All research supervisors
Arts
Dr Sofia Ahlberg-MacInnes
Sofia's academic interests include transatlantic literary studies, hemispheric studies and world literature.
Mr John Benson
John’s academic interests include popular current affairs television, television news, popular culture and the media and media curriculum design.
Ms Angie Black
Angie is a film practitioner who continues to develop a number of her own screen projects. She has a diverse background and research areas in film and television production, screenwriting and the genres of comedy, drama, sci-fi and speculat
Dr Wendy Bowler
Wendy's academic interests include the visual media story and the theme of tragedy.
Dr Susan Bradley Smith
Susan’s academic interests include women's theatre history, playwriting, feminist theory, life writing, Australian literature and drama, contemporary poetry, and writing and health.
Mr Roland Caputo
Roland’s academic interests include auteurs Antonioni, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Godard, Robbe-Grillet and Bunuel and the genres of Italian Western, Giallos/thrillers, sexploitation.
Ms Laura Carroll
Laura's academic interests include literature to film adaptation, Jane Austen, book illustration, censorship and literary scandals and narrative theory.
Dr Felicity Collins
Felicity's research interests include Australian national cinema, Australian film and television comedy, gender and spectatorship theory and historical fiction.
Dr Rob Conkie
Rob’s academic interests include Shakespeare in performance, early modern theatre and drama and performance and Sexuality.
Mr Anthony Conway
Anthony Conway’s research and professional practice includes Slip cast, fabricated porcelaineous sculptural forms and crystalline glazes. Collaborative research into ceramics produced at Sukhothai, central Thailand during the 14th and 16t
Mr Hugh Davies
Hugh Davies is co-ordinator of the Bachelor of Creative Arts and lectures in Networked Culture, Remix and Media Arts within the Media: Screen + Sound program.
Ms Anna Dzenis
Anna's academic interests include television, narrative, film criticism, cinesthetics and theories of visuality, film style and French cinema.
Mr Steinar Ellingsen
Steinar Ellingsen is a Norwegian journalist currently working on a practice-based Ph.D., creating a documentary web series chronicling a ten-week odyssey in Australia.
Mr Neil Fettling
Neil’s academic interests include the sociologies of small communities in the Mallee that are being transformed by cultural, economic, political and environmental change.
Professor Richard Freadman
Professor Freadman's academic interests include the English and American novel, literary theory, relations between literary theory and philosophy, relations between ethics and autobiography and literature.
Mr Kristian Haggblom
Kristian's academic interests include modes in which modern society mediates and instructs our fears, desires and expectations of nature and how we collectively and individually project them back upon the landscape.
Dr Alexis Harley
Alexis' academc interests include auto/biography and life-writing and Victorian literature.
Mr Elliot Howard
Elliot Howard studied fine art at Sheffield Hallam University and Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has taught Art and Design History and Theory at Kingston University, London, VCA/University of Melbou
Dr Peter Hughes
Peter's academic interests include constructions of "reality" and especially of the past, in popular culture and non fiction film and television.
Dr Hester Joyce
Hester’s academic interests include National cinemas; New Zealand cinema; scriptwriting theory, policy and practice; scriptwriting; screenplay narrative, aesthetics and formal analysis, creative project assessment.
Mr Harry Kirchner
Harry has over 50 film and television credits and has directed numerous documentaries
Dr Claire Knowles
Claire’s academic interests include romantic popular culture, female literary history, gothic fiction, popular fiction, female writers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Dr Alyx Macfadyen
Alyx's academic interests include evaluative methodologies for interactive media.
Dr Susan Martin
Sue's academic interests include Australian literature with a special interest in nineteenth century Australian literature, women’s writing, gender studies and theory and garden history and culture.
Dr Geoff Mayer
Geoff’s academic interests include the classical Hollywood cinema, Australian and British cinemas, modes of film narration, melodrama, film noir and serial form.
Dr Gabrielle Murray
Areas of particular academic interest include film aesthetics and philosophy, screen violence, and theories of cinema experience.
Professor Norie Neumark
Norie is Chair and Professor, Cinema and Media Studies Program . She is a sound/media artist and theorist. Her media art work, including installation, Internet, and CD-Rom, has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Dr Catherine Padmore
Catherine's academic interests include fiction writing (including technical and discursive elements), women's writing, feminist theories and migration stories.
Mr Chris Palmer
Chris’s academic interests include contemporary Science Fiction and the relations between contemporary Science Fiction and Postmodernity
