Languages
Ancient Greek
Dr Ann Moffatt
Byzantine Studies; the classical traidition; Greek and Roman art.
Arabic
Mr Ghassan Al Shatter
Second language acquisition; applied linguistics; language curriculum and teaching method; Arabic literature and Middle Eastern history.
French
Dr Peter Brown
New Caledonian literature and culture; the French presence in the Pacific more generally; the geopolitics of institutional francophony; 19th century French literature; French cinema.
Dr Chantal Crozet
Intercultural language education; second culture and language acquisition; language, culture and identity politics; ethics and spirituality in language education; the history of language teaching; language teachers' education.
Mr James Grieve
Proust; translation; development of a computer-based system of correction of interference errors in students' written work.
Dr Louise Maurer
Image in language study; image literacy and discourse; the component of culture in language; interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research in Contemporary literature and the visual arts; cinema.
Dr Karis Muller
Language issues in the European Union and Council of Europe; the myth of Eurafrica, in maps, cartoons, fiction, as a study of the intersection of pan-Europeanism and imperialism in twentieth century history.
German
Professor Hans Kuhn
17th c. German studies, especially the language and writings (poetic. dramatic, devotional) of Andreas Gryphius; Scandinavian languages and literature; comparative Germanic linguistics; folk literature, Germanic and European (folk tales, folksong); text and music (hymns, lieder, oratorio, rímur); cultural manifestations of nationalism (mainly European); Germanic mythology and folk beliefs.
Dr Roger Hillman
European literature, especially German and French; European cinema, especially German and Italian; music; narrative; film music.
Dr Lousie Jansen
Data-based reseach on second language acquisition; acquisition of German word order in instructed learners; roles of implicit and explicit modes of second language knowledge and learning; relationship between syntax and morphology in second language acquistion.
Ms Gabriele Schmidt
Language teaching; curriculum development; languages for specific purposes.
Italian
Dr Piera Carroli
Literary texts in second language teaching and learning; intercultural pedagogy; contemporary Italian narrative
Latin
Dr Claire Jamset
Latin epic poetry, especially Virgil, Statius and Lucan; masculinity in Latin poetry; Latin elegiac poetry, especially Catallus and Ovid
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Dr Elizabeth Minchin
Homeric epics as oral poetry; the composition of the Homeric epics; Homer and memory; Homer's narrative; the speech Homer attributes to his characters; the prose narrative of novels (in Greek Longus, Daphnis and Chloe; in Latin Apuleius, Metamorphoses).
Persian
Appointment to be announced
Russian
Dr Marian Hill
Soviet Russian literature of the post-Stalin period; women's literature in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.
Mr Rosh Ireland
Russian drama, particularly Soviet period.
Ms Margaret Travers
Early Russian aviation; Aspect in the Russian verb.
Dr Kevin Windle
Modern Russian and Polish literature; Slavonic lexicography; translation studies; Russian revolutionaries in Australia 1911-25..
Spanish
Dr Monica Aznarez
Spanish phraseology; phraseology and culture; Spanish linguistics/pragmatics; teaching of Spanish as a foreign language.
Martha Florez
Spanish Applied Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition and Teaching); AVESPE (Acquisition of varieties of Spanish through films); Contemporary Latin-American literature; Multimedia in Spanish language learning; Curriculum development; Intercultural language teaching.
Dr Daniel Martin
Language maintenance and shift; Spanish sociolingujistics; the Spanish-speaking community in Australia; social aspects of the teaching of languages in Australia; the use of creative writing and theatre in language teaching.
Dr Guillermo Anad
European and Latin American literature, music and visual cultures; the geopolitics of knowledge; cultural anthropology; literary theory; narratology; literary tangography.
Turkish
Dr Mehmet Mehdi Ilhan
Ottoman language; modern Turkish language; Ottoman and Turkish history and culture; the history of Islam.