Why research in Centre for The Book?
- Academic excellence
- Research focus
- Research environment
- International opportunities
- How to apply
- Further information
Academic excellence
Centre for the Book academic team members are leaders in their various fields of expertise, with international profiles and respected research output. We serve as writers and editors of respected scholarly journals and feature regularly in popular literary media. We have substantial experience in the supervision of research students.
Our research strengths encompass contemporary print cultures, cross-media relationships, the online literary sphere, digital books, text-bases and archives, book history, physical bibliography, clandestine publishing, obscenity and censorship, children’s literature and publishing, fantasy and science fiction, sociologies of literature, and cultural materialism.
Research focus
We are interdisciplinary and theoretically hybrids. Our research enquiry spans the historical and the contemporary, digital and print media, high culture and pop culture and everything in between. Our researchers explore questions of intellectual property, copyright, publishing, retailing and censorship. We investigate the book’s increasingly intertwined relations with other media platforms, its role in cultural identity, and its intertwined digital and print future.
Research environment
The Centre for the Book is at the forefront of academic thought in its domain. We are outward-looking and intellectually progressive. We are an integral component of a local literary network which encompasses industry, government, other university and private literary players.
We hold formal and informal partnerships with the new UNESCO-sponsored Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, the State Library of Victoria, the Melbourne Writers’ Festival, and the Melbourne Emerging Writers’ Festival.
Our research unit also enjoys relationships with like-minded academic institutions across the globe. We have ties to Centres for the Book at the Universities of Toronto, London, Washington D.C., Madison-Wisconsin, Napier and Stirling Universities.
We host an extensive calendar of academic and social activities including national conferences and connects its members to other national and international seminars and symposia. Centre for The Book provides a stimulating and supportive environment for research training and excellent professional development opportunities.
International opportunities
The School of English, Communications and Performance Studies has numerous formal and informal alliances with peer institutions across the developed and developing world. Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies adds significantly to the School’s internationalist flavour, with robust and growing relationships and partnerships in global academia.
How to apply
Further information
School of English Communications and Performance Studies
Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Arts research degrees