Eleanor Spencer-Regan is the Principal of Janet Clarke Hall at the University of Melbourne, where she is also an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication. She was previously the Vice-Principal and Senior Tutor of St Chad’s College and Vice-Principal (Student Enrichment Directorate) at Durham University in the UK, where she also taught in the Department of English Studies and the School of Education.
She was awarded a First Class Honours BA in English Literature and an MA with Distinction in Studies in Poetry, both at the University of Durham. She completed her doctoral thesis on tradition, inheritance, and influence in the work of the Anglo-American poet Anne Stevenson in 2012. She was awarded an AHRC Research Preparation Masters Award and an AHRC Doctoral Award. She is the recipient of a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, and was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at Harvard University in 2011-12. Her research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century British and American poetry; allusion and echo in contemporary poetry; children’s and Young Adult fiction; and popular fiction.
Her recent publications include the New Casebook on American Poetry since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); essays in the Blackwell Companion to British and Irish Poetry 1960-2015 (Wiley Blackwell, 2020), Sylvia Plath in Context (Cambridge University Press), and W. H. Davies: Essays on the Super-Tramp Poet (Anthem Press, 2021). Forthcoming publications include a co-edited volume, Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2023).
Experience
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2022–presentPrincipal, Janet Clarke Hall
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2016–2022Vice-Principal and Senior Tutor, St Chad's College, University of Durham
Education
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2015University of Durham, PGCAP
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2012University of Durham, PhD
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2008University of Durham, MA (Distinction)
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2007University of Durham, BA (Hons.)
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2011Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship
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- Harvard University
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2008AHRC Doctoral Award
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- Arts and Humanities Research Council
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2007AHRC Research Preparation Masters Award
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- Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Melbourne, Australia
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