Postgraduate Studies
- Postgraduate Degrees
- CUL 894 Research Seminar Unit Outline
- Research Degrees
- Postgraduate Upgrade Policy M.Phil to PhD
- Divisional Research Funding
- Macquarie International Travel Scholarships
- MU PG Research Fund
- Department Funding Form (Word | PDF)
- Enquiries
- Current Postgraduate Research (PhD | M.Phil)
Postgraduate Degrees
The Department of Critical and Cultural Studies is open to research proposals in any area of Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Writing and Drama. Its strengths lie particularly in the areas of Cultural and Literary Theory, Poststructuralism, Gender Studies, Postcolonialism, Migration and Ethnicity Studies, Theories of Subjectivity, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Psychoanalysis, American and Australian Literature, Community Theatre, and Shakespeare in Performance.
Students may study at postgraduate level by research:
- M.Phil. (Hons) (Cultural Studies)
- Ph.D. (Cultural Studies)
If you are thinking of a particular field of research, you may wish to consult the staff listing given at the beginning of the web site. If there is someone whose are of interest overlaps with your own, you may want to call or email that person directly about the possibility of supervision. If you are unsure, please consult any of the CCS staff, who will be happy to advise you about the most likely supervision possibilities.
The general requirements for entry into a research degree are given in the Macquarie University Calendar, and are available from the Postgrad and Beyond website.
The following Seminar unit is compulsory for all Postgraduate Research Students in their first year of enrolment and is also open to all other enrolled candidates.
CUL 894 Research Seminar Unit Outline
CUL 894 Critical and Cultural Studies Postgraduate Research Seminar is a unit designed with a number of aims and objectives. Fundamentally, the unit aims to offer postgraduates a regular forum to discuss issues that arise from their research work. These issues might take a number of forms, including practical concerns related to research and thesis writing, issues concerning critical theories and methodologies, and issues concerning professional development (eg, CVs, publications, conferences, and so on). Simultaneously, the unit is also important in that it aims to offer postgraduates a space in which to participate in collegial exchanges not just ideas and texts, but of the very real issues that impact on postgraduate life.
Unit Convenor
Dr Anthony LambertResearch degrees in Cultural Studies
A number of students are currently involved in research degrees in Cultural Studies. The fields in which they are working are extremely diverse; some examples of current research as well as those of past students include:
- A comparative study of Australian and Japanese theatres in the 60's and 70's: alternative theatre movement and nationalism
- "Being-Fat-In-The-World: Theorising the Fat Female Body"
- Catholic Martrydom
- Cults, coalitons and communities
- Dreaming of Eurasia:Hybridity and the Eurasian Identity
- J.Lacan: Desire in theory and literature
- Liusglede - A study of Janet Achurch - her role in introducing Ibsen to the Antipodes
- Machine metaphyisics: On the history of a metaphor
- Mute bodies: Women's voice and Silence in cinema
- Performance Studies
- Punishment without crime: Legal mistreatment of refugees
- Scoring Australia. Music and Australian identities in Young Einstein, Strictly Ballroom and Priscilla
- Science fiction, Women and empowerment
- Visual culture
- Analysis of Shakespearean Film adaptation
- White like who? Unmasking "whiteness/ (re) configuring skin
- The worlding of cyborgs/the cyborging of worlds: The disciplining of technology
- Written on the Body: Cultural production, Aids, Genocide and corporeal representation
If you are thinking of a particular field of research, you may wish to consult the staff listing given at the beginning of the web site. If there is someone whose are of interest overlaps with your own, you may want to call or mail that person directly about the possibility of supervision. If you are unsure, please consult any of the CCS staff, who will be happy to advise you about the most likely supervision possibilities.
The general requirements for entry into a research degree are given in the Macquarie University Calendar, and are available from the Postgrad and Beyond website.
Postgraduate Upgrade Policy M.Phil TO PhD
1. The Postgraduate student needs to have written approximately 20,000 words.
2. The Postgraduate student has to have completed 12 months and not exceeded 18 months of study.
3. The Postgraduate student writes an abstract detailing how and why the thesis needs the larger scope of the PhD.
4. The supervisor has another member of staff read and offer a second opinion on the project.
5. The Head of Department is informed and the upgrade is either approved or disapproved.
Enquiries
CCS Department Administrator
Tel: (02) 9850 8778
Fax:(02) 9850 6893
Email: culstudies@scmp.mq.edu.au
Dr Anthony Lambert
Tel: (02) 9850 6700
Email: alambert@scmp.mq.edu.au