All research supervisors
European studies
Dr Stefan Auer
Stefan's academic interests include the self-limiting revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe, political thought of dissident intellectuals and nationalism in Europe, and more recently the Eurozone crisis and its impact on the project of Euro
Dr Miriam Bankovsky
Miriam Bankovsky lectures in political theory for the Politics and International Relations program at La Trobe. Her research objective is to contribute to the development of theories of democracy. She pursues this objective by bringing a de
Dr Lisa Beaven
Lisa’s academic interests include art and travel, landscape painting and ecology in the Roman Campagna, antiquarianism and the history of collecting in early modern Europe, and landscape theory.
Professor Peter Beilharz
Peter's academic interests include social theory, labourism, socialism and comparative history of sociology and social theory.
Dr Philip Bull
Philip's academic interests include Irish and British history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, contemporary political issues relating to Ireland or Britain and land and nationalism.
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.
Dr Adrian Jones OAM
Adrian is an Europeanist with wide interests. He reads Russian, French and Turkish. His current research interests focus on Russian and Ottoman history, especially the eighteenth century, and on historiography
Dr Brigid Maher
Brigid’s academic interests include Italian literature, cinema, culture and society, the translation of Italian literature and film, the translation of Australian literature and film.
Dr Nicole Prunster
Nicole’s academic interests include sixteenth century comic theatre and the Novella, including Shakespeare's Italian and French sources
Dr Jack Reynolds
Jack’s academic interests include contemporary European philosophy, existentialism and phenomenology, comparing analytic and continental philosophy, political philosophy and philosophy of the body.
Dr Jennifer Ridden
Jennifer's academic interests include the histories of Ireland (including Northern Ireland), Britain, the British Empire, and their Historiographies, between the 18th and 20th centuries.
Dr George Vassilacopoulos
George's academic interests include German idealism; 20th century continental philosophy; Greek Philosophy; aesthetics
