Associate Professor Vanessa Smith’s research straddles the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and is primarily concerned with issues of intercultural contact. Her ARC QEII fellowship 'A Gift for Friendship: intimacy and exchange in Oceanic encounter' explored the ways in which European ethics of friendship were placed under scrutiny in contexts of imperial encounter.

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Dr Daniel Anlezark’s research is in the area of Old and Middle English language and literature. I am particularly interested in the literary reception of the Bible and the literature of Classical antiquity by the Anglo-Saxons.

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Professor Geraldine Barnes’ research areas include: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies; Travel and Literature; Middle English Literature and Medievalism. .

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Dr Judith Beveridge has been writing poetry since 1974 and has published three books of poetry. The Domesticity of Giraffes, published by Black Lightning Press in 1987 received the Dame Mary Gilmore Award, the NSW Premier's Poetry prize and the Victorian Premier's Poetry prize.

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Dr. Brooks teaches Twentieth-century poetry and poetics, English literary modernism 1880-1920, Australian Literature both modern and contemporary, Comparative Literature and Creative Writing.

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Associate Professor Will Christie’s research areas include: British Romantic literature and culture and poetry and poetics. He is a member of the Nineteenth-Century Studies research group.

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Professor Dixon's research interests include: colonialism and its culture; Australian literature and literary criticism; Australian cultural studies; postcolonial studies and Australian art history. His current research is an illustrated edition of Frank Hurley's diaries, and the book Travelling Mass-Media Circus: Frank Hurley and Colonial Modernity, both to be published by Melbourne University Press in 2008.

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Dr Bruce Gardiner is a member of the Nineteenth-Century Studies research group. .

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Dr Gleeson-White is interested in the connections between imaginative representations of the American West and the South, with a particular focus on frontier narratives. She is currently working on William Faulkner’s literary writings about the West as well as his Hollywood Westerns, as part of a larger book-length project on Southern frontier narratives, from the 1830s to the present.

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Dr Huw Griffiths’ research is in early modern English literature and culture, particularly drama and poetry, and with a focus on ideas of the nation, rhetoric and politics. His research areas include: Early Modern Literature and Culture and Rhetoric.

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Dr Melissa Hardie is currently writing a book on true crime and the remediation of "fact" in a variety of genres and modes. She has recently written and published on televisual representations of crime in procedurals like Law & Order and Cold Case; Patty Jenkins' film Monster, representations of criminal ecologies and the Boston Strangler; Kitty Genovese.

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Dr Rebecca Johinke has broad-ranging interests but two main areas of teaching and research: the rhetorical context of writing and contemporary Australian Studies. Recent research projects related to representations of gender in Australian literature and film have included studies of father figures in the novels of Janette Turner Hospital, representations of masculinities in Peter Carey’s fiction, and representations (especially visual ones) of masculinities and car and street culture.

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Dr David Kelly’s reasearch interests include: America and American Cities; Modernism; Nineteenth-Century Studies and Literature and Cinema. .

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Dr Peter Marks is particularly interested in literature as social critique, in relationships between literature and cinema, literature and politics, in periodical culture, and in utopias. A line of current research investigates surveillance as it has been predicted, depicted and assessed in literary and cinematic utopias, employing recent surveillance theory to investigate utopias, and utopias to analyse surveillance theory.

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Dr Nicola Parsons’ research is focused on eighteenth century literature and cultural history, with a special interest in cultures of reading. Her monograph, Reading Gossip in Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave, forthcoming 2007) investigates the relation between print cultures of gossip and literary and political practices.

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Dr Nicholas Riemer’s research interests include: Modern English language, especially verb semantics; meaning in language (semantic description and theory; polysemy; semantic change); semiotic theory (the foundations of semiotics; semiotics and grammar); metaphor and language and subjectivity, especially the place of emotion in theories of language. .

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Associate Professor Margaret Rogerson is a member of the Middle English and later Medieval Studies; Theatre History; Medievalism and Early Modern Literature and Culture research groups. .

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Dr Liam Semler’s is the convenor of the Early Modern Literature and Culture research cluster.

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Dr Jan Shaw's research interests include: theories of discourse, culture and society; modern language approaches to professional and business communication; discursive construction of leadership in Australian business; feminist theory; women in contemporary fantasy literature and women and Middle English literature.

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Professor Barry Spurr’s research interests include: Early Modern Literature and Culture and Modernism.

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Dr Lawrence Warner is a specialist in Middle English literature, especially Piers Plowman, and has published articles on topics ranging from Dante's "erotics of crusading" to Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century Latin history of King Arthur. He is co-editor of The Yearbook of Langland Studies (the only journal devoted exclusively to Middle English that does not have "Chaucer" in its title) and Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand.

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Dr Sue Woolfe is the award-winning, best-selling author of 3 novels, Painted Woman (published Australia 1989), which will be translated and published by Editions Phebus in France in 2008, Leaning Towards Infinity (1996), which has been translated into several languages, and her most recent novel, The Secret Cure (2003). She has adapted both Painted Woman and Leaning Towards Infinity for the stage, with professional productions, and she has adapted Painted Woman for ABC radio as a play.

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Dr Brigid Rooney is currently working on a research project concerned with the patterning and representation of narrative time in selected post 1960s Australian literary fiction. With attention to works by writers like David Malouf, Gerald Murnane, Steven Carroll and Gail Jones, among others, she is pursuing questions about how and with what effects modernist conceptions of narrative time characteristically mediate fictional representations of Australian space, place and identity.

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Dr Vic Burrows is currently writing a monograph on whiteness and shame which explores the way shame works as a form of social control, especially in relation to racial hierarchies. Her research areas are fairly eclectic but tend to gather around the construction of subject positions within the shifting racial hierarchies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries read in conjunction with their historical legacies, especially in relation to the unmarked privileges of whiteness.

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Dr Kirkpatrick's research is in Australian literature and cultural history. He is especially interested in poetry, and in particular its uses and transformations within popular culture over the last hundred years.

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Dr Lilley has supervised distinguished theses in the area of literature and visual media. As well as being a scholar, Kate is a celebrated poet; and many of her poems engage film and television.

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