Projects

Current Projects  

Project Title: Australian Television and Popular Memory: New Approaches to the Cultural History of the Media in the project of Nation Building
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council / Swinburne University of Technology
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Christopher Healy (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Dates: 2008 - 2012
Project Title: Large screens and the transnational public sphere
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council and Art Center Nabi
Scheme Name: Linkage Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Prof Nikos Papastergiadis (Media and Communication), A/Prof Scott McQuire (Media and Communication), Dr Audrey Yue (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Dates: 2009 - 2013
Project Title: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Australia: researching and relating Australia's manuscript holdings to new technologies and new readers
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council and State Library of Victoria
Scheme Name: Linkage Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Margaret Manion (Art History)
Dates: 2009 - 2012
Project Title: The role of lifestyle television in transforming culture, citizenship and selfhood: Australia, China, Taiwan, Singapore and India
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Francesca Martin (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Dates: 2010 - 2013
Project Title: Reconsidering Australia Media Art
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council / University of New South Wales
Scheme Name: Linkage Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Sean Cubitt (Media and Communication)
Dates: 2010 - 2013
Project Title: Negotiating Cultural Insecurity: Art Policies and Cultural Citizenship
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council and Arts Victoria
Scheme Name: Linkage Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Nikos Papastergiadis (Media and Communication), Dr Audrey Yue (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Dates: 2011 - 2015
Project Title: Media Treatment and Communication Needs of Sudanese Australians
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Linkage Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr David Nolan (Media and Communication)
Dates: 2011 - 2013
Project Title: Transformations of Terence: Ancient Drama, New Media, and Contemporary Reception
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Bernard Muir (English and Theatre Studies)
Dates: 2011 - 2013
Project Title: The Circulation of Colonial Literary Culture in Australia: Mapping the Literary Magazines and Periodicals
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Ken Gelder (English and Theatre Studies), Rachael Weaver (English and Theatre Studies)
Dates: 2011 - 2013
Project Title: The Global Self: Screening the History of Human Rights in the 20th Century to the Present
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Barbara Creed (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Dates: 2011 - 2014
Project Title: Mega-Exhibitions: Biennales, Triennales and Documentas, 1950-2010
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Charles Green (Art History), Dr Anthony Gardner (Art History)
Dates: 2011 - 2013
Project Title: War and Peace: How and Why Contemporary Conflict and its Aftermath is Framed by War Art
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Prof Charles Green (Art History)
Dates: 2011 - 2013
Project Title: From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian Print Cultures (1840-1940)
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Michelle Smith (English and Theatre Studies)
Dates: 2011 - 2013
Project Title: Empathy and Evolution: The History of Emotions and the Literary and Visual Representation of Animals
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Deirdre Coleman (English and Theatre Studies), Professor Barbara Creed (Screen and Cultural Studies), Professor Jeanette Hoorn (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Dates: 2011 - 2014
Project Title: Regimes of Reading
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor John Frow (English & Theatre Studies)
Dates: 2011 - 2015
Project Title: Centre for the History of Emotions
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Centre of Excellence
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Stephanie Trigg (English and Theatre Studies)
Dates: 2011 - 2017
Project Title: Australian Institute of Art History
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Helen McPherson Smith Trust
Scheme Name:  General purpose
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Jaynie Anderson (Art History)
Dates: 2011 - 2013
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Sponsor Name / Collaborator: The Faculty of Arts
Scheme Name: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Adam Bartlett (English and Theatre Studies)
Dates: 2011 - 2012
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Sponsor Name / Collaborator: The University of Melbourne
Scheme Name: McKenzie Fellowship
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Caroline Hamilton (Publishing and Communications)
Dates: 2011 - 2012

Project Title: Play It Again: Creating a Playable History of Australasian Digital Games, for Industry, Community and Research Purposes
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council / Flinders University
Scheme Name: Linkage Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Angela Ndalianis (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Dates:
Project Title: William Blake in the 21st Century: Poetry, Prophecy, the History of Imagination, and the Futures of Romanticism
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Peter Otto (English and Theatre Studies)
Dates: 2012 - 2014
Project Title: Participatory Public Space: a Right to the Networked City
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Scott McQuire (Media and Communication), Prof Nikos Papastergiadis (Media and Communication)
Dates: 2012 - 2014
Project Title: Literary Romanticism and the Media of Romantic Love: a Cultural History, 1774-1840
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Clara Tuite (English and Theatre Studies)
Dates: 2012 - 2014
Project Title: Australian Art Exhibitions 1968-2009: a Generation of Cultural Transformation
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council / University of New South Wales
Scheme Name: Linkage Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Alison Inglis (Art History)
Dates: 2012 - 2014
Project Title: New Media Dramaturgy: How New Media Transform the Composition and Reception of Live Performance
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council / University of New South Wales
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Peter Eckersall (English and Theatre Studies)
Dates: 2012 - 2014
Project Title: Design and Art Australia Online: Sustainable Data Sharing for Australian Researchers and Collections
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council / University of New South Wales
Scheme Name: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Grants (LIEF)
Responsible CI and Discipline: Prof Jaynie Anderson (Art History)
Dates: 2012
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Sponsor Name / Collaborator: The University of Melbourne
Scheme Name: McKenzie Fellowship
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Helen McDonald (Art History)
Dates: 2012 - 2014
Project Title: Poetry and Public Apology in the Late Twentieth Century: Adrienne Rich and Geoffrey Hill
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: The University of Melbourne
Scheme Name: McKenzie Fellowship
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Bridget Vincent (English and Theatre Studies)
Dates: 2012 - 2015

Project Title: The Hispanic Baroque: Complexity in the First Atlantic Culture
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: SSHRC / University of Western Ontario
Scheme Name: Research Grants
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Angela Ndalianis (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Dates:
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Sponsor Name / Collaborator: The University of Melbourne
Scheme Name: Melbourne Research Fellowship (Career Interruption)
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Jolanta Nowak (Art History)
Dates: 2012


Past Projects

  

Project Title: Speed, Time and Political Process in Australia
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Robert Hassan (Media and Communication)

Project Title: Evaluating the Australian Popular Fiction Archive: A Definitive Critical History and Bibliography of Early to Late Colonial Genre Writing
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Ken Gelder (English and Theatre Studies)

Project Title: Literary Character and Regimes of Reading
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor John Frow (English and Theatre Studies)

Project Title: Public screens and the transformation of public space
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Scott McQuire (Media and Communication)

Project Title: Cinema and Civilisation: Science, Progress and Empire in Early Film
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Barbara Creed (Screen and Cultural Studies)

Project Title: The University of Melbourne Book Industry Study
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Linkage Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Ms Jennifer Lee (Publishing and Communications)

Project Title: Minds, Bodies, Machines: A Cultural and Intellectual History of Technologies in the 21st Century
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Australian Research Council
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Deirdre Coleman (English and Theatre Studies)

Project Title: Nuanced recollection and representation: the political and rhetorical strategies of The Peterborough Chronicle
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Bernard Muir (English and Theatre Studies)

Project Title: Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Stephanie Trigg (English and Theatre Studies)

Project Title: Gothic Fiction and Imagined Worlds: Popular Literature, Emotion, and the transformation of experience in modernity
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Peter Otto (English and Theatre Studies)

Project Title: Genealogies of digital light
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Professor Sean Cubitt (Media and Communication)

Project Title: Revolution and the everyday: performative interactions in art, theatre and politics in 1960s Japan
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Peter Eckersall (English and Theatre Studies)

Project Title: The Bloom Book Industry Report: an annual survey of the Australian book publishing industry
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Bloom Partners
Responsible CI and Discipline: Ms Jennifer Lee (Publishing and Communications)

Project Title: Children of Frankenstein: Science Fiction, Automata and the Emergence of Robot Realities
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Discovery Projects
Scheme Name: Australian Research Council
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Angela Ndalianis (Screen and Cultural Studies)

Project Title: The History of Asian Australian Cinema: Diaspora, Policy and Ethics
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Discovery Projects
Scheme Name: Australian Research Council
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Audrey Yue (Screen and Cultural Studies)

Project Title: Theatre in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Culture in a Modern Global Context
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Discovery Projects
Scheme Name: Australian Research Council
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Denise Varney (English and Theatre Studies)

Project Title: Global Youth and Media - Notions of Cosmopolitanism in the Global Public Space
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Discovery Projects
Scheme Name: Australian Research Council
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Ingrid Volkmer (Media and Communication)

Project Title: Communications Regulation in the Digital Economy
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Communications Alliance LTD
Scheme Name:
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Scott McQuire (Media and Communication)

Project Title: Racial Literacy: Applying Racial Literacy Research in Australia
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: The University of Melbourne
Scheme Name: Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme
Responsible CI and Discipline: Dr Odette Kelada (Australian Indigenous Studies)

Project Title: Sex and Spending in Consumer Culture: the influence of economics on modern theories and practices of sexual psychology
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor David Bennett (English and Theatre Studies)

Project Title: Social Memory and Historical Justice: How Democratic Societies Remember and Forget the Victimisation of Minorities in the Past
Sponsor Name / Collaborator: Australian Research Council/Swinburne University of Technology
Scheme Name: Discovery Projects
Responsible CI and Discipline: Associate Professor Christopher Healy (Screen and Cultural Studies)