, 'Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 250. ISBN 9781107020825 (2012) [Authored Research Book] | |
| 2011 | Crane RJ, Leane E, Williams M, 'Imagining Antarctica: Cultural Perspectives on the Southern Continent', Quintus Publishing, Hobart, pp. 125. ISBN 9780977557288 (2011) [Edited Book] Co-authors: Crane RJ | |
| 2011 | Freeman CJ, Leane E, Watt YM, 'Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations', Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 252. ISBN 978-1-4094-0013-4 (2011) [Edited Book] Citations: Scopus - 9 Co-authors: Freeman CJ; Watt YM | |
| 2007 | Leane E, 'Reading Popular Physics: Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies', Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 198. ISBN 978-0-7546-5850-4 (2007) [Authored Research Book] |
Chapter in Book
(38 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Leane E, 'The Poetry of Antarctica', The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, A Vickery and P Mead (ed), United Kingdom (In Press) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2023 | Leane E, 'Representing the Polar Regions through Historical Fiction', The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions, Cambridge University Press, A Howkins and P Roberts (ed), London, UK, pp. 252-278. ISBN 9781108555654 (2023) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2022 | Leane E, 'Ice Islands of the Anthropocene: the Cultural Meanings of Antarctic Bergs', Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change, Brill, R McDougall, JC Ryan, and P Reynolds (ed), Leiden and Boston, pp. 361-382. ISBN 9789004514171 (2022) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2022 | Leane E, 'Cryonarratives for Warming Times: Icebergs as Planetary Travellers', Ice Humanities: Living, Working, and Thinking in a Melting World, Manchester University Press, K Dodds and S Sorlin (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 250-265. ISBN 9781526157775 (2022) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2021 | Leane E, 'Constructing a Place through Literature: The Image of Antarctica', Antarctic Resolution, Lars Muller Publishers, G Foscari Widmann Rezzonico/UNLESS (ed), Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 57-59. ISBN 978-3037786406 (2021) [Other Book Chapter] | |
| 2021 | Leane E, 'The Medicinal Role of Reading in the Heroic Age', Antarctic Resolution, Lars Muller Publishers, G Foscari Widmann Rezzonico/UNLESS (ed), Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 356-360. ISBN 978-3037786406 (2021) [Other Book Chapter] | |
| 2021 | Leane E, 'Exploring Antarctic and Extraterrestrial Connectins in Fiction', Antarctic Resolution, Lars Muller Publishers, G Foscari Widmann Rezzonico/UNLESS (ed), Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 560. ISBN 978-3037786406 (2021) [Other Book Chapter] | |
| 2020 | Leane E, 'The Coldest War: Imagining Geopolitics from the Bottom of the Earth', The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, A Hammond (ed), London, pp. 677-696. ISBN 9783030389727 (2020) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2020 | Leane E, Jabour J, 'Performing Sovereignty over an Ice Continent', Performing Ice, Palgrave Macmillan, C Philpott, E Leane and M Delbridge (ed), London, pp. 171-193. ISBN 9783030473877 (2020) [Research Book Chapter] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47388-4_8 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Jabour J | |
| 2020 | Leane E, Philpott C, Delbridge M, 'Performing Ice: Histories, Theories, Contexts', Performing Ice, Palgrave Macmillan, C Philpott, E Leane and M Delbridge (ed), London, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9783030473877 (2020) [Research Book Chapter] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47388-4_1 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Philpott C | |
| 2019 | Leane E, 'Polar Travel', The Cambridge History of Travel Writing, Cambridge University Press, T Youngs and N Das (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 361-375. ISBN 9781316556740 (2019) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2019 | Leane E, 'Animals', The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing, Routledge, A Pettinger and T Youngs (ed), Oxon, pp. 305-318. ISBN 9781472417923 (2019) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2019 | Leane E, 'Ice and the Ecothriller: Popular Representations of Antarctica in the Anthropocene', Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences, Routledge, E Leane and J McGee (ed), Abingdon, pp. 87-100. ISBN 9781138367593 (2019) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2019 | Leane E, McGee J, 'Anthropocene Antarctica: Approaches, issues and debates', Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences, Routledge, E Leane and J McGee (ed), Abingdon, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781138367593 (2019) [Research Book Chapter] DOI: 10.4324/9780429429705-1 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: McGee J | |
| 2019 | Leane E, Nielsen HE, ''Gateway Tourism': Exploring Antarctica in Tasmania', Tourism in Tasmania, Forty South Publishing, CS Ooi and A Hardy (ed), Hobart, Tasmania, pp. 88-100. ISBN 9780648675761 (2019) [Research Book Chapter] Co-authors: Nielsen HE | |
| 2019 | McGee J, Leane E, 'Antarctica looking forward', Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences, Routledge, E Leane and J McGee (ed), Abingdon, pp. 187-189. ISBN 9781138367593 (2019) [Other Book Chapter] DOI: 10.4324/9780429429705-12 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: McGee J | |
| 2018 | Crane R, Fletcher L, Leane E, 'Key Concepts and the Thriller: Space, Place, and Mapping', Teaching Space, Place and Literature, Routledge, Tally Jr, R. (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 219-226. ISBN 9781138046979 (2018) [Research Book Chapter] Co-authors: Crane R; Fletcher L | |
| 2018 | Leane E, 'The Antarctic in literature and the popular imagination', Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions, Routledge, Nuttall M, Christensen TR, and Siegert M (ed), London, pp. 57-66. ISBN 978-1138843998 (2018) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2018 | Leane E, 'Publishing and Polar Exploration', Poles Apart: Fascination, Fame and Folly, The Royal Society of Tasmania, A Hansen and B Hansen (ed), Hobart, Tasmania, pp. 46-57. ISBN 978-0-6481413-8-9 (2018) [Other Book Chapter] | |
| 2017 | Leane E, 'Fictionalizing Antarctica', Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica, Edward Elgar, K Dodds, AD Hemmings and P Roberts (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 21-36. ISBN 9781784717674 (2017) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2016 | Leane E, 'The Novel in English in Antarctica to 1950', The World Novel in English to 1950, Oxford University Press, Crane R, Stafford J and Williams M (ed), Oxford, pp. 201-226. ISBN 9780199609932 (2016) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2016 | Leane E, 'Unstable Places and Generic Spaces: Thrillers Set in Antarctica', Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings, Palgrave Macmillan, L Fletcher (ed), London, pp. 25-43. ISBN 978-1-137-57141-0 (2016) [Research Book Chapter] DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56902-8_3 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 6 | |
| 2016 | Leane E, 'Putting a Face to a Name', The Pocket Instructor: Literature: 101 Exercises for the College Classroom, Princeton University Press, Fuss, D and Gleason WA (ed), Princeton and Oxford, pp. 226-228. ISBN 978-0-6911-5713-9 (2016) [Other Book Chapter] | |
| 2016 | Leane E, 'Antarctic Diaries and Heroic Reputations: Changing the Subject', Antarctica and the Humanities, Palgrave Macmillan, Roberts P, van der Watt L-M and Howkins A (ed), London, pp. 27-51. ISBN 9781137545749 (2016) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2015 | Leane E, 'The Poetry of Antarctic sound and the sound of Antarctic poetry', Antarctica: Music sounds and cultural connections, ANU Press, Hince B, Summerson R and Wiesel A (ed), Australia, pp. 107-119. ISBN 9781925022285 (2015) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2014 | Fern S, Nash K, Leane E, 'Encounters with Antarctic animals in ABC's Catalyst', Engaging with Animals, Sydney University Press, Burns, GL and Paterson M (ed), Australia, pp. 73-90. ISBN 9781743320297 (2014) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2014 | Leane E, Narraway G, 'Things from Another World: Dogs, Aliens, and Antarctic Cinema', Cinematic Canines: Dogs and their Work in the Fiction Film, Rutgers University Press, Adrienne McLean (ed), New Jersey, USA, pp. 181-195. ISBN 978-0-8135-6355-8 (2014) [Research Book Chapter] Co-authors: Narraway G | |
| 2013 | Leane Elizabeth, Nicol S, 'Filming the Frozen South: Animals in Early Antarctic Exploration Films', Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human, Berghahn, Amat Pick and Guinevere Narraway (ed), New York, pp. 127-142. ISBN 9781782382263 (2013) [Research Book Chapter] Co-authors: Nicol S | |
| 2012 | Leane E, 'Antarctic Travel Writing and the Problematics of the Pristine: Two Australian Novelists' Narratives of Tourist Voyages to Antarctica', Travel Writing, Routledge, T Youngs and C Forsdick (ed), UK, pp. 247-257. ISBN 9780415374989 (2012) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2011 | Leane E, 'Going Outside: Captain Oates's Literary Legacy', Imagining Antarctica: Cultural Perspectives on the Southern Continent, Quintus Publishing, R Crane, E Leane and M Williams (ed), Hobart, Tasmania, pp. 40-52. ISBN 9780977557288 (2011) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2011 | Leane E, 'Introduction: Imagining Antarctica', Imagining Antarctica: Cultural Perspectives on the Southern Continent, Quintus Publishing, Crane R, Leane E and Williams M (ed), Australia ISBN 978-0-9775-5728-8 (2011) [Other Book Chapter] | |
| 2011 | Leane E, Freeman C, 'Introduction', Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations, Ashgate, C Freeman, E Leane, Y Watt (ed), Farnham, England, pp. 1-10. ISBN 978-1-4094-0013-4 (2011) [Research Book Chapter] Co-authors: Freeman C | |
| 2011 | Leane E, Pfennigwerth S, 'Marching on Thin Ice: The Politics of Penguin Films', Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations, Ashgate, C Freeman, E Leane, Y Watt (ed), Farnham, England, pp. 29-40. ISBN 978-1-4094-0013-4 (2011) [Research Book Chapter] Co-authors: Pfennigwerth S | |
| 2010 | Leane E, Pharaoh M, 'Introduction', The Adelie Blizzard: Mawson's forgotten newspaper 1913, Friends of the State Library of South Australia in association with the Friends of Mawson at the South Australian Museum, A McLean (ed), Adelaide, pp. xi-xx. ISBN 9781876154608 (2010) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2009 | Leane E, 'The Land that Time Forgot: Fictions of Antarctic Temporality', Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses, Rodopi, Ralph Pordzik (ed), Amsterdam, pp. 199-223. ISBN 978-90-420-2602-5 (2009) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2008 | Leane E, 'Chromodynamics: Science and Colonialism in the Mars Trilogy', Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays, McFarland, William J. Burling (ed), Jefferson, pp. 144-156. ISBN 978-0-7864-3369-8 (2008) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2007 | Leane E, ''A Place of Ideals in Conflict': Images of Antarctica in Australian Literature', The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and Their Writers, Rodopi, CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller (ed), Amsterdam, pp. 261-289. ISBN 978-90-420-2218-8 (2007) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2001 | Leane E, 'Popular Cosmology as Mythic Narrative: A Site for Interdisciplinary Exchange', Crossing Boundaries: Thinking through Literature, Sheffield Academic Press, Julie Scanlon and Amy Waste (ed), Sheffield, pp. 84-97. ISBN 1-84127-232-9 (2001) [Research Book Chapter] |
Review
(12 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Leane E, 'News at the ends of the earth: the print culture of polar exploration', Studies in Travel Writing, 23, (4) pp. 405-406. ISSN 1364-5145 (2020) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2015 | Leane E, 'Review of Shakleton: a life in poetry by Jim Mayer,Oxford, Signal 2014', Polar Journal, 5, (1) pp. 220-221. ISSN 2154-896X (2015) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2012 | Leane E, 'Antarctica: that sweep of savage splendour', Polar Journal, 2, (1) pp. 177-179. ISSN 2154-896X (2012) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2007 | Leane E, 'Scott's Last Biscuit: the Literature of Polar Exploration', Polar Record, 43, (224) pp. 88-89. (2007) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2007 | Leane E, 'Afterlands: A Novel', Polar Record, 43, (227) pp. 374-375. (2007) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2005 | Leane E, 'Peter Kitson, ed., North and South Poles and Max Jones, the Great Quest', Studies in Travel Writing, 9, (2) pp. 217-221. (2005) [Other Review] | |
| 2004 | Leane E, 'Holly Henry. Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy', The Review of English Studies, 55, (219) pp. 297-299. (2004) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2003 | Leane E, 'Steven Myer: Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science', Review of English Studies, 54, (215) pp. 432-3. (2003) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2003 | Leane E, 'Michael H. Whitworth: Einstein's Wake: Relativity, Metaphor and Modernist Literature', Review of English Studies, 54, (213) pp. 151-3. (2003) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2001 | Leane E, 'Chaos Theory and James Joyce's Everyman', Review of English Studies, 52, (205) pp. 154-156. (2001) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2001 | Leane E, 'T.S. Eliot and the Poetics of Evolution: Sub/Versions of Classicism, Culture and Progress', Review of English Studies, 52, (205) pp. 472-474. (2001) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2000 | Leane E, 'Goodbye Normal Gene: Confronting the Genetic Revolution, ed. by Gabrielle O'Sullivan, Evelyn Sharman, and Stephanie Short, and Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules the Wired World? by Melanie Stewart Miller', Southern Review, 33, (3) pp. 372-374. (2000) [Other Review] |
Conference Publication
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Leane E, '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, 27-29 June 2004, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, pp. 1-10. (2005) [Refereed Conference Paper] |
Major Creative Work
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Stratford E, Dodds K, Leane E, 'Poles apart: geographical and other insights' (2022) [Broadcast] Co-authors: Stratford E |
Other Public Output
(27 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Leane E, ''Summer Visitor Numbers to Antarctica Surge': Interview with Gabriella Power', TV Interview: Sky News, Australian News Channel, Australia, 06 January 2023, 1 piece (2023) [Media Interview] | |
| 2023 | Leane E, ''This year thousands of tourists are expected to head to the Antarctic ice', Interview with Miriam Corowa', ABC News24, Australian news channel, Australia, 06 January 2023 (2023) [Media Interview] | |
| 2023 | Leane E, 'How is Antarctica changing and what will the greater impacts be? ABC Radio interview, The Conversation Hour', ABC Radio Melbourne, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia, 17 January 2023 (2023) [Media Interview] | |
| 2023 | Leane E, 'Interview for 'Bookish Radio'', Evenings with Helen Shield, ABC Radio Hobart, 14 March 2023 (2023) [Media Interview] | |
| 2023 | Leane E, 'Interview with Will Murray about 'Frozen Memories, Now Digital: Antarctic Photographic Collections Preserved for Future Generations'', ABC News Hobart and National ABC24 (2023) [Media Interview] | |
| 2023 | Leane E, 'Gateway to the Deep South, Day 13: Antarctic expeditions', The Mercury, Hobart, Australia, 30 March (2023) [Media Interview] | |
| 2023 | Leane E, Hardy A, Ooi CS, Philpott C, Nielsen HEF, et al., 'More than 100,000 tourists will head to Antarctica this summer. Should we worry about damage to ecosystems on the ice?', Online News Article, The Conversation Paperpress Ltd, Australia, 05 January 2023, pp. 1-4. (2023) [Magazine Article] Co-authors: Hardy A; Ooi CS; Philpott C; Nielsen HEF; Marx K | |
| 2023 | Nielsen HE, Leane E, 'Worries as tourists flock to Antarctica in wake of pandemic by Nick Grimm', ABC News AM, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia, 16 January (2023) [Media Interview] Co-authors: Nielsen HE | |
| 2021 | Leane E, 'Can you name any books or films set in Antarctica?', Overnights with Rod Quinn, ABC Radio, Australia, 3 September (2021) [Media Interview] | |
| 2021 | Leane E, 'Science & Policy for Deep Oceans, Space, and Antarctica: Human Experiences', CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast, Centre for Science and Policy, the University of Cambridge, UK, 17 April (2021) [Media Interview] | |
| 2021 | Leane E, Marx K, 'Claiming our role in Antarctica', The Mercury, NewsCorp Australia, Hobart, Tasmania, 1 July, pp. 22-23. (2021) [Newspaper Article] Co-authors: Marx K | |
| 2021 | Salazar JF, James P, Leane E, Magee L, 'Antarctic Cities: from Gateways to Custodial cities', ARC Research Project Report, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia, pp. 1-191. (2021) [Government or Industry Research] | |
| 2020 | Leane E, 'Fictions of Antarctica', Words To That Effect, HeadStuff Podcast Network, USA, 48, 22 December (2020) [Media Interview] | |
| 2019 | Leane E, 'Antarctic fiction in English: a thematic analysis', Ilaia: Advances in Chilean Antarctic Science, Chilean Antarctic Science Program, Santiago, 5, pp. 34-39. (2019) [Magazine Article] | |
| 2019 | Leane E, 'Mental Illness and the Mawson Expedition', Time to Eat the Dogs: A Podcast About Science, History, and Exploration, USA, 30 September (2019) [Media Interview] | |
| 2019 | Nielsen H, Liggett D, Leane E, 'Antarctic Protected Areas: A Humanities and Social Sciences Perspective', Workshop on Further Developing the Antarctica Protected Area System, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, United Kingdom, 4 June, pp. 1-3. (2019) [Report Other] Co-authors: Nielsen H | |
| 2018 | Leane E, Norris K, 'Remembering Sidney Jeffryes and the darker side of our tales of Antarctic heroism', The Conversation, The Conversation Trust, Melbourne, October 16, pp. 1-5. (2018) [Newspaper Article] Co-authors: Norris K | |
| 2017 | Leane E, 'Evenings with Melanie Tait', Evenings with Melanie Tait, ABC Classic FM, Hobart, Tasmania, 24 August 2017 (2017) [Media Interview] | |
| 2017 | Nielsen HEF, Leane E, 'Cows in Antarctica? How one expedition milked them for all their worth', The Conversation, The Conversation Media Group Ltd, Australia, 14 August 2017 (2017) [Newspaper Article] Co-authors: Nielsen HEF | |
| 2016 | Leane E, 'Where is the South Pole?', Natural History, Natural History Magazine, Inc, United States, 124, 10, p. 48. (2016) [Magazine Article] | |
| 2016 | Leane E, 'Why Australians should care about the South Pole', The Conversation, The Conversation Media Group Ltd, United States, 7 July 2016 (2016) [Newspaper Article] | |
| 2016 | Leane E, 'Evenings with Melanie Tait', Evenings with Melanie Tait, ABC Classic FM, Hobart, Tasmania, 27 October 2016 (2016) [Media Interview] | |
| 2016 | Salazar JF, Leane E, Magee L, James P, 'Five cities that could change the future of Antarctica', The Conversation, The Conversation Media Group Ltd, United States, 5 October 2016 (2016) [Newspaper Article] | |
| 2015 | Ligget D, Leane E, Chaturvedi S, Hemmings A, Nielsen HE, et al., 'Report on the SCAR Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group (HASSEG)', Excom Meeting, The International Council for Science, Tromso, Norway, pp. 1-12. (2015) [Report Other] Co-authors: Nielsen HE | |
| 2013 | Leane E, Nicol S, 'Krill and Charisma', Wildlife Australia, Wildlife Qld, Australia, 50, 1, pp. 17-19. (2013) [Magazine Article] | |
| 2012 | Leane E, 'The Polar Press', Australian Antarctic Magazine, The Australian Antarctic Division, Australia, 22, pp. 31-36. (2012) [Magazine Article] | |
| 2006 | Leane E, 'Polar Disciplines', Island, Island, Hobart, 105, Winter, pp. 10-18. (2006) [Magazine Article] |
Grants & Funding
Funding Summary
Number of grants
19
Total funding
Projects
- Funding
- Australian Research Council ($15,000)
- Scheme
- Contract Research
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E
- Period
- 2023 - 2025
- Description
- The AAD-HASS project. The AAD does not have baseline data around the public's understanding of, and support for, Australia's activities in Antarctica. The funding detailed here covers two questionnaires - the AuSSA (national) and Tasmania Project (Tasmania) - that will run from January 2022. AuSSA, The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, is coordinated by Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI), which is a is a not-for-profit organisation.
- Funding
- Australian Antarctic Division ($30,000)
- Scheme
- Contract Research
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E; Tranter BK; Konkes C; Hunt LF; Nielsen HE
- Period
- 2022 - 2023
- Description
- The Mawson's Huts Foundation will support a PhD project focussed on history, heritage, tourism or public engagement related to Antarctica through the provision of a student bursary. The project proposal will be submitted for advertisement from Round 3, 2023. The bursary will be provided when a suitable candidate applies for the project and is awarded a stipend through competitive selection. The MHF may also support the project through the provision of an internship based in the Mawson's Huts Replica Museum.
- Funding
- Mawson's Huts Foundation ($5,000)
- Scheme
- Contract Research
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E
- Year
- 2022
- Description
- The project aims to make the rich history of Australian artists' and writers' engagement with Antarctica visible through an innovative combination of critical, curatorial, and qualitative research. It expects to generate new interdisciplinary knowledge of creative responses to the South Polar region. Anticipated outcomes include the first comprehensive history and analysis of the Antarctic stories, sounds, and images produced by Australian artists and writers and recommendations for maximising Antarctic residency outcomes. At a time when Antarctica's future is threatened by warming temperatures and geopolitical tensions, the project provides significant benefits in the form of broader and deeper public engagement with the ice continent.
- Funding
- Australian Research Council ($314,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Discovery Projects
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E; Philpott CJ; Samartzis P; Williams SL; Walch MB; Nielsen HE; Fox W; Yasuda S
- Period
- 2022 - 2024
- Grant Reference
- DP220103005
- Description
- The key problem to solve is how the uncertain tourism future of Antarctica can be addressed. This project aims to strike a balance between tourism on the one hand (visitors, tourism industry partners) and protection and conservation on the other, so to avoid negative impacts of (over)tourism and avoid reactive responses when damage is (possibly irreversibly) done. The project takes a novel approach in tourism studies of mapping adaptation pathways - a planning approach addressing the uncertainty and challenges of decision‐making about tourism-driven change and impacts.
- Funding
- Dutch Research Council (NWO) ($1,562,421)
- Scheme
- Polar Tourism Research Programme on Assessment
- Administered By
- Dutch Research Council (NWO)
- Research Team
- Hartman S; Leane E; Hardy A; Nielsen HE; Maher P; Hehir C; Heslinga J; Yeoman I; Postma A
- Year
- 2022
- Description
- With the Antarctic tourist industry currently growing and diversifying, the project aims to discover how cruiseoperators can foster positive and culturally informed relationships with the region among visitors of differentnational backgrounds. Through extensive in-situ fieldwork with partner Intrepid Travel, the project expects togenerate new understandings of how operators' active mediating role combines with multisensory experience ofAntarctica to forge human connections with this extreme but fragile place. Anticipated outcomes include protocolsfor best practice in designing and implementing tourist experiences. By encouraging diverse visitors to valueAntarctica, the project should benefit both operators and the polar environment.
- Funding
- Australian Research Council ($100,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Linkage Projects
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E; Ooi CS; Hardy A; Philpott CJ; Nielsen HE
- Period
- 2020 - 2022
- Grant Reference
- LP190101116
- Description
- This project is the first substantial comparative programme to investigate how gateway cities might both reimagine and intensify their relations to Antarctica and each other. The project is intended to revitalise their relations.This is a donation to ARC LP160100210, RMDB: L23788
- Funding
- Qube Ports ($3,000)
- Scheme
- Donation - Individual
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E
- Year
- 2019
- Description
- This project scopes possible research designs to explore the role of creative art practitioners in Antarctica and and their impact on the scientific community, focusing particularly on residencies.
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($5,712)
- Scheme
- Grant-CAL Hothouse Research Enhancement Program
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E; Philpott CJ; Wise CJE
- Year
- 2017
- Description
- This project brings together two literary studies scholars and an information systems scientist to answer a series of interrelated research questions:What aspects of English literary studies make the sole-author model so prevalent, and how might recent developments in the discipline affect this model?To what extent (if at all) have the rates of co-authorship in literary studies risen in recent years?What are the implications of this rise (or lack of it) for literary studies?
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($4,759)
- Scheme
- Grant-Cross-Disciplinary Incentive
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Fletcher LM; Leane E; Garg SK
- Year
- 2016
- Description
- This project is the first substantial comparative programme to investigate how gateway cities might both reimagine and intensify their relations to Antarctica and each other. The project is intended to revitalise their relations.
- Funding
- Australian Research Council ($389,335)
- Collaborators
- Christchurch City Council ($45,000); Hobart City Council ($60,000); University of Canterbury ($15,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Linkage Projects Round 1
- Administered By
- University of Western Sydney
- Research Team
- Salazar J; James P; Leane E; Magee L
- Period
- 2016 - 2019
- Grant Reference
- LP160100210
- Description
- This project innovatively combines archival, historical, culturaland psychological expertise to examine a remarkably understudies event in Australian Antarctic history: the psychotic breakdown suffered by radio operator Sidny Jeffryes during the second winter ofthe Australian Antarctic Exhibition (AAE 1911-14).This project asks: What was the nature of Jeffryes'condition, to what extent was it a product of his unusual environment (social and natural) and how was it viewed at the time and by later commentators?
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($2,507)
- Scheme
- Grant-Cross-Disciplinary Incentive
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E; Norris K
- Year
- 2016
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($3,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Research Enhancement (REGS)
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E
- Year
- 2012
- Description
- Research into the Antarctic has been dominated by the sciences. This project addresses an existing two cultures mentality within Antarctic Studies by placing a literary scholar in an institute composed largely of scientists. It examines the cultural significance of the southenmost continent as a place, as a travel destination, and as the source of compelling exploration narratives. By incorporating collaborations across a range of disciplines, including the sciences, it aims to integrate the humanities into Antarctic Studies. It will result in a new paradigm for disciplinary dialogue, expanding our capacity to meet complex challenges facing the continent, such as those raised by climate change, tourism and national interests.
- Funding
- Australian Research Council ($578,387)
- Scheme
- Fellowship-Future
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E
- Period
- 2012 - 2016
- Grant Reference
- FT120100402
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($75,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Rising Stars Round 1
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E
- Period
- 2010 - 2012
- Description
- From the albatross of Coleridge's ancient mariner to the blockbuster Happy Feet, Antarctic animals have played an important symbolic role in Western culture. Through analysis of written and visual texts, this project examines the meanings and values we attach to animals - native and introduced - in the world's largest and most remote wilderness. Drawing on scientific and cultural perspectives, it investigates ways in which human-animal interaction reflects and informs attitudes towards the Antarctic environment. The outcome will be an original and important contribution to two burgeoning fields - human-animal studies and Antarctic studies - and to broader environmental debates.
- Funding
- Australian Research Council ($136,564)
- Scheme
- Grant-Discovery Projects
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E; Tiffin HM; Nicol S
- Period
- 2008 - 2010
- Grant Reference
- DP0878066
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($10,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Institutional Research Scheme
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E
- Year
- 2007
- Funding
- Australian Research Council ($70,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Discovery Projects
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E
- Period
- 2004 - 2006
- Grant Reference
- DP0449938
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($10,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Institutional Research Scheme
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E
- Year
- 2002
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($9,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Institutional Research Scheme
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Leane E
- Year
- 2001
Research Supervision
Elizabeth has supervised a wide range of Honours, MA and PhD theses to successful completion. Several of these projects have been co-supervised with staff from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) (UTAS), or Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, Christchurch. She has supervised (among others) topics on Antarctic literature and cultural history; space, place and literature; and human-animal studies. She also regularly examines PhD and MA theses.
Elizabeth is particularly interested in supervising topics that apply humanities approaches to the study of the Antarctic, particularly those focussed on representation and cultural response; travel and tourism; and “gateway” cities. She is also happy to co-supervise (with relevant staff) Antarctic projects within other social sciences and humanities disciplines. More broadly, topics dealing with literature, place and the environment are welcome.
Current
6
Completed
17
Current
| Degree | Title | Commenced |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Hearing the Southern Ocean through Music | 2018 |
| PhD | 'A Haven of Rest and Comfort': Representations of domestic life on the Australasian Antarctic expedition | 2023 |
| PhD | The future of Australia's Antarctic heritage management in response to climate change | 2023 |
| PhD | Australian Cultural Resource Management in Antarctica: The case of Mawson's Huts | 2023 |
| PhD | Artists and Writers in Antarctica: The History and Future of Residencies in the Far South | 2024 |
| PhD | Death and Poetry in Antarctica's "Heroic Age" | 2024 |
Completed
| Degree | Title | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | The Contributions of Argentina and Australia to the Creation and Development of Antarctic Law at Critical Moments in Antarctic History Candidate: Bruno Agustin Arpi | 2023 |
| PhD | Understanding Attachment to Remote Places: Insights from a study of Hobart citizens' relationships with Antarctica Candidate: Katrina Jane Marx | 2023 |
| PhD | Reading and Writing Dogs in Popular Romance Fiction Candidate: Rachel Jane Robinson | 2022 |
| PhD | The Conventions of Children's Fantasy Series: Writing and publishing popular fiction Candidate: Caylee Tierney | 2022 |
| PhD | Blue Ocean Stories: Climate colonialism and narrative disruption in Oceania Candidate: Susanne Maayke Agnes Ferwerda | 2022 |
| PhD | Dilapidated Huts and Piles of Rocks: The geopolitics of cultural heritage in Antarctica Candidate: Rebecca Elise Hingley | 2021 |
| PhD | Antarctic Interiors: Practices of inhabitation through embodied interactions with the ice Candidate: Miranda Nieboer | 2020 |
| PhD | Brand Antarctica: Selling representations of the South from the 'Heroic Era' to the present Candidate: Hanne Elliot Fonss Nielsen | 2017 |
| PhD | Writing in the Midst of an Unfolding Disaster: Ecocritical perspectives on contemporary imaginative representations of Tasmanian wilderness Candidate: Vivienne Margaret Condren | 2017 |
| PhD | Perverted by Language: Weird fiction and the semiotic anomalies of a genre Candidate: Alessandro Sheedy | 2017 |
| Masters | Wild Child, Feral Text: Reading the Human-Animal Borderland Candidate: Anne Patricia Fagan | 2010 |
| Masters | New Creatures Made Known: (Re)discovering the Extinct King Island Emu Candidate: Stephanie Clare Pfennigwerth | 2010 |
| PhD | Little Terrors: The Child Antagonist in the Horror Film Candidate: Dominic William Lennard | 2009 |
| Masters | A Comparative Analysis of the Press Coverage of the Whaling Conflict in Australia and Japan in 2005-2006 Candidate: Mitsuru Kudo | 2008 |
| PhD | "Scott of the Antarctic" - The Conservation of a Story Candidate: Ian Donal Murray | 2006 |
| Masters | Space and Sexuality in the Post-Victorian Fiction of Sarah Waters Candidate: Demelza Morganna Hall | 2006 |
| PhD | The Hotel in Postmodern Literature and Film Candidate: Yvette Blackwood | 2005 |