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Higher Degree Research by group

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Linguistics
Society, history, politics
Translation and intercultural studies
Literary Studies


Linguistics

Completed

Name
Title Supervisor
Margaret A'beckett PhD Gender assignment and word-final pronunciation in French: two classification systems Dr Heather Bowe
Andrew Balint PhD Utterance and discourse in context: a process model of the architectural and operational Gestalt of interlocutory language usage Prof Keith Allan
Zhiqun Chen PhD Compound ideograph: a contested category in studies of the Chinese writing system Prof Keith Allan
Carmen Dawuda PhD Discourse functions of demonstratives and place adverbs with exophoric reference in Logea, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea Dr Anna Margetts
Deborah Perrott PhD Adolescent communication: pragmatic skills Prof Keith Allan
Phuong Dung Pho PhD Research articles in applied linguistics and educational technology: a corpus-based study of rhetorical moves and authorial stance Dr Julie Bradshaw
Nor Suharti Abdul karim PhD Compliments and compliment responses: a study of Malay ESL undergraduates Prof Farzad Sharifian
Mark Arness PhD Language, culture and ideology: socio-cultural and ideological implications of the adoption of anglicisms in French and German Dr Heinz Kreutz
Melanie Burns PhD A sociolinguistic exploration of sexual language: discourses of sexuality in the Australian media Dr Julie Bradshaw
Mahshad Davoodifard PhD Advice speech-act in Persian as a first language and English as a second language: a study of Iranian students Prof Farzad Sharifian
Katharina Franke PhD "We call it Springbok-German!": language contact in the German communities in South Africa Dr Heinz Kreutz
Naomi Kurata PhD Opportunities for second language learning and use in foreign language learners' social networks A/Prof Helen Marriott
Howard Manns jr PhD Stance, style and identity in Java Dr Julie Bradshaw
Hiroyuki Nemoto PhD The management of intercultural academic interaction in student exchanges between an Australian and its Japanese partner universities A/Prof Helen Marriott
Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou PhD An analysis of L2 Japanese learners' social CMC with native speakers: interaction, language use and language learning A/Prof Helen Marriott
Anthony Rausch PhD Cultural commodities in local revitalization: a case study in Tsugaru, Japan Prof Ross Mouer
Masato Takimoto PhD "Keeping an eye on all balls": interpreters' functions in multi-party business interpreting situations A/Prof Helen Marriott
Louisa Willoughby PhD "You have to speak it at least". Language and identity maintenance among Australian migrant teenagers Dr Ana Deumert
Kiyomi Yamada PhD Japanese undergraduate thesis writing and individual supervisory conferences A/Prof Helen Marriott
Rintaro Imafuku MA R&C Student and Tutor Oral Participation in Medical Problem-based Learning Tutorials A/Prof Helen Marriott
Yuko Masuda MA R&C Interaction in Japanese-English Language Exchange Partnerships A/Prof Helen Marriott
Miho Nishita MA R&C Feedback and Co-construction in the Private Tutorial Context Dr Robyn Spence-Brown
Yusuke Sakurai MA R&C Writing in Japanese as a Second Language: Composing on the computer and by pen-and-paper Dr Robyn Spence-Brown
Chiharu Shima MA R&C Learner Interaction in Pair / Group Work Tasks in a Japanese Language Classroom A/Prof Helen Marriott

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Topic Supervisor(s)
PhD The impact of study abroad on Japanese language learner's out-of-class interaction and social networks Robyn Spence-Brown / Helen Marriott
PhD Academic Discourse Socialisation Using English as a Lingua Franca: a Japanese Case Study Helen Marriott / Hiroko Hashimoto / Kuniko Yoshimitsu
PhD An Analysis of Mythical Typologies in the Avesta texts and their Zand Farzad Sharifian / Almut Hintze
PhD Refusal strategies of Persian-speaking learners of English and Australian English speakers: A cross-cultural study Farzad Sharifian / Marisa Cordella / Maryam Jamarani
PhD The language of youth: 'Modern' sectarian Pennsylvania German in Ontario? Louisa Wwilloughby / Kathryn Burridge
PhD Linguistic habitus, identities and the field of Japanese language classes: A study of Japanese background speakers Helen Marriott / Masato Takimoto
PhD A study of the language ideology of Chinese adolescents in Italy, in particular those who live in Prato (Tuscany) and Milan (Lombardy). Susanna Scarparo / Loretta Baldassar
PhD Address terms in Persian: A cultural linguistic study Farzad Sharifian
MA R&C Linguistic analysis of the Dao de jing Gloria Davies / Anna Margetts / Keith Allan
PhD Email communication and perceptions of politeness among staff and students Farzad Sharifian / Zhichang Xu
PhD Corpus-Based Discourse Study of Attentional Semantics of the Representation of ‘Islam/Arab/Muslims’ in the Australian Press before and after 9/11 Farzad Sharifian / Marisa Cordella
PhD Exploring the Influence of Instructor Presence on EFL Students’ Interactions in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Farzad Sharifian / Simon Musgrave
PhD The Status of English as an International Language in Malaysia: Perceptions and attitudes of language educators and language learners in tertiary educational institutions Farzad Sharifian / Harry George Aveling
PhD The Term ‘Soviet’ in the Public Discourse of Contemporary Ukrainian Intellectuals Marko Pavlyshyn / Natalie Doyle
PhD Media discourse and the construction of the "other": A case study of indigenous representation in Australian media Lynette Russell / Farzad Sharifian
PhD Getting Immersed in Chinese Michael Henderson / Gloria Davies
PhD Policy and Planning for the Teaching of Asian Languages in Australian Primary Schools Helen Marriott / Kuniko Yoshimitsu

Society, history, politics

Completed

Name
Title Supervisor(s)
Joel Peter Atkinson PhD Australia and Taiwan: Bilateral Relations, China, the United States, and the South Pacific, 2008 Prof Bruce Jacobs / Dennis Woodward
Stuart Hill MA Bridging The Gap: Examining the response of the international community to complex emergencies: The Experience of Central Bosnia 1992-2001 A/Prof Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
Robert Irving PhD Narrating New China: Chen Dengke, Liu Qing and the Politics of Literary Production, 1949-76, 2011 Prof Bruce Jacobs / Gloria Davies
Anne Pi-Yau Pang PhD Huang Naishang: a Chinese Christian reformer in late Qing and early republican China Prof Bruce Jacobs / Gloria Davies
Zaijun Yuan PhD The failure of China's 'democratic' reforms Prof Bruce Jacobs

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Topic Supervisor(s)
PhD Sino-Pakistani Relations Bruce Jacobs / Joel Atkinson
PhD International Parental Child Abduction to Japan: An Australian Perspective Masato Takimoto / Shani Tobias
PhD An Internet-Mediated Political Public Sphere in China and South Korea Gloria Davies / Young A Cho
PhD The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan's Media: A Historical Analysis Bruce Jacobs / Joel Atkinson
PhD Real Riches or Fool’s Gold? Australian Investment in China Bruce Jacobs

Translation and intercultural studies

Completed

Name
Title Supervisor
Floriana Badalotti PhD Multilingual professionals: translators, interpreters and cultural identities A/Prof Rita Wilson
Stefanie Buchanan PhD The construction of cultural identity: Germans in Melbourne A/Prof Walter Veit
Denise Formica PhD Translating Australia: the case of Australian contemporary fiction in Italian translation A/Prof Rita Wilson
Leah Gerber PhD Tracing a tradition: the translation of Australian children's fiction into German from 1945 to the present Dr Christiane Weller
Brigid Maher PhD Jest and recreation: the translation of humour A/Prof Rita Wilson
Elisabet Murtisari PhD The uses of Relevance Theory for the study of explicitation and implicitation: the case of the Indonesian translations of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men Prof Brian Nelson
Krishnavanie Shunmugam PhD A history of Malay pantun translations into English A/Prof Rita Wilson
Shani Tobias PhD Traversing textual terrains: strategies for translating metaphor in Japanese-English literary translation Dr Beatrice Trefalt
Victoria Kristoffersen MA R&C TALES IN TRANSLATION: The German editions of the Grimms? "Kinder- und Hausmarchen" and their English translations, with a comparative analysis of 'Rumpelstiltskin' Dr Heinz Kreutz
Katie Paredes MA Framing in Hispanic-Australian adolescent narratives: worst holiday stories as an expression of identity Dr Marisa Cordella

Continuing


Topic Supervisor(s)
PhD Translating a nation: The media's exercise of translation in projecting Indonesia's cultural and political identity Rita Wilson / Harry George Aveling / Brian Nelson
PhD Translating the Modern from the Late Qing to the May Fourth era Gloria Davies / Rita Wilson
PhD (Re)Translating Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il Gattopardo: cultural and linguistic considerations Rita Wilson / Brian Nelson
PhD Training of professional translators and interpreters: synergies between academic research, professional practice and language didactics Brian Nelson / Jim Hlavac
PhD A Study of Art Museum Translation in Japan Rita Wilson / Jeremy Breaden
PhD 'The Translation of Tourism Promotional Materials: English>Malay Rita Wilson / Harry Aveling
PhD Neighbours in Translation: the projection of culture and politics in the Australian-Indonesian Relationship Rita Wilson / Harry Aveling
PhD Peeling the Onion: Intertextuality in the German translations of Terry Pratchett Rita Wilson / Leah Gerber
PhD The translation of metaphors in English language cosmetic online advertising into Chinese Heinz Kreutz / Hui Huang / Shani Tobias
MA (Trans) Strategies of Interpreting and Translating of Politeness Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
GradDip A Sufi Text: Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Translation Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover

Literary Studies

Completed

Name
Title Supervisor
Adrian Anderson PhD Dramatic anthroposophy: identification and contextualization of primary features of rudolf steiner's 'anthroposophy', as expressed in his drama 'The Portal of Initiation' A/Prof Walter Veit
John Barrer PhD Reimagining Slovak national identity: media-based popular cultures 1993-2005 A/Prof Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
Nadia Castronuovo PhD Jews and other victims: 'Jewishness' as moral identity in Natalia Ginzburg's works Dr Mirna Cicioni
Norman Chia PhD Fata Morgana - 'Vater Morgana': the 'absent father' and problems of identity formation in German-language 'father-books' after the third reich Prof David Roberts
Jeremy Dwyer PhD From mess-mend to the maafia: a history of Russian detectiv Dr Peter Lentini
Robert Irving PhD Narrating new China: Chen Dengke, Liu Qing and the politics of literary production (1949-1976) A/Prof Gloria Davies
Ursula Jansen PhD Eyes unaccustomed: the creative mind in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina and other prose works Dr Silke Hesse
Raffaele Lampugnani PhD Envisioning the Italian migrant experience down under: the socio-historical and cultural framing of Giorgio Mangiamele's "minor" cinema
Guinevere Narraway PhD Making nature: visions of mastery in the Third Reich cinema A/Prof Catherine Rigby
Teresa Tufano PhD Renegotiating women in contemporary Italian cinema Dr Susanna Scarparo
Susan Walker PhD Reading Annabella (1965-1978): a case study in feminism, social change and Italian popular culture Prof Denise Cuthbert
Guanjun Wu PhD The great dragon fantasy: a Lacanian (psycho) analysis of contemporary Chinese thought A/Prof Gloria Davies
Lucy Cahill MA History's Aside: A Study of Digressive Narrative Strategies in Historical Fictions by Italian Women Writers Dr Susanna Scarparo
Limin Chi MA Translation and Modernity in Late Qing China (1895-1911) A/Prof Gloria Davies
Tatiana Dekterev MA Representation of Stalinist themes and the recovery of cultural memory in the 'novels of death': The Keeper of Antiquities and The Faculty of Useless Knowledge by Yury Dombrovsky A/Prof Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
Emiliano Grasso MA The concept of community in selected plays by first and second generation Italian-Australian playwrights Dr Susanna Scarparo
Ellie Mackin MA The Initiation of Orestes in Aischylos' Eumenides Dr Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Gaetana Pellegrini MA The construction of cultural identities amongst third generation Italians in Melbourne Dr Susanna Scarparo
Siobhan Privitera MA Marking the Boundaries: The Social configuration and Presentation of Female Monstrosity in Early Greek Poetry Dr Jane Griffiths
Mathias Stevenson MA The Afflictions of an Outsider Exploring the 'Paradox of Selfhood' in the Early Cinema of Nanni Moretti Dr Annamaria Pagliaro

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Topic Supervisor(s)
PhD Fabrizio De André - connecting music, culture and society Susanna Scarparo / Rita Wilson
PhD La Parisenne: The History of a Cultural Figure Adrian Martin / Philip Anderson
PhD The Life and Poetics of Yury Dombrovsky through Archival Documents and Letters and in the Context of Russian Modernism Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
PhD The two sides of the coin: literary representations of mother/daughter relationship and identity in contemporary Italian narratives Susanna Scarparo / Rita Wilson
PhD The Figurality of Meaning:The Image in the Poetry of Vasko Popa and Charles Simic Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover / Marko Pavlyshyn
PhD Representing more than memory: the visual legacy of the Pol Pot regime Gloria Davies / David Chandler
PhD Narrative Structures in Serbian Postmodernism: the Disintegration and Dissemination of the Narrator Figure Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover / Annamaria Pagliaro
PhD Sounds of Subversion: Resistance, Meaning and Identity in Italian Reggae Susanna Scarparo / Graeme Smith
PhD Savouring 'Oriental Beauty': Materiality, agency and the senses in Taiwanese tea culture Gloria Davies / Brett Hough
MA Shame and Desire in Dostoevsky’s Short Fiction Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
MA Spanish Women in Revolution and War: the Life and Times of Dolores Garcia Negrete Stewart King / Ramon Castellano
MA Cultural Memory and Family History in the Prose of Ludmilla Ulitskaya Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
MA (R&C) The Curious Case of Suite française Rita Wilson / Philip Anderson
MA The Myth of the Wolf in the Cultures of the Romans and the Early Mongolians Evangelina Anagnostou Laoutides
MA Desiring the Oriental ‘Other’ in the Persian Poems of Velimir Khlebnikov Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover / Maria Levchenko
MA The Place of Boris Akunin in the modern Russian cultural space. The construction of the ‘New Russian Hero’ (in “Turkish Gambit” and “State Counsellor” and their Movie Versions) Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover / Raffaele Lampugnani
MA Gombrowicz’s Fiction: A Structuralist Reading Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover