Caution
Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
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.
PHILIP AYRES editing and bibliography; Renaissance drama; seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature and society; short fiction.
GILLIAN BARNETT fiction writing; children's literature.
ELAINE BARRY American literature; modernism.
BRYAN 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 (and culture); feminist approaches to Shakespeare and Jacobean dramatists.
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.
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.
PAULINE NESTOR victorian literature; women writers, especially nineteenth century.
IRIS O'LOUGHLIN women in literature; adolescent writing; children's literature; depiction of the female protagonist.
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.
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.
Facilities 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 Scolar 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.
+ ENM4640.12 The life of the text: genesis, production, reception
+ ENM4080/5080 The authority of the text: the hermeneutical question (As for Centre for Religious Studies RLT5090.12)
+ ENM4190/5190 Legal Fictions: intersections between law and literature
+ ENM4270/5270 Feminist poetics
+ ENM4320/5320 Social semiotics of rehearsal and performance
+ ENM4370/5370 Contemporary Australian poetry and fiction
+ ENM4580/5580 Ireland, Swift, England
+ ENM4700/5700 Drama of the Age of Shakespeare
+ ENM4760/5760 Visions and revisions: reworkings
+ ENM4780/5780 Beowulf and Old English poetry
+ ENM4920/5920 Literature and negativity
+ ENM4800/5800 Middle English literature
+ ENM4310/5310 Theories of discourse
+ ENM4660/5660 Literature and culture in renaissance England
+ ENM4740/5740 The age of Johnson
+ ENM4820/5820 Twentieth-century Australian drama
+ ENM4880/5880 American literature
+ ENM4940/5940 Literature into film
+ CLT5250.08 Marxist critical theory (As for CLT5250 in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.)
+ AUS5080. 08 Intellectual life in nineteenth-century Melbourne (As for AUS5080 in the National Centre for Australian Studies.)