Staff Areas of Expertise
Research supervision is possible in a wide range of fields. Browse individual staff profiles for further details of research interests and previous supervisions. This list is not exhaustive - it provides a general guide to the interests of individual academics.
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Phenomenology, social suffering and embodiment, displaced narratives of Iranian and Middle-Eastern migrants and refugees, Persian literature, Iranian cultural and religious identities in the West, belonging and the political imagination and 'Otherness' as a key phenomena of Middle Eastern narratives in contemporary Australian society. |
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Australian cultural and social history, war journalism, media studies, biography, genocide, war, crime, censorship, popular culture, academic freedom, intellectual ideas and institutions and education. |
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Australian history and contemporary society, Australian water policy and history, the arts in Australia especially theatre. |
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Australian cultural and social history, particularly in the twentieth century; war and Australian society, with reference to gender; the relationship between memory and history; museum studies and forms of exhibiting histories and cultures; and colonial discourse and postcolonial studies; rural cultures |
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Indigenous Australian literature, Indigenous Australian history, contemporary Australian literature, cross-cultural collaboration and the construction of identity (rurality and whiteness), editorial praxis, Women's life writing, Wiradjuri history, Country Women's Association |
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Australian History, cultural history and popular culture, myth memory and history, material culture, the pub, World War I and II, the 1960s, cosmopolitanism |
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Human remains, anatomical objects in hospitals and museums, the law and unethical uses of the dead, the history of human dissection, post-mortem examinations, and organ transplants. |
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Australian social and political history since the second world war, the historical development of Australian social policy, public narratives about welfare, masculinity and nation, the interplay of memory, history and biography |
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The Vietnamese diaspora in Australia and overseas, women's oral and written narratives, memory and trauma in refugee narratives Vietnamese Francophone literature |
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Tasmanian Aboriginal people within the scientific imagination from the early twentieth to the twenty-first centuries |
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Gay and lesbian history, politics and culture - Australia and international; social and political change in Australia since WW2 |
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Migration and multicultural studies; in particular, social memory and migration, refugee issues, and the meaning of hospitality and cosmopolitanism in an Australian context |