Dr Maggie Tonkin

Dr Maggie Tonkin
 Position Senior Lecturer
 Org Unit School of Humanities
 Email maggie.tonkin@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone 831 35623
 Location Floor/Room 6 ,  Napier ,   North Terrace

  • Teaching Interests

    Angela Carter, Decadence, Modernism & Postmodernism, Romanticism, Victorian literature, Women's writing, Festivals and the creative art

  • Research Interests

    Angela Carter

    women's writing and feminist theory and history

    postmodern literature

    R.D. Laing, existential psychiatry, and the representation of madness in literature

    Literary representations of animals

    Dance

    Theatre

  • Publications

    Monographs

    FIFTY: Half a Century of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Dance Theatre. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2016. (forthcoming)

    Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

    Edited Collection

    Changing the Victorian Subject edited by Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys and Sharon Crozier De Rosa. Adelaide: ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Press,  2014.

    Journal Articles

    "'The Time of the Loony': Psychosis, Alienation and R.D. Laing in the Fictions of Angela Carter and Muriel Spark. " Contemporary Women's Writing. 9.3 (Nov 2015): 366-384.

    'Traveling Hopefully: the Utopian Impulse in the Fiction of Angela Carter.' Contemporary Women's Writing 9.2 (July 2015):219-237.

    ‘Musing on Baudelaire: Angela Carter's "Black Venus" and the Poet as Dead Beloved.' LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. (Dec 2006): 301-323.

    'The "Poe-etics" of Decomposition: Angela Carter's "The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe" and the Reading Effect.' Women's Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal. 33.1 (Jan-Feb 2004): 1-22.

    Book Chapters

    ‘Albertine/a the Ambiguous: Angela Carter’s Re-visioning of Proust’s Modernist Muse’ in Re-Visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts. Ed. Rebecca Munford. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006): 64-86.

    ‘Brontë Badland: Jane Eyre Reconfigured as Colonial Gothic in Mardi McConnochie’s Coldwater.’  Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre. Eds. Elke Mettinger-Schartmann and Margarete Rubik. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007): 115-128.

    ‘From “Peter Panic” to Proto-modernism: The Case of J.M. Barrie.’ Changing the Victorian Subject. edited by Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys, Sharon Crozier-de Rosa . Adelaide: ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Press,  2014.

    ‘Introduction’ (with Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa). Changing the Victorian Subject. Edited by Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa. Adelaide: ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Press,  2014.

     

  • Professional Associations

    Member J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice

    Member Fay Gale Centre for the Study of Gender

    Member Contemporary Women's Writing Association

    Member Australasian Victorian Studies Asssocation

     

     

  • Community Engagement

    I have a background in dance and write reviews and articles regularly for Dance ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Magazine. I have written a history of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s longest-running contemporary dance company, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Dance Theatre, to be published later in 2016 by Wakefield Press.

    Member of Ausdance

    Member of Adelaide Critics Circle

    Member judging panel, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Dance Awards, 2010-2013; 2015-18.

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