Jan Pilditch

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Publications

Books:

Peter Bastian and Jan Pilditch (eds), The End of the American Century?, Sydney, Fulbright New Zealand with Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association,2004, 244pp.

The Critical Response to D.H. Lawrence , Greenwood Press, CT.USA, (2002), 430pp

The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield Greenwood Press, CT.USA, 1996, 250pp

Chapters in Books:

Pilditch J., "Women as Artists", Sarah Shieff and Ralph Crane, Katherine Mansfield - Stories and Pictures, Department of English, Occasional Paper,no.2, Dept. English Occasional papers, No 2, University of Waikato, ISSN1176-28372003, p23-30

Pilditch J. "Unsettling the Wilderness: Susan Howe's Conversations with History", In Peter Bastian and Jan Pilditch (eds), The End of the American Century?, Sydney, Fulbright New Zealand with Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association,2004.p161-172

Bastian P, Pilditch J. "Introduction" in Peter Bastian and Jan Pilditch (eds), The End of the American Century?, Sydney, Fulbright New Zealand with Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association,2004.pX-X111

"Bibliography" in Critical Essays on Catherine Carswell, ed. Carol Anderson, Arthur Ramsay Press, and Glasgow, (2001)

"And besides my Days were Full: The Letters of Catherine Carswell", in Critical Essays on Catherine Carswell, ed. Carol Anderson, Arthur Ramsay Press, Glasgow, (2001)

"Slavery in Literature", in Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, ed. Junias Roderigus, Mississippi State Univ. Press, 1997 pp412-414

"Rhetoric and Satire" The Stowe Debate, ed. Mason Llowance Jnr., Mass. Univ. Press, Amherst, USA, (1994) pp.57-70"The Lagoon and Other Stories" in The Inward Sun, ed. Daphne Basil Ass., Wellington, (Mar.1994) pp93-98

Journal Articles:

"Miracles and Wonders: Spirituality and Physicality in the novels of Toni Morrison" in Constructions of Memory, Profil Amériains, Universitié Paul-Valery, Montpellier 111, France, No13, 2001, pp81-91, 174-177

"Blue Black and Blooded: Narrative Voice and the Tattooed Body in Melville's Typee, Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol.15, No.1, July 1996, pp. 77-83

"Opening the Door on Catherine Carswell", Scotlands, No.2, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, University Press, 1995. pp. 53-65

'Franklin's "The Sale of the Hessians": American or European Satire?', Australasian Journal of American Studies, July 1988. pp.13-22

Newspaper:

“ Touched by the Rainbow: the Biography of Catherine Carswell", Glasgow Herald Magazine, 15th Feb.1997. p. 9

Essays in Books:

"19th Century American Auto/Biography", in Encyclopedia of Life Writing, Ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady, London, Fitzroy Dearborn (2001) pp.902-3

"Literary Biography", in Encyclopedia of Life Writing, ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001)

"Eliabeth Barrett Browning" in Readers' Guide to Women's Studies, ed. Eleanor Amico, Gale Research, Chicago, 1998

"Emily Dickinson"Readers' Guide to Women's Studies, ed. Eleanor Amico, Gale Research, Chicago, 1998

"Alice Munro"Readers' Guide to Women's Studies, ed. Eleanor Amico, Gale Research, Chicago, 1998

"Doris Lessing", Readers' Guide to Women's Studies, ed. Eleanor Amico, Gale Research, Chicago, 1998

"Harriet Beecher Stowe", Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery ed. Junias Roderigus, Mississippi State Univ. Press, 1997 pp614-615

"David Ross Locke", Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery , ed. Junias Roderigus, Mississippi State Univ. Press., Mississippi State Univ. Press, 1997. pp. 415-416

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery , ed. Junias Roderigus, Mississippi State Univ. Press, 1997, pp.660-661

"Revelations" (Flannery O'Connor), Reference Guide to the Short Story, St James Press, Chicago and London, 1994.

"The Garden Party", (Katherine Mansfield), Reference Guide to the Short Story, St. James Press, Chicago and London, 1994.

"Barbara Baynton", Reference Guide to the Short Story, St James Press, Chicago and London, 1994

"Simone de Beauvoir" Reference Guide to the Short Story, St James Press, Chicago and London, 1994

"Alice Walker", Reference Guide to the Short Story, St James Press, Chicago and London, 1994

"Peter Tinniswood" Reference Guide to Contemporary Novelists, St. James Press, Chicago and London, 1991.

"Alice Walker" Reference Guide to Contemporary Novelists, St. James Press, Chicago and London, 1991.

"Thomas Pynchon" Reference Guide to Contemporary Novelists, St. James Press, Chicago and London, 1991.

"Rachel McAlpine", Reference Guide to Contemporary Poets, St. James Press, Chicago and London, 1990.

"John Gardner", Reference Guide to American Literature, 2nd ed., St. James Press, Chicago and London, 1987.

"William James", Reference Guide to American Literature, 2nd ed., St. James Press, Chicago and London, 1987.

Invited Addresses:

"Catherine Carswell and Katherine Mansfield", Scotland/New Zealand Symposium, Glasgow University, 29-30 November 2002.

Keynote Addresses:

"The Life of Catherine Carswell: Writing Childhood", Opening the Doors: Celebrating Carswell's Life and Work, Glasgow University, 12 May 2001.

Conference Papers:

Jan Pilditch, Howard Staveley "Editing the Christian Missionary Journals", From Maning to Mansfield: Writing New Zealand 1820-1920, University of Waikato, Hamilton, Dec. 3-4 2004.

"The Creation of Boundaries: Science, Gender, and Nationalism in Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1860", ANZASA Conference – Borders and Boundaries, 14-17 July 2004, Auckland2004

"Seeing what you do not See, Saying what you do not Say: Susan Howe's Quarrel with History", Fulbright American Studies Conference, Waikato University, 1-5 July, 2003

"Singularities and Intersections: Exploring the margins in the Poetry of Susan Howe", Australian – New Zealand American Studies Association Biennial Conference, Monash University, Geelong, Australia, 7-10 July 2002

"Miracles and Wonders: an exploration of Women, Memory and Cosmology in the Novels of Toni Morrison" International American Studies Conference, University of Montpellier, Nimes, France, 21-23 June 2000

"Depictions of the White Immigrant in the Short Stories of Willa Cather", 4 th US/NZ Fulbright Conference, Canterbury University, Christchurch, June 1999.

"A Victorian Childhood in Glasgow: The Early Life of Catherine Carswell", Australasian Victorian Studies Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Feb. 1999.

"Survival of the Body: The Late Plays of Dennis Potter", Australasian Drama Association Conference, Waikato University, July 1998

"Fashionable Female Studies: Science, Women and Godey's Ladies Book", Australasian Victorian Studies Conference, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Feb. 1996

" Melville's Typee : Constructing the Democratic Body", 3rd US/NZ Fulbright Conference, Otago University, Dunedin, 1995

"Rhetorical Strategy in Uncle Tom's Cabin" Australasian Victorian Studies Conference, Auckland, 1993

"A Rose by Any Other Name: Text v Memory in Segal's Love Story" 2nd New Zealand Fulbright American Studies Conference. June, Waikato, 1993

"Billy Budd and American Satire" Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association Bicentennial Conference, Newcastle University, Australia, August 1988.

Creative Work:

Various articles in the New Zealand Herald, Scripts for New Zealand Radio, short stories for radio, and one children's play, professionally produced.

Reviews:

"Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief by Roger Lundin", in Mystics Quarterly, 25, Issue 3, 2000

"Oh to be a writer, a Real Writer",New Zealand Educational Review, 2000

"Gina Mercer's Janet Frame: Subversive Fictions", Span, Hamilton, Waikato University, April 1994

"Contending Kingdoms", Philosophy and Literature, John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993

'Rachel McAlpine', Farewell Speech, Landfall, Caxton Press, 1991

'A World of Difference', Barbara Johnson, Philosophy and Literature, John Hopkins University Press, 1989

'Hypocrisy and Self-Deception in Hawthorne's Fiction', Kenneth Marc Harris, Philosophy and Literature, John Hopkins University Press, 1989

'Happy Endings, Stories by Australian and ‘ New Zealand Women 1850-1930' and 'The Woman Who Never Went Home', Shona Koea, Landfall, Caxton Press, 1989

‘Modes of Production in the Victorian Novel' for Philosophy and Literature, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA, 1988

Broadcast:

"A Rose by any other name. . ." New Zealand Concert Program, Dec. 1993.