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Staff Directory

Academic Staff

Name Position Research/Teaching Interests Telephone Email
Dr Rod Blackhirst Lecturer The perennialist and traditionalist perspectives in Religious Studies and comparative religion. The monotheist religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. +61 3 5444 7813 r.blackhirst@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Al Gabay Lecturer The related areas of my research interests are: religion in the l8th Century and on 19th Century Spiritualism in Australia, the U.S. and Britain; and biography in History. +61 3 5444 7224 a.gabay@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Susan Gillett Lecturer Literature, Film & Art (LFA).
Sociology, Politics & Culture (SPC).
My particular specialisations are in contemporary women's literature, Australian culture, literature and film, feminist literary and film criticism, post-structuralist theories of representation. 		+61 3 5444 7233 s.gillett@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Harry Oldmeadow Lecturer The traditionalist school of perennialism critiques of modernity; the Western encounter with Eastern religious traditions; religion and the environmental debate; primal and indigenous religions; classical Hollywood cinema. +61 3 5444 7592 h.oldmeadow@latrobe.edu.au
Mr John Penwill Senior Lecturer Greek and Roman Literature and Philosophy. My particular interests are in Roman literature of the late republic and early empire (Lucretius to Apuleius). +61 3 5444 7224 j.penwill@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Roger Sworder Associate Professor Roger teaches units in Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Enlightenment and Romantic thought and the Philosophy of Work and Art. Other interests are Vedanta, Taoism, the Metaphysical and Romantic poets. +61 3 5444 7235 r.sworder@latrobe.edu.au

Honorary Associate

Name Position Research/Teaching Interests Telephone Email
Maurice Nestor Hon. Assoc. Philosophy and Religious Studies
Literature, Film and Art 		+61 3 5444 7228 m.nestor@latrobe.edu.au
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