Staff profile

Dr Carolyn D'Cruz

Lecturer, Program Convenor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

SS 306, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Curtin), Hons (Murdoch), PhD (Murdoch).

Area of study

Gender
Sexuality and Diversity Studies

Brief Profile

Carol is the 1st year Program Convenor for Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies. Carol’s research interests include identity and diversity (including class, sex/gender, sexuality, ethnicity); continental philosophy; life writing; censorship; theory and practice; democracy; representation; semiotics and textual analysis.

Research interests

Art Theory

- Semiotics

Gender, Culture, Sexuality

- Identity and diversity

Literary Studies

- Life writing

Literary Theory

- Theory and practice

Philosophy of the Mind

- Continental philosophy

Teaching Units

GSD1SGI - Sex, Gender and Identity. GSD1SGD - Sex, Gender and Diversity.

Recent Publications

D'Cruz, C 2008, Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable, Ashgate Publishing, UK.

 

D'Cruz, C and D’Cruz, G 2007, 'Public Narratives, Minority Voices: Re-cognising Anglo-Indians in Cotton Mary', Life Writing, Special Issue, ‘Mixed Race, Hybrid, Transnational: Writing Lives in National and Global Frames’, 4(1): 111-122.

 

D'Cruz, C and D’Cruz, G 2008, 'The Body of Christ: Blasphemy as a Necessary Transgression?', Negotiating the Sacred II: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts, ANU ePress.

 

Chanock, C, D'Cruz, C and Bisset, D 2009, 'Would you like grammar with that?', Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 3(2): 1-12.

 

D'Cruz, C 2006, 'Adjusting the Tone of Marxism: A Hauntological Promise for a democracy-to-come', Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, January.

 

D'Cruz, C. 2001, 'What Matter Who’s Speaking? Authenticity and Identity in Discourses of Aboriginality in Australia', Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 5(3).

 

D'Cruz, C 1996, 'Responding to a Heritage: Justice, Deconstruction and "Injunctions of Marx"', Social Semiotics, 6(2): 159-178.