Lesa Scholl [email protected] School of Communication and Arts, UQ +61 423 958 084
Education Birkbeck College, University of London July 2008
Doctor of Philosophy in English (Victorian Literature and Culture)
Dissertation: “Mediation and Authority: Roles of Translation in Nineteenth-Century Women’s
Writing”
Committee: Hilary Fraser (Primary Supervisor), Laurel Brake (Associate Supervisor), Cora
Kaplan, and Valerie Sanders
University of Queensland
December 2003
Master of Philosophy (Masters by Research) in English
Dissertation: “Angels Unbound: Religion as a Facilitator of Female Autonomy in Nineteenth-
Century British Literary Culture”
Committee: Judith Seaboyer (Supervisor), Margaret Harris, and Ellen Jordan
University of Queensland December 2003
Graduate Certificate in Education (awarded with Distinction)
University of Queensland August 2001
Bachelor of Arts (1st class honours)
Major: English Literature
Minor: History
Thesis: “Shattered Porcelain: Jane Austen from a Cultural Materialist Perspective”
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Publications Monographs | Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature: Want, Riots, Migration (London and New York:
Routledge, 2016) https://www.routledge.com/products/9781472457158
Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman: Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Martineau
and George Eliot (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)
http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=10803&edition_id=11134&calcTitle=1
Edited Collections | Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, ed. Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris, and Sarina
Gruver Moore (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015)
http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=1216370889&edition_id=1216385608&
calcTitle=1
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters | “‘Pilfering, and burning, and studious waste’: Food Security and Political Economy in Harriet
Martineau’s Cinnamon and Pearls” in Political Economy, Literature and the Formation of Knowledge
1720-1850, ed. Catherine Packham and Richard Adelman (London: Routledge) (in press)
“Chaotic Interruptions in the Economy: Droughts, Hurricanes and Monsoons in Harriet
Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy,” in Food Security and the Environment in India and
Britain, ed. Ayesha Mukherjee (London: Routledge) (in press)
“Ubiquitous Theft: The Consumption of London in Mayhew’s Underworld,” in Victorian
Environments, ed. Grace Moore and Michelle Smith (Hampshire: Palgrave) (in press)
“The Rhetoric of Taste: Reform, Hunger and Consumption in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton,”
in Food, Drink and the Written Word, 1820-1954, ed. Mary Addyman, Laura Wood and
Christopher Yiannitsaros (London and New York: Routledge, 2016)
“‘For the cake was so pretty’: Tactile Interventions in Taste; or, Having One’s Cake and Eating It
in The Mill on the Floss,” 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, (2016) 23, DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/ntn.764
“Mapping the Intellectual Self: Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography and the Role of Life-Writing
in Defining Disciplines,” in Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines, ed. Gaby Weiner and
Valerie Sanders (Farnham: Ashgate, 2016)
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“Moving Between North and South: Cultural Signs and the Progress of Modernity in Gaskell’s
Novel,” in Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, ed. Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris and
Sarina Gruver Moore (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015)
“Charlotte Brontë’s Polyphonic Voices: Collaboration and Hybrid Authorial Spaces,” Brontë
Studies, 39.4 (November 2014): 279-91
“Translation and the Victorian Culture of the Mind: Literature as Cultural History,” Translation
Theory in Practice, ed. C.C. Wharram, Romantic Circles Pedagogies (August 2014)
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“Retracing the Domestic Space: English National Identity in Harriet Martineau’s Homes Abroad,”
in Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand, ed. Tamara Wagner (London: Pickering
& Chatto, 2014)
“George Eliot, Harriet Martineau and the Popularisation of Comte’s Positive Philosophy,”
Literature Compass, 9.11 (2012): 764-73
“Provocative Agendas: Martineau’s Translation of Comte,” in Harriet Martineau: Authorship,
Society and Empire, ed. Ella Dzelzainis and Cora Kaplan (Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 2010)
“Mediation and Expansion: Harriet Martineau’s Travels in America,” Women’s History Review,
18.5 (2009): 819-33
“Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau’s Eastern Travels,” in Travel Writing, Form, and Empire:
The Poetics and Politics of Mobility, ed. Julia Kuehn and Paul Smethurst (London: Routledge,
2008)
“Translating Authority: Romola’s Disruption of the Gendered Narrative,” Victorian Newsletter,
112 (Fall 2007): 7-20
Notes and Reference | “Irish Famine and Literature,” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, ed. Pamela K Gilbert
and Linda K Hughes (Blackwell, 2015)
“Irish Migration to London During the Mid-Century Famines,” BRANCH
http://www.branchcollective.org ed. Dino Felluga (December 2013)
http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=lesa-scholl-irish-migration-to-london-during-the-
c-1845-52-famine-henry-mayhews-representation-in-london-labour-and-the-london-poor
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Teaching and Learning Guide for “George Eliot, Harriet Martineau and the Popularisation of
Comte’s Positive Philosophy,” Literature Compass, 9.11 (2012): 918-19
Review of Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Joanne Wilkes (Ashgate
2010), Studies in the Novel, 42.4 (Winter 2010): 492-94
“Fallen or Forbidden? Rossetti’s Goblin Market,” The Victorian Web, ed. George Landow
(University Scholars Programme 2003) http://www.victorianweb.org/crossetti/scholl.html
Invited Lectures | Roundtable participant: “Women Authors and Political Activism.” Invited by Professor Paula
Feldman, University of South Carolina. BWWC, University of North Carolina, 21-24 June 2017
Roundtable participant: “Harriet Martineau in the 21st Century: What Next?” Invited by
Professor Deborah Logan, Western Kentucky University. BWWC, University of North Carolina,
21-24 June 2017
“Literary Social Activism and Responding to Liberal Capitalism: From Unitarian Prose to
Anglocatholic Poetry,” English Department, Texas Christian University, April 21, 2017
“Why are the poor hungry still? Political Economy, Community, and Poetic Justice,” School of
Culture and Communication English and Theatre Studies Seminars, University of Melbourne,
August 24, 2016
“Chaotic Interruptions in the Economy: Droughts, Monsoons and Hurricanes in Harriet
Martineau’s Illustrations of Poltical Economy,” Food Security and the Environment in India and
Britain: Historical and Cultural Perspectives, Oxford University Centre for the Environment,
September 4, 2015
“Finding ‘The Trumpets of Heaven’ in the midst of ‘Armageddon’: Leon Gellert’s Songs of a
Campaign (1917),” Remembrance and Representation: Colleges, Churches and Community in
WWI, Centre for the Study of Science, Religion and Society, Emmanuel College, April 24, 2015
“‘Th’ food stuck in their throats when they thought o’ them at home’: Hunger, Mobility, and
Community in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary
Barton,” Centre for Environmental Arts and Humanities, University of Exeter, Penryn, March
20, 2014
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“Mob Violence, Starvation, and Community in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political
Economy,” Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Exeter, Streatham, March 19, 2014
“Female Demons: Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya,” School of English, Media Studies and Art History,
University of Queensland, April 26, 2012
“Courting the Ridiculous: Clerical Proposals of Marriage in the Novels of Jane Austen,” Jane
Austen Society of Australia, May 22, 2010
“Harriet Martineau: Woman of the Empire,” School of English, Media Studies and Art History,
University of Queensland, April 8, 2009
“The Fictionalised Foreign: Charlotte Brontë’s Belgian Novels,” School of English, Media
Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, April 11, 2008
Conference Papers | “Adelaide Procter’s Poetic Form and Catholic Ritual: Preserving and Challenging Social Order,”
NAVSA, Banff, 16-18 November 2017
“A Heritage of Poetry, Faith, and Social Justice: The Generational Ties between Christina
Rossetti and Alice Meynell,” BWWC, University of North Carolina, 21-24 June 2017
“The Materiality of Poetic Form and Catholic Ritual: Challenging the Social Order in the Works
of Adelaide Procter and Alice Meynell,” AVSA Conference, Victorian Materialities, Melbourne,
14-16 June, 2017
“The Comforts of Rome: Alice Meynell’s Catholic Nostalgia,” NAVSA/AVSA Conference,
Florence, 17-20 May, 2017
“‘Crowded let His table be’: A Taste of Christ in a Hungry Community,” MVSA Conference,
Oberlin, Ohio, 28-30 April, 2017
“The Value of Restraint: Christina Rossetti’s Interrogation of the Anglo-Catholic Doctrine of
Reserve,” Making a Scene, British Women Writers Association, Athens, GA, June 2-5, 2016
“‘Beyond Magdalen and by the Bridge’: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Yearning to Connect with
the Hungry,” Victorian Intimacies, VSAWC, Winnipeg, April 24-26, 2016
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“‘The down-hill path is easy, but there’s no turning back’: Christina Rossetti’s Aesthetic of
Reserve as a Means to Promote Social Action,” Victorian News: Print Culture and the Victorian
Press, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Columbia, MO, April 8-10, 2016 (paper accepted)
“Alienated Labour and the Taste of Dispossession: Imperialism and Political Economy in
Harriet Martineau’s Cinnamon and Pearls,” Victorian Work and Labor, Victorians Institute,
Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, October 2-3, 2015
“‘For the cake was so pretty’: Tactile interventions in taste, or, having one’s cake and eating it in
The Mill on the Floss,” Arts and Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, The
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, July 16-18,
2015
“The Taste of Dispossession: Food Security and Imperialism in Harriet Martineau’s Cinnamon
and Pearls,” Victorian Sense and the Senses, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, University
of Iowa, May 1-3, 2015
“The Need for Taste: Moderating Hunger in Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss,” Victorian Sense and
the Senses, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, University of Iowa, May 1-3, 2015
“Illusions of Progress: Chaos, Hunger, and Political Economy in Harriet Martineau’s French
Wines and Politics and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton,” Getting and Spending, KL Leuven,
Belgium, December 10-12, 2014
“Hungry for a New Home: Transporting Domesticity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton and
Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor,” Victorian Transport, Australasian
Victorian Studies Association, Hong Kong University, July 10-12, 2014
“Re-Visioning Hungry Protests: The Gordon Riots and the French Revolution in Charles
Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge and A Tale of Two Cities,” Victorian Violence, Midwest Victorian
Studies Association, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 11-13, 2014
“The Rhetoric of Taste: Reform, Hunger and Consumption in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton,”
Devouring: Food, Drink and the Written Word, 1800-1945, University of Warwick, March 8,
2014
“Starving to Excess: Irish Migrant Domesticity and the Terror of the Ghetto,” Numbers, British
Association of Victorian Studies, Royal Holloway, UL, August 29-31, 2013
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“‘Furnished with the plea of want, wherewith to make the streets of Paris echo’: The hunger
Storm in Harriet Martineau’s French Wines and Politics,” Modern Soundscapes, Australian
Association of Literature, University of New South Wales, July 10-13, 2013
“A Little Leaven in the Lump: Mob Violence, Starvation and Social Progress in Harriet
Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy,” The Global and the Local, BAVS/NAVSA/AVSA,
Venice, June 3-6, 2013
“A Little Solace from Sabbath to Sabbath: Self-Starvation and Institutionalised Abuse in Jane
Eyre,” Situating and Interpreting States of Mind 1700-2000, Northumbria University, June 14-16,
2012
“Moving Between North and South: Cultural Signs and the Progress of Modernity in Elizabeth
Gaskell’s Novel,” Landscapes, British Women Writers Association, Boulder, CO, June 7-10, 2012
“Translation in Dialogue: Charlotte Brontë’s Belgian Essays,” Literature and Translation, AAL
and ALITRA, Monash University, Melbourne, July 11-12, 2011
“Civilising the Natives? English Education in Martineau’s Ireland,” Education and Empire, The
Sixth Galway Conference on Colonialism, National University of Ireland, June 24-26, 2010
“Becoming White Again: English National Identity in Homes Abroad,” Re-Orienting Whiteness,
Monash University and University of Melbourne, December 3-5, 2008
“Mourning the Master,” Mourning and its Hospitalities, School of English, Media Studies and
Art History, University of Queensland, July 18-21, 2007
“Provocative Agendas: Martineau’s Preface to her Translation of Comte’s Positive Philosophy,”
Harriet Martineau: Subjects and Subjectivities, Queen Mary, UL and Birkbeck, UL, April 21,
2007
“Translating Authority: Romola’s Disruption of the Gendered Narrative,” Speaking With
Authority, British Women Writers Association, Lexington, KY, April 12-15, 2007
“Mediation and Expansion: Harriet Martineau’s Travels in America,” Widening Spheres, Royal
Holloway, UL, July 8-9, 2006
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“Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau, Mediator Between Nineteenth-Century Societies,”
Mobilis in Mobile: And International Conference in Studies in Travel Writing, University of
Hong Kong, July 11-13, 2005
“Fallen or Forbidden? Rossetti’s Goblin Market,” Political Fictions and the Poetics of Faith,
School of English Postgraduate Conference, Leeds University, July 10-11, 2004
Current Research Projects Hunger, Poetry, and the Doctrine of Reserve: Tractarian Influences on the Nineteenth-
Century Social Vision Book Project (contracted with Anthem Press, mss due June 2018)
Medicine, Health and Being Human Book Project (edited collection contracted with Routledge, mss due November 2017)
Administrative Positions Emmanuel College | Sir William MacGregor Drive, St Lucia, Qld 4067 Australia Vice Principal October 2016 – May 2017
Senior Management
Budget: Managed with Business Manager, College Budget $7million p.a.
Responsibilities:
second-in-charge of college
day-to-day running of the college
managing staff across all areas, including academic, pastoral care, administration, security,
weekend supervision (50+)
staff professional development, training and performance review
policy development
hiring of academic staff
conflict resolution at all levels of the college, staff and students
managing misconduct and grievances, student discipline
pastoral and academic support of 350 students
student recruitment and marketing
interviewing and selecting students
managing admissions processes
engaging with secondary schools
engaging with departments and faculties across the university
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organising and administrating masterclasses, developing interdisciplinary workshops
organising conferences and guest lectures
organising senior common room research group
liaising with student leadership
managing student intercollege sporting and cultural competitions
managing selection and election of student leaders
liaising with parents
liaising with community organisations and stakeholders
building relationships with not-for-profits
maintaining relationships with alumni
Emmanuel College | Sir William MacGregor Drive, St Lucia, Qld 4067 Australia Dean of College February 2016 – September 2016 (acting Vice Principal)
Responsibilities: See Vice Principal description.
Emmanuel College | Sir William MacGregor Drive, St Lucia, Qld 4067 Australia Dean of Academic Studies December 2008 – January 2016
Middle Management
Budget: $210,000 p.a.
Responsibilities:
managing academic staff (35)
academic and pastoral care of 350 students
developing an academic program of over 70 tutorials a week over 40 disciplines (similar
to US honours program)
developing team-taught interdisciplinary workshops for undergraduates
developing research group for postgraduates and academic staff
working closely with high school and community groups, industry and other
stakeholders
networking to develop mentoring and intern opportunities for students and staff
professional development
creating forums for public intellectual debate and youth leadership conferences
student recruitment and marketing
timetabling for the academic program
hiring academic staff
staff training and performance review
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Teaching Positions
School of Communication and Arts | University of Queensland Lecturer (Adjunct) February 2009 – Present
ENGL2065: Jane Austen and her Influences (Convenor)
ENGL2040: Gothic Literature (Convenor)
ENGL2440: The Novel: Realism, History, Fiction
ENGL2460: Poetry: In Defense of Imagination
ENGL2045: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
ENGL2020: Eighteenth-Century Literature
ENGL1800: Texts and Traditions
School of English, Media Studies and Art History | University of Queensland Tutor February 2003 – November 2003
ENGL1000: Introduction to British Literature
Fellowships, Honours and Awards Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University
March 2017—April 2017 Visiting Scholar Fellowship
Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Exeter January 2014—March 2014 Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship
Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland October 2011 Dean’s Scholar’s Award Nomination for Most Effective Teacher
Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland October 2010 Dean’s Scholar’s Award Nomination for Most Effective Teaching
School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland January 2008—April 2008 Visiting Scholar
School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, UL April 2007 Competitive Postgraduate Travel Grant
School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, UL July 2006 Competitive Postgraduate Travel Grant
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School of English, University of Kent
July 2005 Competitive Postgraduate Travel Grant
School of English, University of Kent July 20048 Competitive Postgraduate Travel Grant
University of Queensland September 2002 University of Queensland Postgraduate Travel Award
University-wide competitive grant for overseas research
University of Queensland August 2001—August 2003 University of Queensland Mid-Year Scholarship
Two-year full scholarship to fund Master of Philosophy (Masters by Research) candidature
Service Advisory Board Member for 3-year AHRC research project, “Famine and Dearth in India and
Britain, 1550-1800: Connected Cultural Histories of Food Security”
http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/research/projects/famine/
Organiser of Environmental Humanities Conference, “Recovering Natural Disasters” in
partnership with the Global Change Institute, University of Queensland, June 2018
Member of the Academic Committee, the Committee for the Centre for the Study of Science,
Religion and Society, and the Pastoral Care Committee at Emmanuel College
Convenor of the Senior Common Room: Interdisciplinary Research Group at Emmanuel College
Co-convenor of Indigenous Scholars in the Academy Lecture Series, Emmanuel College
Convenor of the Academic Program at the Chrysalis International Young Leaders Conference,
2010-2015
Co-Convenor for the Honours Mentoring Program, School of English, Media Studies and Art
History, University of Queensland, 2009
Peer Reviewer for Literary Compass, 2016
Reader/Peer Reviewer for Ashgate Publishing, 2015
Peer Reviewer for Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2017
Peer Reviewer for AVSJ, 2012-13
Peer Reviewer for BRANCH http://www.branchcollective.org and the Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Victorian Literature, 2012
Peer Reviewer for the ACRAWSA journal, 2009
Chair for “Forging Alliances: Hellenism and Medievalism in the 18th and 19th Centuries,”
BWWC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2017
Chair for “Gaskell’s Generational Gaps,” BWWC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2017
Chair for “Childhood,” AVSA Conference, Melbourne, 2017
Chair for “Italy and the Poets,” NAVSA/AVSA Conference, Florence, Italy, 2017
Chair for “New Woman in Society,” NAVSA Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 2016
Chair for “Reading Bodies” and “Imperialism,” Victorian Work and Labor, Victorians Institute
Conference, 2015
Chair for “The Empire and Bodily ‘Delights’,” Victorian Transport, AVSA Conference, 2014
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Chair for “Cosmopolitanism I: Horror and Science Fiction,” The Global and the Local,
BAVS/NAVSA/AVSA Conference, 2013
Chair for “Ways of Remembering,” Mourning and its Hospitalities, University of Queensland,
2007
Chair for “Empiricism and the Text: Victorian Sciences Influence the Novel,” Speaking with
Authority, BWWC, 2007
Staff-Student Forum Representative—Part-time Student Rep and International Student Rep,
School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, UL, October 2005—July 2007
Nineteenth-Century Reading Group, School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, UL,
2004-2006
Other Professional Experiences The Yehudi Menuhin School | Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom Teacher in Charge of English and Drama January 2006 – December 2007
Responsible for teaching, designing and managing the curriculum for English and Drama
throughout the secondary school (KS3, GCSE, and A Level). Academic and pastoral care of
students within the boarding houses.
Professional Organizations Lifetime member of the Martineau Society
Member of the Australian Association for Literary Translation
Member of the Australian Association for Literature
Member of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association
Member of the British Association of Victorian Studies
Member of the North American Victorian Studies Association
Member of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association
Member of the Victorians Institute
Member of the MLA
References Professor Linda Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University
Dr Andrew Tate, Reader in Literature, Religion and Aesthetics, Lancaster University