Dr Michael Moller

Michael joined the department in 2005. He currently teaches the undergraduate unit Cultures of Masculinity and from 2006 will convene a postgraduate unit on sport, gender and nationalism.

Michael's PhD thesis examined the attempt by the South Sydney Rugby League Football Club and its supporters to win back a place in the National Rugby League competition from which they were excluded in 1999. He argued that their struggle is an example of resistance to globalisation, while the strategies used in the club's campaign are also examples of rethinking local and global identities, masculinities, and media power and consumption. Two articles drawing on his thesis have been published.

His current research project focuses on sports scandals as broader sites for the problematisation of bodies, behaviours and ethics. Michael's other research interests include the theorisation of masculinity/ies and men's bodies, and ethnographies of media use.

Book Chapters

Moller, M. (2003). "Ethics, and Sports Audiences", in Catharine Lumby and Elspeth Probyn (eds.) Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Journal Articles

Moller, M. (2002). "Rugby League, Souths and Globalisation", in Journal of Australian Studies, 72.

Moller, M., "Conduct in Sport", invited speaker, Australia and New Zealand Sports Law Association Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW, October 2005.

Moller, M., "The Trouble with Dogs: Disgust, Fear and the Canterbury Bulldogs' Gang-rape Allegations", Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference, Fremantle, WA, December 2004.

Moller, M., "Teaching Masculinity", Gender Studies Seminar Series, April 2004.

• GCST2609 Cultures of Masculinity