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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; short fiction.

GILLIAN BARNETT Fiction writing; children's literature.

ELAINE BARRY American literature; modernism.

IRIS BREUER Women in literature; adolescent writing; children's literature; depiction of the female protagonist.

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 Early modern literature (and culture); feminism; postcolonialism; cultural studies.

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.

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; 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..

PATRICK MORGAN Russian and East European political literature; Australian literature; Gippsland literature and history.

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.

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.

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, and an MA in English by research and coursework.


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