Overview
Background
Dr Victoria Bladen is an Associate Lecturer in literary studies at the University of Queensland. Her publications include The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature (Routledge, 2022); seven Shakespearean text guides in the Insight Publications (Melbourne) series: The Taming of the Shrew (2021); Much Ado About Nothing (2020); The Merchant of Venice (2020); Measure for Measure (2015), Henry IV Part 1 (2012), Julius Caesar (2011), and Romeo and Juliet (2010); and eight co-edited volumes including Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge UP, 2023), Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2022); Shakespeare and the Supernatural (Manchester UP 2020) and Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear (Cambridge UP 2019).
PhD (UQ), Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (UQ), MPhil (Medieval and Renaissance Studies) (UWA), LLB (Hons) (UWA), BA (UWA).
Availability
- Dr Victoria Bladen is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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early modern literature
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adaptation - Shakespeare on Screen
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ecocriticism; environmental humanities
Works
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2015
Book Chapter
Othello on screen: monsters, marvellous space and the power of the tale
Bladen, Victoria (2015). Othello on screen: monsters, marvellous space and the power of the tale. Shakespeare on screen: Othello. (pp. 24-42) edited by Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781316272060
2015
Book
Supernatural and secular power in early modern England
Marcus Harmes and Victoria Bladen eds. (2015). Supernatural and secular power in early modern England. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing.
2015
Book
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Bladen, Victoria (2015). Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Insight Publications.
2015
Book Chapter
The intersections of supernatural and secular power
Bladen, Victoria and Harmes, Marcus (2015). The intersections of supernatural and secular power. Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England. (pp. 1-14) edited by Marcus Harmes and Victoria Bladen. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing.
2014
Journal Article
Landscape and Mansfield Park
Bladen, Victoria (2014). Landscape and Mansfield Park. Sensibilities, 48, 25-40.
2013
Journal Article
Scott, Anne M., Alfred Hiatt, Claire McIlroy, and Christopher Wortham, European Perceptions of 'Terra Australis'
Bladen, Victoria (2013). Scott, Anne M., Alfred Hiatt, Claire McIlroy, and Christopher Wortham, European Perceptions of 'Terra Australis'. Parergon, 30 (1), 272-274. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2013.0007
2013
Book Chapter
Weird space in macbeth on screen
Bladen, Victoria (2013). Weird space in macbeth on screen. Shakespeare on screen: macbeth. (pp. 81-106) edited by Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin and Victoria Bladen. Mont-Saint-Aignan, France: Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre.
2013
Book
Shakespeare on screen : "Macbeth"
Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin and Victoria Bladen eds. (2013). Shakespeare on screen : "Macbeth". Rouen and Le Havre: Presses Universitairs de Rouen et du Havre.
2012
Journal Article
When Jane met William: dialogues between Austen and Shakespeare
Bladen, Victoria (2012). When Jane met William: dialogues between Austen and Shakespeare. Sensibilities, 45, 61-90.
2012
Journal Article
The rock and the void: pastoral and loss in Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock and Peter Weir's film adaptation
Bladen, Victoria (2012). The rock and the void: pastoral and loss in Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock and Peter Weir's film adaptation. Colloquy (23), 159-184.
2011
Journal Article
Vintage Shakespeare
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Vintage Shakespeare. Parergon, 28 (1), 258-260. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2011.0042
2011
Book
William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Bladen, Victoria (2011). William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. St Kilda, VIC, Australia: Insight Publications.
2011
Journal Article
Chloe Houston. Ed. New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period.
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Chloe Houston. Ed. New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period.. Parergon, 28 (2), 201-203. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2011.0078
2011
Book Chapter
Imagining Zeus and the Zeus of Olympia in early modern culture
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Imagining Zeus and the Zeus of Olympia in early modern culture. The statue of Zeus at Olympia: New approaches. (pp. 173-188) edited by Janette McWilliam, Sonia Puttock, Tom Stevenson and Rashna Taraporewalla. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2011
Journal Article
Francis Cruickshank, Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne.
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Francis Cruickshank, Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne.. Parergon, 28 (2), 188-190.
2011
Book
Henry IV part 1: William Shakespeare
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Henry IV part 1: William Shakespeare. St Kilda, VIC, Australia: Insight Publications.
2011
Book Chapter
The ghost and the skull: Rupturing borders between the living and the dead in filmed Hamlets
Bladen, Victoria (2011). The ghost and the skull: Rupturing borders between the living and the dead in filmed Hamlets. Shakespeare on screen: Hamlet. (pp. 143-174) edited by Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin. Le Havre, France: Universities De Rouen Et Du Havre.
2010
Journal Article
Review of: Medievalisms in the postcolonial world: The idea of 'the middle ages' outside Europe (Rethinking theory), Davis, Kathleen and Nadia Altschul, eds
Bladen, Victoria (2010). Review of: Medievalisms in the postcolonial world: The idea of 'the middle ages' outside Europe (Rethinking theory), Davis, Kathleen and Nadia Altschul, eds. Parergon, 27 (2), 214-216.
2010
Book
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Bladen, Victoria (2010). William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Elsternwick, Vic., Australia: Insight Publications.
2010
Book Chapter
Pruning the tree of virtue in in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
Bladen, Victoria (2010). Pruning the tree of virtue in in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. 'This earthly stage': World and stage in late medieval and early modern England. (pp. 39-61) edited by Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Victoria Bladen is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
Metamorphosis: change, transformation and shapeshifting
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Bronwyn Lea
Completed supervision
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2021
Master Philosophy
Eleven Portraits of Drowning: Writing the Ecopoetic Body
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Bronwyn Lea
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