Research Within the Faculty of Arts

Current research at the Faculty of Arts is extremely diverse and dynamic, reflecting the multi-disciplinary focus of our departments. The Faculty has over 200 academic staff and research fellows across many different departments and various centres. As well, as a strong group of academics, the Faculty of Arts has over 500 postgraduate research students studying for Master of Philosophy, Doctor of Arts, Doctor of Social Sciences and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The Faculty of Arts is at the forefront of Arts scholarship and publications.

There are currently a vast number of arts related projects underway within the Faculty. Recent highlights for some of our departments include:

Department of Archaeology

• Archaeological Investigations in Southwestern Iran

Department of Art History & Theory

• Cinema and the Senses: Temporality of the Films of Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, and Kumar Shahani

Department of Australian Studies

• Early Aboriginal Writing

Department of Chinese Studies

• Recent and Contemporary China

Department of English

• Cinematic Imaginations: the Dialectics of Poetics and Film in American Modernism

Department of French

• Discourses of Nationhood: the Construction of National Identity in Eighteenth-Century France
• The Baudin Legacy: A New History of the French Scientific Voyage to Australia (1800-1804)

Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies

• The Political Sociology of the Australian Jewish Community

Department of History

• Black Metropolis: Harlem, 1915-1930

Department of Indian Studies

• A Study of the Sanskrit text of the Mahayanasutralankara and its Indian commentaries preserved in Tibetan translation.

Department of Informatics

• Fibreculture: the Australasian Network for Critical Internet and New Media Studies

Department of Italian Studies

• A New Research Field: Italophone Migrant Literature

Centre for Medieval Studies

• A History of the Arab Language

Department of Linguistics

• Image/Text Relations in Narrative and Information Texts for Children in Print and Electronic Media

Department of Media and Communications

• Playing By The Rules: On And Off The Field

Department of Performance Studies

• Place and Performance

Department of Studies in Religion

• Manichaean and Other Ancient Christian Remains from Egypt, Kerala (India) and Fujian (China)