Head and Graduate coordinator: Professor Brian Nelson
Philip Anderson Contemporary French poetry; narrative theory.
Jack Burston French linguistics, especially phonological, syntactic and semantic analysis; computer applications to foreign language teaching.
Marisa Cordella Applied Spanish linguistics; pragmatics; socio-linguistics in Spanish.
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; Italo-Australian texts; cinema studies.
Amanda Macdonald French cultural studies; popular culture; semiotics.
Monita Mascitti-Meuter Twentieth-century Latin American literature, women's writing and multimedia applications to foreign language teaching
Brian Nelson Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, especially the late nineteenth-century novel (Zola, Huysmans, etc.).
Annamaria Pagliaro Nineteenth-century realist literature, especially De Roberto, Capuana, Verga and Serao.
Jorge Paredes Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature; postmodernism; feminist literature; modern and contemporary Spanish American literature and culture.
Stephan Riedel Women writing; textual theory; Dante; 20th Century literature; homotextualities.
Sally Staddon Intercultural business communication; computer applications to language teaching; teaching languages for special purposes.
Course code: 0020
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Candidates with a masters degree or an honours degree with a grade of H1 or H2A, or the equivalent, may be admitted to PhD candidature subject to the availability of adequate specialised supervision.
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Candidates for the degree of MA in the Department of Romance Languages will normally proceed to the degree by coursework and research. Suitably qualified candidates may be granted permission to proceed to the degree by 100 per cent research (40,000-60,000 words).
Graduate coordinator: Professor Brian Nelson
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Students successfully completing the Master of Arts in French by coursework and research should have gained greater understanding of a special field in French studies and training in advanced research work embodied in the thesis.
The minimum requirement for entry to the program (one year full-time or two years part-time) is an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in French or its equivalent.
The program will normally be as follows:
(i) FRM5100 Special French reading course (eight or sixteen points)
(ii) One approved eight-point subject offered by another department or centre in the Faculty of Arts (this subject will not be taken if FRM5100 is taken in its sixteen-point form)
(iii) thesis (66 per cent) of 25,000-35,000 words.
Graduate coordinator: Mr Raffaele Lampugnani
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Students successfully completing the Master of Arts in Italian by coursework and thesis should have gained greater understanding of a special field in Italian studies and of a related topic in another discipline and training in advanced research work embodied in the thesis.
The minimum requirement for entry to the program (one year full-time or two years part-time) is an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in Italian or its equivalent.
The program will be as follows:
(i) ITM5960.08 Special Italian reading course;
(ii) One approved eight-point subject offered by another department or centre in the Faculty of Arts;
(iii) thesis (66 per cent) of 25,000-35,000 words.
Graduate coordinator: Mr Jorge Paredes
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Students successfully completing the Master of Arts in Spanish by coursework and research should have gained greater understanding of a special field in Spanish studies and training in advanced research work embodied in the thesis.
The minimum requirement for entry to the MA program (one year full-time or two years part-time) is an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in Spanish or its equivalent.
The program will be as follows:
(i) SPM5960.08 Special Spanish reading course;
(ii) One approved eight-point subject offered by another department or centre in the Faculty of Arts;
(iii) thesis (66 per cent) of 25-35,000 words.
Candidates are invited to discuss further combined programs with the head of section.