Ika Willis is an Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Melbourne. Her first degree was in Classics, and her postgraduate degrees were in Cultural Studies. She has taught Cultural Studies, English Literatures, Latin, and Classical Studies, and she was the designer and convener of the interdisciplinary MA in Reception and Critical Theory at the University of Bristol from 2008-2011. She has published and presented on texts from Virgil’s Georgics to Monique Wittig’s Vergile, non! She tracks her reading on Goodreads where her own book Reception has a 4.1 star rating.

Areas of interest: Reception theory, Book history, Media archaeology, Theories of reading/mediation/interpretation/information

Willis, I. (2019). Afterword: Fan Theory/Theory Fan, or, I Love This Book. In C. Grant & K. Random Love (Eds.), Fandom as Methodology (pp. 211-217). Goldsmiths University Press.

Willis, I. (2016). Amateur Mythographies: Fan Fiction and the Myth of Myth. Transformative Works and Cultures, 21. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2016.0692

Willis, I. (2011). Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as theorists of politics and space. Bloomsbury.

Willis, I. (2014). Philology, or the art of befriending the text. Postmedieval: a Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, 5(4), 486–501. https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2014.30

Willis, I. (2018). Reception. Routledge.

Willis, I. (2021). Reception Theory/History/Studies. In J. Frow (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. Oxford University Press.