Contacting the Department of English
The Department of English is housed in the John Woolley Building, A20 on Science Road on the main University campus. The Department's General Office is in Room N386 at the end of the corridor on your right, as you enter the building on Level 3.
Administrative Contact
General Office:
Room N386, John Woolley Building, A20
Telephone: +61 2 9351 2349 or 9351 3251
Facsimile: +61 2 9351 2434
For general enquiries please email:
Office Hours: Mon – Thurs 10am–5pm; Fri 10am-4pm
Postal address:
Department of English
John Woolley Building A20
The University of Sydney NSW 2006
Australia
ACADEMIC COORDINATORS
Chair of Department
Professor Paul Giles
Room S356, John Woolley Building, A20
Phone: +61 2 9114 1979
Fax: +61 2 9351 2434
Email:
Undergraduate Student Advisor
Dr Lawrence Warner
Room N427, John Woolley Building, A20
Phone: +61 2 9351 4286
Fax: +61 2 9351 2434
Email:
Honours Coordinator
Dr Huw Griffiths
Room N326, John Woolley Building A20
Phone: +61 2 9351 2065
Fax: +61 2 9351 2434
Email:
Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Dr Bernadette Brennan
Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research)
Room N323, John Woolley Building A20
Phone: +61 2 9351 6853
Fax: +61 2 9351 2434
Email:
Note: Forms requiring Chair of Department or Head of School signature must be submitted to the appropriate Director of Postgraduate Studies.
Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator
Associate Professor David Brooks
Director, Creative Writing Program
Room S364, John Woolley Building, A20
Phone: +61 2 9361 2569
Fax: +61 2 9351 2434
Email:
Dr Jan Shaw
Director, Professional Communications
Room N358, John Woolley Building, A20
Phone: +61 2 9351 7413
Fax: +61 2 9351 2434
Email:
Note: Forms requiring Chair of Department or Head of School signature must be submitted to the appropriate Director of Postgraduate Studies.
Enquiries within the department
- General enquiries about the organization, academic content, and assessment of individual units of study. Consult your tutor or unit of study coordinator. List of Academic Staff
- Applications for Special Consideration, Special Arrangements or Extensions on written assessments. Apply online through the English department website.
- Enquiries about credit transfer for previous studies, waiver of prerequisites, and student exchange. Submit the relevant forms and printed information (e.g. unit of study outlines of courses already taken at other institutions or ones you wish to take on exchange overseas) to the General Office. Please click here to access forms.
- Enquiries about the honours program in English. Read the information on the Department of English Honours Program page for information and further advice.
- Any other departmental enquiries. Consult the General Office or the English Department website.
Specific study related enquiries
- For undergraduate enquiries please follow this link.
- For postgraduate research enquiries please follow this link.
- For postgraduate coursework enquiries please follow this link.
- International Students for general admission enquiries please email or phone +61 2 8627 8300
Enquiries from the public and from HSC students
Staff of the English Department are happy to answer enquiries from members of the public. Please note however that we cannot undertake to answer enquiries that demand extensive or detailed research or a lengthy answer. It may be possible in such cases to direct enquirers to written sources of information.
It will expedite your enquiry if you scroll through the entries under Staff on this website and locate the person whose expertise is most suited to your enquiry. You can then email that person directly. Otherwise, you can email the ‘general enquiries’ address shown on this page.
We regret that members of staff do not act as advisors or mentors to students undertaking a ‘Major Work’ for HSC English. One reason for this policy is the heavy workload carried by our staff in performing their normal teaching and research duties. Another is equity: it would be unfair to act in this capacity for some students and not others.
Many staff members give lectures on HSC texts at study days organized by schools and other bodies. They would normally expect to be paid the current fee for such lectures. Further resources concerning HSC English studies are available on the websites of the Board of Studies and the English Teachers Association: