Noeline Alcorn


Noeline Elizabeth Alcorn is a New Zealand education-research academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato.

Academic career

After attending Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Wellington, New Zealand and a 1971 PhD titled Vision and nightmare : a study of Doris Lessing's novels at the University of California, Irvine, Alcorn moved to the University of Waikato, rising to full professor.

Honours and awards

In 1993, Alcorn was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.

Selected works