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


Romance languages

Department of Romance Languages

Head: Professor Brian Nelson

Graduate coordinator: Associate Professor Wallace Kirsop

Members of staff and their fields of special interest

PHILIP ANDERSON contemporary French poetry; narrative theory.

JACQUES BIRNBERG nineteenth-century French novelists, especially Stendhal and Flaubert; nineteenth- and twentieth-century political philosophers and essayists, especially PéGUY; twentieth-century poetry, especially Queneau.

JACK BURSTON French linguistics, especially phonological, syntactic and semantic analysis; computer applications to foreign language teaching.

MARISA CORDELLA applied Spanish linguistics.

ALUN KENWOOD Spanish literature and history since 1700.

WALLACE KIRSOP sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century literature and history of ideas; physical bibliography and booktrade history, with reference to France in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

RAFFAELE LAMPUGNANI Dante; contemporary Italian literature and history.

AMANDA MACDONALD French cultural studies; popular culture; semiotics

BRIAN NELSON nineteenth-century French studies; naturalism in European literature, especially Zola; sociology of literature.

ANNAMARIA PAGLIARO De Roberto, Capuana, Verga and Serao.

MARY REDMOND seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre and stagecraft; molière; Marivaux; women in the ancien régime.

MARIELLA TOTARO-GENEVOIS Italian linguistic history from 1860 to present times; the teaching of Italian in Australia, its history and relationship with the education system; the language of the Italian press.

Doctor of Philosophy

Candidates with a masters degree or an honours degree with a grade of H1 or H2A, or the equivalent, and a background in French or Spanish at graduate level will be admitted to PhD candidature subject to the availability of adequate specialised supervision.

Master of Arts

Candidates for the degree of MA in the Department of Romance Languages will normally proceed to the degree by coursework only or by coursework and thesis. Suitably qualified candidates may be granted permission to proceed to the degree by thesis alone.


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