School of Culture & Communication English

English: PhD student profiles

Name Thesis topic Supervisor
Lars Andersson Patrick White and suburbia Dr Jennifer Rutherford and Prof Ken Gelder
Bryan Cooke Redemption and democracy: two 'stages' of the policial imagination of modernity  
David Crouch Australian invasions  
Jennifer Decolongon Border disputes: Philippine drama in English - practice, theory and formation[s] of [post] national identity  
Brett Dodemaide The rise of popular esoteric literature since 1900  
Elizabeth Driscoll 'The must-read book of the year!' How mediating agents and institutions produce value in contemporary literary culture  
Grace Grixti-Cheng Milton's Paradise Lost  
Nicole Heber Neuroscience and contemporary literature  
Angela Hesson Figures of decadence  
Helen Hickey Everyday rhetoric: poetry and bureaucracy in the writing of Thomas Hoccleve  
Yu Ting (Phyllis) Huang Modernist and postmodernist reinventions of the Victorian age  
Darshana Jayemanne Spielraum: temporality and virtual space  
Doug Jesberg Henry Kendall and the Poetry of Settler Colonialism  
Lauren Joffe Re-covering and re-constructing the vanished world of East European Jewry: Jewish genealogical narratives or journeys through a broken past  
Caitlyn Lehmann Audiences of the dance 1780-1830  
Kristal Lowe The feminine soul of 19th-century occultism  
Peta Mayer New interpretations of Anita Brookner Dr Clara Tuite and Dr David Bennett
Beornn McCarthy Literary desire: from phantasmology to parasitology in accounting for the lost objects of Romanticism  
James McCormack Post-traumatic masculinity in the contemporary thriller  
David McInnis Staging Exoticism: Representations of Travel and the Foreign on the Early Modern English Stage Dr Marion J Campbell and Prof Deirdre Coleman
Larissa McLean Davies House and garden: a study of place and subjectivity in 'second-wave' Australian women's writing  
Dougal McNeill Forecasts of the past: some contemporary realisms Dr David Bennett and Dr Mark Davis
Janelle Moran Victorian sensation fiction  
Kristine Moruzi Creating the fin-de-siècle girl: women and work in children's literature  
George Mouratidis Authenticating Beat  
Sashi Nair Female friendship in modernist literature: from Henry James to Djuna Barnes  
Mark Nixon Orientalism and masquerade: social change and cultural alterity in eighteenth-century travel narratives  
Eric Parisot Graveyard poetry and the aesthetics of the poetic condition Dr Marion J Campbell
Anika Quayle The disintegration of the self in F. Scott Fitzgerald  
Benjamin Smith Ideologies of imagination: crises of the subject in Romantic and post-Romantic thought  
Emmett Stinson Postmodern Gothic in Barth, Pynchon, and Gaddis  
Jay Thompson (En)gendering Generationalism: Sex and Power in Australian Writing, 1993-1997 Dr Mark Davis & Dr Marion J. Campbell
Karolina Trapp Faith and experience: A study of poetic expression in the poetry of R.S. Thomas  
Lucy Van Postcolonial transformations: the poetry of cross-cultural exchange  
Lucy Ward From Tragic Affect to Reflexive Modernity: Avant-Garde Poetry and the Challenge of Autonomy  

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