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Head:
Professor Clive Probyn
Graduate coordinator: Professor Harold Love
English literature is the study of English-language literatures (in practice
those of the British Isles, Australasia and North America). Particular
strengths in the department include pre-1800 British literature, Australian
literature (including its regional and textual character), literary biography,
women's studies, literary theory, literature and the history of ideas, poetics,
the construction of canons and the newly emerging developments of English
studies. 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.
MICHAEL
ACKLAND Blake; Romantic literature; Australian colonial literature.
PHILIP AYRES Editing and bibliography; Renaissance drama; seventeenth and
eighteenth-century literature and society; short fiction.
ALAN DILNOT Dickens; contemporary British literature; nineteenth-century
fiction; Shakespeare.
RACHEL FENSHAM Feminist theory; performance theory; cultural theory.
PETER FITZPATRICK Modern drama; Australian drama; psychology and poetry in
nineteenth-century literature.
ROBIN GERSTER Australian fiction; war literature; Asian literature; travel
writing.
PETER GROVES Literary stylistics; metrics; computers and the study of
literature; Shakespeare.
KEVIN HART Literary theory (Derrida); Johnson; literature and theology.
GEOFFREY HILLER Renaissance literature (particularly poetry) and culture;
patrons and patronage.
HAROLD LOVE Seventeenth-century literature and drama; history and theory of
reading; authorship and the book; Australian cultural and intellectual
history.
ROSE LUCAS Feminist poetics; contemporary women's literature; gender and
cinema.
BRIAN MCFARLANE Literature and society; literature and film; Australian
cinema/British cinema.
PAULINE NESTOR Victorian literature; women writers, especially nineteenth
century.
CLIVE PROBYN Swift; eighteenth-century studies; West African literature;
history of ideas; literary theory; print culture; editing of Australian
texts.
HEATHER SCUTTER Children's literature; Australian studies; women's literature;
cultural studies; Victorian literature.
PETER SNOW Philosophy; theory of performance; Asian theatre; contemporary
Australian theatre.
CHARLES STEVENSON Old and Middle English language and 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.
The department offers an MA by research only and a PhD across a wide range of
literary, cultural and theoretical studies, including drama and theatre
studies, an MA in English by research and coursework, and a Masters Qualifying
in English with a research component.
Course
code: 0020
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Coordinator: Professor Harold Love
The degree of PhD is taken by the submission of a thesis not exceeding 100,000
words, on a topic approved by the head of the department. Students enrolled in
the first instance for an MA may be permitted to transfer to PhD if their
subject and their progress warrant this. Graduate students enrolled for the PhD
are expected to participate in department research seminars. Candidature is
completed in three years full-time or six years part-time. For further
information, please consult the Doctoral information handbook which is
produced by the Research Training and Support Branch.
Students seeking entry to the PhD should normally have an MA or first or second class division A honours degree in an appropriate discipline or MQual with a research component with a grade of H2A or above.
Course
code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Coordinator: Professor Harold Love
The degree of MA by research only is taken by the submission of a 40,000 to 60,000-word thesis on a topic approved by the head of department. Graduate students enrolled for the MA are expected to participate in department research seminars. Candidates may be required to attend an oral or written examination on the subject of the thesis or closely related matters. The degree is to be completed in two years full-time or four years part-time candidature.
Students seeking entry to the MA by research only should normally have a first class honours degree or a second class, division A honours degree in an appropriate discipline or MQual with a research component with a grade of H2A or above.
Course
code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Coordinator: Professor Harold Love
The MA by coursework/research will be offered for on-campus study at Clayton only. It consists of a compulsory research thesis of 25,000 to 35,000 words, weighted at 66 per cent (thirty-two points) of the total load; and two elective eight-point subjects. The course will normally be completed in one year of full-time study and two years of part-time study.
Upon completion of the course students should have consolidated and extended their knowledge of literature; literary theory and the contexts in which literature is produced and read. They should also have consolidated their skills in originating and pursuing research projects independently, and extended their skills of analysis, composition and argument. They should also have completed a substantial research thesis which represents a significant contribution to knowledge in the field in which they are working.
Candidates for admission to the masters by coursework and research combined should normally have completed an MQual with a research component or honours with H2A or above.
Students are required to complete two fifth-year eight-point subjects totalling sixteen points, plus a thesis of between 25,000 and 35,000 words. The choice of topic should be made in close consultation with the supervisor.
Course
code: 1988
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Coordinator: Professor Harold Love
The
MQual with a research component will be offered for on-campus study at Clayton
only. The program provides a transition between the bachelors degree and the
research masters or PhD, enabling students both to acquire the knowledge and
skills necessary, and to demonstrate their suitability, for higher research.
The program will normally be completed in one year of full-time study or two
years of part-time study. Students completing the course full-time will be
expected to spend forty-eight hours per week in study, including class time.
All MA coursework subjects are offered subject to sufficient student numbers
and staff availability.
Upon completion of the MQual with a research component students should have consolidated and extended their knowledge of literature; literary production; a range of theoretical approaches to criticism and the analysis of literature; and the contexts (generic, historic, cultural) in which literature is produced and read. Students should also have extended and consolidated their skills of independent research, analysis, composition and argument commensurate with the level attained with the completion of fourth year honours.
Candidates for admission to the MQual with a research component should normally hold a bachelors degree with a minimum of a credit average in the third part of the major sequence.
The MQual with a research component consists of four twelve-point subjects
totalling forty-eight credit points. Students will normally take their core subject and one elective subject in first semester and their dissertation and one further elective subject in second semester.
The
Monash University library has particularly strong collections in early
eighteenth-century literature and nineteenth-century periodical literature. Its
Swift collection is of world significance. It is also purchasing the series
produced by University Microfilms of all STC and Wing titles (English Books
1475-1700), which it is supplementing through purchases of original editions,
photographic reprints and microfilms, including the complete set of reprints
entitled 'The English Experience'.
The Department of English holds the Readex microcard collection, 'Three
Centuries of English Drama'.
Graduate students also have access to the Baillieu Library of the University of
Melbourne, the Borchardt Library of La Trobe University and the State Library
of Victoria, all within the Melbourne area. All have special strengths. State
Library: Australiana (the La Trobe Library); nineteenth century literature and
academic publications. Baillieu Library: early editions of Romantic authors;
seventeenth and eighteenth-century scientific writers. Borchardt Library:
sixteenth-century literature.
The Scholar Press 'English Linguistics' series has been divided up among the
university libraries of Victoria and the State Library on the basis of period
interests. Monash holds the titles between 1650 and 1750.
The department has its own microfilm and microcard readers. Students have
access to university data processing equipment.
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