Popular Culture and Ethics Research Group
The Popular Culture and Ethics Research Group is devoted to investigating the link between the phenomenon of popular culture and ethical action.
Ethics is distinguished from morality along Nietzsche's model in Genealogy of Morals. Popular culture is defined through the poetics of Modernism and distinguished from mass culture. Popular culture on this definition is critiqued in terms of the literary canon as well as various other disciplines of the humanities: language, society, cultural studies, and political discourse. Special emphasis is placed on the issues of propaganda and the production of myth in mass media.
The Popular Culture and Ethics Research Group is affiliated with the journal Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research. The Group organizes seminars and conferences. The Group is linked to the IMRN – the International Mamardashvili Research Network.
Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research
Other Projects
War metaphors in contemporary English novels - Lyudmyla a'Beckett
Research into cutlural associations of colour words in Russian - Anna Mostovaia (Honorary Research Fellow)
Reviews
Popular Culture and Ethics Reviews.
Postgraduate Research
Current and recently completed theses
- The writer's life under Stalinism: Yury Dombrovsky (PhD current)
- 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 (MA)
- From mass-media to the mafia: a history of the Russian detective novel(PhD)
- The Relationship of Literariness to Utopia in the Russian Literary Canon and Avant-Garde Cinema (PhD current CCLCS/Slavic)
- “Polish avant-garde art and the art market in Poland in the Post-Communist Transition.” (PhD)
- Bridging The Gap: Examining the response of the international community to complex emergencies: The Experience of Central Bosnia 1992-2001 (MA)
- Reimagining Slovak national identity: media-based popular cultures 1993-2005 (PhD)
Relevant Publications and Papers
- Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, “Post-Structuralism in Georgia:The Phenomenology of the ‘Objects-Centaurs’ of Merab Mamardashvili.” Angelaki: The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. Special Issue on “Philosophising in/on Eastern Europe.” Vol 16, No. 1 (2010)[in press] Included in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A+)
- Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, ”The Gaze” as the Basis of the Poetics of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina,”/ “Videnie kak osnova poetiki romana Anna Karenina L. N. Tolstogo,” (bi-lingual edition, in English and Russian, Literary Calendar: the Books of Days/Literaturny calendar: knigi dnia, No 6 (2), 2009 (34 & 33 pp).
- Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, “History as Pastiche in the Postmodern Detective: Eco’s The Name of the Rose,” The European legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Vol. 13, No.1 (2008): 57-78.
- Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, “New Sectarianism” and the Pleasure Principle in Postmodern Russian Culture,” Transcultural Studies. Special Issue on “Discourses of Power and Aesthetics in Old and Emerging Societies,” Guest Editor: Andrew Padgett. Vols.2-3 (2006-7): 60-80.
- Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, “Russian Postmodernism: A Cultural Diagnosis of Postmodern Russia,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (Winter/Spring 2007 Vol VIII, No. 1: 87-94).
- Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, “What is Classical and Non-Classical Knowledge?” Studies in East European Thought (Springer), Special Issue on Merab Mamardashvili, 58 (2006):205-238.
- Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover,
"Popular Culture vs. Mass Culture: Tolstoy's What is art
? as a Test for the Russian detektiv," in: Post-Communist Popular
Culture and the detektiv Novel Genre, in: Soviet &
Post-Soviet Review Vol. 29, No.3 (2002), pp. 291-311.
pdf (Acrobat) version. - Slobodanka M Vladiv-Glover,
"RELIGIOUS FEELING AS AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY IN THE ARAB NOVEL:
Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy read through European Modernism (Baudelaire,
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky)", International Society for the Study
of European Ideas, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference,
22 - 27, July 2002, Aberystwyth, Wales.
pdf (Acrobat) version. - Jeremy Dwyer, "Telling
the 'Real' Story: Interpretation of Contemporary Events in
Viktor Dotsensko's Superboeviki," in:
Post-Communist Popular Culture and the detektiv Novel Genre, in:
Soviet & Post-Soviet Review Vol. 29,
No.3 (2002), pp. 221-240.
pdf (Acrobat) version. - Lech Keller, "Non-Science
Fiction Prose of Stanislaw Lem," in: Post-Communist Popular
Culture and the detektiv Novel Genre, in: Soviet &
Post-Soviet Review Vol. 29, No.3 (2002), pp. 241-256.
pdf (Acrobat) version. - Catherine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,
"The Blockbuster Miniseries on Soviet TV: Isaev-Shtirlits, the
Ambiguous Hero of Seventeen Moments in Spring," in: Post-Communist
Popular Culture and the detektiv Novel Genre, in: Soviet
& Post-Soviet Review Vol. 29, No.3 (2002), pp.
257-276.
pdf (Acrobat) version. - Andrew Padgett,
"Coca-Cola, MTV and the Laboratory of Culture in the New Russia,"
in: Post-Communist Popular Culture and the detektiv Novel Genre,
in:Soviet & Post-Soviet Review Vol.
29, No.3 (2002), pp. 277-289.
pdf (Acrobat) version. - Mirna Cicioni, "Male Pair-Bonds and Female Desire in Fan Slash Writing," in: Cheryl Harris and Alison Alexander (eds.), Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture, and Identity, Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 1998.
- Mirna Cicioni, "Bildungslash?
Rapporti di coppia e piaceri testuali e cognitivi" in Veruska
SABUCCO (ed.), Shonen Ai - Il nuovo immaginario erotico
femminile tra Oriente e Occidente (Rome, Castelvecchi,
2000), pp.155-65.
pdf (Acrobat) version - Tim Moore, "Cars,
bands, films: Three very short essays on the linguistics of product
naming in popular culture" (published individually in The
Age - details provided in the paper)
pdf (Acrobat) version
Further Information
For further information, please contact the coordinator:
Dr S Millicent Vladiv-Glover
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Building 11
Monash University
Clayton 3800
Australia
Email: Millicent.VladivGlover@arts.monash.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 9905 2256