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Ulla Rahbek

Office: 24.4.63
Phone: 2980 2791
Email: ulla@hum.ku.dk

Ulla Rahbek is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies. She teaches British and Postcolonial Studies and has written her MA on Christina Stead and a Doctoral dissertation on black British writer Caryl Phillips. She is co-author of Texts in Time: British Cultural Narratives from Defoe to Blair (2005) and A Short Introduction to the History of the United Kingdom (2006).

Current research interests are Black British Culture, Multicultural Britain, and Australian children's literature

Her publications in Australian studies include:

"Tales of Love, Lust, Jealousy and Revenge: Intertextuality in Marion Halligan's Spidercup", English Studies, vol. 77, no. 4, July 1996 (pp 367-374)

"The Monstrosity of I'm Dying Laughing", Australian Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, Winter 2003 (publ. 2005) (pp 23-34)

"Revisiting Dot and the Kangaroo: Finding a Way in the Australian Bush", Australian Humanities Review, no. 41, Feb. 2007.

"Projecting Australia to Children: Marion Halligan's The Midwife's Daughters", Australian Studies, vol. 20, nos. 1&2, 2005 (publ. 2007) (pp. 255-64)

"Mythologizing Food: Marion Halligan's non-fiction", Paper presented at the Food for Thought Conference, Barcelona, February 2010

See also her review of Kim Torneys Babes in the Bush, API Review of Books, Issue 42 April 2006, http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=1920731350 

Invited lectures:

"Australian Literature Then and Now", Østerbro Library, Copenhagen, Sept. 2009

"Australian Children's Literature and the Natural Elements", Odense, November 2010.