Senior Lecturer

Qualifications: MA Auckland, PhD Toronto

About Mark

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; a version of this text has also just been published (2014) in the Broadview/Internet Shakespeare Series (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview). Last year he co-edited a collection of essays, "Shakespeare and Emotions: Histories, Re-enactments, Legacies" (Palgrave MacMillan). As current President of the Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association he is anticipating a busy 2016 contributing to the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, April 23, 1616.

Research Interests

Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and Poetry, Shakespeare in New Zealand, Adaptations, Literary Theories, Editing in Theory and Practice.

Recent Publications

• Houlahan, M. (2019). Shakespeare comes to our age. English in Aotearoa, (96), 23-25.

• Houlahan, M. (2018). [Review of Shakespeare's big men: Tragedy and the problem of resentment by Richard van Oort]. Renaissance Quarterly, 71(1), 416-417. doi:10.1086/697885

• Houlahan, M., & Norrie, A. (2018). Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Plutarch’s Life of Demetrius. Notes and Queries, 65(4), 539-542. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjy138

• Houlahan, M. (2018). Plays and Playmaking [Review of 'Performing dramaturgy' by Fiona Graham, 'Floating islanders: Pasifika theatre in Aotearoa', by Lisa Warrington and David O’Donnell, and 'Dawn raids' by Oscar Kightley]. New Zealand Books, 28(124), 14-15.

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Supervision

PhD:
- Levinas & the Ethics of Literature
- Making Fantasy Theatre in Aotearoa (Creative Practice Porject
- Military Scifi and the Cold War
- Travel Writing from Wollstonecraft to Pahmuk

-Fantasy and the Language of Sacrifice

-The New Zealand Wars in Literature and Film