Dr Lucy Potter

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2007 - ongoing	Associate Professor	University of Adelaide

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  Latin	Can read

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  	University of Adelaide	Australia	PhD

• Certifications

  Date	Title	Institution name	Country
  —	Certificate in English Language Teaching for Adults	Cambridge University and the Royal Society of the Arts	-

• Research Interests

  British and Irish Literature Classics Comparative Literature Studies Curriculum and Pedagogy Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies English as a Second Language English Language History of Ideas Language, Communication and Culture Literary Studies Literary Theory Literatures in English Technical Writing

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2023	Potter, L. (2023). Suspending ekphrasis: Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Brazen World’ in Part 2 of <i>Tamburlaine the Great</i> and its influence. Word &amp; Image, 39(4), 402-416. DOI
  2019	Potter, L., & Cuthbertson, G. (2019). Beyond contested influence: disentangling Marlowe's Dido from the Virgil versus Ovid debate. CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL, 11(2), 178-193. DOI WoS1
  2018	Potter, L. (2018). Christopher Marlowe's 'Golden World': Ekphrasis and Sidney's Apology in Part 1 of Tamburlaine the Great. Notes and Queries, 65(1), 37-42. DOI
  2018	Potter, L. (2018). Ekphrastic cCatharsis: Marlowe's mural of Troy's fall in The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage. Word and Image, 34(4), 310-321. DOI
  2010	Potter, L. (2010). Christopher Marlowe the craftsman: Lives, stage, and page. Marlowe Society of America Newsletter, 30(1), 11-12.
  2009	Potter, L. (2009). Marlowe's Dido: Virgilian or Ovidian?. Notes and Queries, 56(4), 540-544. DOI Scopus10 WoS9
  2008	McGowan, S., & Potter, L. (2008). The implications of the Chinese learner for the internationalization of the curriculum: An Australian perspective. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19(2), 181-198. DOI Scopus48
  2007	Potter, L. (2007). Marlowe's 'Dido' and the staging of catharsis.. AUMLA - Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, May(107), 1-23. DOI
  1998	Potter, L. (1998). Hamlet and the Scene of Pedagogy. Australasian Drama Studies, 33, 95-116.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2015	Potter, L. (2015). Telling tales: Negotiating 'fame' in Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Christopher Marlowe's Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage. In H. Kerr, & C. Walker (Eds.), 'Fama' and her sisters: Gossip and rumour in early modern Europe (1 ed., pp. 37-63). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. DOI
  2012	Potter, L. (2012). Casting a shadow of one's own: Christopher Marlowe's Dido and the Virgilian intertext. In D. Glenn, M. Haque, B. Kooyman, & N. Bierbaum (Eds.), The Shadow of the Precursor (1 ed., pp. 154-169). United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  2010	Potter, L. (2010). Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the Fortunes of Catharsis. In D. Chalk (Ed.), Rapt in Secret Studies: Emerging Shakespeares (pp. 287-305). United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  2010	Potter, L. (2010). Informing audiences: Marlowe's early tragedies. In B. Hirsch (Ed.), This Earthly Stage: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (1 ed., pp. 235-257). Belgium: Brepols.
  1999	Potter, L. (1999). Ophelia centre stage. In Extensions: essays in English studies from Shakespeare to the Spice Girls, 1999 (pp. 25-41). Wakefield Press.

Lucy is an Education Specialist and a member of the Adelaide Education Academy. In addition to her PhD in English Literature, she is a specialist ESL educator, holding a Certificate in English Language teaching to Adults (CELTA) from Cambridge University / Royal Society of the Arts.

Lucy has served the Faculty of Arts in the roles of Deputy Dean, Learning & Teaching (2019-2021), Associate Dean, Learning & Teaching (2013-2015), Deputy Executive Dean (2015) and Associate Dean, Student Experience (2011-13).

Lucy coordinates and teaches the following undergraduate courses for the Department of English and Creative Writing: Beginning Shakespeare (level 1); Tragedy (level 2); Classical Receptions: Old Texts Made New (level 2). Her teaching excellence has been recognised by numerous faculty and university awards, including a prestigious national award, a Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for 'outstanding modelling of both effective, student-centred learning and dynamic leadership in the discipline of English', both the Vice Chancellor's and the Stephen Cole Awards for Excellence in Teaching, a Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, and 2 Faculty Awards for Outstanding Student Feedback Faculty.

Lucy is the Course Chair for the Shakespeare Matters MOOC. Released in 2017, this MOOC was a top 10 finalist in the edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning in 2018. As above, she is currently working on turning this highly successful MOOC into a book to be published by Routledge in 2023. e invitation of Routledge Press, which is contracted for publication in 2023.

Lucy is also interested in professional/business writing, and is a communication consultant for government departments and private businesses.

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2024	Co-Supervisor	Mary Shelley’s exploration of ambition, women, and Nature in her Romantic fiction.	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Nadia Marie Jeffries
  2022	Principal Supervisor	Crime Scene Investigation: Place and Space in the Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Mrs Margaret Mary Donovan
  2019	Principal Supervisor	A Literary Study of Classical Influences on Milton's Theodicy in Paradise Lost	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Darryl Do

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2020 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	‘A lightness that is both new and a return’: Nekyia and katabasis in twenty-first century receptions of the Iliad	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Patrick James Moritz
  2014 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	An Algorithmic Criticism of Audience Manipulation in Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Galen Mereki Cuthbertson
  2013 - 2016	Co-Supervisor	Bodies and Becomings: Human and Animal Encounters in Early Modern English Literature	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Shannon Raha Lambert
  2013 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Shakespeare and Christian Hermetism: religio mentis a Study of Esoteric Thought in Four Plays	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mrs Jane Nelson
  2012 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	Looking Without Knowing: Ranciere, Aristotle, and Spectating in the Representative Regime	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Angus Love
  2010 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	Sacrifice in Suburbia: American Novels as Troubled Tragedies	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Carly Osborn
  2008 - 2012	Co-Supervisor	What Doctrine call you this? An Inquiry into Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Hermetic Thought 1583-1593	Master of Arts	Master	Part Time	Mrs Jane Nelson
  2008 - 2013	Co-Supervisor	Exchanging Flesh: Prostitution and Plastic Surgery in Seventeenth-Century England	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Miss Emily Cock

• Industry Partnerships

  Date	Engagement Type	Partner Name
  2015 - ongoing	Consultant	Principals Australia Institute
  2013 - ongoing	Consultant	The Legal Practitioners Conduct Board (South Australia)
  2010 - ongoing	Consultant	The National Centre for Vocational Education Research

• Position: Associate Professor
• Phone: 83134685
• Email: lucy.potter@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 83134341
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor 6
• Org Unit: School of Humanities