Recently completed Higher Degrees by Research
Examples of recently completed Higher Degrees by Research supervised by members of the Department, include:
- Louise Maree Colbran, (2007), 'A Dangerous Fiction: Subverting Hegemonic Masculinity through the Novels of Michael Chabon and Tom Wolfe'.
- Ursula Dubosarsky (2007), 'Little People in British Children's Books during the Cold War'.
- Geoffrey Payne (2007), 'Dark Imaginings: Ideology and Darkness in the Poetry of Lord Byron'.
- Emma Yarrow (2007), 'The Authurian Legend for Children: Changing conceptions of Honour, Privacy and Civilization in Modern Retellings".
- Jeanette Wood (2007), Order in the Wards - Child Patients' Memories from 1940s to 1970s'.
- Graeme Wend-Walker (2006), 'Russell Hoban and the Resistance of Postsecular Metafiction'.
- Zijie Pan (2006), 'Representations of Chinese Men in Australian fiction, 1973-2000:An Analytical Interpretation and a Novella'.
- Shahin Hashemi (2006), 'Journey to Childhood'.
- Elizabeth Hathorn (2006), 'The Exploration of E-Learning through the discourse of short fiction'.
- Louise Melano (2006), On Divergence in Fantasy: Stranger, I'.
- Jean Lyssa (2006), 'Performing Australia's Black and White History: acts of four Australian plays of the early 21st century'.
- Celeste Rossetto (2006), 'The Published and Unpublished Works of the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos'.
- Victoria Flanagan (2005), 'Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature'.
- Salinee Antarasena (2005), 'Superior and Subordinate Relations in Thai Folktale Schemata and their Influence on Young Audiences During Compulsory Education'.
- Robert J Webb (2005), 'The Supernatural in Shakespeare's Major Tragedies and in Some Other Early Modern Texts'.
- Aiman al' Garrallah (2005), 'Beyond the Imperial Dream: the Poetry of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt'.
- Jane Fernandez (2005), 'The Second Skin: A Study of Violence in the Fiction of K.S.Maniam'.
- Sabina Hussain (2005), 'Intercultural Encounters and Cultural Transformation: The Migrant Experience in Selected Postcolonial Fiction in Australia'.
- Joan Murray (2005), 'Words, Rhythm and Music in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.'
- Gareth Beal (2004), 'The Creation Myth: An Approach to Creative Writing'.
- Clara Citraningtyas (2004), 'Breaking a Curse Silence: Malin Kundang and Transactional Approaches to Reading in Indonesian Classrooms'.
- Joanne Manning (2004), 'Subversive Voices: A Study of Text and Performance in the Interpretation and Realisation of Experimental Poetry'.
- Magar Etmekdjian (2004), 'A New Formalist Reading of Five Restoration Verse Satirists' MA Hons.
- Deborah Fox (2004), 'George Macdonald: A Messenger Unfettered'.
- Sung-Ae Lee,(2003),''Utopias, Dystopias and Abjection: pathways for society's others in George Eliot's major fictions'.
- Alison Scott, (2003) 'Selfish Gifts: the politics of exchange and English courtly literature, 1580-1628'. Published as Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628 , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005.
- Helen Kilpatrick (2003), 'Ideologies in Contemporary Picture Book Representations of Tales by Miyazawa Kenji'.
