Global Utilities

Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies

Research

 

Asian Studies

Lidia Tanaka: Japanese interview genre and gender difference.

 

Cinema Studies

Felicity Collins: Feminist Film Theory; gender, sexuality and cultural difference in the cinema.

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English

Carol Merli: Contemporary Australian women's writing.

Paul Salzman: Contemporary Australian women's writing.

Sue Thomas: nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's writing, decolonisation theory, feminist and gender theory, and Caribbean literature.

Kay Torney: Psychoanalysis and feminism; literature and medicine; representations of the reproductive body.

David Tacey: Relation between gender and archetype & relation between social constructions of gender & psychological expressions of gender in dream & mythic productions.

Sue Martin: Australian literature and cultural studies; nineteenth century Australian women's writing, gender and space, the cultural study of gardens and gardening.

Alison Ravenscroft: Cultural and critical theories of the production of gender, race and sexuality; twentieth-century Australian women's literature, including fiction and lifestory; book culture and the relations of textual production, including editing and publishing.

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History

Tracey Banivanua-Mar: Race formation & race relations; colonialism & colonial relations; Indigenous studies; Australian & Pacific colonial history.

Anne Gardner:Post-exilic Israel, especially in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

Marilyn Lake: Historical emergence of the figure of the 'white man' as a mode of identification.

Diane Kirkby: Anything historical; work; law; welfare.

Katie Holmes: Cultural history of gardens in Australia, work informed by ideas about gender, space and landscape. Other research work has engaged with issues of sexuality; feminist theory; women's autobiographical writings; gender and war; women and ageing; and feminist historiography.

Jennifer Ridden: Irish & British history; nationalism & national identity, citizenship; civil society & 19th century liberalism; transnational history & migration.

Shannon Woodcock: Romani, Romanian and Albanian history in Europe and Australia, Romani resistance to the Holocaust, post-socialist studies: joke-telling, trauma, forced labour, European social movements and discourses of human rights, feminism and sexuality in Romania and Albania.

 

Legal Studies

Sue Davies: Critical Criminology, Socio-Legal History and Sexuality Studies.

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Media Studies

Sue Turnbull: Representation of women in the media; women and popular culture - magazines, romance, soap operas, detective fiction; pornography; construction of the female audience'; multicultural issues in relation to women and the media.

Terrie Waddell: Myth, ritual, carnival, grotesqueries, advertising, and the representation of women in media.

 

Philosophy

Toula Nicolacopoulos: Feminist theory, feminist ethics, modern western political and social philosophies, modern western theories of work and professionalism, Australian race and whiteness theories, theories of cultural difference, migrant ethnicities and multicultural citizenship.

Jack Reynolds: Contemporary European Philosophy (esp. Derrida and Deleuze), Existentialism and Phenomenology (esp. Sartre, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty), Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Time, Philosophy of the Body (intersections of phenomenology, cognitive science, etc).

Philipa Rothfield: Working with phenomenology of the body, especially the work of Merleau-Ponty, in regards to issues of cultural difference. Recently written on pregnant embodiment, the sexuality of breastfeeding, feminist bio ethics and dance.

Janna Thompson: Women and moral theory; women in relation to political philosophy.

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Politics

Dennis Altman: Politics, Culture and Society in US and Australia; Sexuality and Sexual Regulation; Globalisation and Development in the Asia-Pacific Region; Community and Global Responses to HIV/AIDS.

 

Public Health

Simon Barraclough: gender and tobacco control, the salience of gender in policies for tobacco control.

 

Sociology & Anthropology

Helen Lee: Doctoral thesis was ethnography of childhood in Tonga, looking particularly at identity construction and the acquisition of 'culture'.

Kerreen Reiger: The sociology of maternity care and the professions and the gender implications of new public sector management. Interested in work of women as mothers and political activists, and of those who provide care for them.

Raelene Wilding: Everyday life; Australian society; families; migration; ethnicity; gender; qualitative research methods.

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Theatre and Drama

Peta Tait: The study of cultural languages of emotions, gender identity, theatrical emotions, and the analysis of bodies and cultural identity in physical theatre and circus performance.

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Last Updated: 19 February, 2009