Welcome to English and Cultural Studies

The Discipline Group of English and Cultural Studies is in the School of Social and Cultural Studies, within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia.

The group has a strong undergraduate and postgraduate teaching program, and is actively involved in research.

Areas of specialisation include:

• Australian and post-colonial literatures
• English literature
• Cultural studies
• Literary theory
• Creative and professional writing
• Theatre and performance studies

English and Cultural Studies hosts:

• Westerly Centre
• Women's Studies

We also publish three scholarly journals:

• Outskirts
• Parergon
• Westerly

Contact us

The office is open Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5:00pm and is located in room G.10 on the ground floor of the Arts Building.

English and Cultural Studies M202
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009

Phone: +61 8 6488 2101
Fax: +61 8 6488 1030
Email

News

UWA has been awarded the new national Chair in Australian Literature. It will be based in English and Cultural Studies and the Westerly Centre.

Congratulations to Bob White, whose latest book Pacifism and English Literature was recently published has been featured as 'Book of the Week' in the Times Higher Education Supplement in London on 17 April.

Daniel Erickson's PhD is to be published as a monograph by Palgrave Macmillan as Ghosts, Metaphor, and History in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is scheduled for publication in March 2009. Dan did both his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at UWA and his PhD was passed with a Distinction in 2005.