Past Honours Thesis Topics
Need inspiration? The following is a list of research areas that recent Honours students have undertaken. Students can view previous candidates’ theses - please contact the Section.
English Literature Topics include:
- Othello and the Arabic World
- Milton and the Heroic: Paradise Lost and Classical Epic Convention
- Sail Ho! A Tale of Nineteenth Century New Guinea
- The Monstrous Child Figure in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- Dark Corners: Fear of the Unknown in Victorian Period Short Horror Fiction
- Harry Potter and the Curse of Commodity Culture
- Katie Speaks
- For Love Alone?’ Authenticity, Antagonism, and Alienation in Christina Stead’s Presentation of Gender
- A Wild Colonial Disinheritance: Pioneering an Approach to the Unheimlich in Australian Children’s Literature
- Through Fiction badgeringyourselfgatheringtomorrowcelibatejohnnybaitscreaming
- Historical Anxiety in the Writings of Judith Wright
- Calling into Being’: Naming, Possession and Heidegger in the Works of David Malouf
- Cultural Pessimism in the Novels of Michel Houellebecq
- ”Let Me Tell You a Story”: Silence and Storytelling in the Fiction and Memoir of Dorothy Allison
- I - Witness: New Journalism from the Non-fiction Novel to Blogging
- Malicious Dreams and Curious Appetites: Desire, Gender and Subjectivity in Lewis Carroll’s Alice texts
- Mythologising Winton: A Critical Study of his Short Fiction
- Now and Then: an Examination of the Temporality of Short Fiction in the Modernist, Postmodern and Contemporary Fields
- O EPΩTIKOΣ ΘANATOΣ [O Eroticos Thanatos]’: An Exploration of Presence & Absence in Sophokles’ Antigone
- Dirty, Pretty Things: The Abject Self and Sexual Unsaid in Isobel Carmody’s Fantasy Narratives
- Amalgam or Antithesis: the Prose Poem and its Consequences
- Tom Jones and Moll Flanders: An Encounter with the Eighteenth Century Orphan
- Freedom from Within: Women’s Struggles with Patriarchy in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Naming and Knowing: Art and Empiricism in the Novels of Murray Bail
- The Commercial Childhood: Reconstructing the Child from Novel to Film in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- The Girl Power Myth: Dolly’s Re-Fashioning of the ‘Second Sex’
- Mothers, Lovers, and “Little Sisters”: The Women of John Wyndham’s Postwar Novels
- Michael Leunig’s Social and Political Cartoons
Creative Writing Topics include:
- Into Kadimakara: Gothic Elements in the Australian Sense of Place
- Here if You Want: Migration and the Change of Horizon
- Time and Place: A Trilogy
- i’mOKintheheadbadelectricityflowsbetweengogogohellonheels Characteristics of Postmodernism Interrogated Through Fiction badgeringyourselfgatheringtomorrowcelibatejohnnybaitscreaming
- The Desert of the Real
- Jezebel’s Impression and The Correct Form of True Vampirism
- The Goad & Clay Lamp
- Waking with Dreams: Migration, Alienation and Cultural Identity Through the Gaze of a Love Story
- Sail Ho! A Tale of Nineteenth Century New Guinea
- The Underworld of Bosco: Satirizing Language
- The Wanting Disease: An Appetite for Consumption
- Fathers Who Kill: Traits, Clues and Warning Signs
- Lemat and Schrödinger’s Cat
- Creative Writing Modernism
- Creative Writing: Theatre Script on Camus’ Outsider
- Fathers Who Kill: Traits, Clues and Warning Signs