Academic Staff
Academic Staff in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies
Academic staff may be contacted by fax on +612 9351 3918.
Dr Fiona Allon
Research and Teaching Interests: cultures of 'home' and everyday life; space, place and identity; suburban and urban cultures; popular culture; mobility, travel and the cultural dimensions of globalisation.
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Dr Ruth Barcan
(Honours Co-ordinator)
Research and Teaching Interests: nudity and nudism; feminist cultural studies approaches to the body; alternative therapies and New Age practices; and pedagogy.
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Room J4.02, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 6013
Dr Catherine Driscoll
ON LEAVE for 2009
Research and Teaching Interests: modernism, cultural theory, philosophy (especially Deleuze, Foucault), fan cultures, rural studies, online culture, ethnography, youth studies and girl culture.
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Room K4.07, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 9503
Dr Melissa Gregg
(Research Seminar Co-ordinator Semester 2)
Research and Teaching Interests: work and production cultures, affect theory, social networks, cultural studies, television studies, new media, everyday life.
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Room J6.06, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 5117
Dr Anna Hickey-Moody
Research and Teaching Interests: Disability, youth, masculinity, feminist philosophy, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, place, ethnography, schooling and the production of social disadvantage.
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Room J4.05, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 4343
Dr Natalya Lusty
(Undergraduate Co-ordinator semester 1)
Research and Teaching Interests: modernism, contemporary visual culture, aesthetics of violence, censorship and media harm, fashion culture and cultural studies.
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Room K4.08, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 9550
Professor Meaghan Morris
(Semester 2)
Research and Teaching Interests: Film and Media historiographies; Local and national cultures in globalisationAustralian and Asian-Pacific Popular Culture; public cultures and institutions after 'privatisation'
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Room L 4.09, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 7389
Dr Jane Park
(Research Seminar Co-ordinator Semester 1;
Undergraduate Co-ordinator Semester 2)
Research and Teaching Interests: cultural studies, film and media studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, postcolonial theory, and comparative race studies
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Room L 4.06, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 7509
Professor Elspeth Probyn
ON LEAVE for 2009
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.
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Room K4.09, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 7389
Dr Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
(Chair of Department - June 2010)
Research and Teaching Interests: multidisciplinary approaches to postcolonial feminism, transnationalism, whiteness studies, globalization and Australian studies.
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Room J4.01, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 5342
Dr Kane Race
(Postgraduate Research Co-ordinator)
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.
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Room J4.07, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+61 2 9351 3662
Dr Guy Redden
(Postgraduate Coursework Convenor)
Research and Teaching Interests: Consumer culture, alternative cultures (including online), religion, lifestyle television, intercultural studies, cultural theory.
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Room J4.03, Level 4, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 4895