School of humanities
Disciplines of:
English
Special interest
Australian literature.
General
Computer-assisted Old English pedagogy;Old English Poetry;
Middle English romances;
Middle English religious literature;
Shakespearean and Jacobean drama;
Eighteenth-century fiction and poetry;
Victorian fiction;
American literature;
Contemporary women’s fiction;
North Queensland writing;
The literature, culture and history of Tasmania;
Literary responses to the South Pacific;
Australian literature and culture;
War literature;
Contemporary literary theory;
Feminist literary theories;
Feminist pedagogy;
The cultural construction of families, gender and madness;
Modernist literature and theory;
Postmodernist writing;
Literature of spirituality;
Creative writing — fiction and non-fiction.
Individual Authors
Byron;Peter Carey;
Chaucer;
Henry Fielding;
Janet Frame;
Helen Garner;
Kate Greville;
Walter Hilton;
George Johnston;
William Langland;
David Malouf;
John Mandeville;
Milton;
The Pearl Poet;
Pope;
Shakespeare;
Christina Stead;
Randolph Stow;
Thomas Usk;
Patrick White;
Tim Winton.
History
History of anthropology;
Biomedical history;
Australian rural and pastoral history;
History of Australian women;
History of mining and metallurgy;
Australian race relations;
Southeast Asian history (with emphasis on Philippines
and Thailand);
History of European ideas;
Cape York history;
North Queensland regional history;
Migration and citizenship;
Transnationalism.
Journalism
Formal education levels among
country press journalists;
Media coverage of high profile trials;
Political satire and satiric verse published
in newspapers;
Asia Pacific media systems;
The role of community radio in journalism training;
Cross cultural program-making;
Media coverage of race
relations.
Modern Languages
French Cinema;
Proust;
French feminism;
Marion Campbell;
Japanese linguistics;
Language teaching methodology;
Japanese grammar;
Japanese popular
Buddhism.
Political Science
Australian politics and policy;
Energy and environmental politics;
Public policy formulation and implementation;
Business government relations;
Japanese politics and foreign policy;
Comparative Asian politics;
International relations of East and Southeast
Asia;
Industrial
relations.