Researcher biography
PhD (UQ), Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (UQ), MPhil (Medieval and Renaissance Studies) (UWA), LLB (Hons) (UWA), BA (UWA)
Dr Victoria Bladen teaches in literary studies, poetics and adaptation in the School of Communication and Arts at UQ and received a Faculty award for teaching excellence in 2015. She has published on early modern poetry, Shakespeare, Shakespeare on screen, Jane Austen and the pastoral genre.
Books
Bladen, Victoria Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Insight Publications, 2015.
Bladen, Victoria Henry IV part 1: William Shakespeare. St Kilda, VIC, Australia: Insight Publications, 2011.
Bladen, Victoria William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. St Kilda, VIC, Australia: Insight Publications, 2011.
Bladen, Victoria William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Elsternwick, Vic., Australia: Insight Publications, 2010.
Book Chapters
Bladen, Victoria and Harmes, Marcus (2015). The intersections of supernatural and secular power. In Marcus Harmes and Victoria Bladen (Ed.), Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England (pp. 1-14) Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing.
Bladen, Victoria (2015). Othello on screen: monsters, marvellous space and the power of the tale. In Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Ed.), Shakespeare on screen: Othello (pp. 24-42) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781316272060
Bladen, Victoria (2015). Shaping supernatural identity in The Witch of Edmonton (1621). In Marcus Harmes and Victoria Bladen (Ed.), Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England (pp. 95-116) Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.
Bladen, Victoria (2013). Weird space in macbeth on screen. In Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin and Victoria Bladen (Ed.), Shakespeare on screen: macbeth (pp. 81-106) Mont-Saint-Aignan, France: Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre.
Bladen, Victoria (2011). The ghost and the skull: Rupturing borders between the living and the dead in filmed Hamlets. In Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Ed.), Shakespeare on screen: Hamlet (pp. 143-174) Le Havre, France: Universities De Rouen Et Du Havre.
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Imagining Zeus and the Zeus of Olympia in early modern culture. In Janette McWilliam, Sonia Puttock, Tom Stevenson and Rashna Taraporewalla (Ed.), The statue of Zeus at Olympia: New approaches (pp. 173-188) Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bladen, Victoria (2010). The "Tree of Life" and the King's arboreal bodies in Shakespeare's Cymbeline. In Darryl Chalk and Lawrence Johnson (Ed.), "Rapt in secret studies" : Emerging Shakespeares (pp. 213-229) Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bladen, Victoria (2010). Pruning the tree of virtue in in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. In Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham (Ed.), 'This earthly stage': World and stage in late medieval and early modern England (pp. 39-61) Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.
Bladen, Victoria (2009). The lopped lavinia-tree: Intersections of fallen terrain between William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (1594) and Julie Taymor's Titus (2000). In Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Ed.), Shakespeare on screen: The Roman plays (pp. 67-103) France: Publications des Universities De Rouen Et Du Havre.
Bladen, Victoria (2008). Arboreal language and otherness in Andrew Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" (1651). In Lecercle, Ann and Brailowsky, Yan (Ed.), Langue et altérité dans la culture de la Renaissance (pp. 101-129) Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest.
Bladen, Victoria (2008). Andrew Marvell and the tree of life. In Lynch, Andrew and Scott, Anne M. (Ed.), Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham (pp. 269-284) Newcastle UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bladen, V. (2007). The tree of life motif as renaissance cultural rhizome: An interdisciplinary mapping of arboreal imagery in biblical text, early European visual culture and dramatic text (Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus). In N. Ramiere and R. Varshney (Ed.), Rhizomes: Connecting Languages, Cultures and Literatures (pp. 133-154) UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bladen, V. I. (2005). Man Ray: Light, camera and the unbearable lightness of being. In E Bledsoe et al (Ed.), Man Ray: Life, work & themes 1st ed. (pp. 25-29) St Lucia: Vanguard Press.
Journal Articles
Bladen, Victoria (2015) Pastoral retreat and green texts: the 2009 Globe production of Love's Labour's Lost. Australian Literary Studies, 30 2: 29-43. doi:10.20314/als.6fad022437
Bladen, Victoria (2014) Landscape and Mansfield Park. Sensibilities, 48 25-40.
Bladen, Victoria (2013) Scott, Anne M., Alfred Hiatt, Claire McIlroy, and Christopher Wortham, European Perceptions of 'Terra Australis'. Parergon, 30 1: 272-274. doi:10.1353/pgn.2013.0007
Bladen, Victoria (2012) When Jane met William: dialogues between Austen and Shakespeare. Sensibilities, 45 61-90.
Bladen, Victoria (2011) Chloe Houston. Ed. New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period.. Parergon, 28 201-203.
Bladen, Victoria (2011) Prashant K. Sinha and Mohini Khot, eds. Vintage Shakespeare. Parergon, 28 1: 258-260.
Bladen, Victoria (2011) Francis Cruickshank, Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne.. Parergon, 28 2: 188-190.
Bladen, Victoria (2010) Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture. Parergon, 27 1: 229-231. doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0209
Bladen, Victoria (2009) Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (review). Parergon, 26 1: 221-223. doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0143
Thesis
Bladen, Victoria (2008). Imagining the Tree of Life: the language of trees in Renaissance literary and visual landscapes. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland.
Creative Works
Bladen, V. I. (2004) Walking through the university: a translation of place & mind. St Lucia, Vanguard Press.
Bladen, V. I. (2004) William and the Winter's Tale. St Lucia, Qld., Australia, Vanguard: Australian Legal Philosophy Students Association..