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Recent Graduates

At a recent graduation ceremony, I had the pleasure of witnessing five postgraduates from English and Cultural Studies being awarded their PhDs, and two others their MAs in Creative Writing. Their success is evidence of the vibrant postgraduate research community in ECS, and of the quality of our students.

As a discipline group, we value postgraduate studies highly, and aim to provide top-quality supervision in a range of areas.

We welcome enquiries, so if after reading this website you are interested in one of our degrees, please contact me.

Kieran Dolin

ECS Discipline Chair


Dr Stephen Dedman (2008)

The Weapon Shop: The Relationship between American Science Fiction and the US Military

Supervisor: A/Prof Van Ikin

Examines how the US military's increasing demand for technology first suggested by science fiction entertainments has led to the use of science fiction tropes by the US military in 'selling' military hardware, military service, and wars. Also, examines American science fiction writers' experiences of, and reactions to, the US military from the 1930s to the present.

www.stephendedman.com



Dr Tristan Fidler (2008)

Music Video Auteurs: The Directors Label DVDs and the music videos of Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry and Spike
Jonze

Supervisor: Prof Ian Saunders and Prof Gail Jones

Research Interests: Music Videos, Auteur Theory, Film Noir, Paracinema, Narrative, Cinema, Television, Pop Culture


Dr Per Henningsgaard (2008)

Outside Traditional Book Publishing Centres: The Production of a Regional Literature in Western Australia

Supervisor: Prof Dennis Haskell

Per's research interests include Australian literature, Western Australian literature, regional literature, book history/print culture studies, publishing studies, and postcolonial literature. For more details, please visit: www.interfolio.com/portfolio/PerHenningsgaard


Dr Natalia Lizama (2008)

Afterlife, But Not As We Know It: Medicine, Technology and the Body Resurrected

Supervisor: A/Prof Tanya Dalziell

Natalia's thesis examines the way in which corporeal resurrection is enacted by medical technologies.


Dr Nicholas Mercer (2008)

Thinking the Commodity Through the Moving Image: A Philosophical Investigation into the Commodity as a Mode of Communication

Supervisor: Prof Ian Saunders

Research Interests: Media Theory, Film Studies, Continental Philosophy, Marxist theory, Cultural theory


Dr Bree Hoskin (2006)
"This Tin Tub's Unsinkable": Modernity and the Titanic Paradigm in Visual and Literary Culture


Supervisor: Prof Bob White

Dr Alison Kershaw (2006)

The Poetic of the Comic Christ in Thomas Traherne's The Kingdom of God

Supervisor: Prof Bob White


Dr Tama Leaver (2006)
Artificialities: From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Culture

Supervisor: A/Prof Jane Long

Tama's research interests include cyberculture, digital media, science fiction, film studies, internet studies, weblogs, podcasting, and participatory journalism. For more details, please visit: http://www.tamaleaver.net/index.html


Illustration from the Decameron Dr Olivia Mair (2006)
Merchants and Mercantile Culture in late Medieval Italian and English Literature


Supervisor: A/Prof Andrew Lynch

Research interests: Boccaccio, Chaucer, romance literature and late medieval painting in a socio-economic context; broader questions about the way artistic and literary production registers and responds to commercial developments and trade in the late Middle Ages.

Dr Duc Dau (2005)
"Which two when they once meet": Love and the Reunion
with God in the Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Supervisors: A/Prof Daniel Brown and Dr Kieran Dolin

My thesis explores the role of love (amor) in the individual's union, separation from, and reunion with God, a trajectory equated with Eden, Fall and Redemption.


Darren Jorgenson

Dr Darren Jorgenson (2005)
Science Fiction and the Sublime

Supervisors: A/Prof Van Ikin and A/Prof Ian McLean

Traces the historical coincidence of science fiction and the sublime from their first appearance in the Ancient Roman Empire to cyberpunk and beyond.

darrenj at cyllene.uwa.edu.au


Tom Wilson

Dr Tom Wilson (2005)
John Fowles: An Ecocritical Study


Supervisor: Dr Kieran Dolin

Ecocriticism; viewing literature through the framework of evolutionary psychology, and Habermas' communicative framework are some of my interests. I am currently looking at Australian nature poetry.

http://www.tmwilson.org

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