Gender Studies
Explores the construction of masculinities through the study of a range of Australian texts. Beginning with an examination of key theoretical readings in the area of gender, sex and masculinity, the...
This unit examines the fictional texts of a number of 19th and 20th century women writers and film-makers and focuses particularly on representation of women's social and sexual identities, Included...
This unit examines the fictional texts of a number of 19th and 20th century women writers and film-makers and focuses particularly on representation of women's social and sexual identities, Included...
In this unit of study we will examine the ways in which feminist and other cultural theories have used bodies and sexualities in order to theorise difference and identity. The body and sexuality have...
This unit investigates the Cold War through a representative sample of literary and cinematic works. In the course of the unit we investigate the shifting and shifty geopolitics of the postcolonial...
The course examines the critical issue of gender and writing. To do this, it reads a selection of literary texts by women writers of different cultural backgrounds, mostly very recent texts but some...
The course focuses on several key poststructuralist and postmodern theorists, and a range of fictions in which what they argue can be seen at work and explored.
The course introduces students to key issues and debates in the study of literature. Currently, the course examines the topic of gender and writing, with a focus on contemporary issues such as sexual...
The course examines the critical issue of gender and writing. To do this, it reads a selection of literary texts in English by writers of different cultural backgrounds (Britain, New Zealand,...
This unit is concerned with the contribution of literature to forming and interrogating national identity, and with postwar attempts to assimilate the heritage of modernism to Australian experience....
This unit is concerned with the contribution of literature to forming and interrogating national identity, and with postwar attempts to assimilate the heritage of modernism to Australian experience....
Most theorists of gender and sexuality see behaviours and desires as the result of biological, psychological and sociological forces. In this unit, students examine the role that texts for children...
Most theorists of gender and sexuality see behaviours and desires as the result of biological, psychological and sociological forces. In this unit, students examine the role that texts for children...
Both traditional and new media texts incorporate representations of child bodies that are medicated, under surveillance, gendered, sexualised, commercialized and commodified. These bodies are treated...
This unit introduces students to some theories of genre and to textual examples of specified genres. Several genres will be studied; possible examples may include romance, soap opera, sci-fi, horror...
This unit introduces students to some theories of genre and to textual examples of specified genres. Several genres will be studied; possible examples may include romance, soap opera, sci-fi, horror...
This unit introduces students to some theories of genre and to textual examples of specified genres. Several genres will be studied; possible examples may include romance, soap opera, sci-fi, horror...
This course is intended to introduce students to a series of twentieth century life narratives in the context of contemporary Auto/biography theory and practice. Students will explore concepts of...
Examines work by women writers since approximately 1900, focusing primarily on narratives of female identity by English and Australian writers. It considers in particular the attempts by modern and...
This course is concerned with the cultural politics of memory and trauma. Whose memories are sought, believed and commemorated in the public sphere? What problems do traumatic events present for...
