Willis, Ika

Overview

Ika came to Wollongong in 2013 after seven years as Lecturer in Reception at the University of Bristol in the UK. Her research interests are mainly in literary theory, including post-structuralism, semiotics and deconstruction, and feminist, queer and trans theory. She is especially interested in reception theory – how readers make sense of texts, but also how we appropriate, rewrite and remix them for our own purposes. She especially likes making connections between texts widely separate in time and/or genre, and has written and published on texts from Virgil’s Aeneid and Dante’s Divine Comedy through Melissa Lukashenko’s Hard Yards to Xena: Warrior Princess and contemporary fan fiction.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2011	Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space
2013	Tu Marcellus Eris: Nachträglichkeit in Aeneid 6
2016	Amateur mythographies: Fan fiction and the myth of myh Published in Transformative Works and Cultures
2007	Slash as queer utopia
2014	Philology, or the art of befriending the text Published in Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies
2016	Writing the fables of sexual difference: slash fiction as technology of gender Published in Parallax

Research Areas

Research Overview

I work in the field of reception study - how people receive, read, and use (literary) texts - with a particular focus on theory, critical philology, and reception as a transformative/ creative practice. I'm interested in reading as a crossing point between the intensely personal (the ways in which we relate texts to our worlds and our lives) and the intensely political/public (the ways in which our cultural, institutional, and social contexts make different modes of reading available for different people at different times). I am currently completing a book entitled Reception for Routledge's New Critical Idiom series.

Available as Research Supervisor

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2017	Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre, Homeric Epic and Its Reception: Interpretive Essays and Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception Published In Reception Texts Readers Audiences History
2017	Lucan, Reception, Counter-History Published In Foucault Studies
2016	Amateur mythographies: Fan fiction and the myth of myh Published In Transformative Works and Cultures
2016	Amateur mythographies: Fan fiction and the myth of myth Published In Transformative Works and Cultures
2016	In praise of trigger warnings Published In The Conversation
2016	Introduction: Trans-: Across/Beyond Published In Parallax
2016	She's Already Waited Too Long: Affective Transtemporality in Ben Ferriss's "Penelope" Published In Screening the Past
2016	The Classical Canon and/as Transformative Work [Special Issue] Published In Transformative Works and Cultures
2016	The classical canon and/as transformative work Published In Transformative Works and Cultures
2016	Writing the fables of sexual difference: slash fiction as technology of gender Published In Parallax
2015	Christopher V. Trinacty. Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry Published In Reception Texts Readers Audiences History
2015	Senecan tragedy and the reception of Augustan poetry by Christopher V. Trinacty (review) Published In Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
2014	Book review: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature by David Hopkins and Charles Martindale, eds. Published In Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
2014	Philology, or the art of befriending the text Published In Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies
2014	The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature Published In Reception Texts Readers Audiences History
2011	Book Review: Kallendorf, Craig. The Other Virgil: "Pessimistic" Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture Published In Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
2011	Now X: Freud writing after Derrida/Virgil reading before Augustus Published In Mosaic (Winnipeg, 1967): a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
2010	iam tum (nowthenalready): Latin Epic and the Post-Historical Published In Cultural Critique: an international journal of cultural studies

2007	"She Who Steps Along": Gradiva, telecommunications, history Published In Helios: a journal devoted to critical and methodological studies of classical culture, literature, and society
2003	Editorial Published In Parallax
2003	Introducing Mourning Revolution Published In Parallax
2002	'This Swirling of Images': An Interview with Drucilla Cornell Published In Parallax
2002	Talking/having sex Published In Parallax

Book

Year	Title
2018	Reception Publisher London
2011	Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space Publisher London

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Hear What I Hear, See What I See: Relating Extremist Rhetoric to the Communities That Notice It Published In The Far-Right in Contemporary Australia Publisher : Springer Nature
2019	Hear What I Hear, See What I See: Relating Extremist Rhetoric to the Communities That Notice It Published In The Far-Right in Contemporary Australia Publisher : Springer Singapore
2017	Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings Published In A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology Publisher Hoboken, United States
2015	From Realism to Romance: The Early Novels Published In Jacqueline Wilson: A Casebook Publisher London
2013	Tu Marcellus Eris: Nachträglichkeit in Aeneid 6 Published In Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self Publisher Oxford
2010	Eros in the age of technical reproductibility: Socrates, Plato and the erotics of filiation Published In Derrida and Antiquity Publisher Oxford
2010	Feminine endings: Dido’s telephonic body and the originary function of the hymen Published In The Origins of Deconstruction Publisher Basingstoke, UK

2007	The empire never ended Published In Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds Publisher Oxford

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2011	Harry Potter and the Remnants of Auschwitz: The Banality of Concentrationary Memory Published In Concentrationary Imaginaries: Imaginaries of Violence International Conference
2008	Is A City A Website? Writing, Space and Power Published In Writing in a Post-Derridean Era; VAXJO - 23-25 October Växjö University
2007	Slash as queer utopia Published In Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries Conference at UTS

Editor Of

Book
- The Origins of Deconstruction. Basingstoke, UK. 2010

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Literary theory

Reception, reading, interpretation

Fan fiction

Feminist and queer theory

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	"Make Them Laugh, and They're Not Afraid': the 'Love of the Monster' Narrative in Terry Pratchett's Discworld"	Soulsby, Samson
Master of Philosophy - ASSH	Queer Catholics as Living Human Documents: Henri J.M. Nouwen, Self-availability and the Therapeutic Turn in Dutch Catholicism	Bewley, Philip
Doctor of Philosophy	The 'Impossible Narrative': Re-coding Women's Experiences of Sexual Assault in Visual Art	Sundet, Dida
Master of Research - ASSH	Cross-Cultural Reception in the Western Yuri Fandom: Assimilationist and Transcultural Readings	Altmann, Dale
Doctor of Philosophy	Australian Readers and Mental Health	Parke, Edsel
Doctor of Philosophy	The Sex Is Unreal: The Intersection Between Queer Romance and Interactive Digital Narrative	Rouse, Lucy

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9791-1844 (confirmed)

Top Publications

Year	Title
2011	Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space
2013	Tu Marcellus Eris: Nachträglichkeit in Aeneid 6
2016	Amateur mythographies: Fan fiction and the myth of myh Published in Transformative Works and Cultures
2007	Slash as queer utopia
2014	Philology, or the art of befriending the text Published in Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies
2016	Writing the fables of sexual difference: slash fiction as technology of gender Published in Parallax

Research Areas

Research Overview

I work in the field of reception study - how people receive, read, and use (literary) texts - with a particular focus on theory, critical philology, and reception as a transformative/ creative practice. I'm interested in reading as a crossing point between the intensely personal (the ways in which we relate texts to our worlds and our lives) and the intensely political/public (the ways in which our cultural, institutional, and social contexts make different modes of reading available for different people at different times). I am currently completing a book entitled Reception for Routledge's New Critical Idiom series.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2017	Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre, Homeric Epic and Its Reception: Interpretive Essays and Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception Published In Reception Texts Readers Audiences History
2017	Lucan, Reception, Counter-History Published In Foucault Studies
2016	Amateur mythographies: Fan fiction and the myth of myh Published In Transformative Works and Cultures
2016	Amateur mythographies: Fan fiction and the myth of myth Published In Transformative Works and Cultures
2016	In praise of trigger warnings Published In The Conversation
2016	Introduction: Trans-: Across/Beyond Published In Parallax
2016	She's Already Waited Too Long: Affective Transtemporality in Ben Ferriss's "Penelope" Published In Screening the Past
2016	The Classical Canon and/as Transformative Work [Special Issue] Published In Transformative Works and Cultures
2016	The classical canon and/as transformative work Published In Transformative Works and Cultures
2016	Writing the fables of sexual difference: slash fiction as technology of gender Published In Parallax
2015	Christopher V. Trinacty. Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry Published In Reception Texts Readers Audiences History
2015	Senecan tragedy and the reception of Augustan poetry by Christopher V. Trinacty (review) Published In Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
2014	Book review: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature by David Hopkins and Charles Martindale, eds. Published In Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
2014	Philology, or the art of befriending the text Published In Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies
2014	The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature Published In Reception Texts Readers Audiences History
2011	Book Review: Kallendorf, Craig. The Other Virgil: "Pessimistic" Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture Published In Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
2011	Now X: Freud writing after Derrida/Virgil reading before Augustus Published In Mosaic (Winnipeg, 1967): a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
2010	iam tum (nowthenalready): Latin Epic and the Post-Historical Published In Cultural Critique: an international journal of cultural studies

2007	"She Who Steps Along": Gradiva, telecommunications, history Published In Helios: a journal devoted to critical and methodological studies of classical culture, literature, and society
2003	Editorial Published In Parallax
2003	Introducing Mourning Revolution Published In Parallax
2002	'This Swirling of Images': An Interview with Drucilla Cornell Published In Parallax
2002	Talking/having sex Published In Parallax

Book

Year	Title
2018	Reception Publisher London
2011	Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space Publisher London

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Hear What I Hear, See What I See: Relating Extremist Rhetoric to the Communities That Notice It Published In The Far-Right in Contemporary Australia Publisher : Springer Nature
2019	Hear What I Hear, See What I See: Relating Extremist Rhetoric to the Communities That Notice It Published In The Far-Right in Contemporary Australia Publisher : Springer Singapore
2017	Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings Published In A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology Publisher Hoboken, United States
2015	From Realism to Romance: The Early Novels Published In Jacqueline Wilson: A Casebook Publisher London
2013	Tu Marcellus Eris: Nachträglichkeit in Aeneid 6 Published In Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self Publisher Oxford
2010	Eros in the age of technical reproductibility: Socrates, Plato and the erotics of filiation Published In Derrida and Antiquity Publisher Oxford
2010	Feminine endings: Dido’s telephonic body and the originary function of the hymen Published In The Origins of Deconstruction Publisher Basingstoke, UK

2007	The empire never ended Published In Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds Publisher Oxford

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2011	Harry Potter and the Remnants of Auschwitz: The Banality of Concentrationary Memory Published In Concentrationary Imaginaries: Imaginaries of Violence International Conference
2008	Is A City A Website? Writing, Space and Power Published In Writing in a Post-Derridean Era; VAXJO - 23-25 October Växjö University
2007	Slash as queer utopia Published In Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries Conference at UTS

Editor Of

Book
- The Origins of Deconstruction. Basingstoke, UK. 2010

Potential Supervision Topics

Literary theory

Reception, reading, interpretation

Fan fiction

Feminist and queer theory

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	"Make Them Laugh, and They're Not Afraid': the 'Love of the Monster' Narrative in Terry Pratchett's Discworld"	Soulsby, Samson
Master of Philosophy - ASSH	Queer Catholics as Living Human Documents: Henri J.M. Nouwen, Self-availability and the Therapeutic Turn in Dutch Catholicism	Bewley, Philip
Doctor of Philosophy	The 'Impossible Narrative': Re-coding Women's Experiences of Sexual Assault in Visual Art	Sundet, Dida
Master of Research - ASSH	Cross-Cultural Reception in the Western Yuri Fandom: Assimilationist and Transcultural Readings	Altmann, Dale
Doctor of Philosophy	Australian Readers and Mental Health	Parke, Edsel
Doctor of Philosophy	The Sex Is Unreal: The Intersection Between Queer Romance and Interactive Digital Narrative	Rouse, Lucy

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9791-1844 (confirmed)

Overview

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Available as Research Supervisor

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Editor Of

Book

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Editor Of

Book

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Identity

Orcid Id

Visualisations

Research Areas