Associate Professor Caroline Webb
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci (English and Writing)
- Email:caroline.webb@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4348 4061
Career Summary
Biography
Associate Professor Caroline Webb works at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where she specialises in English literature since 1900, especially fantasy literature. She is interested in how the politics of form emerges through subtle textual details, and has examined this in the writings of Modernist authors, especially Virginia Woolf, as well as in contemporary fiction. Her analyses of writings by Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson take a feminist affective narratological approach. Her current projects include studies of British fantasy literature of the 1920s, and of guilt in English children’s literature. Her monograph on the children's fantasies of J.K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, and Diana Wynne Jones, Fantasy and the Real World in British Children's Literature: The Power of Story, was published by Routledge in October 2014.
Associate Professor Webb completed her PhD in English Literature and Language at Cornell University, aided by a Fulbright Postgraduate Travel Grant and the Andrew D. White Fellowship, and subsequently taught for eight years at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. She took up the position of Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle in July 1995, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer from January 2002 and to Associate Professor from January 2016. She studies and teaches English literature since 1900, and has also been active in University governance. She held a University of Newcastle Career Enhancement Fellowship for Academic Women in 2012, and served as Secretary of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research for two two-year terms (2010-14); she is currently President of ACLAR (2018-20). In addition to her book on Rowling, Pratchett, and Jones, she has published articles and book chapters on works by them and other authors including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Lewis Carroll. Her interests as reflected in teaching include narrative and representation, the power of words in literary history, tradition and innovation in modern British literature, representations of female identity in English and Australian women's writing especially since 1900, and the relationship between cultural issues and narrative in science fiction and fantasy literature (including children's fantasy). She has extensive experience in supervision; many current HRD student projects relate to her expertise in science fiction and fantasy literature, especially children's/young adult fantasy. In 2015 she was awarded the Faculty of Education and Arts Dean's Award for Research Supervision Excellence (Individual) at the University of Newcastle. In 2014 she was awarded an Australian Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Research ExpertiseAssociate Professor Webb studies English literature since 1900. She is especially interested in how the politics of form emerges through subtle textual details, and has examined this in the writings of Modernist authors, especially Virginia Woolf. Her analyses of writings by Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson take a feminist affective narratological approach. She is currently studying the British fantasy tradition and is interested in its relationship to British postmodern fiction, especially in the form of rewritten fairy tales; she has recently commenced a project examining British fantasy literature of the 1920s. Her study of fantasy literature includes popular novels for children such as J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter sequence and the children's fiction of Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett; her scholarly monograph on these authors, titled Fantasy and the Real World in British Children's Literature: The Power of Story, was published by Routledge in late 2014. In 2016 she and Helen Hopcroft received the School of Humanities and Social Science HDR Co-Publication Prize for their article “'A Different Logic': Animals, Transformation, and Rationality in Angela Carter’s 'The Tiger’s Bride,'” published in Marvels & Tales 31.2 (2017).
Teaching Expertise
Associate Professor Webb has developed a range of successful courses at the University of Newcastle, including honours seminars on Fictions of Female Identity, Virginia Woolf, and Orlando and Feminism. She has developed and taught a range of courses at introductory and advanced undergraduate level, including the current courses ENGL1650 Fiction, Drama, Film: An Introduction, ENGL2007 Contemporary Literature, ENGL3013 Women's Writing, ENGL3656 Issues in Speculative Fiction, and ENGL3664 Children's Fantasy Literature. In 2013 she co-developed the new core first-year course in the English & Writing major, now called ENGL1000 Reading English Literature, and has co-ordinated and taught both face-to-face and online offerings. She is especially interested in how the literature both of a period and of a genre can be studied to explore intellectual history, both in its content and in its approaches to representation, and has explored this in courses on Victorian to Modernist literature and on twentieth-century British and Irish literature. In 2014 she was awarded an Australian Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Administrative Expertise
Associate Professor Caroline Webb has performed substantial administrative and governance service to the University of Newcastle. In 1999 she was appointed Assistant Dean (Academic) in the newly established Faculty of the Central Coast, a position she held (later retitled Assistant Dean (Teaching and Learning)) for the three years of the Faculty's existence. This position involved, most importantly, developing protocols for curriculum development and review and for teaching and learning. She was therefore appointed as a (working) observer to the University-level Curriculum Review Committee in 1999 and was a full member in 2000-01, reviewing curriculum proposals at course and program level. She was elected to Academic Senate from April 2000 and served continuously to the end of 2011. In 2002-03 and 2009 she also served on the Faculty of Education and Arts Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Committee. In 2003-04 she served on the working party responding to the external review of the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Science, and in 2004 was an internal member of the panel reviewing the Bachelor of Fine Art programs at both campuses. In 2004 she served on the Course and Program Review committee that assessed the viability of all courses in the university, and has since served on the University Program and Course Approval Committee (2008) and Teaching and Learning Committee (2011). More recently, as Head of the discipline of English & Writing, she participated in the Master of Creative Industries and Bachelor of Creative Industries working groups that developed programs commencing respectively in July 2016 and January 2017. She has thus developed considerable and wide-ranging expertise in university academic procedures, and especially in curriculum development and review. In 2002 Associate Professor Webb was appointed Deputy Head of the Ourimbah-based School of Humanities, a position she held for four years; for the latter two she was 0.5 Head of School/0.5 Deputy Head. As the School was multidisciplinary (containing staff from Teacher Education and Fine Art as well as a range of areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences) this role required a broad understanding of disciplinary expectations in a wide range of fields as well as the day-to-day management of very different staff and student needs. The School's activities in many cases paralleled those in other Schools in the Faculty, so this role also involved negotiation with other Heads and senior Faculty members. Later, following restructure of the Faculty, she served for two years (2008-09) as Deputy Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science, initially with specific responsibility for the School's Ourimbah campus operations, later for the whole School, with special responsibility for Teaching and Learning. This School is also multidisciplinary and operates across three campuses with well over 2000 EFTSL. Associate Professor Webb served on the Faculty Executive during 2002-05 and 2008-09 and developed understanding of budgetary issues at School, Faculty, and University level.
Qualifications
- PhD, Cornell University
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Sydney
- Master of Arts, Cornell University
Keywords
- A.S. Byatt
- Angela Carter
- Bloomsbury
- British literature
- Diana Wynne Jones
- English literature
- J.K. Rowling
- James Joyce
- Jeanette Winterson
- Modernism
- Terry Pratchett
- Virginia Woolf
- children's fantasy literature
- children's literature
- contemporary fiction
- contemporary women's fiction
- fantastic fiction
- narrative
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
Languages
- French (Fluent)
Fields of Research
Code | Description | Percentage |
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470527 | Popular and genre literature | 60 |
470506 | Children's literature | 30 |
470504 | British and Irish literature | 10 |
Professional Experience
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/1/2004 - 31/12/2008 | Membership - Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies | Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Australia |
1/1/2002 - 31/12/2015 | Senior Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
1/7/1995 - 1/12/2001 | Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
1/9/1987 - 1/6/1995 | Assistant Professor | Wellesley College Department of English United States |
1/1/1983 - 1/8/1983 | Tutor | University of Sydney Department of English |
Membership
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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20/1/2011 - | Member | Children's Literature Association United States |
1/1/2009 - | Member | International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts United States |
1/7/2006 - 1/7/2008 | Member - AAL | Australasian Association for Literature (AAL) Australia |
20/1/2006 - | Member | Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research Australia |
1/1/2001 - 31/12/2017 | Member - AWGSA | Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA) Australia |
1/1/1992 - | Member - IVWS | International Virginia Woolf Society United States |
1/1/1992 - 30/6/2016 | Member - IJJF | International James Joyce Federation (IJJF) Switzerland |
1/12/1985 - | Member - MLA | Modern Language Association United States |
Professional appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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15/7/2018 - 4/2/2021 | President | Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research Australia |
11/7/2010 - 13/7/2014 | Secretary | Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research Australia |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2015 | Webb CE, Fantasy and the Real World in British Children s Literature: The Power of Story, Routledge, New York, 163 (2015) [A1] | Nova |
Chapter (6 outputs)
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2019 | Webb C, 'Magic, Modernity, and Women at Work', Modernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art, Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London 131-143 (2019) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
2014 | Webb CE, 'The Watchman and the Hippopotamus: Art, Play, and Otherness in Thud!', Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works, McFarland, Jefferson, NC 92-107 (2014) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
2013 |
Webb C, 'The room as laboratory: The gender of science and literature in modernist polemics', Modernism, Gender, and Culture: A Cultural Studies Approach 337-352 (2013) [B1] T.S. Eliot¿s famous brief essay ¿Tradition and the Individual Talent¿? (1919) and Virginia Woolf¿s no less famous long essay A Room of One¿s Own (1929) are both concerned with the... [more] T.S. Eliot¿s famous brief essay ¿Tradition and the Individual Talent¿? (1919) and Virginia Woolf¿s no less famous long essay A Room of One¿s Own (1929) are both concerned with the nature of the literary tradition and with the position of the individual writer within (or without) that tradition. In Eliot¿s piece this purpose is explicit; Woolf, on the other hand, approaches the subject obliquely, since her goal is not so much to offer criteria for determining (or attaining) canonicity as to criticize traditional notions of a unified (male) literary tradition. This divergence of purpose of course produces in the two works considerable divergence in method and evidence; yet there is another common feature, itself differently treated, that has received surprisingly little attention. Important to both essays is an idea of science and the scientific, an idea that serves both as a reference point for and a touchstone of the writer¿s rhetoric. This essay argues that the rhetorical development of each of these theoretical works, the form(s) of argument each makes about canonicity and thus the theory each produces, depends on a particular evocation of the scientific. But those evocations are themselves very different. Although Eliot¿s argument about tradition, implying as it does the changeability of the past, may seem very modern, his appeal to science, in fact, implies a classical conception of it as an objective and rule-governed realm. By contrast, Woolf, writing ten years later, appears to have assimilated a more genuinely modern understanding of the role of the observer in scientific investigation.
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2011 | Webb CE, 'Dancing in worn slippers: Narration, affect, and subversion in Jeanette Winterson's 'Story of the Twelve Dancing Princesses'', Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY 442-459 (2011) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
2009 | Webb CE, 'The language of the senses: Angela Carter's 'The bloody chamber' and the seduction of the reader', Literature and Sensation, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne 194-203 (2009) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
1998 | Webb CE, ''Bodily Weakness' and the 'Free Boy': Physicality as Subversive Agent in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', Re: Joyce: Text, Culture, Politics, Macmillan; St. Martin's Press, Houndsmill, Basingstoke: New York, NY 87-103 (1998) [B1] | |||||||
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Journal article (14 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | |||||
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2017 |
Webb C, Hopcroft H, ' A different logic : Animals, transformation, and rationality in angela carter s The tiger s bride ', Marvels and Tales, 31 313-337 (2017) [C1] We examine the typical treatment of the beast transformation in Western European fairy tales and consider how this may reflect the sociohistorical realities of human-animal relati... [more] We examine the typical treatment of the beast transformation in Western European fairy tales and consider how this may reflect the sociohistorical realities of human-animal relationships. In particular, we discuss Angela Carter¿s treatment of the ¿Beauty and the Beast¿ story in ¿The Tiger¿s Bride¿ (1979), which emphasizes the protagonist¿s rationality, in relation to central ideas from the animal studies movement. Carter¿s story provides a profound critique of the post-Enlightenment, postagrarian culture in which men perceive women and animals as not merely objects of consumption but objects of exchange. Her tale proposes a worldview in which the animals, like female humans, must be respected as subjects.
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2017 |
Webb C, 'Wonderlands: The Last Romances of William Morris', MARVELS & TALES-JOURNAL OF FAIRY-TALE STUDIES, 31 194-197 (2017)
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2016 | Webb CE, 'Terry Pratchett 1948-2015', Children's Book History Society Newsletter, 114 28-32 (2016) | |||||||
2014 |
Webb CE, 'The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain: Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s. By Lucy Pearson. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. (review)', Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 39 438-440 (2014) [C3]
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2010 | Webb CE, ''I'll be judge, I'll be jury': 'Tail'-Telling, Imperialism and the Other in Alice in Wonderland', Papers: Explorations Into Children's Literature, 20 1-10 (2010) [C1] | Nova | ||||||
2010 | Webb CE, ''False Pretences' and the 'Real Show': Identity, performance, and the nature of fiction in Conrad's Fate', Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 21 221-232 (2010) [C1] | Nova | ||||||
2008 | Webb CE, ''Abandoned boys' and 'pampered princes': Fantasy as the journey to reality in the Harry Potter sequence', Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 18 15-21 (2008) [C1] | Nova | ||||||
2006 | Webb CE, 'Forming Feminism: Structure and Ideology in charades and 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye'', Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers, 91 173-178 (2006) [C2] | |||||||
2003 | Webb CE, 'Forming Feminism: Structure and Ideology in Charades and 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye'', Hecate, 29 132-141 (2003) [C1] | Nova | ||||||
2002 | Webb CE, 'The Invisible Private, Marele Day, Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife', Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review, 14 (2002) [C3] | |||||||
1998 | Webb CE, 'Authorial Divinity in the Twentieth Century. Omniscient Narration in Woolf, Hemingway, and Others. Barbara K. Olson (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP and London: Associated University Presses, 1997) 152pp', Woolf Studies Annual, 4 217-219 (1998) [C3] | |||||||
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Review (5 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2021 | Webb C, 'Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin Leverett's Terry Pratchett's Ethical Worlds: Essays on Identity and Narrative in Discworld and Beyond (review) (2021) | ||
2017 | Webb CE, 'Wonderlands: The Last Romances of William Morris (Philippa Bennett) (2017) | ||
2011 | Webb CE, 'Angela Olive Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories', The Literary Encyclopedia (2011) [D2] | ||
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Conference (7 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2020 | Webb C, '"Drowning in Bleach": Guilt and Shame in Diana Wynne Jones', Diana Wynne Jones Bristol 2019, Bristol, UK (2020) | ||
2014 | Webb CE, 'Harry Potter: What Choice Do We Have?', NA, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (2014) [E3] | ||
2014 | Webb CE, 'Travels, Journeys and Quests: The Nature of Quest in Diana Wynne Jones's Novels', NA, Newcastle University and Seven Stories, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK (2014) [E3] | ||
2008 | Webb CE, 'The essayist as flaneur: Mary Beton, Virginia Woolf, and the language of A Room of One's Own', The Art of the Real: National Creative Non-Fiction Conference. Program, Newcastle, NSW (2008) [E3] | ||
2006 | Webb CE, ''Change the Story, Change the World': Witches/Crones as Heroes in Novels by Terry Pratchett and Diana Wynne Jones', Special Issue of Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature, Melbourne (2006) [E1] | Nova | |
2001 | Webb CE, 'All was dark; all was doubt; all was confusion: Nature, Culture, and Orlando's Ruskinian Storm-Cloud', Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds, University of Maryland Baltimore County (2001) [E1] | Nova | |
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Creative Work (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||||
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2011 |
Brooker CJ, Hopcroft HF, Happily Ever After: Alternative Destinies in Contemporary Feminine Narrative, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2011) [J3]
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 22 |
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Total funding | $101,132 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20162 grants / $1,208
Ourimbah Strategic Research Grant V$1,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Nancy Cushing; Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Ourimbah Strategic Research Grant scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Ourimbah Strategic Research Grant II$208
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Scheme | Ourimbah Strategic Research Grant scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20151 grants / $10,000
Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning$10,000
Funding body: Office for Learning and Teaching
Funding body | Office for Learning and Teaching |
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Project Team | Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Citation |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | N |
20122 grants / $53,905
CEF Teaching Relief - Webb$49,365
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb, Professor Roger Markwick |
Scheme | Career Enhancement Fellowship for Academic Women |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2012 |
Funding Finish | 2012 |
GNo | G1101202 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Postmodernism and the British fantasy tradition$4,540
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Career Enhancement Fellowship for Academic Women |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2012 |
Funding Finish | 2012 |
GNo | G1100999 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20094 grants / $21,636
Collegial Conversation: Enhancing the teaching environment in Humanities and Teacher Education at the Central Coast$10,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Teaching and Learning Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Collegial Conversation: Enhancing the teaching environment in Humanities and Teacher Education at the Central Coast$10,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Teaching and Learning Project Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | International - Competitive |
Category | 3IFA |
UON | N |
Diana Wynne Jones Conference, Bristol, UK, 3-5 July 2009$1,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | G0190328 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
'False Pretences' and the 'Real Show': Identity and Performance in Conrad's Fate$636
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Dr Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Research Funding for Marking Relief |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20083 grants / $1,234
ACLAR Conference 2008$934
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0188962 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Orphan Boys and Pampered Little Princes: Fantasy as the Journey to Reality in the Harry Potter Series$200
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Dr Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Top-Up Conference Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
The Essayist as Flaneur: Mary Beton, Virginia Woolf, and the Language of A Room of One's Own$100
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Dr Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Top-Up Conference Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20071 grants / $368
Manifesting Literary Feminisms, Monash Conference Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, 13/12/2007 - 14/12/2007$368
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2007 |
GNo | G0188268 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20061 grants / $558
Australian Women's Studies Association National & International Conference, 7th International Conference of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research, 9-12/7/06, 13-14/7/06$558
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2006 |
Funding Finish | 2006 |
GNo | G0186648 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20051 grants / $1,290
Return to Ithaca: The 2005 North American James Joyce Conference, 14-18 June 2005, USA$1,290
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2005 |
GNo | G0185185 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20041 grants / $1,130
Bloomsday 100 19th International James Joyce Symposium, 12-19 June 2004, Ireland$1,130
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2004 |
Funding Finish | 2004 |
GNo | G0183991 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20031 grants / $535
'Other' Feminisms - An International Women's and Gender Studies Conference$535
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2003 |
Funding Finish | 2003 |
GNo | G0183219 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20011 grants / $158
AULLA XXXI Changing Landscapes: Language and Literature Studies Across the Millennia, South Australia 6-9 February 2001$158
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2001 |
Funding Finish | 2001 |
GNo | G0180683 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20001 grants / $1,064
The 10th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds.$1,064
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2000 |
Funding Finish | 2000 |
GNo | G0180326 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19972 grants / $7,046
The use of allegory and anti-allegory by three twentieth-century British novelists$6,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | New Staff Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1997 |
Funding Finish | 1997 |
GNo | G0177493 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Seventh Annual Virginai Woolfe Conference, Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA, 12-15 June 1997$1,046
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1997 |
Funding Finish | 1997 |
GNo | G0179599 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19961 grants / $1,000
"Bodily Weakness" and the "Free Boy": Physicality as Subversive Agent in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man$1,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1996 |
Funding Finish | 1996 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2024 | PhD | Gender, Power and the Other: Images of the Witch from Homer to Harry Potter | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | Masters | Representations of Female Characters in Fantasy Literature: Breaking Down the Patriarchy? | M Philosophy (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | Haunted Housewives, Brides of Terror: The Modern Gothic Romance and the Commodification of Fear | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | 'Australia' in Australian Children's Fantasy | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2024 | PhD | Fragments of Us | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | A Literary Search for Meaning: How Spiritual Themes are Reflected and Represented in Contemporary Speculative Fiction | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | In The Way: Irish Fairy Lore and Young Adult Fantasy Fiction | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | The Changing Role and Representation of the Father in Children's Literature from the 20th Century Onward | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | Hella Queer: The Representation of Female Same-Sex Sexuality in Contemporary Anglophone Graphic Narratives | PhD (Cultural Studies), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Posthuman Others in Twenty-First Century Women's Science Fiction | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | “Beneath and within and between it all”: The Construction of Adolescent Female Subjectivity in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | Masters | The Other Way Out: a Creative and Critical Exploration of Otherness, and the Methods Used in Speculative Fiction to Construct “the Other” | M Philosophy (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2020 | Honours |
"'Genesis' and Mothering Monsters" Creative examination of classical literature featuring monsters<br /> |
Literature, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2018 | Honours | “‘An Awfully Big Adventure’: An Analysis of Film Adaptations of _Peter and Wendy_” | Literature, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | Style in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Studies in Stylometry | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | All the Voices in Our Head: Exploring Female Identity by Reimagining the Fairy Tale and the Young Adult Novel | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2018 | Honours | “Anger Management: The Function of Anger as a Moral Force in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld” | Literature, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2017 | PhD | Animals, Sex and the Orient: A Feminist Retelling of the Arabian Nights | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2016 | PhD | Harry Potter and the Specular Selves: the Life and After-life of the Image | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2016 | Honours |
“Break the Rules” Creative project examining and rewriting traditional fairy tales<br /> |
Creative Arts Not Elswr Classi, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2016 | Honours | “‘Goldfever’: Appropriating Medea to the Victorian Goldfields” | Literature, School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | Activated: A Young Adult Science Fiction Novel Exploring the Social Media Other | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2015 | Masters | The Expressionist | M Philosophy (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | Surface Inscriptions: Implications of the Postmodern in William Gibson's Future Worlds | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2015 | Honours | A Detailed Image: The Significance of Female Same-Sex Sexuality in Sapphic Modernist Literature | Literature, The University of Newcastle, Australia | Sole Supervisor |
2014 | PhD | Eatdirtzian Geosophy: Approaching Ethical Reading Practices | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2013 | Masters | Slipstream | M Philosophy (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2013 | Honours | The Role of the Exile in Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction | Literature, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2011 | Honours | Fairy Tales | Creative Arts Not Elswr Classi, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2011 | PhD | The Salvaged Image: A Study of Fairy Tale, Mervyn Peake and the Creative Process | PhD (Humanities), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2010 | PhD | 'A Battle for Children's Minds': The Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Older Readers | PhD (Humanities), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2010 | Masters | The Gothic Meets the Weird: A Critical Analysis of Charlie Cheesegrater: A Weird Tale and Its Influences | M Creative Arts (English) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2008 | Honours | Creative writing project | Creative Arts Not Elswr Classi, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2008 | Honours | Representations of Identity Constructed through Context in Indigenous Australian Narrative by a non-Indigenous researcher | Literature, University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2007 | PhD | Terror, Trauma and the Eye in the Triangle: The Masonic Presence in Contemporary Art and Culture | PhD (Humanities), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2005 | Honours | Female identity in contemporary art | Fine Arts, University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2005 | Honours | Lars von Trier's film trilogy | Literature, University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2005 | PhD | Testimonio: Witnessing my Mother's Life: Race and Identity in Twentieth Century Australia | PhD (Humanities), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2003 | Honours | A.S. Byatt | Literature, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
News
News • 18 Mar 2014
Sales assistant to Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Leanne Glass was working as a casual at a large department store when a colleague suggested she had the potential to be more than a shop assistant, and that she should look into the University of Newcastle's Open Foundation tertiary preparation program.
Associate Professor Caroline Webb
Position
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
English and Writing
Contact Details
caroline.webb@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4348 4061 |
Fax | (02) 4348 4075 |
Office
Room | HO1.21 |
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Building | Humanities Offices |
Location | Ourimbah 10 Chittaway Road Ourimbah, NSW 2258 Australia |