School of Culture & Communication English

English Masters by research supervisors

Research interests of Master of Arts in English supervisors

Broad areas of research interest are listed below. Select the names of individual staff members to view their full profile with further detail regarding their research interests.

Area Staff
Literature to 1300 Bernard Muir
Middle English literature Stephanie Trigg
16th-century literature Marion J Campbell
17th-century literature Marion J Campbell, Justin Clemens
18th-century literature Marion J Campbell, Deirdre Coleman, Peter Otto, Clara Tuite
19th-century literature Deirdre Coleman, Ken Gelder, Grace Moore, Peter Otto, Clara Tuite
American Literature John Frow, Anne Maxwell
Australian Indigenous literature and culture Anne Maxwell, Jennifer Rutherford
Australian literature and culture John Frow, Ken Gelder, Jennifer Rutherford, Stephanie Trigg
Censorship and aesthetics: obscenity, blasphemy, propaganda and literature David Bennett
Colonial literature and culture Deirdre Coleman, Anne Maxwell
Contemporary literature John Frow, Ken Gelder
Continental philosophy and contemporary aesthetic theory Justin Clemens
Crime fiction Grace Moore
Cultural history and literary studies Deirdre Coleman, Clara Tuite
Feminist literary theory Marion J Campbell, Clara Tuite
Genre studies and popular fiction Ken Gelder
Gothic fiction Deirdre Coleman, Peter Otto, Clara Tuite
Historical fiction Deirdre Coleman, Stephanie Trigg, Clara Tuite
Literary theory John Frow, Anne Maxwell, Clara Tuite
Medievalism Stephanie Trigg
Medieval Latin literature Bernard Muir
Medieval literature and culture Bernard Muir, Stephanie Trigg
Modernist literature John Frow, Grace Moore
New Zealand and Pacific literature Anne Maxwell
Nineteenth-century travel writing Anne Maxwell
Paleography Bernard Muir
Poetry and poetics John Frow, Peter Otto, Stephanie Trigg
Postcolonial literature and culture David Bennett, Anne Maxwell, Grace Moore, Ken Gelder
Postmodernist liteature and cultural theory David Bennett
Psychoanalytic studies David Bennett, Jennifer Rutherford, Justin Clemens
Romanticism Deirdre Coleman, Peter Otto, Clara Tuite
Science (especially natural history) and literature Deirdre Coleman
Sexuality in literature and history David Bennett, Clara Tuite
Subcultural studies Ken Gelder
Victorian literature and culture Grace Moore
Virtual reality Peter Otto
Women's writing Deirdre Coleman, Stephanie Trigg

English staff also work closely with staff in Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, and Publishing, especially in the co-supervision of postgraduate research.

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