MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Caution Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996


Comparative literature, cultural studies and critical theory

Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Director: Professor Kevin Hart

Graduate coordinator: Professor Kevin Hart

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.

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).

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).

BRYAN 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).

DEANE WILLIAMS cultural studies, television studies (Visual Arts).

CHRIS WORTH semiotics, drama studies, cultural studies, popular fiction.

MA in critical and cultural theory Part I

Part I will consist of:

+ CLT4000 Literary theory or

+ 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

+ CLC4340 Culture and the modern self

+ CLT4030 Poetics

+ CLT4070 Lacan and subjectivity

+ CLT4090 The authority of the text

+ CLT4100 Deleuze and Foucault

+ CLT4160 Contemporary issues in feminist theory

+ CLT4200 Structuralism and semiotics

+ CLT4220 Hermeneutics

+ CLT4230 Rhetoric

+ CLT4250 Marxist critical theory

+ CLT4290 Reading Irigaray

+ CLT4750 Deconstruction and feminism

+ CLT4920 Literature and negativity

The combined value of the Part I program must total forty-eight points.

MA in critical and cultural 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:

+ CLC5004 Cultural policy and institutions

+ CLC5010 On culture and inequality

+ CLC5240 Culture and society in English studies

+ CLC5270 Cultural theory and visuality

+ CLC5300 Theorising culture

+ CLC5340 Culture and the modern self

+ CLT5030 Poetics

+ CLT5070 Lacan and subjectivity

+ CLT5090 The authority of the text

+ CLT5100 Deleuze and Foucault

+ CLT5160 Contemporary issues in feminist theory

+ CLT5200 Structuralism and semiotics

+ CLT5220 Hermeneutics

+ CLT5230 Rhetoric

+ CLT5250 Marxist critical theory

+ CLT5290 Reading Irigaray

+ CLT5750 Deconstruction and feminism

+ 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.


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