Antonina Harbus
Professor
Department of English
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Antonina has MA and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto, and joined Macquarie in 2004. Her current research on medieval and more recent English texts combines literary analysis with ideas and methods from cognitive science to investigate how the mind makes meaning from a text. Her most recent book is Cognitive Approaches to Old English Poetry (2012). Her wide-ranging research programme, supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project funding, includes investigations into literature and emotion, ideas about the self and autobiographical memory in literature, metaphor and concepts of the mind, and narrative poetry. Antonina has over twenty years' tertiary teaching experience from four universities in Canada and Australia (Toronto, Melbourne, Sydney, and Macqaurie). This experience includes extensive unit and program development at undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels, in both on-campus and online delivery modes. At Macquarie, she currently convenes the foundation unit, ENGL 120, Approaches to English Literature, and teaches units on narrative and literary language. As part of her commitment to teaching quality, she has completed a Graduation Certificate in Higher Education. Her success in curriculum design and support of student learning has been recognised by Faculty, University and national (Office of Learning and Teaching) citations. Antonina has been Head of Department since 2011, and has a strong record of leadership and policy development in curriculum, Higher Degree Research training, and staff development.
Research Interest
Research on medieval and more recent English
Publications
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Embodied emotion, conceptual metaphor, and the aesthetics of reading Old English poetry Harbus, A. 2015 Understanding emotions in early Europe. Champion, M. & Lynch, A. (eds.). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, p. 127-149 23 p.
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Affective poetics: the cognitive basis of emotion in Old English poetry Harbus, A. 2015 Anglo-Saxon Emotions: Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature and Culture. Jorgensen, A., McCormack, F. & Wilcox, J. (eds.). Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, p. 19-34 16 p. (Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland)
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Autofocus and remote text-world building in the earliest English narrative poetry Harbus, A. 2016 World building: discourse in the mind. Gavins, J. & Lahey, E. (eds.). London ; New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 241-258 18 p. (Advances in stylistics)
