All research supervisors
Creative 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.
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.
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.
Dr Alexis Harley
Alexis' academc interests include auto/biography and life-writing and Victorian literature.
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 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
Dr Alison Ravenscroft
Alison's academic interests include American modernism and postmodernism, contemporary Australian writing, critical race theory and whiteness studies.
Ms Meredith Rogers
Meredith’s academic interests include directing for the theatre and performance practice and theory.
Dr Christopher Scanlon
Christopher Scanlon is a writer and commentator whose writing has been published in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Courier-Mail, The Canberra Times, Business Spectator, The Monthly, RealTime, Overland and Arena Maga
Dr Lucy Sussex
Lucy's academic interests include crime fiction, victorian fiction and women's writing.
Dr David Tacey
David conducts research in several disciplines and fields of enquiry including analytical psychology, literary and cultural studies, continental philosophy, sociology of religion, theology and religious studies.
Professor Peta Tait
Professor Tait’s academic interests include performing emotions and their social meanings, physical theatre and performance, trapeze history and performing animals in circus, Chekhov’s drama and realistic acting theory.
Dr John Tebbutt
John’s academic interests include policies and program strategies in Australian radio and radio cultures and national development.
