All research supervisors

Creative writing

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 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 Sue Gillett

Sue's academic interests include contemporary women's literature, Australian culture, literature and film, feminist literary and film criticism, post-structuralist theories of representation.

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 Lawrie Zion

For much of the last two decades Lawrie Zion has worked in the media, including a nine-year stint at ABC radio, where he was based at Triple J