Creative Writing: PhD student profiles
| Name | Thesis topic | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Helen Addison-Smith | Other animals: invaded and invading narratives of the science fiction of the United States of America | |
| Elizabeth Angel | Where I slept: homelessness in literature | |
| Amanda Apthorpe | The Kos letters | |
| Lucy Alice Butler | Eros the limb-loosener: dis-articulating romantic mythology in contemporary fiction | Christine Owen, Kevin Brophy |
| Beth Cardier | Heterotic - the mechanisms for narrative | |
| David Carlin | Beyond telling: trauma, narrative and representation | Kevin Brophy, Scott McQuire |
| Courtney Collins | What is the Australian Gothic? What are its moral imperatives and how can it be characterised? | |
| Karen Corbett | Orphanage of the animals [play] / Staging trauma | |
| Andrew Croome | The Petrov history | |
| Dan Disney | The Archaic Shudder: toward a Poetological Pragmatics of the Sublime | Kevin Brophy, Mr Philip Salom |
| Amy Espeseth | Critical: Meaning to Metamorphosis: The Elemental Memory of Kathleen Norris Creative: What Remains |
Marion J Campbell, Tony Birch |
| Jodi Gallagher | Building a mystery: representations of female subjectivity in occult / spiritualist / political circles in the early 20th century 1890-1920 | |
| Tina Giannoukos | Changing visions of the relation between centre and periphery in the late 20th-century Australian novel | |
| Helen Gilfind | Subversive fictions and 'mad women': a psychobiographical feminist reading of the writings of Janet Frame and Robin Hyde | |
| Ben D Goldsworthy | Inventions of self: Writer, character and the fiction of identity | |
| Michael Guidera | Authenticity, love and the geneticisation of needs | |
| Francesca Haig | Poetic writing and questions of history in the postmodern novel | Christine Owen, Dominique Hecq |
| Nicole Hayes | Married...with books: gender, authorship and literary couples | |
| Fiona Hile | Generic engineering | |
| Antoni Jach | The image text: Roma insomnia - an image text novella / A theory of the interrelationship between image and text | |
| Amanda Johnson | Towards a radical heteroglossia: representations of Australian colonial pasts in recent literary production | |
| Elizabeth MacFarlane | The Excruciating Moment: Putting pen to paper in J M Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello | Kevin Brophy, Mr Philip Salom |
| Simone Matthews | Toward an aesthetic of reading; and a ficto-critical biography 'Malinowski's Course' | |
| Meme McDonald | Other country: cross-cultural collaboration | Tony Birch, Chris Healy |
| Tracey McGuire | Saw-toothed landscapes | |
| Jan McKemmish | Pastiche: politics, writing, art and ideas perform | |
| Sean McMullen | The medieval arcadia: the role of romantic literature in developing an idealised image of medieval society | Kevin Brophy, Angela O'Brien |
| Terri Louise McNeilage | Persephone's promise: the construction of the daughter in women's autobiographical writing | Angela O'Brien, Ms Sari Smith |
| Rosemary Helen Michael | The Art of Navigation | Kevin Brophy, Christine Owen |
| Helen Milte Bastow | In the outside - body and text in the other of landscape | Christine Owen, Ms Sari Smith, Kevin Brophy |
| Tara Mokhtari | Adapting the verse novel to stage performance - theory and practice | |
| Emily Murray | Control space: landscapes of utopian communities in Australia | |
| Christina Natsis | The link between bi-polar disorder and poetic sensibility: Poesy - the cryonic furnace | |
| Julian Novitz | Holocaust tours | |
| Hoa Hong Pham | Vietnamese Australian identities in cultural production / digging up the bones | Ken Gelder, Kathleen Mary Fallon |
| Susan Pyke | Non-conforming subversions: from tambourines to cauldrons in the environs of Wuthering Heights | |
| Taliessin Reaburn | Standard excess: I, ideology and agency - a study of identity and agency in the contemporary workplace | |
| Vanessa Russell | Losing my religion: an exploration of deconversion | |
| Callum Scott | The Bogue identity: a fictocritical exploration of the life and songs of the bogan / antihero | |
| Josiane Smith | New Melbourne: utopian / dystopian futurist perspectives in feminist speculative fiction | |
| Miriam Sved | Writing in the wars: Australian creative writing, the university and the culture wars | Kevin Brophy, Christine Owen |
| Claire Thomas | Travel in the marriage narratives of George Eliot and Henry James: another country or the end of the journey | Marion M Campbell & Deirdre Coleman |
| Samantha White | Myth and innuendo: a creative and critical exploration of the role of mass media in popular culture representations of lost-child narratives | |
| Jessica Wilkinson | Resurrecting absence: silence, space and the search for truth in the poetry of Susan Howe | |
| Grace Yee | Women Writing Home: An Analysis of Relations Between Self, Place and Text | Marion M Campbell & Fran Martin |
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