Dr Erica Hateley

Erica Hateley teaches children’s and adolescent literature at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her teaching and research interests include issues of gender, nation, intertextualities, canonicity, and cultural capital in children’s literature and popular culture. She is the author of Shakespeare in Children’s Literature: Gender and Cultural Capital (Routledge, 2009).   She is currently serving as an elected member of the International Committee of the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), and as President of the Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR). From 2012-2014, Erica is undertaking research into award-winning Australian children’s literature. This research is funded by the Australian Research Council under the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme.

Expertise

• Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Film
• Literary Studies
• Gender Studies
• Intertextualities
• National Identities
• Popular Culture

Forthcoming Publications:

• “Sink or Swim?: Revising Ophelia in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. 2012. Forthcoming.
• “Shakespeare and Children’s Literature.” Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopedia. 2012. Forthcoming.
• “‘In the hands of the Receivers’: The Politics of Literacy in David Almond and Dave McKean’s The Savage.” Children’s Literature in Education. 2012. Available online: http://www.springerlink.com/content/m20x34416t51383p/