Hila Shachar

Name Hila Shachar
Email Address hila.shachar@.wau.edu.au
Profession writer, researcher, academic
Professional Services
Areas of Work
  • Biography
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Poetry
  • Prose poetry
Country Australia
State WA
Website http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/hila.shachar
Biography I completed my doctorate in the Discipline of English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia in 2009. I am now an Honorary Research Fellow within English and Cultural Studies. I also work as an Online Blog Writer for The Australian Ballet. I am currently working in coordination with Isabel Dunstan, the Publications Coordinator of The Australian Ballet and Kate Scott, the Marketing and Communications Manager of The Australian Ballet.
Publication History Books: Shachar, Hila. Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company. Houndmills; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming 1 February 2012, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan). Scholarly Book Chapters: Shachar, Hila. “The Legacy of Hell: Wuthering Heights on Film and Gilbert and Gubar’s Feminist Poetics.” In Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years. Ed. Annette Federico. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. 149-169. Shachar, Hila. “The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender and Domesticity in MTV’s Adaptation of Wuthering Heights.” In Neo-Victorian Families: Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics. Ed. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Amsterdam; New York, NY: Rodopi (forthcoming in 2011). Shachar, Hila. "Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic." In The Blackwell Companion to the Historical Film. Ed. Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu. Blackwell Publishing (forthcoming). Shachar, Hila. “A Post-Feminist Romance: Gender, Love and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga.” In Critical Perspectives on the Twilight Saga. Ed. Natalie Wilson and Maggie Parke. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Press (forthcoming). Fiction: Shachar, Hila. "Miranda in Red." In Spilling Ink Review, Issue 4 (forthcoming, Feb. 2011).