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Researchers
The Writing & Society Research Centre brings together scholars in the humanities, writers, and members of the publishing industry, who have a common interest in exploring the social power of writing.
Follow the links below for information on individual Centre members. Contact details are available via the staff directory.
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Lecturer |
A Deleuze and Guattari scholar whose research interests include continental philosophy, theories and philosophies of writing, and ethics and trauma in literature. |
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Senior Lecturer |
A translator of Spanish-language fiction whose research interests include contemporary Latin American fiction, modern French fiction and poetry and experimental formalism in literature. |
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Senior Lecturer |
A scholar whose interests include writing and affect, and bio-evolutionary theories of human communication. |
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Research Fellow |
Scholar and researcher in postcolonial and Indian subcontinental literatures, studies in nationalism, feminism, diaspora, translation theory, culinary cultures, public intellectuals and Bombay cinema. |
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Lecturer |
Has a background in media and creative arts practice and research, with a current focus on fiction writing, the mediation of memory, and developments in new media. |
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Lecturer |
A scholar whose research interests include children's literature and culture. |
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Lecturer |
Worked as a journalist for 15 years, her research interests include convergent and participatory media, social media, surrogacy, culture jamming and online identities. |
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Lecturer |
A scholar whose research interests include philosophy and literature, linguistic and semiotic approaches to literature, and speech pathology. |
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Research Lecturer |
A scholar and critic whose work concerns the emergence of literary materials and communities during decolonization. Further interests: dialect verse, relation between literature and music, Marxian aesthetics. |
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Lecturer |
A writer, editor and musician whose research interests include Australian poetry and literature, C20th American literature, cultural and literary theory, innovative poetics and contemporary music. |
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Senior Lecturer |
A René Girard scholar whose research interests include philosophy, literary theory, and cultural and social analysis. |
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Associate Professor |
A writer & scholar whose research interests include fictocriticism, affect theory, psychoanalysis, French philosophies of writing, poetics, hybrid arts, experimental & digital media writing. |
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Whitlam Chair |
A publisher and literary critic whose research interests include Australian literature and literary publishing. |
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Professor |
A novelist and scholar whose interests include narrative, cinema, cultural studies, contemporary literature and Australian literature. |
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Associate Professor |
A novelist and scholar whose research interests include historical fiction, death, violence and representation. |
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Lecturer |
A scholar whose research interests include contemporary European philosophy, film theory and history, mathematics and logic, psychoanalysis, and visual art and culture. |
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Lecturer |
A scholar whose research includes life writing and creative non-fiction; qualitative research theory/practice (including ethnographies of writing and representation); archival studies; and affect and writing. |
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Lecturer |
A novelist and scholar whose research interests include crime fiction, Scottish and Irish literature. |
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Tracy Olverson Lecturer |
The author of Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late Victorian Hellenism. |
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Lecturer |
A scholar researching the intersection of race and animality in fiction whose interests include 19th and 20th century American literature, sexuality studies, and critical theory. |
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Senior Lecturer |
A scholar whose research interests include theories of cinematic affect and embodiment; film theory; documentary cinema; multimedia installation; Asian cinemas; Indigenous cinema; writing and affect. |
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Lecturer |
A scholar whose research interests include modernism and modernity, Virginia Woolf, theories and cultural histories of the everyday, and the intersections between literature and philosophy. |
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Professor |
A poet and scholar whose research interests include new media writing, contemporary poetry, experimental and postmodernist writing and musico-literary discourse. |
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Professor |
A renowned Beckett scholar whose research interests include modernist aesthetics, literature and philosophy, and literary form. |
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Lecturer |
A scholar whose research interests include deconstruction, biopolitics, Carl Schmitt, Spinoza, Walter Benjamin, and Greek literature. |
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Distinguished Research Fellow |
A novelist whose works include the Miles Franklin Prize winning Carpentaria |
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Research Fellow |
A scholar whose interests include memory politics, philosophy of violence, feminism and embodiment, deconstruction, trauma theory, and contemporary democratic theory. |
