Kathryn Walls

Kathryn Walls is a Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her work over many periods reflects her particular interest in allegorical fantasy. Originally a medievalist, her most significant publications are her edition (with Marguerite Stobo) of William Baspoole's seventeenth-century adaptation of Pelerinage de Vie Humaine , the first of a series of seminal allegories written by Guillaume de Deguileville in the early fourteenth century. Her book God's Only Daughter: Spenser's Una as the Invisible Church was published by Manchester University Press in 2013. Her publications in the field of New Zealand children's literature include, her article "The Generic Ambiguity of Margaret Mahy's The Changeover in Children's Literature Association Quarterly 41:1 (2016), 59-73. She is currently working on the impact of early science on the metaphorical language of Alexander Pope's satirical fantasies.