About Dr. Jacqueline Howard

Jacqueline Howard (née Mawet) is an independent scholar living in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. Born in England of Anglo-Flemish parents, she migrated to Australia with them under the post World War II assisted passage scheme, arriving in Adelaide in late 1947 as a '£10 pom'. She has a BA from the University of Adelaide and a PhD from Deakin University. After retiring in 2006 from teaching at St Mary's College, where she was for many years Coordinator of English & Languages, she resumed work on long neglected academic projects. Her research interests are in the long eighteenth century, Gothic fiction, Romanticism, the short story and biography.

Publications

Books and Editions:

Reading Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994)

Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho edited with an introduction and notes by Jacqueline Howard (London: Penguin Books, 2001)

Anonymous, Lusignan, or the Abbaye of La Trappe edited with an introduction and notes by Jacqueline Howard (Richmond, VA: Valancourt Books, 2015)

Articles and Book Chapters:

“Merely an imitator? The preponderance of 'Radcliffe' in Lusignan, or the Abbaye of La Trappe and The Orphans of Llangloed in Romantic Textualities, Issue 20, Winter 2011, pp.45-73 http://www.romtext.org.uk/files/2013/02/rt20.pdf/"

J. K. Rowling’s Gothic Turn: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in Opinion 48: 4 (2004), transcript of paper presented at the Harry Potter Conference at Flinders University in March 2004.

“Performing the Text: the Study of Poetry Using Cross-Country A Book of Australian Verse” in Great Ideas for English in the Senior Years, edited by Alison Robertson (Adelaide: SAETA, 2001)

“Reading and Viewing Advertisements” in Texts: the Heart of the Curriculum Series 1, No.9 compiled by Peter Adams & Helen Campagna-Wildash (South Australia: DECS, 1995)

“The Café Connection: an approach to the comparative study of a visual text, Bagdad Café and Carson McCullers’ novella, The Ballad of the Sad Café” in Exploring and Connecting Texts (Adelaide: Education Department of South Australia, 1993)

(with Christine Thompson) “Short story into film” in Media in English (Adelaide: Education Department of South Australia, 1989) pp.24-49.

“What’s so funny?” in Writing with a Difference, edited by Ian Reid (Melbourne: Nelson, 1988)

“Angela Carter’s Narrative Thaumaturgy: Breaking the Magic Spell,” supplement to Mattoid (Waurn Ponds Victoria: Deakin University) 21: 1, 1985 -- on the occasion of Angela Carter's visits to Adelaide University (as writer in residence) and Deakin University.

“Returning Rhetoric: Literature as Social Discourse” in Opinion (Adelaide: SAETA) 13: 4 (November, 1984) transcript of a paper presented to the AATE conference in Adelaide in July 1984.

Reviews:

Maria Purves, The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785 – 1829, in Romantic Textualities, Issue 20, Winter 2011, pp.89-94 http://www.romtext.org.uk/files/2013/02/rt20.pdf/"

Rictor Norton, Mistress of Udolpho: The Life Ann Radcliffe in Gothic Studies 3: 3 (December, 2001)

Robert Mighall, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History’s Nightmares, in Romanticism on the Net 20 (November 2000)