Research
English Research
The Discipline of English boasts a wide range of research interests and fields of expertise in which higher-degree students can be supervised. The table below includes some of those areas and the staff who are interested in them. Under it is a list of Research Fellows attached to the Discipline of English. Information about the research higher-degree students are engaged in can be found on the Postgraduate page. Under resources you will find an extensive list of research tools available to staff and postgraduate students.
The Discipline of English also holds seminars that are open to the public.
For more information about staff research interests, including publications and teaching, click on Staff Pages
This is a list of research interests in the Discipline of English:
- Medieval Literature
- History of the English Language
- Early Modern Literature
- American Literature
- Australian Literature
- Aboriginal Writing
- African Literature Cultural Studies
- Gender Studies
- Literary Theories
- Creative Writing
- Film
- Poetry
- Women's Writing
- Life Writing/Fictocriticism
This is a list of Research Fellows/Adjuncts attached to the Discipline of English:
- Dr Alan Brissenden (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow)
- Professor John Coetzee (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow)
- Professor Dorothy Driver (Adjunct Professor)
- Dr Kerryn Goldsworthy (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow)
- Dr Rosemary Greentree (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow)
- Dr Douglas Muecke (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow)
- Professor Ken Ruthven (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow)
- Dr Eva Sallis (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow)
- Dr David Smith (Adjunct Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Barry Westburg (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow)
Research Interests of English Staff
See the English staff pages for their research interests, including publications and teaching. (See also the Creative Writing Staff.) The Discipline of English boasts a wide range of research interests and fields of expertise in which higher-degree students can be supervised:
- American Literature and Film
- Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature
- Australian Cultural Studies
- Autobiography/Life Writing
- Barbara Baynton
- Christopher Marlowe (plays)
- Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (Writing and Theory)/Australasian and Pacific
- Contemporary Popular Culture
- Early Modern English Culture/Early Modern Uses of Virgil's Aeneid
- Ecocriticism and Fictocriticism
- Editing of Middle English Texts
- Emily Dickinson
- Ethics and Writing Practice
- Feminist Criticism and Theory
- Gender Studies/Borders and Margins (Representation of Class and Gender)
- Gothic Writing
- Henry James
- Historical and Regional Differences in English Pronunciation
- Indigenous Cultural Studies
- Irish Identity in Literature
- Middle English Lexicography and Dialectology
- Narrative Theory
- Nineteenth-century British and Irish fiction
- Nineteenth, Twentieth Century and Contemporary Australian Literature
- Oral Performance of Old and Middle English Literature
- Psychoanalysis and Narrative
- Semantic Change
- Social and Cultural Intersections
- Southern African Studies/African Literature
- Sport
- Speculative fiction
- The Bildungsroman
- The Contemporary Australian Short Story
- The Critical History of Catharsis
- The Teaching of Creative Writing
- Thomas Hardy
- Women’s Writing
- World Literature
- Writing Process
Research Seminars
The Discipline of English also holds seminars that are open to the public.
Postgraduate Research Students
See also the research higher-degree students.
Resources
Bookshops
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Blackwells
Booksamillion
Borders
Co-op Bookshop
Internet Bookshop
Ozbooks
Readings
Scholarship Books
Unibooks
Online Journals
Cultural Studies and Theory Resources
Database
The database at the University.
Literary Sites and Literary Associations
website of Jennifer Osborn, Research Librarian for English
The Samuel Beckett Endpage (links to the Beckett Society)
The New Chaucer Society
William Faulkner on the Web (links to the William Faulkner Society)
International James Joyce Foundation
Luminarium (medieval, renaissance and 17th century)
Australian Literature
Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)
Books and Writing (ABC Broadcasting)
OzLit
Other Libraries
The British Library
The Bodleian Library
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