School of Culture & Communication Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies: PhD student profiles

Name Thesis topic Supervisor
Aren Aizura Travellers across the boundaries of sex: travel, trans subjectivities and transnationality  
Roberto Benedicto Globalization and the Filipino gay imaginary  
Gemma Blackwood Imagining the reel  
Scott Brook Accounting for creative writing  
Ka Ming Chan Co-production and "Product Design" of Transnational Hong Kong Cinema  
Graeme Counsel Popular music traditions of the Mande  
Katarina Damjanov The Re-aestheticisation of Reality  
Isabelle De Solier Foodies: gustatory identity in the 21st century  
Michael Dieter Network culture: new perspectives on digital media Dr Chris Healy and Dr Brett Farmer
Mari Edland Multicultural realities and mono-cultural traditions: a transnational handball player representing Australia in the Sydney Olympic Games Philip Morrissey and Dr Chris Healy
Louisa Faris Man-hating: conceptualising misandry through feminism  
Nicholas Heron Singable remnant: between the living and the speaking being  
Larissa Hjorth Space invaders, space makers and gap fillers: mobile phones and Japanese cute culture in the Asia-Pacific  
Sufern Hoe 'From Skyline to Streetlife': The Circulation of Design in the Asia-Pacific Region  
Ben Hourigan Videtopia: utopia and utopianism in role-playing videogames  
Amelia Johns Panic at the Boundaries: Shrinking Space, Terrorism and the Rise of Ethno-Territorial Nationalism in Post-Bali Australia  
Tammi Jonas Tasting Terroir: Everyday food and cosmopolitan national identity John Frow
Sun Jung Hybrid identity in contemporary Korean cinema and its cultural consumption  
Dion Kagan Cinematic representations of gay embodiment in the 'Post-AIDS' era  
Maya Kriem Morocco and the digital divide  
Mark McDougal The passion of the soul: sadomasochism and the cultural construction of pain  
Bjorn Nansen Speeding Physiologies: Mapping Economies of Body Modulation in Contemporary Technoculture  
Katharine Oliver What counts for content in cultural trade? Image production, audio-visual policy and the 'free' market  
Lalitha Paul Praying for blue eyes: racist ideology and female beauty  
Lyn Phelan Femininity, modernity and the commodity: the new public woman and an aesthetics of prostitution  
Graham Preston From the Bricks to the Booth: Transnationalism, Globalizaton and Musical Subcultures in Australia and Canada Prof Ken Gelder and Dr Brett Farmer
Venka Purushothaman Critical improvisations: arts, culture and resistance in postcolonial Singapore  
Katsuhiko Suganuma 'Sexuality' politics in Japanese society in relation to Anglo-American queer globalisation: search for indigenous homosexual paradigms in Japan  
Sara Taylor The effect of transnational capitalism on female bodies: locating narrative of resistance in sex work  
Nathaniel Tkacz The Force of The Open John Frow and Sean Cubitt
Kristen Tytler Insuring intimacy: refiguring the subject of risk  
Haiqing Yu Chinese media spectacles in the new millenium: counternarratives of Chinese modernity  

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