Disciplines and areas of study
English
The English Program is pluralist in its orientation, and its research interests and specialties are similarly broad, with PhD theses currently being written on a range of diverse topics. Staff are all active researchers across a wide range of disciplinary areas. Many have a high international profile. The English Program prides itself on offering top quality supervision to postgraduate students and this is reflected in an impressive completion rate for PhD and MA theses.
Postgraduate students are encouraged to participate with staff in activities such as the regular fortnightly program seminars, at which staff and visiting academics discuss their current research. Postgraduates also have their own regular seminar series.
The Program also produces Meridian: the La Trobe University English Review.
The program provides study accommodation and access to computers for the use of postgraduate researchers. The Borchardt Library holdings in English are excellent. Employment opportunities, in the form of casual tutoring appointments in English, may also be offered to postgraduates.
Principal areas of specialisation
Principal areas of specialisation are Australian literature and culture, biography and autobiography, the writing of fiction and autobiography, critical theory and cultural studies, decolonisation studies/postcolonial theory, feminist theory, humour studies, literature and film adaptation, early modern cultural history, nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, postmodernism/modernism/science fiction, psychoanalytic studies, and studies in literature and modern spirituality.
Coursework programs
- Graduate Diploma in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Graduate Certificate in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Master of Arts by Coursework in English
Research programs
- Master of Arts by Research
- Doctor of Philosophy