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JCH Staff

Dr Eleanor Spencer-Regan (she/her)
BA, MA, PhD (Dunelm), PGCAP, FHEA

principal@jch.unimelb.edu.au 9349 7100

Principal – strategic leader and representative of the College

Eleanor Spencer-Regan joined the JCH community in 2022, having
been Vice-Principal of St Chad’s College at Durham University in the
UK.

She is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and
Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests
include twentieth and twenty-first century British and American
poetry, and children’s and Young Adult fiction. Her recent
publications include Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
(Routledge, 2023), the New Casebook on American Poetry since 1945
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and essays in Sylvia Plath in Context
(Cambridge University Press, 2019), and in the Blackwell Companion
to British and Irish Poetry 1960-2015 (Wiley Blackwell, 2020). In 2011-

2012, she was the recipient of a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, and
a Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at Harvard University.

Eleanor lives with her husband, Stephen and their young son, Wolfe, in
nearby North Melbourne. She is a keen long-distance runner and
open water swimmer and is currently training towards becoming a
member of the 7 Continents Marathon Club, reserved for athletes who
have run a marathon within the Antarctic Circle as well as on the other
six continents.

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