Postgraduate Supervisors

Aboriginal Studies	Indonesian
Ancient History	International Relations
Ancient Literature in Translation	Italian
Archaeology	Japanese
Asian Societies	Linguistics
Chinese	Music
Classical Languages	Palaeoanthropology
Communication and Media	Peace Studies
English	Philosophy
English and Communications	Political and International Studies
English and Theatre	Psychology
European Cultures	Religion
French	Sociology
Geography	Theatre Studies
German	Urban and Regional Planning
History	Women's and Gender Studies

Subjects and Focus Areas	Staff Member
Aboriginal Studies

Ancient History
Ancient Greek history or religion	Associate Professor Matthew Dillon
Roman Women, Law, Religion Iconography of the Julio-Claudians Space, Art, Architecture in Ancient Rome Political and Social History: Roman Republic Political and Social History: Julio-Claudian Rome	Dr Bronwyn Hopwood
Military and social history, both ancient and modern	Associate Professor Iain Spence
Archaeology
Australian indigenous archaeology, both pre and post-contact interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research involving archaeology and other disciplines plant remains in Australian archaeology	Associate Professor Wendy Beck
Australian Aboriginal archaeology (including stone artefact studies) rock art (particularly Australia and Europe) language origins history of communication archaeological heritage	Professor Iain Davidson
any aspect of Australian Aboriginal archaeology archaeology of (rock) art South East Asian archaeology archaeology of Indonesian-Australian contact	Professor Mike Morwood
Ancient Literature in Translation
Greek or Roman literature - study of any Greek or Roman author or literary genre such as drama, epic, satire or elegiac poetry	Associate Professor Linda Garland
Asian Societies
South Asian politics Governance and Public Management Development issues	Associate Professor Habib Zafarulla
Chinese
Modern Chinese language and pedagogy Distance language learning Translation and cultural studies	Isabell Tasker
Chinese literature and literary Chinese Late imperial Chinese cultural history Gender and sexuality in traditional China Chinese calligraphy	Dr Cuncun Wu
Classical Languages
Greek and Latin	Professor Greg Horsley
Communication and Media
mass communications communications and politics theories of communications digital communications communications and critical theory visual communication	Dr. Paul Adams
creative and professional writing publishing and editing creative industries collaboration and collaborative practice electronic writing and publishing creative nonfiction biography, autobiography and life writing self-help writing	Dr Donna Lee Brien
Australian Film British Film screenwriting	Dr Neil Rattigan
film theory television studies documentary history, production and distribution; especially Australian documentary media industries communication technologies and histories media education and pedagogy theories of discourse and representation cultural studies and cultural history cultural policy studies interrelations of media, culture, politics and law	Associate Professor Dugald Williamson
English
early modern literature and culture Shakespeare Milton autobiography	Associate Professor Ron Bedford
Victorian literature and culture animal Cultural Studies documentary film in India individual authors: Christina Stead; New York School poets (and painters)	Dr Jennifer McDonell
Australian literature Caribbean and west African literatures post-colonial theory life writing travel writing and ethnographic narrative	Asssociate Professor Russell McDougall
early modern literature and culture history of the body cannibalism history of medicine theatre history environmental literature	Dr Louise Noble
nineteenth-century literature victorian journalism feminist literary criticism and theory, especially work of Virginia Woolf	Dr. Cathy Waters
English and Communications
American and English literature critical theory and philosophy film theory and feminism modernism and postmodernism Henry James	Dr Suzie Gibson
Victorian literature the classical tradition children’s and young adult literature	Dr Elizabeth Hale
American literature Australian literature (20th century especially) genre/non-fiction studies historical novel	Dr Stephen Harris
children's literature, media and cultural studies Australian cultural studies 17th and 18th century British literature history of print culture science and culture new media / virtual ethnography	Dr Leonie Rutherford
Tolkien (Neo-) mediaeval literature Australian prose, especially the novel (Australian) Folklore History of the English Language Australian English onomastics (any aspect) narrative heritage regional identity as revealed by formal literature, other writings, and lore.	Associate Professor John Ryan
Australian literature American poetry (confessional and beyond) Australian film contemporary fiction mourning and film	Dr Felicity Plunkett
American literature Australian literature poetry and poetics Romanticism	Dr Michael Sharkey
English and Theatre
Australian literature Australian theatre Australian literary and theatre history	Dr Anne Pender
European Cultures
See French, German, Italian as appropriate
French
French classical drama Seventeenth-century French literature and thought French theatre; criticism, history, theory	Professor Chris Gossip
Works of Gabrielle Roy Novels of Stendhal	Dr Lee Brotherson
20th century literature to the 1960s Jean Cocteau French 20th/21st century literature and criticism	Dr Jennifer Hatte
Geography
planning history planning society, and politics the planning profession	Martin Auster
community urban life leisure, recreation, tourism lifestyle social well-being planning	Professor Jim Walmsley
regional economic development conditions, processes, and policies regional economic and social governance - institutions, political parties and processes, leadership and entrepreneurship studies of the future - especially the impact of technology on economy and society and techniques for envisioning the future urban planning theory - and long range strategic planning issues and processes	Associate Professor Tony Sorensen
German
German the post-war German novel, especially the novels of Günter Grass. "Vertreibungsliteratur", ie. the literature dealing with the lost provinces east of the Oder-Neisse Line, and the situation of the German refugees and expellees from these areas, especially as depicted in the novels of Arno Surminski, Siegfried Lenz, Horst Bienek and Günter Grass.	Associate Professor Herman Beyersdorf
German speaking women writers Literature of the former DDR especially Günter Kunert and Christa Wolf 19th century literature especially Georg Büchner German film since 1970	Associate Professor Kerry Dunne
History: Ancient History, Classical Languages and European Cultures, Australian History (including Local, Family and Applied History) Medieval and Modern European History (including American)
Medieval History	Dr. Eric Acheson
Australian political, cultural and labour history, especially since 1850	Dr. Frank Bongiorno
American history especially early national period, Trans-Atlantic studies, history of the 1960s in Australia and the United States, road safety history and memorial culture in Australia, church history in Australia and the United States	Dr Jennifer Clark
history of the crusades Byzantine history and Society the world of late antiquity the bronze age Mediterranean and Near East texts and society in classical Greece and Rome	Associate Professor Lynda Garland
Australian Colonial History Australian cold war and 1960s cultural history	Dr Erin Ihde
early modern European history British history - seventeenth to nineteenth centuries	Professor David Kent
European history since the French Revolution Political and social dissent, especially communitarian anarchism Social history of ideas Ethnographic history	Dr Rob Knowles
Nineteenth century rural and frontier history Aboriginal rock paintings	Dr David Roberts
Indonesian
Indonesian language and linguistics Genre study of writing (esp. academic writing) Intercultural communication Islam in Indonesia	Zifirdaus Adnan
Indonesian culture, politics and history	Stephen Miller
International Relations
International relations, especially: Australian foreign and defence policy; Pacific islands politics and regionalism; Global nuclear issues, and Asia Pacific and global security issues	Dr Karin Von Strokirch
Italian
Renaissance literature Italian Women's literature 20th century novels and poetry	Annamaria Cavallaro
Italo-Australian language and literature	Dr Franko Leoni
14th century literature Renaissance literature 19th and 20th century literature	Dr Brennan Wales
Japanese
Japanese drama traditions Japanese oral narratives Japanese cultural studies East Asian music traditions Japanese historical music Japanese popular and modern music Ethnomusicology Oral performance studies Japanese traditional theatre Japanese society	Associate Professor Hugh de Farranti
Japanese Japanese language and linguistics second language acquisition orthography (writing system) and reading in Japanese foreign language pedagogy and CALL methods	Sato Van Aacken
Linguistics
lexical and grammatical semantics language and culture cross-cultural communication, grammatical description language typology	Professor Cliff Goddard
language contact pidgins, creoles and new dialects vernaculars and education language variation (including code-switching) descriptive/sociolinguistic studies of Pacific or South Asian languages	Associate Professor Jeff Siegel
research in all fields of Australian languages phonological theory morphological theory referential semantics historical linguistics	Dr. Brett Baker
sociolinguistic aspects of adult bilingualism familial bilingualism life history research approaches to second language acquisition ESOL teacher education in cross-cultural contexts teacher cognition critical approaches to ESL/EFL	Dr Elizabeth Ellis
second language pronunciation Australian English phonetics and phonology orthography and writing systems descriptive phonetics/phonology of any language forensic phonetics intercultural conversations	Dr. Helen Fraser
morphological and syntactic typology grammatical description Australian Aboriginal languages Australian English language maintenance and revitalisation	Dr. Nick Reid
lexical semantics (in particular verbal semantics) compositional semantics language and cognition German linguistics	Dr. Andrea Schalley
second language acquisition (general SLA, learning disabilities, study abroad) second language teacher education online learning and online teaching gender, culture and language acquisition language and cognition (incl. neurolinguistics) first (child) language acquisition	Dr. Karen Woodman
Music
South Asian music traditions Indian music Indonesian music performance folk music practice ethnomusicological study cross-cultural music education musicianship training music and religious practice modal musical studies jazz music performance a capella choral music	Dr. Andrew Alter
music of the 15th century medieval music musicology early music music notation practice music and latin studies	Dr. Rex Eakins
Indonesian music, especially West Java, gamelan music of Java, and Sumatran music Pacific music, especially Fiji, Hawaii, Cook Islands and New Caledonia African music, especially West Coast percussion/dance ensembles Multicultural (fusion) bands in Australia Southeast Asian music systems. Melanesian/Micronesian music Greek music (folk and popular) Popular music (Western and non-Western)	Dr. David Goldsworthy
Palaeoanthropology
human origins and evolution in Australia human origins and hominid evolution in Asia forensic anthropology	Professor Peter Brown
Peace Studies

Philosophy
Epistemology Moral epistemology Philosophical issues in game theory Theories of rationality Philosophy of language	Arcady Blinov
Philosophy of mind: consciousness, rationality Metaphysics: realism & anti-realism; physicalism; time Philosophy of logic: theories of truth; paradox Philosophy of language: semantics	Dr Drew Khlentzos
Epistemology Philosophy of physics Philosophy of religion	Professor Peter Forrest
Philosophical issues in analytical psychology (CG Jung) Feminist theory Philosophy of religion Feminist ethics	Dr Frances Gray
Liberal and environmental politics Philosophy of economics Moral psychology	Dr Tony Lynch
Philosophical systems of Kierkegaarde, Nietzsche, and Foucault History of philosophy Aesthetics Discourse analysis Philosophy and literature	Dr. William McDonald
Political philosophy Applied ethics Moral theory	Dr. Adrian Walsh
Political and International Studies
Australian politics public policy local government and regionalism	Associate Professor Neil Marshall
political economy political parties, especially the Australian Labor Party labour history	Dr. Tim Battin
comparative health policy comparative federalism Australian, Canadian and US politics	Dr. Jim Maher
international relations especially: Australian foreign and defence policy Pacific islands politics and regionalism Global nuclear issues Asia Pacific and global security issues	Dr. Karin Von Strokirch
environmental political theory history of political ideas Australian politics	Dr. David Wells
Chinese politics contemporary Chinese political thought human rights in Asia democratisation	Dr. Graham Young
democratic governance, public policy and administration, development management with a focus on Asia.	Associate Professor Habib Zafarullah
Psychology
childhood anxiety social anxiety/phobia in children cognitive bias and child anxiety child health psychology child coping; parental attributions parenting style and child outcome cross-cultural parenting behavioural family intervention cognitive-behavioural therapy with children and families prevention and early intervention of child problems developmental disability	Dr. Margaret Brechman-Toussaint
general practitioners' attitudes to chronic fatigue and their beliefs about its management emotional intelligence (or other psychological factors) as predictors of chronic fatigue impact of chronic illness on psychological outcomes	Dr Rhonda Brown
reading and its development psycholinguistics language acquisition	Professor Brian Byrne
clinical neuropsychology adult, child and family therapy psychophysiology brain injury emotional dysfunction psychoeducational, forensic, and dementia evaluations.	Dr. James Donnelly
applied cognitive and environmental psychology smoking expectancies risk perception decision making mental models environmental issues	Dr. Donald W. Hine
behavioural pharmacology especially cannabinoid drugs neural basis of drug addiction neurotoxicity of addictive drugs neurotransmitters and behaviour	Dr. Paul Mallet
assessing and teaching interpersonal and emotional skills childhood shyness forensic psychology	Dr. John Malouff
Cognitive and psychosocial consequences of neurological disorders Ecological validity of neuropsychological assessment Caregiver burden in neurological disease Psychological assessment of clinical populations Neurobehavioural rehabilitation	Associate Professor Nigel Marsh
application of causal attribution principles to health-related issues and to driver behaviour	Dr. Donald S. Martin
psychosocial effects of impaired hearing auditory spatial perception history, theory, and philosophy of psychology perceptual theory	Professor William Noble
investigation of brain reward system correlates of human drug use and abuse addictive behaviour personality	Dr. Ian R. Price
emotional intelligence big-five personality dimensions transitory states scale development	Dr. Nicola Schutte
theoretical models of cognition cognitive and precognitive processes psycholinguistics autism	Dr. Bruce Stevenson
cognitive psychology naturalistic decision making and health psychology social support cardiovascular reactivity	Dr Einar B. Thorsteinsson
stereotype formation and change affects of advertisements on attitudes Measure of implicit attitudes/personality Migrant adjustment	Dr Sue Watt
Religion
Pali and Chinese versions of the earliest Buddhist cannon (including fragmentary Sanskrit texts) Contemporary Buddhism in Asian societies and the West	Dr Mun-keat Choong
Gnosticism in general (including Manichaeism, Mandaeism) the Odes of Solomon Manichaean Syriac texts generally, and especially texts from Kellis (Egypt) Jesus research (canonical and non-canonical texts) women and religion women in Manichaeism Biblical studies (using Hebrew and New testament Greek) Nag Hammadi writings (the Gospel of Philip; the Gospel of Thomas, ... using the Coptic texts) early Christianity heresy and orthodoxy early Syriac Christian documents 4th century Egyptian Christianity Nestorianism in 14th century China, especially in Quanzhou (China) Textual criticism of sacred texts of the major world religions	Professor Majella Franzmann
Sociology
family and gender time and society social change social policy social theories of Max Weber	Professor Michael Bittman
sociology of youth and delinquency sociology of gender sociology of crime and violence rural communities and crime criminology sexual violence border control and immigration crimes	Professor Kerry Carrington
consumer society media new communications technologies	Dr. Peter Corrigan
the sociology of crime and deviance; the sociology of health and illness; the sociology of sexuality; historical sociology; and sociological theory, particularly 'interpretive' sociology.	Dr. John Scott
social theory	Dr Steven Thiele
Theatre Studies
Australian theatre directorial methods and practice actor training theatre and poetics applied research and professional practice in theatre theatre of South Africa	Sue Fell, Associate Lecturer
the theatre of Samuel Beckett 20th Century Australian theatre European theatre 1880-1980	Andrew McCue, Lecturer
theatre theatre history	Professor Adrian Kiernander
Urban and Regional Planning
planning history planning, society and politics the planning profession	Mr Martin Auster
Women's and Gender Studies
Philosophical issues in analytical psychology (CG Jung) Feminist theory Philosophy of religion Feminist ethics	Dr Frances Gray
English - twentieth century fiction, film and popular culture (with particular interests in issues of gender). Communication Studies - film, television and popular culture (with particular interests in issues of gender). Women's and Gender Studies - representations of gender in fiction, film and popular culture.	Dr Jane O’Sullivan

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