School of Culture & Communication Creative Writing

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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