PhD Students

Creative Writing

Current HDR Candidates

Em Koenig – Queer Ecologies and Contemporary Poetry

Dancey Gordon – Metafictional Television: an Exegesis Investigating How Metafictional Techniques Can Add to the Quality Or Sophistication of a Television Comedy, Plus a Creative Work (Comedy Television Series) About a Creative Writing Student’s Life In a Postgraduate College

Glenn Diaz –Into the Forest: Historical Imagination in Philippine Fiction

Angela Kingston – Epistolary Novel about the Influence of Enid Blyton on Australian Cultural Identity

Olujide Adebayo-Begun – Iya Kafayat: A Novel (Creative Component)
A Grammar of Play in a Postcolongy of a Postcolony (Exegesis)

Lyn Dickens – A Prose Fiction Project on Colonel William Light

Juliet Paine – Exerting Machines

Delana Carbone – Superfiction

Gemma Parker – The Blackness of the Sun: An Exploration of Nihilism and Meaning in the works of Albert Camus and Samuel Beckett

Jennifer Molloy – Beyond the frame: Assumptions and silences in ST Gill's utopian visions of Colonial South Australia

Stephen Abram – Tattoos as Ekphrastic Narratives of Otherness in Crime Fiction

Jane Turner Goldsmith – Motivations to Read in the Time of the Virus – ‘Psychological First Aid’ and the Composite Novel

Verity Oswin – A Woman is a State (Poet as Vandal): An intersectional feminist reading of Major Mitchell’s Australia Felix expedition and the production of a colonial poetics to legitimize dispossession

Natalie Le Beau – Notes from the Pyrocene

Susan Hazel – Longpela Gut Bai: A Braided Narrative of Privilege and Loss

MPhil

Nadia Roberts – Writing a war from within a war: Explorations in traumatic Bosnian war memory

Bronwyn Lovell – Astronaut Adaptations: What reboots and revisions reveal about shifting attitudes toward astronauts and space exploration

Gillian Hagenus – Writing the Australian Suburban Gothic

Alex Sutcliffe – No Promises: Literary Language and Late Capitalism

Jane Costessi – Tracing Charlotte Jay: The Geraldine Halls Project

Recently Completed

2021

Mark Anthony Cayanan – Major Work: Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous; Exegesis: "Expiation, For, the, sin, of, Nothing": The Politics of Form in Queer Philippine Poetry in English

Gretta Mitchell – kookaburra: anti tales of laughing doom (PhD)

2020

Anj Foley – Narratives of Child Abduction in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe: Volume 1: Novella; Volume 2: Exegesis (MPhil)

Emily Palmer – Volume 1: Scapegrace; Volume 2: The (Absent) Female Body: Cross-dressing Narratives in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction (PhD)

2019

Paul Turley – The Poetic Invitation: Exploring manifold experience in easy poems (MPhil)

Phillipa Martin – Volume 1: My Killer Secret; Volume 2: 'Literary' Crime Fiction - an Analysis (PhD)

2018

Ngoc Thu Hoang – Vietnam to the World, a Magical Connection: 'Embers of Time' (a novel) and 'Bridging Disparate Realms' (an exegesis) (PhD)

English

Current Candidates

PhD

Benjamin Kearvell – English – Deleuzian Difference and Disability

Owen Everitt – Mapping the Murray: a Bioregional Approach to Character and Narrative

Darryl Do – A Literary Study of Classical Influences on Milton's Theodicy in Paradise Lost

Najla Alyabis – Muslim Women's Identity in a Changing World: the Fiction of Leila Aboulela

Samuel Cox – A Search for Country in Australian Literature

Laura Hamilton – Reading-as-Witnessing in the Trans-Indigenous Literacy Archive: a Study of Lee Maracle and Alexis Wright

Celine Zerna – 'The Other in Ourselves': The Ethics, Aesthetics, and Epistemologies of Feminist (Auto) Ethnography

Jacob Sunter – Beach Bodies: Cruising the Shore in Fire Island Literature

Jana Norman – LGBT Bound for South Australia: The role of gender and sexual diversity in migration and mobility to South Australia 1950-1999

Meg Madden – Fragments of Self: Contemporary Women's Life Writing

Clare Charlesworth – Revisionary Practices in American Literature: A Study of Walt Whitman, Henry James, and Willa Cather

Theodora Galanis – Figuring the Sea, Inland: Oceanic Imaginaries in Contemporary Australian Literature

Azadeh Feridoun Pour – “. . . a story in an obscure corner of the front page . . .” American White Women Novelists: New Recognitions (1950s-1965)

Matthew Couper – Fishing in Moby-Dick, Omeros, and Carpentaria

MPhil

Taylor Westmacott – Violence, Boredom, Extinction: Artist Depictions of Symbolic Death and Masculine Deliquency

Recently Completed

2021

Ruby Niemann – From Zero Hour to Kudzucene: Reading Margaret Atwood's Post-Millennial Novels under the Auspices of Anthropocene Thought (PhD)

Patrick Moritz – ‘A lightness that is both new and a return’: Nekyia and katabasis in twenty-first century receptions of the Iliad (MPhil)

2020

Kate Bowen – The Masks That Wear Men: The Representation of Masculine Masquerade In 1990s American Action Cinema (PhD)

Brydie Kosmina – We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn’: Feminist Afterlives of the Witch in Popular Culture (PhD)

2019

Charlotte Kelso – Bound by Narrative: 'Reading' the Female Body and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (MPhil)

Jane Nelson – Shakespeare and Christian Hermetism: religio mentis a Study of Esoteric Thought in Four Plays (PhD)

Jessie Bryne – Just Desserts: Reading, Writing and Rewarding Australian Women’s Crime Fiction (PhD)

Kezia Perry – Shadow of The Archers and Crossing Over: Writing Young Adult Fiction and Finding the Contemporary Reader

2018

Alison Coppe – Notes from Above Water: Fictocriticism as Queer Creative Research Practice (PhD)

 

French Studies

Current HDRs

PhD

Debra Hoadley – French Studies - Collaboration in Photographic Art Works (Sophie Calle and Mathieu Briand)

Freya Davies-Ardil – French Studies - Geographies of Francophone Pacific Literature - Mapping Place, Writers and Writing

MPhil

Lauren Twine – French Studies - Exploring Artistic Responses to Far-right Populism in Contemporary France

Recently Completed

2021

Melanie Maillot – French Studies - Poetics of Neutrality and the Question of Being in the poetic work of Andrée Chedid and Jeanne Benguigui

2019

Marianne Braux – French Studies - Parole De Narrateurs: Figures De L'Enonciation Dans Le Recit Francais Moderne (PhD)

German Studies

Current HDRs

PhD

Mary Quigley – German Studies - Learning German in English-Speaking Tertiary Contexts: Identity, Social Strategies and Language Use

Linguistics

Current HDRs

PhD

Quang Le – Linguistics - Time-marking words in Vietnamese - from fallacious tense-aspect-mood markers to modal particles of sequentiality

Yumei Cui – Linguistics - Semantic Preference in Chinese Business English Words: a Corpus-based Study

Teuku Auwal – Linguistics - A Study of Young Acehnese-lndonesian Bilingual Adults in Aceh

Christopher Venning – Linguistics - Linguistic Classification in the Daly River Languages

Caryn Rogers – Linguistics - Rhetorical Structure and Persuasion in Classical Hebrew

Elise Westin – Linguistics - Unburied Memories: Exploring the Cultural Trauma Process through Holodomor Survivor Literature

MPhil

Susie Greenwood – Linguistics - A Comparative Study of Breton and Cornish

Hakeem Beedar – Linguistics - Ainu Revitalisation in Japan: a comparative study

Ingrid Kerrigan – Linguistics - Reconstruction of Barngarla Lexicon from Primary and Secondary Sources

Recently Completed

2021

Chloe Castle – Linguistics - Co-option of Grammatical Resources from Foreign Languages (a Focus on English and Czech)

2020

Eve Kheir – Linguistic - Codeswitching as an Index and Construct of Sociopolitical Identity: The Case of the Druze, Christians and Muslims in Israel (PhD)

2019

Penelope Cashman – Linguistics - International Best Practice in the Teaching of Lyric Diction to Conservatorium-Level Singers (PhD)

Art History

Current HDRs

PhD

Sarah Gibson-Walker – Art History - The Visual Culture of Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand

Heather Lee – Art Histor - Australian sculptor Ian Bow and the plurality of mid-century Modernism

Alexandra Mowbray – Art History - The Contemporary Nude in The Digital Age

MPhil

Alexandra Nitschke – Art History - The History of the Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia (CAOA) Network

Recently Completed

2019

Ralph Body – Art History - Behind the Scenes: Hans Heysen's Art World Networks (PhD)

Susan Woodburn – Art History - Alexander Schramm (1813-64) and the Visual Representation of Aboriginal People in Mid-Nineteenth Century Colonial Australia (PhD)

Nerina Dunt – Art History - Investigating the Aesthetic Character of Australian Urban Indigenous Art: A Socio-Political Fusion (PhD)

Classics

Current HDRs

MPhil

Gemma Neal – Classics - (Mis)translation of Sexual Violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Greg Macpherson – Classics - From Magic to Medicine: The dynamics of faith and science in drug development in antiquity.

Emily Chambers – Classics – Free speech in the Roman world

Recently Completed

2021

Mary Harpas – Classics – The Hippocratic Understanding of the Living Body (MPhil)

Tamas Preston – Classics - Dissimulation and Veiled Criticisms in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (MPhil)

Tiana Blazevic-Bastow – Classics – The Ascent to the Hidden One: The Reception of the Egyptian One God in Neoplatonism and the Greek Magical Papyri

Benjamin Nagy – Classics – Carmen et Standard Error: Computational Methods of Stylistics in Latin Poetry

Tamara Bremert – Classics – Sex in Suetonius: Sexual Material as a Characterisation Device for Tyrannical Emperors (MPhil)

2020

Judith Bailey – Classics – Fleecing the Pious: The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow in the Central and North Welsh Marches 1400-1530 (PhD)

2018

Alex Antoniou – Classics - Divine Emperors and Italy: Emperor Worship in the Italian Peninsula (Excluding Rome) (MPhil)

Janice Lee – Classics - Silius Italicus' Punica 8. 1-241: a Commentary (MPhil)

History

Current HDRs

PhD

Rebekah Harms – History - Building the Innovation Economy: the Development of Science and Technology Policy in South Australia, 1980 - 2020

Grace Waye-Harris – History - Henrician Fashion Diplomacy

Megan Nattrass – History - Princess Mary and the Performance of Loyalty, 1516-1547.

Michael Heim – History - Precarious Accounts: Britain 1700-1850

Alexander Parsons – History - Australian Protestant Church Responses to the Threat and Reality of War, 1931 - 1945

Tamika Gloutfsis – History - Interpreting History in Interactive Media, with Particular Focus on Video Games

Emma Carson – History - Intimacy, Power, and Separation: The Impact of Military Service on Marital Relationships in World War II

Jessie Lewcock – History - Documenting Suicides by Australian First and Second World War Veterans

Jack Crawford – History - The rise of industrial unionism in South Australia, 1908-22

Jodie Vanderpeer – History - South Australian Art Needlework 1876-1909.

Tess Watterson – History - Gender, History and Magic: The Witch in Video Games

David Milazzo – History - Conflicting Histories: The Memorialisation of Frontier Violence

Julian Kusabs – History - Indigenous Civic Literacy: A Comparative History of Education in Australia and New Zealand

Cathy Chua – History - How conflict between online social network platform providers and users develops and is resolved

Natalie Ciecierska-Holmes – History - Raw Feeding for Dogs in the UK and Australia: A Social and Ethical Cross-Cultural Comparison

Caitlin Merlin – History - The New York City Theatrical Community’s Response to the 1980s and 1990s HIV/AIDS Crisis

Elijah Winters – History - Australia and the Apollo Program

Tatiana Sazonova – History - Merchants of pre-revolutionary Russia: their role in the life of the empire and influence on society

Kelly McKinley – History - History of Community Attitudes and Activism in Australia Around The Emergence and Development of GM for Food and Agricultural Purposes, 1970s- Present

Karina Burns – History - Animal Ethics in Psychological Research in Australia from 1900 to Present

Daniella Pilla – History – Migrant Hostels

Sarah Gibson-Walker – Art History - The Visual Culture of Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand

Jasmin Parasiers – History - Early Modern Sermons and Religious Culture

Selina Kuo – History - Neither Bread Nor Cake: Ersatz Foods and The Spirit of Full Disclosure

Virginia Baker – History - Science at the Interface: Community Engagement and The Promise and Transdisciplinarity

Lisa Hunt – History - 'Blackboxing' Australian Science? Understanding Popular Perceptions of Science in Australia, 1939- 1963

MPhil

Adam Scorgie – History - Australia's Pivot from the UK to the USA in the Twentieth Century

Lachlan McCarron – History - Politics and Emotion in Jacksonian America

Alexander Pring – History - Roman Catholic Missions in the Americas and East Asia in English Anti-Catholic Discourse, 1558-1660

Courtney Davis – History - Th evolution of memory politics in Scotland, 1979-2016

Madeleine Sallis – History - Examination of the relationship between white settlers and the local Aboriginal population in the Cooper Creek region

Robert Bartnik – History - Boleslaw Bierut and Stalinism in Poland, 1944-1956

Emma Grimes – History - ‘A Floating Home’: The emotional lives of nineteenth-century emigrants voyaging to Australia

Jade Ryles – History - The War at Home: Australian Children and their Families during World War II

Benjamin Nicholls – History - The Piano and Colonisation in South Australia

Elizabeth Bor – History - Responses to Bushfires in Colonial South Australia

James Hurst – History - Two Australian colonists, the 2nd Life Guards and the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte: Private Thomas Playford and Lieutenant Richard Meares in England, Portugal, Spain, Belgium and France during the Peninsular Campaign and the Hundred Days.

Recently Completed

2021

Lani Gerbi – History – Socio-sexual scripts and erotic literature in eighteenth-century Britain (MPhil) – under examination

Claire Morey – History – “I will not maintain you”: Understanding men’s desertion and failure to provide as economic abuse in colonial South Australia (MPhil)

David Chadwick – History – Hear the Lion Roar: Trade unionism at General Motors-Holden’s in South Australia, 1931-1981 (PhD)

Jessica Jocher – History - The Solidarity Wave: Settlement Experiences and their Influence on the
Identity of Polish Migrants Arriving in Australia During the 1980s (PhD)

2020

Linda Haines – History - The Bounty of the Suburbs. Home Food Production and Preservation in Adelaide Suburban Yards 1945-1995 (PhD)

Emily Ireland – Law/History - Married Women’s Litigation in the English Court of Chancery, 1698-1758 (PhD)

Stephanie Thomson – History - Women, Piety, and Patronage in Reformation England, c.1530-1558 (PhD)

Jessica McCandless – History - Mysticism and Emotional transformation in a Seventeenth-Century English Convent (PhD)

Thomas East – History - Anglo-American Responses to German War Technology in World War II (MPhil)

Rachel Caines – History - "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out": The Acknowledgement of Indigenous First World War Service in Australian and New Zealand National Commemorations, 1918-2019 (MPhil)

Rachel Harris – History - In a State of War: Women's Experiences of the South Australian Home Front, 1939-45 (PhD)

Melissa-Ellen Dowling – History – Writing Russia: Anglophone Historians Discursively Constructing AnOther Nation (PhD)

John Davey – History – Legalised Trade Unions, Compulsory Primary Schooling, Enhanced Higher Education - the Legacies of Anthony John Mundella, 1825-1897 (PhD)

2019

Margaret Boult – History -  Epilepsy in the Lunatic Asylums of South Australia (1852 – 1913) (MPhil)

Emily Buddle – History - Australian Meat Consumers' Understandings of Farm Animal Welfare (PhD)

David Milazzo – History - Commemorative Days and the Negotiation of National Identity (MPhil)

Ralph Body – Art History - Behind the Scenes: Hans Heysen's Art World Networks (PhD)

Susan Woodburn – Art History - Alexander Schramm (1813-64) and the Visual Representation of Aboriginal People in Mid-Nineteenth Century Colonial Australia (PhD)

Nerina Dunt – Art History - Investigating the Aesthetic Character of Australian Urban Indigenous Art: A Socio-Political Fusion (PhD)

2018

Karen Agutter – History - More than Just a Roof over Their Heads: Migrant Accommodation Centres and the Assimilation of "New Australians" 1947-1960 (PhD)

Tania Cammarano – History - Ideas of Italy and the Nature of Ethnicity: A History of Italian Food in Australia with Case Studies (PhD)

Matthew Gray – History - 'Baptism, No Wall of Division': Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptists and Dynamics of Toleration (PhD)

Jade Riddle – History - Emotions in Place: The Creation of the Suburban 'Other' in Early Modern London (PhD)

Kelly Birch – History - SLAVERY AND THE ORIGINS OF LOUISIANA’S PRISON INDUSTRY, 1803-1861 (PhD)

Alexander Parsons – History - 'Everybody's Favourite Fascist': An Examination of the Figure of José Antonio Primo de Rivera within the Historiography of Spanish Fascism (PhD)

Amy Morrison – History - Communist Women's Resistance in Occupied Paris: Engagement, Activism and Continuities from the 1930s to 1945 (PhD)

Jennifer Caruso – History - Dream-Phantasy of a Utopia The Making of the Methodist Overseas Half-Caste Mission of Croker Island: A Personal History (PhD)

Peter Whellum – History - The Administration of Justice in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands: A Front Line in Tensions between Traditional Aboriginal Culture and the Criminal Law (PhD)

Stefania Chiro – History - For The Sentiment: Emotions as Practice in the Development of Eighteenth-Century British Abolitionism (PhD)

Current HDRs

PhD

Anne Nattembo - Investigating Effectiveness of Social Networking Sites in Influencing Mental Health Promotion Among Young People

Alexander Beare - Moments of crisis: Tracking 21st century masculinity through complex television

Kari Seeley - Positioning Audio Description in Media Theory: an Australian Context

Caitlin Adams - Media Mimicry - How fictional videos emulate user-generated content in online stories

Amy Brierley - The Evolution of Romance in Digital Games

Robert Boucat - ‘Oscar Bait’: exploring links between the perceived Oscar-worthy film and Academy Awards controversies.

Marisol Da Silva - Household Experiences of Reducing Waste: Moving Towards Circular Economy Futures

Sebastian Morrison - Non-Normative Gender Identity in the Australian Video Games Sector

Philippa Dore - The Revolution Will Be Televised: Audio-visual content in the era of streaming and “peak TV”. An investigation of industry change, content trends, and globalisation post the digital revolution

MPhil

Sophia Fluin - A Multifaceted Perspective on Hallyu and its Impact on Ethnic Identity Amongst Asian-Australian Youths

Idris Martin - Historical Memory and Malay Media

Thanh Nguyen - Identity and belonging negotiation through social media during the process of integration among Vietnamese international students in Australia

Recently Completed

2021

Sami Dannaoui - Design Cultures in Conflict: An Analysis of User Experience Design Standards in Social Media Smartphone Apps ( )

Guillaume Vetu - Beyond the Tree of the Living-dead: a Rhizoanalysis of Japanese Cinematic Zombies ( )

Muhammad Imran - Media Portrayal of Ageing: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Media Discourses in Australia and Malaysia (PhD)

Rukia Nzibo - Reporting on Terror: Assessing the Viability of Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News Media (PhD)

2020

Ayodeji Aiyesimoju - Remediation or Replacement: Masthead Stakeholders' Perception of News Digitalisation in Nigeria (PhD)

Amy Nancasrrow - The Art of Selling Arts: Marketing Culture Using Digital Media at Fringe Arts Festivals (PhD)

Brigitte Everett - Temporal Passage: Dynamic Experiences and the B-theory (MPhil)

Rebecca Randell - Beyond Dualism: The Challenge for Feminist Theory (MPhil)

2019

William McCarthy - Contested Kingdom: The Role of Online Media in the Relationship between Disney and Fans over Disneyland (PhD)

Varunika Ruwanpura - Crafting true stories: an interpretation of four Australian journalists' nonfiction writing practices (MPhil)

Linh Chung - South Australian Film-makers' Perspectives on Policies: State and Federal Film Policies and the Representation of Cultural Diversity in Australian Films (MPhil) Robert Farquharson - The Role of Analog Computation in Path Integrating Behaviour of the Desert Ant: A Defence of the Explanatory Credentials of Connectionism in Cognitive Science (MPhil)

2018

Robert Palmer - Adapting communication conventions: Helping vulnerable people in Adelaide learn about climate change and adaptation (PhD)

Hongyan Zou - Western China on Screen: Cinema and Urban Exploration as Thirdspace (PhD)

Current HDRs

PhD

Dook Shepherd - Philosophical Theories of Mind, Cognition, and The Status of Representation: Veridicality and Combination in Biological Sciences

Matthew Nestor - A Structuralist Account of Dynamical Mental Representation in Recurrent Connectionist Networks

Victoria Vazquez Troitino - The Mind's Representing Vehicles and Their Contents ( Phil of Mind, Theories of thought)

Patrick Keeley - Schopenhauer's Theory of Aesthetics

MPhil

James Vlachoulis - A Defence of the B-Theory of Time with Respect to Temporal Passage and Our Experience of Temporal Passage

Riley Harris - Normative Uncertainty and Information Value

Timothy Nailer - Praise, Blame and Holding Oneself Responsible

Henry Phillips - To Blame or Not to Blame: Respect and the Ethics of Blame

Nicholas Smyth – 17^th/18^th century philosophy

Jessica Pohlmann - Reality's Hierarchical Structure: On the Foundations of Asymmetric Dependence Relations

Margaret Penhall-Jones - Self-Deception and Wilful Ignorance. Self-induced, purported ignorance?

Elinor Pryce - The Morality of Procreation and Our Duty to Rescue Others From Harm

Anthony Bishop - Underdetermination and theoretical values

Adam Townsend - Representation in Neural Networks

Recently Completed

2021

Danny Wardle - Opening a Can of Spacetime Worms: The Metaphysics of Persistence

Atheer Al-Khalfa - The Referential/Attributive Distinction: Its Status and Scope (MPhil)

2020

Michael Lazarou - Vindicating Vague Objects (MPhil)

2019

Robert Farquharson - The Role of Analog Computation in Path Integrating Behaviour of the Desert Ant: A Defence of the Explanatory Credentials of Connectionism in Cognitive Science (MPhil)

2018

Karen Bland - The Good, the Right and the Exigencies of Life: John Dewey and the Value of Moral Disagreement (PhD)