Assistant Professor

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Degrees: PhD, Literature, Screen and Theatre Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia<br>BA (Double Honors), English and Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Bio: Fiona Brideoake’s teaching and research focuses on British literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. Her particular interests include Bluestocking feminism, queer historiography, Jane Austen, sociability and material culture, and eighteenth-century Shakespearean editing.

Professor Brideoake completed her doctorate at the Australian National University (ANU), and has previously taught at the ANU and the University of Melbourne. She has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library, San Marino; the Lewis Walpole Library of Yale University; and the University of Melbourne; and received the ANU J.G. Crawford Prize for 2007. Professor Brideoake has published on Jane Austen and sexuality, the Ladies of Llangollen, Bluestocking sociability, and Shakespearean filmmaking. She has completed a manuscript entitled The Ladies of Llangollen: A Queer Romantic History, and is currently working on sexuality and literary domesticity in relation to Harriet Bowdler’s 1807 The Family Shakespeare

See Also: Literature Department
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Articles and Book Chapters

"Henry V," Shakesqueer. Ed. Madhavi Menon. Durham and London: Duke UP, forthcoming 2009.
"Jane Austen and Sexuality," in A Companion to Jane Austen. Ed. Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite. Malden MA and Oxford UK: Blackwell, Dec. 2008. 456-66.
"The Republic of Pemberly: Politeness and Citizenship in Virtual Sociability," 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century "Special Issue: Minds, Bodies, Machines," 7 (2008). http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/
"Shakespeare in Love and the Re-writing of History," in Shakespeare's Local Habitations, Eds. R.S. White and Krystyna Courtney. Lodz: Lodz UP, 2007. 229-41.
"'Extraordinary Female Affection': The Ladies of Llangollen and the Endurance of Queer Community." Romanticism on the Net 36-37 (2004-5).

Book Reviews

Rev. of Feeling Backwards: Loss and the Politics of Queer History by Heather K. Love. Criticism. Forthcoming 2009.
Rev. of Looking for Sex in Shakespeare by Stanley Wells. Traffic: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Journal 6 (2005): 210-13.
Rev. of Deleuze and Religion ed. Mary Bryden. St. Mark's Review 2 (2003): 40-41.

J.G. Crawford Prize, ANU (Awarded for the best Doctoral dissertation in the Humanities and Social Sciences for 2007), 2008
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, January, 2004
Faculty of Arts Fieldwork Grant, ANU, August, 2003
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, July, 2003
Australian Postgraduate Award, ANU (PhD scholarship), 2002-2006
Vice-Chancellor's Supplementary Scholarship, ANU (Awarded to highest nationally and internationally ranked graduate applicants), 2002-2006
University Medal in English, ANU (Awarded for outstanding academic achievement by Honors students in the Faculty of Arts), 2001
Chancellor's Letter of Commendation, ANU (Awarded for academic excellence in undergraduate studies), 2001
National Undergraduate Scholarship, ANU (Awarded to highest nationally ranked undergraduate applicants), 1996-2001