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Academic Staff

Academic Staff in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies

Academic staff may be contacted by fax on +612 9351 3918.

Dr Fiona Allon
Room 706 - A18 - Brennan McCallum Building A18
+61 2 9351 6815

(ARC Future Fellow)
Research and Teaching Interests: cultures of 'home' and everyday life; space, place and identity; suburban and urban cultures; popular culture; mobility, travel and the cultural dimensions of globalisation.
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Dr Ruth Barcan
(Senior Lecturer)

Room J4.02, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 6013
Research and Teaching Interests: nudity and nudism; feminist cultural studies approaches to the body; alternative therapies and New Age practices; and pedagogy.
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Dr Prudence Black
(ARC DECRA Fellow)

Room 414 Brennan MacCallum A18
+612 9351 6778
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Associate Professor Catherine Driscoll
(Postgraduate Research Coordinator; Co-ordinator, Work in Progress Seminars)

Room K4.07, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 9503
Research and Teaching Interests: modernity and modernism, cultural theory and philosophy (especially Deleuze, Foucault), art and literature, popular culture and film genres, fan cultures, rural studies, online culture, ethnography, youth studies and girl culture.
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Liam Grealy
(Teaching Fellow)

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Dr Melissa Gregg
(Senior Lecturer)

Room J6.06, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 3657
Research and Teaching Interests: work and production cultures, affect theory, social networks, cultural studies, television studies, new media, everyday life.
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Dr Jennifer Germon
(Departmental Library Liaison)

Room K4.09, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 7389
Teaching: GCST2613 Everyday Life: Theories and Practices; GCST2604 Sex, Violence and Transgression
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Dr Vicki Grieves
(ARC Indigenous Research Fellow)


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Dr Anna Hickey-Moody

Room J4.05, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 4343
Research and Teaching Interests: Disability, youth, masculinity, feminist philosophy, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, place, ethnography, schooling and the production of social disadvantage.
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Tim Laurie
Teaching: GCST2606 Genres in Cultural Context.

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Associate Professor Tess Lea
(QEII Fellow; Co-ordinator, Departmental Seminar Series)

Room 418, Brennan MacCallum Building
+612 9351 6777
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Dr Natalya Lusty

Room K4.08, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 9550
(Chair of Department; Senior Lecturer)

Research and Teaching Interests: modernism, contemporary visual culture, aesthetics of violence, censorship and media harm, fashion culture and cultural studies.
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Professor Meaghan Morris
(Director, Master of Cultural Studies program)

Room 405, Brennan MacCallum
+612 9351 2473
Research and Teaching Interests: Film and media historiographies; local and national cultures in globalisation; Australian and Asian-Pacific popular culture; public cultures and institutions after 'privatisation'
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Dr Jane Park
Senior Lecturer

Room K4.06, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 7509
Research and Teaching Interests: cultural studies, film and media studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, postcolonial theory, and comparative race studies
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Professor Elspeth Probyn
(Co-coordinator, Departmental Seminar Series; Research Coordinator)

Room K4.09, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 7389
Research and Teaching Interests: Elspeth's work focuses on questions of identity, sexuality and bodies. She has been constantly interested in what people think and do with their bodies – from eating, sex, to emotions and writing.
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Dr Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
(Senior Lecturer; Undergraduate Co-ordinator)

Room J4.01, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 5342
Research and Teaching Interests: multidisciplinary approaches to postcolonial feminism, transnationalism, whiteness studies, globalization and Australian studies.
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Dr Kane Race
(Senior Lecturer; Honours coordinator)

Room J4.07, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+61 2 9351 3662
Research and Teaching Interests: gender and sexuality, popular culture and consumption, sociology of health and biomedicine, Foucault’s ethics, biopolitics, citizenship, social policy, body technologies, and queer theory.
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Dr Guy Redden
(Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator)
Senior Lecturer

Room J4.03, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 8495
Research and Teaching Interests: Consumer culture, alternative cultures (including online), religion, lifestyle television, intercultural studies, cultural theory.
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Associate Professor Lee Wallace
(ARC Future Fellow)

Room 708 - A18 - Brennan McCallum
+61 2 9036 9497
Research and Teaching Interests: queer theory, lesbian and gay studies, feminist theory, colonial and postcolonial discourse, cultural studies and cinema studies.
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