Dr Mark A Houlahan
Associate Professor
Qualifications: MA (Auck); PhD (Toronto); Grad Dip Writing Studies (Waikato).
About Mark
Mark is Associate Professor in the English Programme in the School of Arts{Te Kura Toi}, where he teaches Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, and Literary Theory. He has recently co-authored Antipodal Shakespeare remembering and forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 (Bloomsbury/Arden Shakespeare, 2018). He has book chapters forthcoming on “Shakespeare, Tourism, and the Pop-Up Globe” and the Caroline playwright James Shirley. He is co-editing (with Aidan Norrie) a book on Renaissance Drama (New Directions in Early Modern Drama: Edges, Spaces, and Intersections) (publishing August 2020); and is in the early phases of a book on iconic New Zealand theatre, tentatively called 10 Plays from the Edge of the World.
Papers Taught
Research Supervised
PhD:
Immortality in Shakespeare and Sci-Fi
Making Theatre in Aotearoa (Creative Practice Project)
Fantasy and the Language of Sacrifice
Poetry, Biography and History (Creative Practice)
MA
Dickinson & Anne Sexton (Creative Practice)
Female Travellers in Arabia
Research Interests
Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and Poetry, Shakespeare in New Zealand, Adaptations, Literary Theories, Editing in Theory and Practice.
Recent Publications
Houlahan, M. (2019). [Review of Selected Poems by Ian Wedde]. New Zealand Review of Books: Pukapuka Aotearoa, 29(127), 12-13. Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13324
Houlahan, M. (2019). Curnow's Sonnets. Journal of New Zealand Literature, 37(2), 75-90.
Houlahan, M. (2019). Shakespeare comes to our age. English in Aotearoa, (96), 23-25.
Houlahan, M. (2019). Introduction. In V. Rapatahana (Ed.), Nga Kupu Waikato (pp. 4-7). Mangakino and Morrinsville: Waikato Press.
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Keywords
Drama; Theatre
Shakespeare. Editing. Critical Theory. Poetics. Adaptation. Theatre History.
Contact Details
| Name | Extn. | Username | Room | Department | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houlahan, AProf Mark | 9189 | maph | I.3.26 | English Programme |
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