Key Research and Graduate Research Areas
We welcome applications from prospective MA and PhD students with interests in the following areas of research.
Please note that LCL academics frequently co-supervise MA and PhD projects located in programs other than their own. If you intend to work on a project that straddles two disciplines, we will organize the necessary complement of research expertise to meet your supervision needs.
Chinese Studies
Chinese critical inquiry (Gloria Davies)
Chinese elite politics (Warren Sun)
Chinese intellectual history and culture (Gloria Davies, Lijian Hong, Warren Sun)
Chinese literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present (Gloria Davies)
Chinese as an international language: pedagogy and policy (Lijian Hong, Hui Huang)
Contemporary History of the People’s Republic of China (Gloria Davies, Lijian Hong, Warren Sun)
Cyberdissent in the Chinese-speaking world (Gloria Davies)
Democratization in Taiwan and the East Asian region (Bruce Jacobs)
History of Taiwan (Bruce Jacobs)
Modern China: culture, politics and society (Gloria Davies, Lijian Hong, Bruce Jacobs, Warren Sun)
Second language acquisition; teaching Chinese as a heritage language (Hui Huang)
Taiwan politics and society (Bruce Jacobs)
Classical Studies
Aristophanic Fragments (Giulia Torello)
Augustan and Hellenistic Literature (Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides)
Comparative Ancient Literature (Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides)
Greco-Roman Myth and Religion (Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides)
Greek Drama (Giulia Torello)
Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Erotic Literature and Cult (Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides)
Near Eastern Kingship and Soteriology (Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides)
Renaissance Studies (Giulia Torello)
Reception Studies (Giulia Torello)
Roman Politics and Historiography (Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides)
English as an international language
English as an International Language (Farzad Sharifian)
Culture in English Language Teaching/Learning (Farzad Sharifian)
Cognitive Linguistics (Farzad Sharifian)
Cultural Linguistics (Farzad Sharifian)
Discourse Analysis (Farzad Sharifian)
Intercultural Communication (Farzad Sharifian)
Psychology of Language (Farzad Sharifian)
Pragmatics (Farzad Sharifian)
Language and Politics (Farzad Sharifian)
French Studies
Contemporary French literature (Philip Anderson, Brian Nelson)
Foreign language learning / teaching (including writing in a foreign language, cognitive processes and computer-aided writing environments, collaborative learning and interactions) (Patrick Durel)
French cinema (Philip Anderson)
French history (including 19th and 20th-century urban history, art history and popular culture) (James Cannon)
French social and political theory with particular reference to interpretations of modernity, French politics and society (including the questions of French Republicanism and national identity, Religion and French society, France and European integration) (Natalie Doyle)
Nineteenth Century French Literature (Brian Nelson)
Translation Studies (Brian Nelson, James Cannon)
German Studies
Aesthetics (Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann)
Authorship, Theory and History (Franz-Josef Deiters, Christiane Weller)
Contemporary German Literature (Christiane Weller)
Discourse Analysis (Heinz Kreutz)
European Novel (particularly 19th century) (Axel Fliethmann)
German Literature from the 18th Century to the Present (Franz-Josef Deiters)
German as a Foreign Language (Heinz Kreutz)
Intellectuals, Theory and History (Franz-Josef Deiters)
Literary Theory (Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann)
Media Theory (Axel Fliethmann)
Mediology of Theatre (Franz-Josef Deiters)
Narratives of Work (Franz-Josef Deiters, Christiane Weller)
Psychoanalytic Theory (Christiane Weller)
Renaissance (Axel Fliethmann)
Romanticism (Franz-Josef Deiters)
Rhetoric of Posters (Franz-Josef Deiters)
Second Language Pedagogy (Heinz Kreutz)
Sociolinguistics (Heinz Kreutz)
Theory and History of Drama and Theatre (Franz-Josef Deiters)
Translation of Metaphor (Heinz Kreutz)
Travel and Colonial Literature (Christiane Weller)
Visual Culture (Axel Fliethmann)
World War I in the German Imaginary (Christiane Weller)
Indonesian Studies
Indonesian and Javanese Linguistics (Yacinta Kurniasih)
Indonesian and Javanese Education (Yacinta Kurniasih)
Indonesian gender studies (Barbara Hatley)
Indonesian modern literature (Barbara Hatley)
Indonesian performing arts (Barbara Hatley)
Translation and Interpreting History (Paul Thomas)
Translation in Journalism (Paul Thomas)
Italian Studies
Contemporary Italian and Italo-Australian Poetry and Narrative (Raffaele Lampugnani)
Dante; Medieval Italian Society and Poetry (Raffaele Lampugnani)
Feminist theory (Susanna Scarparo, Annamaria Pagliaro)
Film Adaptation Theory – the novel into film (Annamaria Pagliaro, Raffaele Lampugnani)
Gender issues in Italian literature and cinema (Susanna Scarparo)
Italian Cinema (Susanna Scarparo, Raffaele Lampugnani)
Italian Theatre (Annamaria Pagliaro)
Life writing (Susanna Scarparo)
Literary Translation Theory (Annamaria Pagliaro)
Migration and Mobility (Susanna Scarparo, Raffaele Lampugnani)
Neorealist Narrative and Cinema (Raffaele Lampugnani)
Magical Realism in Literature (Raffaele Lampugnani)
The Italian Novel particularly from Romanticism to Modernism (Annamaria Pagliaro)
The Short Story in 19th and early and early 20th Century (Annamaria Pagliaro)
Japanese Studies
International education (Hiroko Hashimoto)
Japanese interpreting and translation (Masato Takimoto, Shani Tobias)
Japanese history (20^th century), History of the Asia-Pacific War, War and Memory in East and Southeast Asia (Beatrice Trefalt)
Language management, language planning, Language education policy (Helen Marriott, Robyn Spence Brown, Kuniko Yoshimitsu)
Macro or micro Japanese sociolinguistic topics (Helen Marriott)
Second language acquisition and pedagogy, teaching Japanese as a foreign language (Helen Marriott, Robyn Spence Brown, Naomi Kurata, Hiroko Hashimoto, Kuniko Yoshimitsu)
Korean Studies
Language assessment (Young-A Cho)
Korean Linguistics (Injung Cho)
Second language acquisition (Young-A Cho)
Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language (Young-A Cho)
Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language (Injung Cho)
Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (Injung Cho)
Translation Studies (Injung Cho)
Linguistics
Australian Aboriginal Languages (Heather Bowe, Alice Gaby)
Austronesian (Anna Margetts, Simon Musgrave)
Bi-/Multilingualism (Julie Bradshaw, Jim Hlavac, Louisa Willoughby)
Classroom discourse (Julie Bradshaw)
Cognitive Linguistics (Keith Allan, Alice Gaby, Anna Margetts)
Data management for linguistic field work / archiving of linguistic data (Andrew Margetts, Simon Musgrave)
Discourse analysis (Keith Allan, Julie Bradshaw, Alice Gaby, Simon Musgrave, Louisa Willoughby)
First language acquisition (Anna Margetts)
Germanic linguistics (Kate Burridge, Louisa Willoughby)
Health and communication (Alice Gaby, Julie Bradshaw, Simon Musgrave)
History and philosophy of linguistics (Keith Allan)
Jargon (Keith Allan, Kate Burridge)
Language change (Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, Julie Bradshaw, Alice Gaby, Simon Musgrave, Louisa Willoughby)
Language contact (Kate Burridge, Julie Bradshaw, Alice Gaby, Jim Hlavac, Louisa Willoughby)
Language policy (Julie Bradshaw, Louisa Willoughby)
Language variation ( Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, Julie Bradshaw, Simon Musgrave, Louisa Willoughby)
Linguistic taboo, euphemism, dysphemism, (Keith Allan, Kate Burridge)
Morpho-syntax (Kate Burridge, Alice Gaby, Anna Margetts, Simon Musgrave)
Papuan languages (Anna Margetts)
Pennsylvania German (Kate Burridge, Louisa Willoughby)
Pragmatics (Alice Gaby, Anna Margetts, Keith Allan)
Second language acquisition (Julie Bradshaw, Louisa Willoughby)
Semantics (Keith Allan, Alice Gaby)
Sociolinguistics (Kate Burridge, Julie Bradshaw, Louisa Willoughby)
Structure and history of English (Kate Burridge)
Swearing, insult (Keith Allan, Kate Burridge)
Typology (Kate Burridge, Alice Gaby, Anna Margetts, Simon Musgrave
World Englishes (Kate Burridge, Julie Bradshaw)
Slavic Studies
Mikhail Bakhtin and theory of discourse (Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover)
Post-Soviet cultures (Marko Pavlyshyn)
Russian and Slavic Popular culture - detective novel, cinema (Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover)
Russian Modernism / Postmodernism in literature and avant-garde cinema (Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover)
Serbian and post-Yugoslav Literature (Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover)
Slavic Linguistics (Jonathan Clark)
Slavic Socio-linguistics and discourse analysis (Ludmilla A'Beckett-Antypenko, Anna Mostovaia)
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky in context of Realist Poetics of European Novel (Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover)
Ukrainian Literature (Marko Pavlyshyn)
Spanish and Latin American Studies
Catalan Studies (Stewart King)
Contemporary Spanish literature, including poetry and crime fiction (Ramón López Castellano, Stewart King)
Cross-cultural communication (Marisa Cordella)
Discourse analysis (Marisa Cordella)
Gender issues in Spain and Latin America (Ramón López Castellano, Sarah McDonald)
Spanish and Latin American cinema (Ramón López Castellano, Sarah McDonald)
Spanish and Latin American popular culture (Ramón López Castellano, Sarah McDonald, Stewart King)
Translation Studies (Marisa Cordella)
Translation Studies
Community interpreting (Jim Hlavac, Helen Tebble)
Curriculum development and pedagogy of T&I (Jim Hlavac, Heinz Kreutz)
History of translation (Harry Aveling, Brian Nelson, Rita Wilson)
Language services and language policy (Leah Gerber, Rita Wilson)
Linguistics, applied linguistics and translation (Jim Hlavac, Heinz Kreutz, Helen Tebble)
Literary translation (Harry Aveling, Leah Gerber, Brian Nelson, Rita Wilson)
Literary and cultural studies (Leah Gerber, Brian Nelson, Rita Wilson)
Transnational studies (Leah Gerber, Rita Wilson)
Ukrainian Studies
Ukrainian (and, more generally, Slavic) literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the present (Marko Pavlyshyn)
Cultural, linguistic and national identity (Marko Pavlyshyn)