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Kathryn Walls
Academic background
Alma materVictoria University of Wellington, University of Toronto
Thesis
  • "The pilgrimage of the lyf of the manhode": The prose translation from Guillaume de Deguileville in its English context (1976)
Doctoral advisorDenton Fox
Academic work
InstitutionsVictoria University of Wellington

Kathryn Margaret Walls née Meek is a New Zealand scholar of English literature, and is an emeritus professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in English literature from the Middle Ages to present day.

Academic career

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Walls completed a Bachelor and a Master's degree at the University of Victoria Wellington, and was appointed as a lecturer at the university. She was awarded a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake a PhD at the University of Toronto.[1] Her thesis on Guillaume de Deguileville's work was titled "The pilgrimage of the lyf of the manhode": The prose translation from Guillaume de Deguileville in its English context.[2][1] Walls then joined the faculty of the Victoria University, becoming a full-time lecturer in 1988.[1] She was Head of the School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies from 2020 until her retirement, and served on the University Council as staff representative.[1]

Walls is an executive editor of a Spenser series for the Manchester University Press, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.[1][3][4]

Walls has published an edition of William Baspoole's The Pilgrime, and wrote God’s Only Daughter: Spenser’s Una as the Invisible Church, published in 2013 by Manchester University Press. She taught on English literature from Chaucer to Alexander Pope, and children's literature, especially Margaret Mahy.[1][5][6][7][8] Walls was appointed emeritus professor at Victoria in 2020. In her retirement, she planned to work on the influence of the scientific revolution on the poetry of Alexander Pope.[1]

Personal life

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Walls is married to musicologist and conductor Peter Walls, who is also an Emeritus Professor at Victoria.[9][10]

Selected works

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Scholia has a profile for Kathryn Walls (Q113685556).
  • God's Only Daughter: Spenser's Una as the Invisible Church. Manchester University Press. 2013.
  • A Made-Up Place: New Zealand in Young Adult Fiction. Victoria University Press. 2011.
  • Walls, K; Stobo, M, eds. (2008). The Pilgrime, William Baspoole. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies with Renaissance English Text Society. pp. 1–558.
  • Walls, Kathryn. "Beyond the pale". New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  • Kathryn Walls (13 April 2018). "David Bindon's 'Pledges' and the Marketable Children of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal". Notes and Queries. 65 (2): 233–235. doi:10.1093/NOTESJ/GJY038. ISSN 0029-3970. Wikidata Q130087731.
  • Kathryn Walls (2 October 2014). "Louise Moulton's "Number 101": A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anticipation of the Stone Angel in Margaret Laurence'sThe Stone Angel". ANQ-a Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews. 27 (4): 171–176. doi:10.1080/0895769X.2014.990954. ISSN 0895-769X. Wikidata Q58140288.
  • Kathryn Walls (30 July 2010). "The Analogy from Chemistry in Pope'sEpistle to a Lady, 269–92". ANQ-a Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews. 23 (3): 154–162. doi:10.1080/0895769X.2010.494492. ISSN 0895-769X. Wikidata Q58136698.
  • Kathryn Walls (January 2003). "The Axe in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". ANQ-a Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews. 16 (1): 13–18. doi:10.1080/08957690309598180. ISSN 0895-769X. Wikidata Q58280310.
  • Kathryn Walls (July 1991). "To "prosecute the Plot": A Spenser Allusion inAbsalom and Achitophel". ANQ-a Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews. 4 (3): 122–124. doi:10.1080/0895769X.1991.10542665. ISSN 0895-769X. Wikidata Q58151394.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social (29 June 2020). "Kathryn Walls appointed as Emeritus Professor | Te Wāhanga Aronui / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Te Herenga Waka". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  2. ^ Walls, Kathryn Margaret Meek (1976). "The pilgrimage of the lyf of the manhode": The prose translation from Guillaume de Deguileville in its English context (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. ISBN 9798661753533.
  3. ^ Wellington, Victoria University of (11 December 2022). "University Calendar- Te Herenga Waka". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Kathryn Walls". Oxford Bibliographies. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  5. ^ Harmer, J. (3 November 2011). "KATHRYN WALLS (ed.) (with Marguerite Stobo), William Baspoole: The Pilgrime. Pp. xxiv + 558 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 337. Renaissance English Text Society, 7th Ser., 31 [for 2006]). Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008. Hardbound 59 (ISBN 978-0-86698-385-3)". Notes and Queries. 59 (1): 133–134. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjr214. ISSN 0029-3970.
  6. ^ Swannack, Frank (August 2015). "God's only daughter: Spenser's Una as the invisible church [Book Review]". Parergon. 32 (1): 283–284. doi:10.1353/pgn.2015.0021.
  7. ^ Maley, Willy (2014). "Kathryn Walls. God's Only Daughter: Spencer's Una as the Invisible Church. The Manchester Spenser. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xiii + 238 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9037-0". Renaissance Quarterly. 67 (4): 1461–1462. doi:10.1086/679888. ISSN 0034-4338.
  8. ^ Marquis, Claudia (2013). "Is-land for youthful Is-landers: A made-up place: New Zealand in young adult fiction". Journal of New Zealand Literature. 31: 187–195.
  9. ^ "Academic profile: Emeritus Peter Walls". Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  10. ^ "Walls, Kathryn, active 1970–1996". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
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