Abstracts

All abstracts have been blind reviewed by a panel of experts and meet the University of Otago criteria for ‘quality assured research outputs'.

Review Panel

Dr Annabel Cooper
Professor Janet Staiger
Professor Evelyn Tribble

Participants

Muriel Andrin
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Universiteit van Antwerp and the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Brussels).
Abstract: Her-land--Jane Campion's Cinema or Another Poetic of the Inner Sense
Email: muriel.andrin@ulb.ac.be

Irène Bessière
Director of the Programme “Les Européens dans le cinéma américain:émigration et exil”, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.
Abstract: “Women's Portraits”: Jane Campion and Henry James
Email: bessiere@msh-paris.fr

Jean Bessière
Professor of Comparative Literature at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris).
Biography
Email: jbib@cybercable.fr

Catherine Fowler
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Otago.
Abstract: Uncertain, Unusual, and Unruly Women: Jane Campion's Look Askance
Email: catherine.fowler@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Alistair Fox
Professor of English at the University of Otago.  
Abstract: Puritanism and the Erotics of Transgression: the New Zealand Influence on Jane Campion's Thematic Imaginary
Email: alistair.fox@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Krin Gabbard
Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Abstract: Jane Campion and the Therapeutic Discourse
Email: kgabbard@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Ann Hardy
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Screen and Media Studies at Waikato University
Abstract: Jane Campion and the Moral Occult
Email: a.hardy@waikato.ac.nz

Chris Holmlund
Professor of French, Cinema Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Tennessee.
Abstract: Campion-Keitel Connections, a.k.a. "We Are the Piano"
Email: cholmlund@utk.edu

Lawrence Jones
Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Otago.
Abstract: From ‘Towards Another Summer' to An Angel at My Table : Janet Frame, Laura Jones, Jane Campion
Email: lawrence.jones@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Harriet Margolis
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Victoria University, Wellington.
Abstract: Unheroic Mothers in Campion's Films
Email: Harriet.Margolis@vuw.ac.nz

Kathleen McHugh
Professor of English at UCLA
Abstract: Adaptation and Auteurism: Jane Campion's Cinematic Signature
Email: mchughla@ucla.edu

Raphäelle Moine
Professeur des Universités at the Université de Nanterre, Paris X.
Abstract: From “Antipodean Cinema” to International Art Cinema
Email: raphaelle.moine@noos.fr

Richard O'Neill-Dean
Ashburn Hall/Marinoto Clinic, Dunedin.
Abstract: The Piano Taken as a Dream
Email: allagour@earthlight.co.nz

Jacques Portes
Professor of North American History at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes-Saint Denis.
Biography
Email: jacques.portes@wanadoo.fr

Hilary Radner
Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Otago.
Abstract: In extremis--Genre, Heroine and the Woman's Film: the Cinema of Jane Campion
Email: hilary.radner@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Simon Sigley
Lecturer of Media Studies at Massey University's Albany Campus (Auckland).
Abstract: Knowing New Zealand by Knowing Jane: How French Critics Imagined the One through the Other, and Vice Versa
Email: S.Sigley@massey.ac.nz

Rochelle Simmons
Lecturer of English at the University of Otago.
Abstract: The Suburb in Jane Campion's Films
Email: rochelle.simmons@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Natalie Smith
Art History and Theory Programme, University of Otago
Abstract: Fashioning Identities in Jane Campion's Holy Smoke
Email: smina233@student.otago.ac.nz

Mary Wiles
Lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch.
Abstract: Surveying Suburban and Panoramic Perspectives: Theatricality in the Early Films of Jane Campion
Email: mary.wiles@canterbury.ac.nz

Discussants

Octavian Saiu
Guest Lecturer of Theatre Studies at University of Otago
Biography
Email: octavian_saiu@yahoo.com

Erica Todd
University of Otago

Teri Higgins
University of Otago

Kevin Fletcher
University of Otago

Lisa Williams
AUT