Current Postgraduates

Supervisor: A/Prof Brenda Walker

My research relates directly to my novel, 'in two minds', a narrative of false beliefs written in the second person singular voice.

jengayal@westnet.com.au

Supervisor: A/Prof Judith Johnston

In the nineteenth century the majority of women travellers shaped their narratives to express the invigorating spirit of adventure or sense of escape that overseas travel provided. My research concerns the women who reacted in an unconventional manner to the experience of travel.

anderc05@student.uwa.edu.au

Justin Beckett
From Scripture to Screen: A study of the tension between biblical fidelity and commercial appeal in film representations of Jesus Christ for mainstream cinema.

Supervisor: Dr Steve Chinna

beckettj@ststephens.wa.edu.au

Supervisor: A/Prof Van Ikin

I am looking for information on American science fiction writers who have served in the U.S. military (particularly in research or think-tanks), or who have refused to do so. I am also looking for examples of military terminology borrowed from science fiction, and military uses of sf tropes in recruitment.

dedmans@iinet.net.au

Anna Donald
Metaphor and the Layering of Narrative

Supervisor: A/Prof Van Ikin

The creative piece is a novel, Tenants, set in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia: specifically the early pearling settlement in Roebuck Bay. The narrative covers a period from 1870 to 1942 and is in four sections; each section taking up the story of the descendents of those in previous sections. I have attempted to develop layers of narrative in my work by the use of the imagery of the pearl and the landscape. Landscape and Nature are elemental forces in the narrative
The thesis, "Metaphor as a Means of Layering Narrative" discusses

• the place of metaphor in language, its role as an "inner language" that even young children have access to.
• deeper layers of metaphor in the narratives of both Patrick White and Randolph Stow.
• symbolic imagery in art from prehistory through to the works of Australian painters such as Drysdale and Nolan. This includes a discussion of the artists who influenced the work of Patrick White.

Supervisor: A/Prof Van Ikin

terrydowlingwriter@yahoo.com.au

Supervisor: A/Prof Van Ikin

Supervisors: A/Prof Ian Saunders and A/Prof Gail Jones

My thesis is applying auteur theory to the Directors Label series of DVDs, which represent the art of music video by focusing on their directors: the first volumes of the series looked at Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry. I am analysing both the DVDs and the collected music videos of each director in an effort to reconcile the auteurist idea of personal expression, established through theme and style, within a commercial medium that is based on promoting the musical performer/s and their featured song.

fidlet01@student.uwa.edu.au

Lynette Field
Investigating Empire: Imperialism and the Detective Fiction of Dorothy L Sayers and PD James

Supervisor: Dr Brenda Walker

I am interested in the conjunction of imperialism and detective fiction in the work of Dorothy L Sayers and P D James. My other research interests include feminist theory, popular culture, film and Australian literature.

lfield@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Warren Flynn
An Investigation of Space (architectural, body, spiritual) in Contemporary Cross-Cultural Fiction

Supervisor: A/Prof Van Ikin

I am considering how authors who straddle cultures - Jhumpa Lahiri, Haruki Murakami, Chang-rae Lee, Dianne Highbridge, Kim Scott, etc - depict spatial relationships in their work.

wgmn@iinet.net.au

Supervisor: Dr Tanya Dalziell

In addition to the issues of modernism and subjectivity explored in my thesis, I am interested in Australian� literature and culture, postmodernism, critical theory and contemporary literature.

foxs02@student.uwa.edu.au

Marina Gerzic
"Whither wilt thou lead me?" Intertextual Reference and Music as Signifier in Shakespeare in Film

Supervisor: Prof Bob White

My research interests are: film, Shakespeare, creative writing, cultural studies and music in film.

gerzim01@student.uwa.edu.au

Supervisor: Dr Steve Chinna

halesa02@student.uwa.edu.au

Karen Hall
Discovering the Lost Race Story: Writing Science Fiction, Writing History
Supervisors: Dr Chantal Bourgault and A/Prof Judith Johnston

My thesis explores the formation and negotiations of the boundaries of genre through the focal point of the lost race story, as well as themes of space, memory, gender and imperialism. In addition to my thesis work, my interests include feminist and literary theory, medievalism, fan subcultures and popular culture.

karenh@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Per Henningsgaard
The Production and Publication of Regional Literature in Western Australia
Supervisor: Prof Dennis Haskell

hennip01@student.uwa.edu.au

Brett Hirsch
Human Difference in Early Modern England
Supervisor: Prof Chris Wortham

My research is on early modern English literature and culture, especially the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I am particularly interested in representations of medicine, science and the body; religion, mysticism, and the occult; new historicism and cultural materialism; and broader issues in critical bibliography and textual scholarship

bdhirsch@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Brown

Supervisor: A/Prof Judith Johnston

My specific research interests are in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. I am particularly interested in Victorian sensation and detective fiction.

jaquea01@student.uwa.edu.au

Natalia Lizama
Extra-corporealities: The Resurrected Body in Medicine and Science
Supervisor: Dr Tanya Dalziell

My current research involves an analysis of representations of the body in medicine and science, from a cultural studies perspective. In my doctoral thesis, I examine a range of different texts, including the Visible Human Project, the BodyWorlds exhibition of human bodies, medical diagnostic imaging technologies, and the Human Genome Project.

natalia@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Supervisor: A/Prof Andrew Lynch

My research interests include contemporary Irish and British Literature, postcolonial literature and literary theory and tracing connections between Victorian and contemporary literature.

caitlinf@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Supervisor: A/Prof Ian Saunders

Research Interests: philosophy of cinema; film and media theory; postmodern theory; marxist theory and subcultural studies.

nmercer@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

David Nel
Title to be advised (Jeanette Winterson)
Supervisors: A/Prof Andrew Lynch and A/Prof Gail Jones

I'm interested in literary representations of subjectivity, particularly in high modernist and postmodern British fiction. Other interests include: literary theory, narrative theory, feminism, literature and science fiction.

neld01@student.uwa.edu.au

Adam Nicol
Satellite Societies: Romanticism's Science of Place

Supervisor: A/Prof Judith Johnston

My thesis looks at provincial intellectual communities throughout England from 1760 to 1860 -- scientific, political and poetical -- and the heritage of Romanticism in exploration and Natural History. I'm particularly interested in the work of Philip Henry Gosse, Erasmus Darwin and Wordsworth/Coleridge.

nicola01@student.uwa.edu.au

Meriel Owen Griffiths
The Construction of Cultural Identity in Contemporary English-language Welsh Poetry

Supervisors: Prof Dennis Haskell and Prof Gareth Griffiths

My research focuses on four main areas in contemporary English-language Welsh poetry: language, the sense of place, the past and nationality/nationhood. The enquiry into cultural identity has been at the core of Welsh poetry in English throughout the twentieth century and recent poetry reflects the complexities of defining cultural identity in a multicultural and globalised environment.

owengh01@student.uwa.edu.au

Supervisor: A/Prof Judith Johnston

paukfb01@student.uwa.edu.au

Supervisor: A/Prof Van Ikin

My research interests include the creative aspects of fiction writing, and the role that history plays in fiction. I believe that history is a vital context to understanding novels of earlier eras.

penazl01@student.uwa.edu.au

Supervisor: Prof Dennis Haskell

My research interests include: the transgenerational 'affects' of genocide; artistic practice among third generation survivors, paricularly of the Armenian Genocide; contemporary (particularly new and emerging) Australian poetry; contemporary Australian drama; and the image in poetry and cinema.

m.polain@ecu.edu.au

Hila Shachar
The Afterlife of Wuthering Heights: Screen Renovations

Supervisors: Dr Kieran Dolin and A/Prof Judith Johnston

Research Interests: adaptations of the Brontes' major works, particularly Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, in such media as film, literature, ballet and song; film adaptations and adapting the nineteenth century.

hilla@iinet.net.au or shachh01@student.uwa.edu.au

Helen Trenos
Creativity and the Actor
Supervisor: Dr Steve Chinna

I will investigate the creativity of the actor in two distinct phases: the rehearsal and the performance. It is anticipated that this research will not only re-inform actor training, but provide new insights into the existing body of creativity research.

htrenos@bigpond.net.au

Supervisors: A/Prof Delys Bird and A/Prof Van Ikin

jweeda@tpg.com.au

Supervisors: Prof Chris Wortham and Prof Bob White

I am interested in the way masculinity is represented in the plays of William Shakespeare. This has particular ramifications for the reinterpretation of the roles of men and women in the Medieval and Early Modern period in England.

browo@cygnus.uwa.edu.au