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Postgraduate Studies: Current Postgraduate Research

PhD Theses

ALEXIOU, Petro

Supervisor: Joseph Pugliese
Thesis Title: A Critical Biography of the Early Life of Alekos Doukas, a Greek refugee from the Ottoman Empire, who settled in Australia in 1927

Areas of Research: A critical biographical study of a Greek refugee and immigrant writer to Australia in the 1920s (including his earlier years in Turkey & Greece)

 

AZARI, Ehsanullah

Supervisor: Nick Mansfield
Thesis Title: Desire In Literary Text, A Lacanian Perspective

 

BOSANQUET, Agnes

Supervisor: Jennifer Rutherford
Thesis Title: Seeking Irigaray's Divine

Areas of Research: Explores Luce Irigiaray's notion of a divine in the context of the everyday - cinema, literature, comtemporary culture.

 

CACHIA, Emily

Supervisor: Jennifer Rutherford
Thesis Title: The Ethics of Irresponsibility

Areas of Research: Duras, Levinas, Melancholia, Responsibiltiy, Love & National Identity

 

CADWALLADER, Jessica

Supervisor: Nikki Sullivan
Thesis Title: Bodily Modification and the Social Construction of Bodily Being

 

DEE, Liam

Supervisor: Tom Burvill
Thesis Title: Smoother over: the aesthetics of globalisation

Areas of Research: Aesthetics, Political Economy and ideology. To examine the aesthetics of commoditie as an ideology of globalisation.

 

EDELHEIM, Johan

Supervisor: Nick Mansfield
Thesis Title: Special interest tourism contributing to cultural identity formation

 

GIANNACOPOULOS, Maria

Supervisor: Joseph Pugliese
Thesis Title: Tampa: Violence and Law.

Areas of Research: Aust. Refugee law with a specific emphasis on the legislative and common law changes during and post Tampa in 2001

 

GLASSER-VORA, Ravi

Supervisor: Joseph Pugliese
Thesis Title: Sovereign Power and the Bioethics of Morality

 

HAMERS, Louis

Supervisor: Goldie Osuri
Thesis Title: Gene patenting, scientific discourse and material consequences on citizens of Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands

 

JOHNSON, Craig

Supervisor: Nick Mansfield
Thesis Title: Marxist Aesthetics and Deconstructionist Poetics

 

KELLY, Elaine

Supervisor: Nicole Anderson
Thesis Title: Interrogating the Legal, Political and Ethical Understandings of Responsibility

 

LAFORTEZA, Elaine

Supervisor: Goldie Osuri
Thesis Title: Bilateral relations between the Australian Government and Media and the Phillipines and Filipinos.

 

MURRAY, Samantha

Supervisor: Nikki Sullivan
Thesis Title: Being-Fat-In-The-World: Theorising Fat Female Embodiment

Areas of Research: Investigating the experience of the fat woman via Philosophical frameworks and corporeal feminism

 

NOURRY, Daniel

Supervisor: Nick Mansfield
Thesis Title: Imitatio Christi

Areas of Research: Catholic subjectivity - the construction of an ideal catholic subject position

 

RANDELL-MOON, Holly

Supervisor: Anthony Lambert
Thesis Title: Religion and the Howard Government

 

RIORDAN, Gretchen

Supervisor: Nikki Sullivan
Thesis Title: The social, political and ethical significance of human face modification

 

SILLENCE, Donald

Supervisor: Tom Burvill
Thesis Title: Confronting Social Exclusion

 

TATE, Meredith

Supervisor: Joan Kirkby
Thesis Title: Comedy is not pretty: gross-out, abjection and masculinity

 

TOH, Justine

Supervisor: Anne Cranny-Francis
Thesis Title: Paradoxes of (over)visibility & invisibility in the visual culture of September 11

 

TUREGUN, Sule

Supervisor: Goldie Osuri
Thesis Title: Reading Western "Freedom" through Consumerism

 

WESTCOTT, Robyn

Supervisor: Nick Mansfield
Thesis Title: Whiteness as Rhizomatic Recation

Areas of Research: Production of white indentity - specifically Englisht & Irish identities during the period of The Great Famine (1845-52)

 

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