School of Arts & Sciences

@ Australian Catholic University

Associate Professor Margot Hillel OAM


	Head of School Room 3-107 Ph: 9953 3238 Fax: 9495 6118 m.hillel@patrick.acu.edu.au
Qualifications	TPTC BA MA PhD
Units taught	Historical Aspects of Children’s Literature Literary and Visual Text Australian Children’s Literature Literature for Young Adults Honours Research Methods
Recent publications	Hillel, M., C. Carpenter and T. van der Walt ‘The Same But Different: the Local/Global Dynamic in Australian, Canadian and South African Children’s Literature’ in E. O’Sullivan and R. Romoren (eds) Children’s Literature Global and Local: Social and Aesthetic Perspectives Kristiansand, Norway: Norwegian Academic Press, 2005 Swain, S, Warne, E and Hillel, M ‘ Ignorance is not innocence: Sex Education in Australia 1890-1939 in Nelson, C. (ed) Sexual Pedagogies N. Y.: Palgrave, 2004. ' Performing Politics: Children as Conscience' in K. Mallan and S. Pearce (eds) Seriously Playful: Genre, Performance and Text Flaxton, Qld.: Post Pressed, 2004 'Race and Redemption: Images of Empire in Children's Literature' in K. Darian-Smith, P. Grimshaw and S.McIntyre (eds) Exploring the British World Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004 'Voyuerism and Power: Change and Renewal in the Eroticised Figure in Australian Books for Teenagers' in T.van der Walt (ed) Change and Renewal in Children's Literature Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004 Revisiting the Australian Child: Nick Earls’s 48 Shades of Brown, Anna Fienberg’s Borrowed Light and Helen Barnes’s Killing Aurora in McKenzie, J. (ed)Cinderella Transformed.Christchurch: Christchurch CAE, 2003. “A Little Child Shall Lead Them”: The Child as redeemer. In McGillis, R. (ed) Children’s Literature and the Fin-de-Siecle. N.Y: Greenwood Press, 2003 ‘ “He was ready to prove himself a man”: the Hero in Australian Children’s Literature’ Journal of Curriculum Studies Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2003 ‘As Told in Their Dreams’ Reading Time Vol.45, No.3 2001 Rosemary Hayes” Reading Time May 2001 Mary Arrigan’ Reading Time Vol. 45, No. 3 pp.15-16 2001 Entries in Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books in English. Cambridge: C.U.P, 2001 ‘When the Voices of Children are Heard on the Green’: the Innocent Child in Literature in Pope,R. (ed) Children’s Literature Matters. Melbourne: ACLAR, 2001 ‘Representations of Mothers and Mothering in Contemporary Australian Children’s Literature in Hubber, Brian (ed) La Trobe Library Journal. Melbourne: State Library, 1998 ‘A German Plainly was a German and must be Treated like a German’: Representations of Germans in Australian Children’s Literature in Nimon, M. (ed) Old Neighbours: New Visions. Adelaide: University of South Australia, 1998. “Know the Author: Robin Klein” Magpies Vol. 13, No.1, March 1998 ‘Know the Author: Judith Clarke’ Magpies Vol 14, No.1, 1999 ‘Know the Author: Kate de Goldi’ Magpies Vol 12, No. 2, 1997 ‘Sonya Hartnett’ Reading Time Vol 49, No.2, 1996 Hillel, M. and A. Hanzl Celebrate! The Colour and Splendour of Australian Children’s Literature Over Half a Century. Melbourne: Viking, 1996 ‘Picture Books and Postage Stamps’ Magpies Vol.11, No.3, 1996 Hillel, M and S.Maher ‘Children’s Book Awards’ Classroom 5/96, 1996 ‘Choosing the Class Novel’ SLA Victoria Journal Oct. 1996 Gillian Cross’ Classroom 5/96, 1996
Recent conference presentations	2005 International Research Society for Children’s Literature Biennial Conference Paper: “I Live to Learn Their Story”: the shaping of childhood through the Victorian Government Readers. Stories for Children, Histories of Childhood University of Tours, France Paper: “Helpless and a Cripple”:the disabled child in children’s literature and child rescue discourse. 2004 Imaging Childhood Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research Paper: ‘Picturing Parenting in the Words and Illustrations of Bob Graham’ British World Conference Paper: ‘Race and Redemption: Images of Empire in Children’s Literature’ 2003 International Research Society for Children’s Literature Biennial Conference Paper: ‘ The Same but Different: a Comparative Study of Childhood in Australian, Canadian and South African Children’s Literature’ 2002 (Invited Keynote address) Promoting the Picturebook. University of South Africa, Pretoria. Invited seminar address, University of Pretoria. ‘Depictions of Aboriginality in Australian Children’s Books’ Poetry ,Performance and Playfulness ACLAR Conference, QUT, Brisbane Paper: Performing Politics: Children as Conscience 2001 Multiple Voices: Diverse Dialogues: ACLAR Conference. Christchurch, New Zealand. Paper: Revisiting the Australian Child. 2000 Reading Pictures: Art, Narrative and Childhood. Homerton College, Cambridge University, Cambridge. Paper: “Gazing on their bodies”: the eroticised child in Australian Picturebooks Fin-de-Siecle and literature. Combined Conference of IRSCL and Children’s Literature Association of North America. Calgary, Canada. Paper: “A Little Child Shall Lead Them”: The Child as redeemer.
Awards
Professional & community involvements	President of the Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research. Academic Board, Catholic Theological College. Member International Research Society for Children's Literature Judge, Young Australian Writers’ Awards Judge, Blake Prize for Religious Art (2004) Judge, Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research Award for Postgraduate Research Essay on Children’s Literature Co-ordinator, ACU National Gallery (St Patrick’s) Co-editor E-Newsletter of Society for the History of Childhood and Youth
Research interests	Children’s literature and social issues; the social construction of childhood in literature; the history of children’s literature.