Hermiene Ulrich
Hermiene Frederica Ulrich (1885–1956) was one of the first female professors in English Studies in Australia. She played a central role in shaping the teaching and curriculum at the University of Queensland.
Ulrich's biography presents the case of a scholar in early English literature whose foundational contribution to the field has remained undocumented because she focused on the area of pedagogy. Her record as the first person, male or female, to be employed to teach English at the University of Queensland and as a successful teacher and deviser of a curriculum, has been obscured by those historians of the discipline who measure academic significance or eminence exclusively in terms of published scholarship. However, her impact on an entire generation of younger scholars is visible from curriculum and examination records, lecture scripts from the Queensland branch of the Worker's Educational Association, her participation on the Brisbane public-speaking circuit, and entries in journals.[1]
References
- ↑ Louise D'Arcens, "'She ensample was by good techynge': Hermiene Ulrich and Chaucer under Capricorn," in: Eminent Chaucerians? Early Women Scholars and the History of Reading Chaucer, ed. Richard Utz and Peter Schneck, Philologie im Netz (Supplement 4, 2009), pp. 21-40; and Louise D'Arcens, "Australian Medieval Studies," in: Studies in Medievalism X. Medievalism and the Academy II. Cultural Studies. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1–40.