Head: Professor Terry Threadgold
Graduate coordinator: Professor Clive Probyn
There is a wide range of research activities covered by the department. Applications to work for a higher degree in any area of English will be considered on merit and in relation to the expert supervision available.
Members of staff and their fields of special interest
Michael Ackland Blake; Romantic literature; Australian colonial literature.
Philip Ayres Editing and bibliography; Renaissance drama; seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature and society.
Gillian Barnett Fiction writing; children's literature.
Elaine Barry American literature; modernism.
Dennis Bartholomeusz Shakespeare; modern literature; Commonwealth literature.
Brian Coleborne Eighteenth-century literature; Irish and Anglo-Irish literature; Swift and Ireland; contemporary Irish literature and cultural politics.
Neil Courtney Myth, legend, folktale; film studies.
Denise Cuthbert Seventeenth-century literature (Civil War period); feminist approaches to Shakespeare and Jacobean dramatists.
Alan Dilnot Dickens; contemporary British literature; nineteenth-century fiction; Shakespeare.
Peter Fitzpatrick Modern drama; Australian drama; psychology and poetry in nineteenth-century literature.
Robin Gerster Australian fiction, war literature; postcolonial literature.
Cathy Greenfield Cultural and political theories of representation; theories of mass communication; media and intercultural relations of power; television and radio in Australia; genealogies of the individual and the people.
Mary Griffiths Postcolonial literature; women's literature; media studies.
Michael Griffiths Contemporary literature; media; film; creative writing.
Peter Groves Literary stylistics; metrics; computers and the study of literature; Shakespeare.
Neil Hanley Mass communications; communications technology development; computer-mediated learning.
Kevin Hart Literary theory (Derrida), Johnson, literature and theology.
Geoffrey Hiller Renaissance literature (particularly poetry) and culture; patrons and patronage.
Francis King Wordsworth; Romantic literature; Doris Lessing.
Harold Love Seventeenth-century literature and drama; bibliography and textual criticism; Australian cultural and intellectual history.
Rose Lucas American literature; twentieth-century poetry; women's literature; film studies.
Brian McFarlane Literature and society; literature and film; Australian cinema/British cinema.
Patrick Morgan Russian and East European political literature; Australian literature; Gippsland literature and history.
Peter Naish Romantic literature; Keats; Hardy.
Pauline Nestor Victorian literature; women writers, especially nineteenth century.
Brenda Niall Australian literature; American literature; children's literature; biography and autobiography.
Iris O'Loughlin Women in literature; adolescent writing; children's literature; depiction of the female protagonist.
Irina Pana Literary theory; comparative literature; seventeenth-century literature; contemporary literature.
Clive Probyn Swift; eighteenth-century studies; West African literature; history of ideas; literary theory; print culture.
Heather Scutter Children's literature; Australian studies; women's literature; cultural studies; Victorian literature
Bruce Steele Medieval literature; D H Lawrence; textual editing.
Charles Stevenson Old and Middle English language and literature.
Jennifer Strauss Medieval literature; modern poetry; contemporary Australian literature.
Helen Thomson Victorian literature; eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature; Australian literature; women writers.
Terry Threadgold Literary theory; critical discourse studies; semiotics of rehearsal and performance; critical legal studies; women's writing; cultural studies.
Susan Tweg Drama and social criticism; literature and cinema; popular culture/semiotics; Shakespeare.
Chris Worth Narrative theory; the novel; early nineteenth-century theatre; Walter Scott; Ruskin.
MA Part I
Students should enrol in four of the fourth-year subjects offered by the Department of English, including one of the two core subjects
Core subjects
* ENM4620.12 Literary theory
* ENM4640.12 The life of the text: genesis, production, reception
Schedule
* ENM4080.12/5080.08 The authority of the text: the hermeneutical question (As for Centre for Religious Studies RLT5090.12.)
* ENM4210.12/5210.08 Writing the child
* ENM4340.12/5340.08 Australian autobiography
* ENM4370.12/5370.08 Contemporary Australian poetry and fiction
* ENM4680.12/5680.08 Rural England from Wordsworth to Lawrence
* ENM4700.12/5700.08 Drama of the age of Shakespeare
* ENM4760.12/5760.08 Visions and revisions: reworkings
* ENM4780.12/5780.08 Beowulf and Old English poetry
* ENM4820.12/5820.08 Twentieth-century Australian drama
* ENM4860.12/5860.08 Modern poetry: high modernism to postmodernism
* ENM4920.12/5920.08 Literature and negativity
* ENM4940.12/5940.08 Literature into film
* ENM4950.12/5950.08 Contemporary women's fiction and theory
* ENM4800.12/5800.08 Middle English literature
The following are not offered in 1995 and may be offered next in 1996:
* ENM4180/5180 Writing women
* ENM4190/5190 Legal fictions
* ENM4270/5270 Feminist poetics
* ENM4310/5310 Theories of discourse
* ENM4320/5320 Social semiotics of rehearsal and performance
* ENM4580/5580.12 Ireland, Swift, England
* ENM4660/5660 Literature and culture in Renaissance England
* ENM4740/5740 The age of Johnson
* ENM4880/5880 American literature
MA Part II
Students should enrol in the thesis, weighted at 66 per cent (thirty-two points) of the total Part II load, the core subject (eight points), and one of the optional subjects (eight points).
Core subject
* ENM5020.08 Professing literature
Optional subjects
As in the above schedule for Part I but at fifth year-level. In addition, one of the following subjects from outside the Department of English may be included, with an eight-point weighting:
* CLT5250.12/08 Marxist critical theory (As for Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies CLT5250.)
* AUS5080.12/08 Intellectual life in nineteenth-century Melbourne (As for National Centre for Australian Studies AUS5080.)