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Academic Staff Research Interests

English


Mr Graham Cullum
Philosophy and Literature; The Renaissance; Literary Theory; The History of Erotic Representations.

Dr Ned Curthoys
Dissemination of the humanist tradition of classical rhetoric into twentieth century literary theory, philosophy, and political theory.

Dr Livio Dobrez
Australiana; contemporary European literature; philosophy and art.

Professor Ian Donaldson
Jonson and Shakespeare, Renaissance comedy, modern European drama, the practice of biography, the rape of Lucretia, and early views of the Australian Aborigines.

Dr Debjani Ganguly
Postcolonial literatures, global Anglophone writing, South Asian diasporic English fiction, literary and critical theory, cultural theory, postcolonial and globalisation studies, translation studies, contemporary debates on comparative and world literatures.

Dr Simon Haines
Romantic and post-Romantic poetry and philosophy; seventeenth-century English poetry and philosophy; literature and moral philosophy; literature and political philosophy; the self in literature; comparative literature; history of ideas; modern literary theory.

Dr Ian Higgins
British and Irish Literature, especially in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; literature and politics. Special interests: Jonathan Swift; Jacobite writing and publishing in England 1689-1745.

Dr Christa Knellwolf
Early modern literature and culture (17th to 19th century), the formation of European national identity, European exploration and colonisation, the European Enlightenment and its influences, critical theory, creative writing.

Dr Jacqueline Lo
Asian-Australian studies, diaspora studies, intercultural and cross-cultural performance studies; postcolonial theory and literature, Malaysian and Singaporean literature and theatre.

Ms Lucy Neave
Fiction and Script writing; writing in new media; the influences of literary theory on contemporary writing.

Dr Richard Pascal

American literature; Native American studies; Gothic fiction

Dr Gillian Russell
British cultural and literary history 1750-1820 with reference to theatre, sociability, gender, public culture, war, Jane Austen.

Dr Russell Smith
Literary and cultural theory; modernist and contemporary literature, especially Australian literature; contemporary Australian visual arts; Samuel Beckett.