Staff Members

Dr Mark Houlahan

Role: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: MA Auckland, PhD Toronto Email: maph@waikato.ac.nz Location: I3.20B Contact: +64 7 838 4466 ext. 8910

Research Interests:

Mark is Senior Lecturer in the English Programme in the School of Arts, where he teaches Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, and Literary Theory. He has a special interest in the place of Shakespeare in New Zealand, and the use of adaptations and appropriations in Shakespeare performance, and has published numerous groundbreaking essays on these subjects. Currently he is editing "Twelfth Night" for the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ise.uvic.ca); when completed this will appear live and free to air, and also be published in the Broadview Shakespeare Series.

Selected Publications
Graduate Supervision

Selected Publications:

Refereed Outputs 2007-2010

Book Chapters



“New Directions: The Deconstructing ‘Tis Pity?: Derrida, Barthes and Ford,” in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore: A Critical Guide”, ed. By Lisa Hopkins (London: Continuum, 2010): 136-152.


“Postmodern Tragedy? Returning to John Ford”, in Tragedy in Transition, eds. Sarah Annes Brown & Catherine Silverstone. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007): 249-259.

Journal Articles (Refereed Journals)


Mark Houlahan and Elizabeth Schafer, guest editors. “Unsettling Shakespeare”: special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review Vol 19, no. 3. 2009, pp. 262-394

Mark Houlahan and Elizabeth Schafer, “Editorial: Unsettling Will” Contemporary Theatre Review 19:3 (2009), 265-268
Mark Houlahan, “Romeo and Tusi: an Eclectically Musical Samoan/Maori Romeo and Juliet in Aotearoa/New Zealand”, CTR 19: 3 (2009): 280-290

“Rehearsal Shakespeare in New Zealand”, Shakespeare Studies 46 (2008): 33-46.

“And like antipodes in shoes/Have shod their heads in their canoes (97.771-772): or, When we find the great southern Shakespeare, what will it look like?”,Shakespeare in Southern Africa 19 (2007), pp. 77-79.

Published Conference Proceedings. (Refereed)


“Groundhog day, 1602: or, Place and Class in Twelfth Night”, AUMLA Special Issue December 2007, pp. 23-34. http://www.aulla.com.au/Proceedings%202007.html

Research Publications:

You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Dr Mark Houlahan

General Interests:

Horse Racing; Reading; Performance.

Expertise:

Shakespeare; Literary Theory; Renaissance Writing; Adaptation, Appropriation & Performance.