Literary Studies
Research in this area focuses on autobiography and biography, literature and film adaptation, science fiction, women's writing, popular fiction, English and American fiction.
Faculty Research Focus
The academic staff has ongoing research interests in:
- Ethnic autobiography and Australian Jewish biography
- Crime and science fiction
- Women's writing
Current Projects
- Cities of Words: Women's cultures of reading and writing in colonial Melbourne and beyond.
- Anglophone Caribbean (auto)biography, plantation slavery, and the traffic of colonial reform and modernisation 1807-1834
Research Interests
The Faculty will consider any research topic that interests potential PhD students; however, students will benefit from researching in areas that align with the Faculty’s strengths. Please contact the Faculty to discuss your PhD topic.
Alternatively you may contact one of our academics below to discuss your area of interest.
- 20th century Spanish and South American Poetry - Mr Enrique del Rey Cabero
- African literatures in Portuguese - Dr Isabel Moutinho
- Arcadian Hells: Australian Seachange Societies - Dr Susan Bradley Smith
- Autobiography and religious un/belief - Dr Alexis Harley
- Biography - Professor Richard Freadman
- Cartooning, graphic humour and illustration. - Dr Iain Topliss
- Charles Darwin and evolutionary literature - Dr Alexis Harley
- Comics and Literature - Mr Enrique del Rey Cabero
- Contemporary Australian literature - Professor Paul Salzman
- Dr Alison Ravenscroft
- Contemporary Italian literature - Dr Nicole Prunster
- Contemporary Portuguese literature and culture - Dr Isabel Moutinho
- Contemporary Spanish literature, with a focus on women writers - Dr Lilit Thwaites
- Creative non-fiction, contemporary poetry and song - Dr Sue Gillett
- Crime fiction - Dr Lucy Sussex
- Cultural memory and identity - Dr Isabel Moutinho
- Early modern literature especially scholarly editing, women's writing, cultural history. - Professor Paul Salzman
- East Timorese literature in Portuguese - Dr Isabel Moutinho
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century women writers - Dr Claire Knowles
- Feminism in modern Greek literature - Ms Maria Herodotou
- Fiction writing - Dr Catherine Padmore
- Gothic Fiction - Dr Claire Knowles
- Greek-Cypriot writers in Australia - Ms Maria Herodotou
- Hispano-Australian and Latina writers - Dr Lilit Thwaites
- Historical approaches to Caribbean literature - Professor Sue Thomas
- Historical fiction - Dr Catherine Padmore
- History of the novel - Professor Richard Freadman
- Humour in twentieth-century culture and society - Dr Iain Topliss
- Italian theatre - Dr Nicole Prunster
- Jane Austen - Ms Laura Carroll
- Letters and diaries - Dr Katie Holmes
- Life writing - Dr Carolyn D'Cruz
- literary - Dr Rebecca Waese
- Literary and Cultural Studies - Dr David Tacey
- Literary texts across cultures and media - Professor Sue Thomas
- Literary translation (from Spanish to English) - Dr Lilit Thwaites
- Literature and Music - Mr Enrique del Rey Cabero
- Literature to film adaptation - Ms Laura Carroll
- Modern Girl: A biography of Sarah Churchill - Dr Susan Bradley Smith
- Modern Greek Literature - Ms Maria Herodotou
- Modernist and contemporary literature - Dr Rebecca Waese
- Narrative form and representation - Dr Alison Ravenscroft
- Nineteenth and early twentieth century fiction - Professor Richard Freadman
- Nineteenth- and Twentieth century Australian literature - Dr Susan Martin
- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century women’s writing - Professor Sue Thomas
- performative writing - Dr Rebecca Waese
- Popular culture in the Romantic period - Dr Claire Knowles
- Popular fiction - Dr Lucy Sussex
- Popular Fiction - Dr Claire Knowles
- post colonial contexts - Dr Rebecca Waese
- Recent British and American fiction - Dr Iain Topliss
- Roman epic poetry - Professor Christopher Mackie
- Science and Literature - Dr Alexis Harley
- South American literature - Dr Isabel Moutinho
- Textual transmission - Ms Laura Carroll
- The epic poems of Homer - Professor Christopher Mackie
- theatrical and film adaptations - Dr Rebecca Waese
- Transatlantic literary studies - Dr Sofia Ahlberg-MacInnes
- Victorian and Romantic literature and culture - Dr Alexis Harley
- Victorian fiction - Dr Lucy Sussex
- Victorian literature - Dr Susan Martin
- Women's writing - Dr Catherine Padmore
- women’s writing - Dr Rebecca Waese
- Women’s writing - Dr Lucy Sussex
