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Communications Research Staff Interests

This page gives a brief outline of Communication staffs research interests and provides a link to their individual page for more detailed information.

ECPS is the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies in the Faculty of Arts, teaching at the Berwick, Caulfield and Clayton campuses and HUMCASS is the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts, teaching at the Gippsland campus and via distance education mode. Monash University Malaysia (MUM) teach at the Sunway campus located near Kuala Lumpur and Monash South Africa teach at the Ruimsig campus near Johannesburg.

Dr Paul Atkinson(HUMCASS)
Paul.Atkinson@arts.monash.edu.au
BA Hons, PhD (Monash)
Theories of time and memory; time in the philosophy of science; technoculture, narrative theory; the aesthetics of film, comic books and literature.

Dr Rose-Marie Bezuidenhout (Monash South Africa)
Rosemarie.Bezuidenhout@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (Comm)) (Hons ) (Univ. Orange Free State ), MA (Comm ) ( Rand Afrikaans University ), DLitt et Phil (Comm ) (University of Johannesburg).
Public relations, intrapersonal and transpersonal communication, conflict and negotiation, intercultural communication. Thesis title: 'Symbols of the quantum self: An exploration of the transcendence of the self and consciousness through communication symbols'.

Dr Daniel Black(ECPS)
Daniel.Black@arts.monash.edu.au
BA(Hons.) (Melb), PhD (RMIT)
Theorisations of the body (incl. Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Mikail Bakhtin). Digital and industrial design and aesthetics. Cultural identities, cultural technologies and digital culture. Global cultural productions and cross-cultural translation and appropriation. Japanese popular culture and cultural history. Non-Western modernity (with emphasis on Japan).

Dr Sharon A. Bong(Monash University Malaysia)
Sharon.Bong@artsci.monash.edu.my
BA(Hons), MA (Malaya ), MA, PhD (Lancaster)
Asian feminist theologies, gender and development, gender and religion, Asian-Malaysian studies.

Dr Robert Briggs(HUMCASS)
Robert.Briggs@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (Hons), PhD (Murdoch)
Writing theory and practice, literary theory, semiotics and poststructuralism, popular fiction and film, postmodern narrative, continental philosophy and ethics, culture and pedagogy, philosophy of communications and technology.

Dr Simon Cooper ( HUMCASS)
Simon.Cooper@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (Hons), LLB (Hons), PhD (Monash)
Technology, cyberculture, mass communications, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, aesthetics, citizenship, screen media, literature, music, ethics.

Dr Philip Dearman ( HUMCASS)
Philip.Dearman@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (Hons) (Univ.SA.) PhD (Monash)
Theories and histories of (mass) communication; information cultures; new media in education; media and democracy; politics of/in realist & neo-realist literature.

Eduardo de la Fuente(ECPS)
Eduardo.delaFuente@arts.monash.edu.au
B. Eco (Syd) BA (Hons) (UNSW) PhD (Griffith)
Sociology of the arts; classical and contemporary social theory; the history of the social sciences; aesthetics of everyday life; cultural dimensions of modernity.

Franzel DuPlooy-Cilliers (Monash South Africa)
Franzel.DuPlooy-Cilliers@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (Hons) (Com.Stud.), MA (Com.Stud.) (Rand Afrikaans Univ)
Interpersonal, intrapersonal and organisational communication.

Associate Professor Kevin Foster (ECPS)
Kevin.Foster@arts.monash.edu.au
BA Hons (Manchester) MA (Saskatchewan) PhD (Monash)
Representations of conflict, cultural constructions of national and regional identity, Literary cultures.

Dr Patricia Goon (Monash University Malaysia)
Patricia.Goon@artsci.monash.edu.my
BA (Hons), PhD (CQU)
Postcolonial subjectivity, popular culture studies, science fiction, cybertheory.

Associate Professor Gil-Soo Han (Monash University Malaysia)
han.gil.soo@artsci.monash.edu.my
BA (Sungkyul University) , MA Soc (Jawaharlal Nehru University),
MA (Hons), PhD (UNE)
Sociology of health, medicine and illness, Political economy of media and communications, Sociology of religion, Migrant/ethnic studies, Rural sociology , Digital divide.

Alison M Hart ( HUMCASS )
Alison.Hart@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (LaTrobe), GradDip (Soc.Sci), MA (Monash)
(Research assistant/enhancement studies co-ordinator)
Global civil society and the internet, music and politics, the erosion of State sovereignty and mechanisms of global governance.

Dr David Holmes(ECPS)
David.Holmes@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (Hons), PhD (Melb)
Contemporary communication theory, the political sociology of cyberspace and technological change, the influence of new media in educational processes and identity formation, and the interrelationship between electronic, urban and global spaces.

Dr Brett Hutchins (ECPS )
Brett.Hutchins@arts.monash.edu.au
BA MA (UC ), PhD (UQ)
Sociology of media and new media, Sport and media, Computer and Video Gaming and Australian national mythologies.

Dr Jaganathan Marimuthu (Monash University Malaysia)
jaganathan.marimuthu@artsci.monash.edu.my
BA (Hons), DipEd, TESL, MEd, PhD (UPM)
Public Relations and International Studies.

Associate Professor Peter Murphy (ECPS)
peter.murphy@arts.monash.edu.au
BA Hons, PhD (La Trobe)
Political, Civic and Cultural Communications.

Dr Simone Murray (ECPS )
Simone.Murray@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (Hons) (Qld), PhD (UCL)
Media convergence, particularly of content; critical political economy; Australian media policy; public-service broadcasting; cultural implications of intellectual property for media users; culture jamming; cultural politics of book publishing; gender and media studies; materialist analyses of literary cultures.

Ms Sheila Murugasu (Monash University Malaysia)
sheila.murugasu@artsci.monash.edu.my
BA (Brock) , MA (NUS )
Former professional journalist; M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies. Interests in media representations of Islamic movements and the role of the state in Southeast Asia.

Andrew Ng Hock Soon(Monash University Malaysia)
Ng.Hock.Soon@artsci.monash.edu.my
BEd (TESL), MA (UWA)
Gender and subjectivity, psychoanalysis and literature, monsters, horror and gothic literature; Asian and postcolonial literatures. Editorial board member of SARE (South East Asian Review of English)

Anna Poletti (HUMCASS )
anna.poletti@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (Hons) PhD (Newcastle)
Life writing; diy culture; the materiality of texts; literary theory; feminist theory; technologies of cultural production and the construction subjectivity

Andy Ruddock(ECPS)
Andy.Ruddock@arts.monash.edu.au
Audiences and public health, the cultural framing of alcohol as a means of influencing public policy, the use of media resources in alcohol education for young people.

Dr Linda Venter (Monash South Africa)
Linda.Venter@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (Univ South Africa), BA (Hons), MA (Com), PhD (Rand Afrikaans Univ)
Communication theory, public relations, mass communication, Intrapersonal and transpersonal communication, organisational communication.

Dr Susan Yell (HUMCASS )
Sue.Yell@arts.monash.edu.au
BA (Hons), PhD (Syd.)
Constructions of gendered and national identities in the print media, media audiences, social semiotics and discourse analysis, communication/cultural literacies, graduate literacies and attributes, email policies and practices in the workplace.

Dr Yeoh Seng Guan(Monash University Malaysia)
Yeoh.Seng.Guan@artsci.monash.edu.my
BDiv (SEAGST); Phd (Edinburgh )
Anthropologies of media; of the postcolonial city; of religion; and issues of gender with particular regional interest in Southeast Asia.

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