Director: Associate Professor Andrew Milner
Graduate coordinator: Associate Professor Andrew Milner
One of the functions of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies is to promote and organise graduate research in its area.
The centre is an interdepartmental unit, maintained by the Faculty of Arts, with responsibility for teaching and research in three main areas of work: comparative literature; cultural studies; and critical theory.
Prospective graduate students whose research interests are within the general area are invited to address their preliminary inquiries to the director.
The centre organises a series of regular staff and graduate seminars on topics of general concern to those engaged in literary and cultural studies.
Members of staff and their fields of special interest
Michael Ackland Romanticism (English)
Philip Anderson Semiotics, structuralism (Romance Languages, French).
Pavlos Andronikos Reception theory, modern Greek literature, film studies (Greek, Roman and Egyptian Studies).
Chris Atmore Cultural studies, representations of gender (Anthropology and Sociology).
Gloria Davies Chinese literature (Asian Languages and Studies).
Joanne Finkelstein Cultural studies, fashion, consumption and the self.
Gerald Fitzgerald Representations of gender, film studies (Greek, Roman and Egyptian Studies).
Karen Green Poststructuralism, deconstruction (Philosophy).
Elizabeth Grosz Psychoanalytic theory, Lacan, feminist critical theory.
David Hanan Film studies (Visual Arts).
Kevin Hart Deconstruction, Derrida, literary theory and philosophy.
Barbara Hatley Indonesian literature (Asian Languages and Studies).
Michael Janover Modernism, culture and politics (Politics).
Alun Kenwood Culture and politics (Romance Languages, Spanish).
Marie Maclean Semiotics, feminist theory, the fantastic, women writers.
Don Miller Poststructuralism, postcolonialism, Bourdieu (Anthropology and Sociology).
Andrew Milner Cultural studies, sociology of literature, political writing, Marxist critical theory.
Leonie Naughton Film studies (Visual Arts).
Brian Nelson Naturalism (Romance Languages, French).
Pauline Nestor Feminist literary theory, women writers (English)
Kate Rigby Modernism and postmodernism (German Studies).
David Roberts Modernism, Marxist critical theory (German Studies).
Alba Romano The comic, women writers (Greek, Roman and Egyptian Studies).
Philip Thomson Poststructuralism, the grotesque (German Studies).
Walter Veit Hermeneutics, comparative literary theory (German Studies).
Millicent Vladiv-Glover Modernism, structuralism and semiotics (Slavic Studies).
Dean Williams Cultural studies, television studies (Visual Arts)
Chris Worth Semiotics, drama studies, cultural studies, popular fiction.
MA in cultural studies Part I
Part I will consist of:
* CLC4300 Theorising culture
and a selection of three subjects from:
* CLC4004 Cultural policy and institutions
* CLC4010 On culture and inequality
* CLC4240 Culture and society in English studies
* CLC4270 Cultural theory and visuality
* CLC4320 Popular narrative fiction
* CLC4330 Art and politics
* CLC4340 Culture and the modern self
The combined value of the Part I program must total forty-eight points.
MA in critical theory Part I
Part I will consist of:
* CLT4000 Literary theory
and a selection of three subjects from:
* CLT4030 Poetics
* CLT4070 Lacan and subjectivity
* CLC4090 The authority of the text
* CLT4100 Deleuze and Foucault
* CLT4200 Structuralism and semiotics
* CLT4220 Hermeneutics
* CLT4230 Rhetoric
* CLT4250 Marxist critical theory
* CLT4280 Narrative theory
* CLT4290 Reading Irigaray
* CLT4920 Literature and negativity
The combined value of the Part I program must total forty-eight points.
MA in cultural studies Part II - coursework
Part II will consist of a thesis (66 per cent) plus a selection of two eight-point subjects from the following:
* CLC5300 Theorising culture
(Candidates who have not taken CLC4300 Theorising culture at Part I must take CLC5300 at Part II.)
* CLC5004 Cultural policy and institutions
* CLC5010 On culture and inequality
* CLC5240 Culture and society in English studies
* CLC5270 Cultural theory and visuality
* CLC5320 Popular narrative fiction
* CLC5330 Art and politics
* CLC5340 Culture and the modern self
MA in critical theory Part II - coursework
Part II will consist of a thesis (66 per cent) plus a selection of two eight-point subjects from the following:
* CLT5030 Poetics
* CLT5070 Lacan and subjectivity
* CLT5090 The authority of the text
* CLT5100 Deleuze and Foucault
* CLT5200 Structuralism and semiotics
* CLT5220 Hermeneutics
* CLT5230 Rhetoric
* CLT5250 Marxist critical theory
* CLT5280 Narrative theory
* CLT5290 Reading Irigaray
* CLT5920 Literature and negativity
Thesis (66 per cent)
Candidates are required to complete a 25,000 to 35,000-word thesis for submission normally before the first day of first semester in the second year of enrolment (for full-time students). The choice of topic will be made in close consultation with the supervisor. With the permission of the director, candidates may in special circumstances undertake an MA by coursework only. In such cases, candidates will be required to complete Part II subjects equivalent in value to forty-eight points