Current Postgraduate Research

These are the postgraduate students currently enrolled in Gender and Cultural Studies programs, although of course many postgraduate students take our units of study as part of another degree. Research topics and working titles are also listed.

  • Kristian Adamson, MA Research
  • Hongwei Bao, Imagining Modernity: Constructing Queer Identities in Post-socialist China
  • Esther Berry, Bodily Colonisations: (Post)Imperialism in the Flesh
  • Rowena Braddock, Departing from Derrida: On Literary Hospitality, Being Confounded and the Animal
  • Anita Bressan, The identity of the Italian women who migrated to Australia in the 1950s
  • Julia Brown, MA Research
  • Rebecca Brown, PhD: (Gendered) Binge Drinking
  • Sarah Cefai, Critical Feeling in the Queer Feminist Fold: A Genealogy of Feeling in Feminist Knowledge and Lesbian Public Culture
  • Jacqui Chowns, MA Coursework
  • Kyra Clarke, Teaching Pleasure Pleasurably: Sexuality education, pedagogy and film
  • Kerryn Drysdale, Kinging desire: An examination of the relationship between participants in Sydney's drag king scene
  • Hon Wai Fong, MA Research
  • Carina Garland, From Simple Girl to Complex Woman
  • Inez Gershonowitz, After Ellen
  • Liam Grealy, Examining Australian Imprisonment
  • Luz Hincapié, Pacific Translations: Modern/postmodern identities, mobility and hybridity
  • Georgie Isbister, Postfeminist Fairytales: Love, Romance, Postfeminist Popular Culture and Contemporary Male to Female Personal Relationships
  • Maria Elena Indelicato, The difficult duty of being woman
  • Hae Seong Jang, Social identities of young indigenous people in the indigenous rural community at Yarrabah, Queensland
  • Jessica Kean, PhD
  • Catherine Knox, MA Coursework
  • Tim Laurie, Ontology of musical experience
  • Nancy Lee, Masculinity in the kitchen
  • Marianna Leishman, Gender, sexuality and feminism in erotic performance
  • Mian Liu, Childhood in Childcare Centres and Disney Theme Parks
  • Remy Low, Infinite Undulations of the Snake: The effects of neoliberal discourse in 'Parent-Controlled' Christian schools
  • Mohamad Mamdouhi, Iran, Modernity and Human Rights
  • Viv McGregor, Transgender temporality
  • Li Meng, The Intellectual Woman - A Cross-Cultural Study of Chinese and English Culture
  • Wei Miao, Diasporic Identities in Chinese American Literature from the 1970s to present: Case studies of China Men and A Free Life
  • Melanie Myers, MA Coursework
  • Estelle Noonan, Re-Reading Female Masochism: Unveiling the Challenges of the Perverse Heterosex
  • Lina Nope-Williams, Gender and Industrialisation in Indonesia
  • Stella North, The Materiality of Fashion
  • Kate O'Halloran, MPhil
  • Jacki Ruddock, Queer girls’ comic pornography
  • Emilie Severino, Angela Carter and the Enlightenment
  • Mark Steven, Genocidal Media Systems
  • Anna Marie Swanson, Homophobia in heterosexual women
  • Marc Trabsky, Eroticism and Death
  • Fang Wang, Youth culture in contemporary China and Intra-Asia cultural transnationalism
  • Craig Williams, Classed Codings of Filmic Masculinity
  • Trish Wynd, Hannah Arendt