Dr Jan Shaw

Dr Jan Shaw

BSc GradDip Arts, PhD

+61 2 9351 7413
Room N350, John Woolley Building (A20)

Research areas

  • Middle English literature, particularly women and agency
  • Medievalism

Publications 2005-2011

Journal articles
  • ‘Papering the cracks with discourse: the narrative identity of the authentic leader’ Leadership 6.1 (2010), 89-108.
  • Shaw, J E 2009, Troublesome Teleri: contemporary feminist utopianism in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Lady of Avalon, Sydney Studies in English, 35, 73-95
Book chapters
  • Shaw, J E 2011 ‘Narratives of identity and authenticity: the humanities meets leadership studies’, in Liam Semler and Phillipa Kelly (eds.). What was the human? Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011. Forthcoming.
  • Shaw, J E 2009, Feminism and the fantasy tradition: 'The Mists of Avalon', A Companion to Arthurian Literature, Blackwell, West Sussex, 463-477
Conference proceedings
  • ‘Negotiating with the Self: How creative writing can teach literary studies students to be better writers’. The Strange Bedfellows or Perfect Partners Papers: the refereed proceedings of the 15th conference of the Association of Writing Programs, Donna Lee Brien & Marcelle Frieman (eds.), 2010.
  • Shaw, J E 2009, Teaching from the margins: approaching the feminine register through contemporary fantasy, 14th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs AAWP 2009, Australian Association of Writing Programs, Australia, 1-10

Teaching Areas

  • Middle English literature
  • late 20th century women writers and the fantastic
  • Arthurian literature and medievalism