Kamila Walker
Lecturer
Department of International Studies Languages and Cultures
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Kamila Walker joined Macquarie University as a full-time staff member in 2016, as the convenor of Polish Studies in the Department of International Studies: Languages and Cultures. Prior to that, she was a tutor for ENG120, Approaches to English Literature, in the Department of English during 2014. At Macquarie she obtained her Bachelor of Arts and BA Honours I (English), followed by a PhD that focused on the cross-cultural and cross-linguistic analysis of narrated emotions, entitled “Conceptual Metaphors of Emotions and Narrative Realism in Middlemarch and Anna Karenina”. With an Advanced Diploma of Education, she currently teaches Polish language and culture, and explores the ways and effects of metaphor use in literary discourse across English, Russian, and Polish literary texts.
Research Interest
Languages and Cultures
Publications
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Edward Causabon: a case of shameful false pride Walker, K. 1 Aug 2017 (Submitted) In : Explicator.
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Conceptual metaphors of pride in Middlemarch Walker, K. 2017 In : George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies. 69, 2, p. 145-159 15 p.
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Conceptual metaphors of anger and embodied realism in Middlemarch Walker, K. Sep 2017 (Accepted/In press) In : Sydney studies in English.
