Staff profile
Dr Carolyn D'Cruz
Lecturer, Program Convenor
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Social SciencesSS 306, Melbourne (Bundoora)
- T: +61 3 9479 5919
- F: +61 3 9479 1997
- E: c.dcruz@latrobe.edu.au
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.
