Lesa Scholl l.scholl@uq.edu.au 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