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Dr Jennifer Lawn (Jenny)Position: Senior Lecturer |
Contact Details
Room: AT2.36, Atrium Building, Albany Campus, Auckland
Telephone Extension: 9047
Email: J.M.Lawn@massey.ac.nz
Expertise
Jenny lectures in English and Media Studies. Her research and teaching interests include Gothic literature, gender studies, the representation of trauma in literature and film and written communication for the IT industry.
Teaching
139.275 Gothic
139.374 Tragedy
139.376 Sexual/Textual Politics
139.775 Trauma, Memory, Haunting
Possible Supervision
Gothic literature and film, NZ literature and cultural studies, Editor for NZ entries in the online Literary Encyclopedia, The representation of trauma, Women's writing (particularly Frame and Atwood), Gender.
Publications
Edited Book
Gothic NZ. Ed. Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn and Mary Paul. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2006. ISBN 10: 1 877372 23 4 ISBN 13: 978 1 877372 23 0
Articles/Chapters
(in press). Neoliberalism and the politics of indigenous community in the fiction of Alan Duff and Witi Ihimaera. Social Semiotics. Forthcoming, January 2011.
(in press). Badlands and borderlands in the fiction of Patricia Grace and Alice Tawhai. Australian Literary Studies. Forthcoming, November 2010.
(2010, December). "Soft-Boiled in Ponsonby: The Topographies of Murder in the Crime Fiction of Charlotte Grimshaw and Alix Bosco." 11 Views of Auckland. Ed. Jack Ross and Grant Duncan. 105-119. [Social and Cultural Studies 10, ISSN 1175-7132].
(2010) "'Capitalism for New Entrants': Rogernomics and the Literary Critique of Neoliberalism." Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies 1.1 (January 2010): 45-55. Available online at: http://www.jpcs.in/admin/upload/71916853neoliberalism-NZlit-submission6.pdf
(2009) Interview: NZTrio in Conversation. Followed by: Afterword: "Mixing Things Up" in the Business of the Arts. Aesthesis 3(1): 30-36.
(2009) "Playing with Freud: Radical Narcissism and Intertextuality in Frame’s Intensive Care and Daughter Buffalo." Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. Ed. J. Cronin and S. Drichel, Rodopi. 
Frameworks (154 KB)
(2009) "What the Dickens: Storytelling and Intertextuality in Mister Pip." Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction. Ed. Anna Jackson and Jane Stafford. Wellington: Victoria University Press. 142-63, 174-77.
(2008) "Settler Society and Postcolonial Apologies in Australia and New Zealand." Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology & Cultural Studies 5.1 ( June 2008): 20-40.
(2006) "Introduction: Warping the Familiar." Gothic NZ. Ed. Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn and Mary Paul. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2006. pp. 1-7.
(2006) "Creativity Inc.: Globalising the Cultural Imaginary in New Zealand." In Global Fissures: Postcolonial Fusions. Ed. Janet Wilson and Clara A.B. Joseph. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. pp.225-245. Creativity (6,388 KB)
(2006) "From the Spectral to the Ghostly: Postcolonial Gothic and New Zealand Literature." Australasian-Canadian Studies 24.2 (2006): 143-169.
(2006) "'On the Brink of a New Threshold of Opportunity': The Lord of the Rings and New Zealand Cultural Policy." With Bronwyn Beatty. The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context. Ed. Ernest Mathijs. London: Wallflower, 2006. pp. 43-60. Purchase this book
(2005) "Arts, Culture and Heritage." Social and Cultural Studies 5 (August 2005): 16-34.
(2005) "The Word as Remnant: Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame." In New Windows on a Woman's World: A Festschrift for Jocelyn Harris. Ed. Colin Gibson and Lisa Marr. Dunedin, NZ: Dept of English, University of Otago, 2005. pp385-401. Atwood Frame (6,532 KB)
(2006) "Creativity Inc.: Globalising the Cultural Imaginary in New Zealand." In Global Fissures: Postcolonial Fusions. Ed. Janet Wilson and Clara A.B. Joseph. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. pp.225-245.
(2005) "Getting to Wellywood: National Branding and the Globalisation of the New Zealand Film Industry" With Bronwyn Beatty. Post Script 24.2-3 (2005): 125-143.
(2005) "Janet Frame," "Ian Wedde," "R. H. Morrieson." Author entries in The Literary Encyclopedia Online. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd. London: The Literary Dictionary Company. http://www.litencyc.com.
(2004) "Scarfies, Dunedin Gothic, and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 22 (2004): 124-140.
(2003) "Born Under the Sign of Joan: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle, Mommie Dearest, and the Uses of Maternal Ambivalence." Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 5.1. (2003): 33-44.
(2002) "Domesticating Settler Gothic in New Zealand Literature." New Literatures Review 38 (2002): 46-62.
(1993) "Redemption, Secrecy, and the Hermeneutic Frame in Scented Gardens for the Blind." Ariel [Calgary, Alberta] 30.3 (1999): 105-126.
(2000) "Developing a Web-based Interactive Module for Distance Teaching of Paragraphing Skills through 'Drag-and-Drop' Textual Manipulation." Tertiary Writing Network Proceedings. Ed. Lisa Emerson. Hamilton: Waikato Polytechnic/Waikato University, 2000. 65-74.
(1998) "Tofu, Green Tea, and Alzheimer's Disease: Critical Thinking as Quantitative Literacy in First-Year Composition for Information and Mathematical Science Students." With Russell Poole. Re/Searching Writing Horizons: Tertiary Writing Network: Colloquium Proceedings. Ed. Lisa Emerson and Grant Harris. Palmerston North: Massey University, 1998. 66-80.
(1995) "Our Bodies Their Selves: Gender, Language, and Knowledge in Chapter Seventeen of Cat's Eye." LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 6 (1995): 269-83.
(1994) "Pakeha Bonding." Meanjin 53.2 (Winter 1994): 295-304.
(1993) "Four Characters in Search of a Narrator: Focalization and the Representation of Consciousness in Under the Volcano." Studies in Canadian Literature 18.2 (1993): 11-31.
(19930 "Docile Bodies: Normalization and the Asylum in Owls Do Cry." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 11 (1993): 178-87.
(1992) "The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib and the Prisonhouse of Language." Canadian Literature 132 (Spring 1992): 16-30. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism.
(1990) "The Many Voices of Owls Do Cry: A Bakhtinian Approach." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 8 (1990): 87-105.
Editorial Boards
Co-editor, Social and Cultural Studies (School of Social and Cultural Studies, Massey University, Albany)
Co-editor (with Mark Williams), Literary Encyclopedia. (General Editor: Robert Clark).
Guest editor (with Mark Williams and Michael Hall), "The Idea of Place: New Zealand Issue." Special issue of Australian-Canadian Studies 18.1-2 (2000).
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