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Dr. Elsie Walker
Associate Professor, Film Studies
Coeditor,
Literature/Film Quarterly
Department of English,
Salisbury University
1101 Camden Avenue
Salisbury, Maryland
MD 21801
phone: 410 677 5329
email:
emwalker@salisbury.edu
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I co-run the Film Concentration program within the
Department of English at Salisbury University.
I won the Teacher of the Year award from the
Fulton School of Liberal Arts for 2010-2011.
My regular courses include:
Introduction to Film, Film Genre, International Cinema, and Film Theory.
I also teach more specialist courses about soundtracks and film noir.
I am currently working on a book
about film sound tracks that is under contract with Oxford University Press
(forthcoming in 2014).
I co-edit a prestigious journal that we create right here at Salisbury
University,
Literature/Film Quarterly.
I am also the proud mother of a little girl named Charlotte Hope.
For more information on our Film Concentration, click
here, or feel free to contact me directly.
In case you're
considering a degree in film studies, wondering what that means, or even
questioning what it leads to professionally, please refer to
my statement
about the Film Concentration
at Salisbury University: here you'll find information on the skills you'll gain and
develop through our courses, as well as finding out about what many of our
recent graduates are
achieving by applying what they have learned.
In the fall of 2011 I will be teaching
Introduction to Film and Film Genre.
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Qualifications
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1998-2001
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University of Sheffield, U.K.: PhD in English
Literature
Dissertation title:
Meaning by Shakespeare on Film
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1999-2001
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University of Sheffield: Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education
(Tertiary Teaching Qualification)
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1996-7
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University of Auckland, N.Z.: MA in English Literature (First Class
Honors)
Dissertation title:
Jane Austen on Screen
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1993-5
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University of Waikato, N.Z.: BA in
English and Music
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Forthcoming (Peer-Reviewed) Publications
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2014 |
Book: Understanding Sound Tracks Through
Film Theory (Oxford University Press) |
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2012
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Encyclopaedia Entry: "The Piano," edited by Philip DiMare (ABC-CLIO)
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Editorial Work and Peer-Reviewed Publications
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From 2003-
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Literature/Film Quarterly: various editorial roles: I am, as of January
2005, Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Dave Johnson) for this internationally-recognized, MLA-listed publication of approximately 80 pages per issue, published four times annually at Salisbury University
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2010 |
Article: "Hearing the Silences (as well as the music) in Michael Haneke's
films,"
Music and the Moving Image (University of Illinois Press)
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2009
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Book chapter entitled
"Julie Taymor's Titus (1999), ten years on," in
Shakespeare on Screen: The Roman Plays, edited by Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (France: Publications des Universites de Rouen et du Havre), pp.23-66
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2008
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Book:
Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly, co-edited (including a co-authored introduction) with David T. Johnson (Scarecrow Press)
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2007
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Book chapter entitled
"Pop Goes the Shakespeare: Baz Luhrmann's
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" in The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation, edited by Peter Lev and James M. Welsh (Scarecrow Press), pp.125-48: this
chapter is an enlargment of my original
essay published in 2000
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2006
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Book chapter entitled
"Authorship: Getting Back to Shakespeare: Whose Film is it Anyway?" in the
Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen, edited by Diana Henderson (Blackwell Publishers), pp.8-30
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2003
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Article:
"Early Modern Texts, Postmodern Statements" and 10 reviews for books on Shakespeare films for the Blackwell Publishers
Literature Compass database, edited by Michael Hattaway: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/
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2002
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Article:
"Taking Shakespeare Films Seriously," Shakespeare edition of
English in Aotearoa (the New Zealand English Teachers' Journal), edited by Mark Houlahan, independently published
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2002
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Article:
""Now is a Time to Storm": Julie Taymor's
Titus (2000)," Literature/Film Quarterly, 30:3, pp.194-207
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2001
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Article:
"A "Harsh World" of Soundbite Shakespeare: Michael Almereyda's
Hamlet (2000)," Entertext film journal <http://www.brunel.ac.uk/faculty/arts/entertext>
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2000
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Article:
"The Aesthetic Construction of Musical Forms in
Prospero's Books," in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books," ed. by Christel Stalpaert, Studies in Performing Arts and Film series (Belgium: University of Ghent), pp.161-79.
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2000
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Article:
""An Incorrigible Music": Ingmar Bergman's
Autumn Sonata," Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, 14, pp.21-40.
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2000
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Article:
"Pop Goes the Shakespeare: Baz Luhrmann's
Romeo and Juliet (1997)," Literature/Film Quarterly, 28:2, pp.132-139.
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2000
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Review of Robert F. Willson Jr.'s
Shakespeare in Hollywood (2000), Mid-Atlantic Gazette <www.sunynassau.edu/users/ash2/gazettehome.html>
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International Conference Papers
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2011
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"Approaches to Teaching Music
and the Moving Image: Questions and Considerations."
Music and the Moving Image Conference. New York
University (New York, NY). May 20-22. |
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2010
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"Hearing Is Believing: A Feminist Analysis of Music in Three New Zealand Films." Music and the Moving Image Conference. New York
University (New York, NY). May 21-23.
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2009
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"Hearing
the Absence of Music in films by Michael Haneke."
Music and the Moving Image Conference. New York University (New York, NY). May 29-31.
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2008
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"Interpretation Through Experimental Re-Scoring: a scene from
Vertigo." Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference. Philadelphia, PA. March 6-9.
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2006
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"Re-scoring
and re-conceptualizing Hitchcock: a filmmaker's adaptation."
Literature/Film Association Conference. Towson University (Baltimore), November 3-5.
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2005
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"Hobbits vs. Whales: Adapting New Zealand on Film."
Literature/Film Association Conference. Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania). October 13-16.
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2004
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"Adapting Histories, with Music:
The Pianist, Life is Beautiful and Schindler's List." Literature/Film Association/Film & History League Conference. Fort Worth (Texas). November 11-14.
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2003
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"Shifting Shakespeare Set to Music."
Literature/Film Association Conference. Towson University (Baltimore, MD). November.
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2002
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"Music
and Power in Shakespeare Films." Shakespeare
and Music Conference. Leeds (U.K.). September 13-15.
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2001
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"A
"Harsh World" of Soundbite Shakespeare: Michael Almereyda's
Hamlet (2000)." Hamlet on Screen Conference. The Globe (London, U.K.), April 28.
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2000
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"The
Music of Shakespeare Films." Shakespeare, Authenticity, and Adaptation Conference. De Montfort University, Leicester (U.K.). September 4-7
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2000
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""The Shifting Point":
Stories of Shakespearean Genesis." Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association
Conference. The University of Auckland, New Zealand. July 7-10.
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1999
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"Pop Goes the Shakespeare: Baz Luhrmann's
Romeo + Juliet." Shakespeare on Screen: The Centenary Conference. Malaga, Spain. September 21-7.
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1999
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"Looking for Shakespeare: The Search for Meaning That Defies Expectational Texts." American/Mid-Atlantic Associations of Popular Culture conference. Valley Forge,
Philadelphia, PA. November 5-7.
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1998
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"Baz Luhrmann's
Romeo + Juliet: MTV Shakespeare or the Bard's Own?" Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference. University of Queensland, Australia. July 11-15.
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1998
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"A Lover's Complaint: Borderline Shakespeare?" ANZAMEMS (Australia and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
"Borderlines" Conference.
Victoria University, Wellington. February 2-5.
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