About the convenor:

Dr Victoria Bladen (BA, BJuris(Hons), LLB, M.Phil. (Medieval and Renaissance studies), PhD, Graduate Certificate in Higher Education) teaches in literary studies, adaptation and poetics at The University of Queensland, Australia and has twice received a Faculty award for teaching excellence. She has published four Shakespearean text guides in the Insight Publications (Melbourne) series: Measure for Measure (2015), Henry IV Part 1 (2012), Julius Caesar (2011), and Romeo and Juliet (2010). She co-edited Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England (Ashgate 2015), Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth (Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2013) and a special issue of the Australian Literary Studies journal on Afterlives of Pastoral (2015). Victoria has published articles in several volumes of the Shakespeare on Screen series, and is currently co-editing Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear (forthcoming Cambridge University Press), and Shakespeare and the Supernatural (forthcoming Manchester University Press). She has convened study abroad programmes in Florence, Rome, Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford, Ravello and Montpellier.