Academic Staff and Research Interests in CCLCS
Director: Dr Chris Worth
Graduate Coordinator: Prof. Andrew Milner
Research Coordinator: Prof. Andrew Benjamin
Honours Coordinator: Dr. Alison Ross
Undergraduate Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Millicent Vladiv-Glover
Graduate Coordinator: Prof. Andrew Milner
Research Coordinator: Prof. Andrew Benjamin
Honours Coordinator: Dr. Alison Ross
Undergraduate Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Millicent Vladiv-Glover
The Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies is distinguished by its interdisciplinary links. Many of the staff who teach or supervise for the Centre are attached to other schools and sections in the Faculty of Arts.
The staff listed alphabetically below all either teach CCLCS units or supervise CCLCS postgraduates.
| Name | Phone & E-Mail | Research Interests |
| Anderson,
Dr Philip Lecturer in French Studies | 9905
2221 | Contemporary French literature; semiotics; structuralism; narrative theory |
| Benjamin,
Prof Andrew Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics |
9905 8097 | Walter Benjamin; philosophy and the visual arts, especially work on painting; philosophical aspects of 19th and 20th century Jewish thought, especially Rosenzweig and Levinas; history of philosophy, especially ancient philosophy, Hegel, 19th century German philosophy |
| Davies,
Dr Gloria Sen Lect in Chinese Studies |
9905 2234 | Chinese and diasporic literature; postcolonial theory; literary theory; twentieth-century Chinese history and culture; critical inquiry in China |
| Deiters, Dr Franz-Josef Sen Lect in German Studies |
9905 8045 |
History of German literature from the 18th century to the present within the context of European cultural history; the theory of authorship; the theory and history of drama and theatre; the intersections of literature and philosophy; and the cultural anthropology of work |
| Fliethmann,
Dr Axel Lecturer in German Studies | 9905
2247 | Foucault, Bourdieu, sociology of knowledge, systems theory, literature and media studies |
| Lucas, Dr Rose Sen Lect in English | 9905 2138 |
Feminist poetics, contemporary women's literature, gender representations in popular film, recent American and Australian women's poetry, encodings of gender in the cinema, postmodern feminist fiction |
| Milner, Prof Andrew
Professor of Cultural Studies | 9905
2979 | Literature and society, literature and politics, cultural studies, cultural materialism, utopia, dystopia and science fiction, Bourdieu, Jameson, Williams |
| Nelson,
Prof Brian Professor of French Studies | 9905
2215 | Naturalism and decadence in French literature, translation studies |
| Probyn, Prof Clive
Professor of English | 9905 2157 | Literary theory, eighteenth century English literature and cultural studies, West African literature, twentieth century Australian literature, history of ideas |
| Rigby,
Assoc Prof Kate Assoc Prof in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies |
9905 2246 | Romanticism; ecophilosophy; ecocriticism; ecotheology |
| Roberts,
Em Prof David Emeritus Professor |
9905 2243 | Modernism and postmodernism, aesthetics and genre theory, Marxist critical theory and systems theory, sociology of literature, the novel |
| Ross, Dr Alison
Lecturer in Critical Theory | 9905
2095 | Aesthetics and theories of the fine arts (also classical and modern theories of theatrical representation); modern European and contemporary European philosophy, especially in the fields of moral and aesthetic theory |
| Ryan,
Dr Matthew Lecturer in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies | 9905 2159 | Irish culture and writing, the nation, globalisation, culture and ideology |
| Savage, Dr Robert
Post-Doctoral Fellow |
9905 2037 | German and French critical theory, English and German literature, utopia and science fiction |
| Scarparo,
Dr Susanna Lecturer in Italian | 9905
5223 | Italian women writers, comparative literature, Italian culture, life writing, women's writing |
| Thomson,
Em Prof Philip Emeritus Professor |
9905 2243 | Literary theory, satire, the grotesque |
| Veit,
Hon Assoc Prof Walter Hon Assoc Professor |
9905 2244 | Hermeneutics, comparative literary theory, rhetoric, history of ideas |
| Vladiv-Glover,
Assoc Prof Millicent Assoc Prof in Slavic, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies | 9905
2256 |
Modernism/postmodernism in European (French, German, Slavic) literature and film; the poetics of Realism in the Russian, French and English literary canon; Dostoevsky’s novel and the phenomenology of meaning |
| Weller,
Dr Tina Sen Lect in German Studies |
9905 2245 | Travel literature, colonial literature, fin de sicle, psychoanalytic theory, contemporary fiction |
| Worth,
Dr Chris Sen Lect in English, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies | 9905 2152 | Narrative studies, post-structuralist literary theory, literature and visual culture, Bakhtin and cultural studies |
In addition the following associates of the Centre are available for supervision
| Name | Phone & E-Mail | Research Interests |
| Cuthbert,
Prof Denise Professor in Sociology |
9905 2234 | Gender and cultural difference, postcoloniality, indigeneity, contemporary cultural studies |
| Dever,
Assoc Prof Maryanne Assoc Prof in Women's Studies |
9905 3529 | Postcolonialism, women's writing, feminist literary theory, feminist pedagogy, cultural studies, Australian studies |
| Green,
Dr Karen Sen Lect in Philosophy |
9905 3225 | Feminism, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of language |
| Hanan, Dr David Sen Lect in Visual Culture |
9905 4216 | Film studies with particular reference to film form, European and Asian cinema, postcolonial theory |
| Janover,
Dr Michael Sen Lect in Politics |
9905 2445 | Modernism, culture and politics |
| Nestor,
Assoc Prof Pauline Assoc Professor in English |
9905 2122 | Feminist literary theory, women writers |
| Pavlyshyn,
Assoc Prof Marko Assoc Prof in Slavic Studies, European Studies | 9905 2259 | Rhetoric, East European and post-Soviet cultures and literatures, especially Ukrainian |
| Philadelphoff-Puren,
Dr Nina Lecturer in English | 9905
2246 | Feminist theory (particularly feminist legal scholarship), law and literature, discourse analysis, (sexual) violence and representation, romance narratives and cultural studies |
| Verevis,
Dr Con Lecturer in Visual Culture |
9905 4215 | Film theory, new Hollywood, Japanese popular culture, cultural studies, television studies |
| Williams,
Dr Deane Sen Lect in Visual Culture |
9905 4226 | Australian film and television, documentary film theory and history, postcolonial film, cultural studies |