Academic Staff
Academic Staff in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies
Academic staff may be contacted by fax on +612 9351 3918.
Dr Ruth Barcan
Room J4.02, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 6013
Honours Co-ordinator
Staff Profile
Research and Teaching Interests: nudity and nudism; feminist cultural studies approaches to the body; alternative therapies and New Age practices; and pedagogy.
Dr Catherine Driscoll
Room K4.07, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 9503
Chair of Department
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Research and Teaching Interests: modernism, cultural theory, philosophy (especially Deleuze, Foucault), fan cultures, rural studies, online culture, youth studies and girl culture.
Dr Natalya Lusty
Room K4.08, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 9550
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Research and Teaching Interests: modernism, contemporary visual culture, aesthetics of violence, censorship and media harm, fashion culture and cultural studies.
Dr Michael Moller
Room L 4.02, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 6013
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Research and teaching interests: masculinity and men's bodies, sports/media cultures, gender and rurality, cultural studies approaches to militarism and paramilitarism.
Dr Jane Park
Room L 4.06, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 7509
Library Liaison
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Research and Teaching Interests: cultural studies, film and media studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, postcolonial theory, and comparative race studies
Professor Elspeth Probyn
Room K4.09, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 7389
Postgraduate Coursework Co-ordinator
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Research and Teaching Interests: Elspeth's work focuses on questions of identity, sexuality and bodies. She has been constantly interested in what people think and do with their bodies – from eating, sex, to emotions and writing.
Dr Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Room J4.01, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 5342
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Research and Teaching Interests: multidisciplinary approaches to postcolonial feminism, transnationalism, whiteness studies, globalization and Australian studies.
Dr Kane Race
Room J4.07, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+61 2 9351 3662
Postgraduate Research Co-ordinator
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Research and Teaching Interests: gender and sexuality, popular culture and consumption, sociology of health and biomedicine, Foucault’s ethics, biopolitics, citizenship, social policy, body technologies, and queer theory.
Dr Guy Redden
Room J4.03, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+61 2 9351 8495
Departmental Seminar Series Co-ordinator
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Research and Teaching Interests: Consumer culture, alternative cultures (including online), religion, lifestyle television, cross-cultural encounters, cultural theory.
Dr Linnell Secomb
Room J4.03, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 4343
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Research and Teaching Interests: feminist and poststructural philosophy, political theory and ethics, theories of embodiment and sexual difference, queer theory and cultural difference and community.