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Academic Staff and Research Interests in CCLCS

Director: Dr Chris Worth
Graduate Coordinator: Prof. Andrew Milner
Research Coordinator: Prof. Andrew Benjamin
Honours Coordinator: Dr. Alison Ross
Undergraduate Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Millicent Vladiv-Glover

The Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies is distinguished by its interdisciplinary links. Many of the staff who teach or supervise for the Centre are attached to other schools and sections in the Faculty of Arts.

The staff listed alphabetically below all either teach CCLCS units or supervise CCLCS postgraduates.

Name		Research Interests
Anderson, Dr Philip Lecturer in French Studies		Contemporary French literature; semiotics; structuralism; narrative theory
Benjamin, Prof Andrew Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics		Walter Benjamin; philosophy and the visual arts, especially work on painting; philosophical aspects of 19th and 20th century Jewish thought, especially Rosenzweig and Levinas; history of philosophy, especially ancient philosophy, Hegel, 19th century German philosophy
Davies, Associate Professor Gloria Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies		Chinese and diasporic literature; postcolonial theory; literary theory; twentieth-century Chinese history and culture; critical inquiry in China
Deiters, Dr Franz-Josef Senior Lecturer in German Studies		History of German literature from the 18th century to the present within the context of European cultural history; the theory of authorship; the theory and history of drama and theatre; the intersections of literature and philosophy; and the cultural anthropology of work
Fliethmann, Dr Axel Lecturer in German Studies		Foucault, Bourdieu, sociology of knowledge, systems theory, literature and media studies
Milner, Prof Andrew Professor of Cultural Studies		Literature and society, literature and politics, cultural studies, cultural materialism, utopia, dystopia and science fiction, Bourdieu, Jameson, Williams
Nelson, Prof Brian Professor of French Studies		Naturalism and decadence in French literature, translation studies
Rigby, Associate Professor Kate Associate Professor in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies		Romanticism; ecophilosophy; ecocriticism; ecotheology
Roberts, Em Prof David Emeritus Professor		Modernism and postmodernism, aesthetics and genre theory, Marxist critical theory and systems theory, sociology of literature, the novel
Ross, Dr Alison Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory		Aesthetics and theories of the fine arts (also classical and modern theories of theatrical representation); modern European and contemporary European philosophy, especially in the fields of moral and aesthetic theory
Ryan, Dr Matthew Lecturer in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies		Irish culture and writing, the nation, globalisation, culture and ideology
Savage, Dr Robert Post-Doctoral Fellow		German and French critical theory, English and German literature, utopia and science fiction
Scarparo, Dr Susanna Lecturer in Italian		Italian women writers, comparative literature, Italian culture, life writing, women's writing
Thomson, Em Prof Philip Emeritus Professor		Literary theory, satire, the grotesque
Veit, Hon Associate Professor Walter Hon Associate Professoressor		Hermeneutics, comparative literary theory, rhetoric, history of ideas
Vladiv-Glover, Associate Professor Millicent Associate Professor in Slavic, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies		Modernism/postmodernism in European (French, German, Slavic) literature and film; the poetics of Realism in the Russian, French and English literary canon; Dostoevsky’s novel and the phenomenology of meaning
Weller, Dr Tina Senior Lecturer in German Studies		Travel literature, colonial literature, fin de sicle, psychoanalytic theory, contemporary fiction
Worth, Dr Chris Senior Lecturer in English, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies		Narrative studies, post-structuralist literary theory, literature and visual culture, Bakhtin and cultural studies

In addition the following associates of the Centre are available for supervision

Name		Research Interests
Cuthbert, Prof Denise Professor in Sociology		Gender and cultural difference, postcoloniality, indigeneity, contemporary cultural studies
Dever, Associate Professor Maryanne Associate Professor in Women's Studies		Postcolonialism, women's writing, feminist literary theory, feminist pedagogy, cultural studies, Australian studies
Green, Associate Professor Karen Associate Professor in Philosophy		Feminism, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of language
Hanan, Dr David Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture		Film studies with particular reference to film form, European and Asian cinema, postcolonial theory
Janover, Dr Michael Senior Lecturer in Politics		Modernism, culture and politics
Nestor, Professor Pauline Professor in English		Feminist literary theory, women writers
Pavlyshyn, Associate Professor Marko Associate Professor in Slavic Studies, European Studies		Rhetoric, East European and post-Soviet cultures and literatures, especially Ukrainian
Philadelphoff-Puren, Dr Nina Lecturer in English		Feminist theory (particularly feminist legal scholarship), law and literature, discourse analysis, (sexual) violence and representation, romance narratives and cultural studies
Verevis, Dr Con Lecturer in Visual Culture		Film theory, new Hollywood, Japanese popular culture, cultural studies, television studies
Williams, Dr Deane Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture		Australian film and television, documentary film theory and history, postcolonial film, cultural studies

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