Current Research Students and their Projects

Armstrong, Fergus

Literary Posterity and Francis Bacon

Azzopardi, Mark

Narrative Technologies: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Media Systems

Barnes, Sophia

Dialogism and the Novel: Bakhtin, Dostoevsky and Lessing

Barnsley, Katherine

Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Brooks, Jess

Comparative Freedoms: Conceptions of Freedom in Eastern and Western Literary contexts

Beckett, Jennifer

Heroes, Hitmen and Leprechauns: Irish Identity on Film

Buhagiar, Michael

Christopher Brennan and the Greeks: The Unity of 'Poems 1913'

Cantrall, Bernadette

The Body and the House in the Eighteenth Century British Novel

Capsopoulos, Meegan

"Things mysterious, immortal, starry": John Keats and the Herschelian Universe

Chipperfield, Jo

In the eyes of the dead: science, superstition and the murder of PC George Gutteridge

Chowdhury, Radhiah

The Idea of the Child as a Messianic Figure in Twentieth-Century Children's Literature

Charke, Natalie

Selfhood and Language in D. H Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love

Clifford, Katrina

Locating Fraternity: A literary and cultural history of the brother in the eighteenth-century novel

Cole, Emma

Seventeenth-century English Translation of Hugo Grotius' Neo-Latin Religious Tragedies

Corey, Richard

William Maxwell and the New Yorker

Couch, Rowanne

Writing out of the Academy: Scholarly Communications and the Global Market for Non-fiction

Curran, Fiona

Entangled narratives: the fusion of fiction and fact in twentieth century literatures

Davies, Cristyn

Lesbian Performance

Davis, Christelle

The Beats and The Brats- Modern American Fiction

Dickson, Sam

The Politics of Minor Postmodern Literature and Cinema

Dwyer, Ellen

Textiles in Australian Women's Writing

Emily, Finlay

Maurice Blanchot in Contemporary English, American, and Australian Criticism

Game, Andrew

Paul Wenz

Gibbard, Peter

Renaissance Drama and the Influence of Seneca

Greenall, Stephen

The Masculine Cult of Social Non-Engagement in Modern American Letters

Grieg, Elias

Wordsworth and the Politics of Representation

Glen, Matthew

John Banville

Halpin, Emma

John Wayne: real/reel

Harland, Anna

Aspects of Medieval Welsh Legend in Modern Fantasy Fiction

Heffernan, Shyamalika

Fantasy as the Mirror of Desire

Holcombe, Vanessa

The Political and Social Importance of Fiction, Film and Theatre in the Howard Years

Holmes, Beverley

A History of the Ensemble Theatre, Sydney

Johnson, Sue

Private Lives and Public Works of the late Victorian writers, Olive Schreiner, George Eliot and Oscar Wilde

Kelly, Michelle

Library Scenarios

Kennedy, Robert

Theories of Affect in Shakespeare

Kessel, Judith

The Bakhtin Circle and Contemporary Theory

Knight, Tony

Richard Burbage: Shakespeare's Actor

Krahn, Ulrike

The Moment of Creation: An Australian Aesthetic

Kwan, Roberta

Christian Literary Theory and the Fiction of Tim Winton

Le Hunte, Bem

Father of all Stories/ Creativity and the sacred

Leves, Kerry

Randolph Stow

Linkiewicz, Deirdre

The Fiction of A. S. Byatt

Loveridge, Georgina

"A Landscape Without Figures": Patrick White's Poetics of Space

Mansfield, Stephen

Representations of the Father in Contemporary Australian Life Writing

Marland, James

Gay Theatre and Spirituality

Marland, Patrick

Hypotyposis and Post-Romantic Fiction

Marsden, Robin

French and German influence in the Work of Christopher Brennan

McElvenny, James

The international auxiliary language movement and the science of language

McKay, Kieryn

The Cult Phenomenon: Literature, Film and Fashion

McLeod, James

The Situationist Alan Ball

McKeown, Ailish

Medieval Saints' Plays

Meers, Samantha

Aboriginal Literature and the Law

Mould, Kate

The Sidney Circle

Noonan, Will

Inappropriate Humour in Literature

Obuchova, Ekaterina

Satan in Romantic Literature

Olcelli, Laura

Italy: a Fundamental Leg for the "Peripatetic Ladies" of the Grand Tour

Orel, Atilla

The sublime poetics of godless vegetarians: Shelley's all-encompassing politics

Peters, Henry

Love and Conjugal Loyalty in Gower's French and English Poems

Peters, Neil

Classical Greek and Latin influences on Virginia Woolf's Fiction

Pike, Adam

Tales from the Crypt: Reading the Archive

Pinder, Julian

Literary Networks

Pippos, Andrew

The What and the How: essays in the late twentieth century

Rahman, Sabina

An Arrow Through the Dark: Robin Hood as a Vindication of Medieval English Mythology

Rickett, Carolyn

Creative Writing and Therapy

Saleh Rofail, Lydia

The Postcolonial Gothic

Sands, Jessica

Objects in Crime Fiction

Saxe, Marian de

Sing me  a Song of History: South African poets and singers in exile 1900-1990

Shahinyan, Diana

Justice and Illegality in Classic American Private Eye Fiction

Shapiro, Jackie

An examination of guilt, atonement and authorial ethics in inter-disciplinary narrative forms: truthtelling, history and the role of the novel in Ian McEwan's 'Atonement' and Bernhard Schlink's 'The Reader'

Smith, Richard

Spying and Political Surveillance in Shakespeare's Dramatic Courts

Sofatzis, Elizabeth

Original Sin, Creation and Redemption in the Nature Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins & his Contemporaries

Stevens, Lynda

Sisters in Jane Austen

Stevenson, Billy

Werner Herzog

Stoklosinski, Eduard

On readability: aspects of literalness in translation of literature

Sutton, Mark

'Roadmaps For The Soul' - Transcendentalism and Cartography in the Songs of Bob Dylan and the Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

Taveira, Rodney

Cinematic Literature: De Lillo, Ellroy

Tuggle, Lindsay

The Legacy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

Van Den Berg, Jacinta

Brian Castro's maternal poetics

Wallace, Anna

The Perception of Time in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Watson, Katherine

The Genius and Construction of Our Saxon Poetry:  The History of the Recovery of Old and Early Middle English Poetry

Wells, Bradley

Charles Williams: The Forgotten Inkling (The Theological Footprint of Charles Williams' Supernatural Novels)

Wilde, Nicholas de

The Persistence of High Modernism in Contemporary Literature

Wilkin, Peter

Dionysus and Orpheus: Divine and Human Poetry in the thought of Francis Bacon

Williamson, Geordie

Romantic Autobiographies

Zaat, Katrina

Estrangement and familiarity: genre in John R. Jewitt's Journal kept at Nootka Sound and in the Narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt

Zavaglia, Liliana

Post-Mabo Relations to the Land

Zhang, Yuan

Ethan Frome and Other Works by Edith Wharton: The Equation of Inheritance and Trespass in Terms of Narrative Mechanics