Postgraduate Theses
Although we try to keep this list up to date, the current work that students are doing may not always be accurately described by the title below.PhD Thesis Topics 2007
- Steven Aoun
- What is 'critical' about critical theory?
- Adam Bandt
- Sovereignty and Exception
- Geoff Berry
- Mythologies of Light
- Terri-Lee Bird
- Materialities: Relationships of Space and Time in the Visual Arts
- Peter Coleman
- Openness Ecology: An Eco-Exploration of Indefinition
- Jennifer Coralie
- Resonance, Reconnection and Reparation: Writing the Land in Australia and Scandinavia
- Mark Crees
- Returning to the Founding Tear: Georges Bataille, Atheology and Negativity
- Jeff Davies
- The (Re)Turn to Cosmology in the Metaphysics of Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze
- Michael Fitzgerald
- On 'Character': The Experience of the Self in Early Modernity
- Gerald Frederic
- Philosophy, Race, Negritude
- Weiwen Fu
- Allegoresis: Interpreting Myth East and West
- Nikolai Gladanac
- Marking the Limits of Narrative: A Comparative Study of J.G. Ballard's Novels and Soviet Science Fiction
- Louise Gray
- Open Signs: God, Love, Evil
- David Jack
- Michel Houellebecq: In the Midst of the World
- Suboohi Khan
- The Cultural Reception of Kafka in India
- Rhonda Khatab
- The Problem of Ethics, and the Question of Literature: The Encounter of Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida and Nancy
- David Lane
- Disfiguring Deleuze: A Comparative and Critical Study of the Philosophy of Difference
- Adam Lodders
- The Body, Space and Technology
- Blair McDonald
- Irreconciliations: Friendship and the Political
- Kimberley Pearce
- Girl Meets Beast: The Beast and Burgeoning Female Sexuality, the Mythic Cycle and Process of Curtailment
- Claire Perkins
- Contemporary American Smart Cinema
- Keith Redgen
- The End of Freedom? Compulsory Utopia in Australia and the USA
- Elyse Rider
- The Role of Environmental Ethics in Inter-Faith Dialogue
- Carlo Salzani
- Figures of Reading: Walter Benjamin in Images of Actualities
- Simon Sellars
- Utopia is Boring: J.G. Ballard’s Science-fictional Present
- Tanya Serisier
- Can Speaking Out End Rape? Survivor Narratives, the Power of Speech, and Feminist Politics
- Sabina Sestigiani
- Violence, Landscape and the Act of Naming in ContemporaryItalian and Australian Literature
- Etsuko Tanaka
- Transfer of the Pictorial Realism in the Age of Translation - The Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century Japan
- Sarah Tayton
- Conceptions of Risk: Reproductive Technologies, the 'Informed Consumer' and Corporeal Vulnerability in the Clinic
- Rachel Torbett
- Fascinated, if not Desiring: Approaching Blanchot's Gaze
- Irena Vassiliev
- Mappings of Subjectivity and Ethics in the Cultural Space of Contemporary Russia
- Julia Vassilieva
- The Narrativist Turn in Literary Studies and Psychology: Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Lotman
- Jessica Whyte
- The Normalisation of the Exception
- Jonathan Wright
- Liberating the Aesthetic Imagination: (from) Beauty to Sublime
MA Thesis Topics 2007
- David Blencowe
- The Function of the Aesthetic in the Speculative Philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel and the Utopian Philosophy of Ernst Bloch
- Genna Burrows
- The Poetics and Erotics of Roman Love Elegy: An Investigation of the Written Poetic Word
- Samantha Capon
- Threatening Species: Stories of Species Invasions from an Ecocritical Perspective
- Sam Everingham
- Form and Function in Legal Adjudication: Legal Meaning, Hermeneutics and Systems Theory
- Timothy Finney
- Adorno, Constellation and Utopia
- Rachel Funari
- Irrational Modernity: Literature Enchanting the Modern Mind
- Michal Kulbicki
- Utopia, Marxism and the Science Fiction of Iain M. Banks
- Robert Stillwell
- Deleuze and Feminism