Melanie Ruth Duckworth

Institutt for språk, litteratur og kultur
Bilde av Melanie Ruth Duckworth
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Studiested
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Faglige interesser

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Undervisning

Kulturstudier 1

Kritisk analyse 2

Innføring i kolonial og postkolonial litteratur

Bakgrunn

PhD in English Literature, The University of Leeds (2009). "Medievalism and the Langauge of Belonging in Selected Works of Les Murray, Randolph Stow, Francis Webb and Kevin Hart."

MA in Medieval English Literatures, The University of York (2004)

BAhon in English and European Studies, The University of Adelaide (2000)

Partners

Member of ASLE

Member of IRSCL

Forskergrupper

Publikasjoner

  • Guanio-Uluru, Lykke ; Duckworth, Melanie & Szabari, Antonia (2024). Plant Tendrils in Children's and Young Adult Literature: An Introduction . Ecozona. ISSN 2171-9594. 15(1).
  • Guanio-Uluru, Lykke Harmony Alara; Duckworth, Melanie Ruth & Szabari, Antonia (2024). Plant tendrils in children's and young adult literature. An introduction. . Ecozona. ISSN 2171-9594.
  • Duckworth, Melanie & Coleman, Aidan (2023). Last Migrations: The Poetry of Migratory Birds. I Ede, Amatoritsero; Kleppe, Sandra Lee & Sorby, Angela (Red.), Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis: Creative Educational Approaches to Complex Challenges. Routledge. ISSN 9781032508542. s. 55–68.
  • Duckworth, Melanie (2023). The Voice of the She-oak: Vegetal Poetics and Hope in Kirli Saunders' Verse Novel Bindi. I Duckworth, Melanie & Herb, Annika (Red.), Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031398889. s. 107–127. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-39888-9_6.
  • Duckworth, Melanie & Herb, Annika (2023). Introduction: Storying Plants - Roots and Winged Seeds. I Duckworth, Melanie & Herb, Annika (Red.), Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031398889. s. 1–29. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-39888-9_1.
  • Kennedy, Nicole & Duckworth, Melanie (2023). Vegetal Memory, Community, and Power in Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Tribe Trilogy. I Duckworth, Melanie & Herb, Annika (Red.), Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031398889. s. 227–245. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-39888-9_12.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2022). Australian Literature and Ecofeminism. I Vakoch, Douglas A. (Red.), The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature. Routledge. ISSN 978-1-003-19561-0. s. 57–67.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2022). Mapping, Countermapping, and Country in Trace Balla’s Graphic Novels. Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. ISSN 2000-7493. 13(1), s. 1–13. doi: 10.18261/blft.13.1.4.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2022). Arboreal Magic and Kinship in the Chthlulucene: Margaret Mahy's Trees. I Oziewicz, Marek; Attebery, Brian & Dedinová, Tereza (Red.), Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350203341. s. 89–100.
  • Duckworth, Melanie (2022). Agency and Multispecies Communities in Picturebooks: The Snail and the Whale and The Secret of Black Rock. Environmental Humanities. ISSN 2201-1919. 14(1), s. 162–181. doi: 10.1215/22011919-9481495.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2021). Arboreal and Maternal Desires: Trees and Mothers in recent Australian Middle-Grade Fiction. I Duckworth, Melanie & Guanio-Uluru, Lykke (Red.), Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature . Routledge. ISSN 9781000469141. s. 101–114. doi: 10.4324/9781032066356.
  • Guanio-Uluru, Lykke & Duckworth, Melanie (2021). Introduction: Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature. I Duckworth, Melanie & Guanio-Uluru, Lykke (Red.), Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature . Routledge. ISSN 9781000469141. s. 1–16. doi: 10.4324/9781032066356-1.
  • Duckworth, Melanie (2021). Women, Animals and Fairness: An Ecofeminist Reading of Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things (2015) and Animal People (2011). I Björk, Eva Margareta Lambertsson; Eschenbach, Jutta Cornelia & Wagner, Johanna M. (Red.), Women and Fairness: Navigating an Unfair World. Waxmann Verlag. ISSN 978-3-8309-4365-5. s. 97–112. doi: https:/www.waxmann.com/index.php?eID=download&buchnr=4365. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2020). Genre, History and the Stolen Generations: Three Australian Stories. International Research in Children's Literature (IRCL). ISSN 1755-6198. 13(2), s. 259–273. doi: 10.3366/ircl.2020.0357. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2019). “‘My centre not my edge’: Uncanny Identity, Death, Doubles and Medievalism in Kevin Hart’s Your Shadow”. I Knutsen, Karen Sue Patrick; Barstad, Guri Ellen & Vestli, Elin-Sofie Nesje (Red.), Exploring identity in literature and life stories: The elusive self. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 978-1-5275-3571-8. s. 81–102.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2019). "Everyone Wants to Escape from Their Own Lives Sometimes, Don't They?": Motherhood, the Train to Edinburgh, and the Work of Kathleen Jamie. I Beyer, Charlotte; Maclennan, Janet; Smith Silva, Dorsia & Tesser, Marjorie (Red.), Travellin' Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel . Demeter Press. ISSN 978-1-77258-179-9. s. 111–125. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvdtphsk.14.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2019). "A Girl Like Me in a Time Gone By": Agency, Reading and Writing in the Our Australian Girl Series. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature. ISSN 0006-7377. doi: 10.1353/bkb.2019.0003.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2017). "Travelling North Together" - the North, Whales and Intercultural Communication in Kathleen Jamie's Essays and Poems. I Björk, Eva Margareta Lambertsson & Eschenbach, Jutta Cornelia (Red.), Travel and Intercultural Communication: Going North. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 9781443879149. s. 51–68.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2017). "This is a true book": Australian National Myths, Childhood and Storytelling in Randolph Stow's Midnite (1967) and The Merry-go-round in the Sea (1965), Narratology Plus: Studies in Recent International Narratives for Children and Young Adults / Narratologie Plus – Studien zur Erzählweise in aktueller internationaler Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 9783631676844. s. 45–64.
  • Duckworth, Melanie (2012). Les Murray and Australian Poetry: Place, Time and Belonging. Bøygen: Organ for nordisk språk og litteratur. ISSN 0806-8623. 12(1), s. 49–58.
  • Duckworth, Melanie (2011). Grievous Music: Randolph Stow’s Middle Ages. Australian literary studies. ISSN 0004-9697. 26(3), s. 102–114. doi: 10.20314/als.e8d9ec4f7b.

Se alle arbeider i Cristin

  • Duckworth, Melanie & Herb, Annika (2023). Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031398889.
  • Duckworth, Melanie & Guanio-Uluru, Lykke (2021). Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature . Routledge. ISBN 9781000469141. 220 s.

Se alle arbeider i Cristin

  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2023). Plants, Place, and Literature.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2023). Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2023). Re-Storying Plants: Plants as Metaphor and Friend in Trace Balla's Landing with Wings.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2022). The Voice of the Sheoak: Vegetal Poetics and Hope in Kirli Saunders' Verse Novel Bindi.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2022). Maralinga - The Anangu Story: Country, Memory, Restoration.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2021). Bog Poetics: Tracy Ryan and Seamus Heaney. Social Alternatives. ISSN 0155-0306. 40(3), s. 57–59.
  • Duckworth, Melanie (2021). Vegetal Bodies: Plants and Aging in David Malouf's Earth Hour and An Imaginary Life.
  • Duckworth, Melanie (2021). Christobel Mattingley, 1931-2019: Birthday Letters, a Personal Tribute. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature. ISSN 0006-7377. 59(3), s. 74–79. doi: 10.1353/bkb.2021.0030.
  • Duckworth, Melanie (2021). Being a Tree in the Chthulucene: Magic, Kinship and Plants in Margaret Mahy's Fantasy Fiction.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2019). Silence, Agency and Sibling Ghosts in Sonya Hartnett's The Children of the King and Penni Russon's The Endsister.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2019). Wild Things at 15.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2019). “Transforming Environmental Myths Through Picture Books: Partnership Ethic in The Snail and the Whale and The Secret of Black Rock.” .
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2019). 'Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures. Nordic Dialogues ed. by Nina Goga, Lykke Guanio-Uluru, Bjørg Oddrun Hallåsand Aslaug Nyrnes (review)' . Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature. ISSN 0006-7377. 57(3), s. 78–79.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2018). An Ecofeminist Reading of Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2016). "My Center Not my Edge": Medievalism, Identity and Doubles in Your Shadow.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2016). "God is Leaving Us: What Shall We Be?" Animals, Medievalism and the Language of Life in Francis Webb's "The Ghost of the Cock".
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2016). "Migratory": Kathleen Jamie's Migrating Birds and the Language of Belonging.
  • Duckworth, Melanie Ruth (2016). "Travelling North Together": Journeys to the North in Kathleen Jamie's Essays and Poetry.

Se alle arbeider i Cristin

Publisert 12. juni 2018 16:29 - Sist endret 21. mars 2024 12:43