Members

Director	Research interests
Professor Anne Cranny-Francis	Ethics and politics of new technologies, particularly touch-based (haptic & smart textile) technologies Sensory studies, particularly touch Sound studies Feminist and Gender Studies Multimodal Literacies Media and Cultural Studies The work of Jack Lindsay
Core members	Research interests
Dr Paul Allatson	Latino Studies Transamerican Studies Cultural Studies Media and Film Studies and Queer Studies.
Dr Jeffrey Browitt	Jeff's current research interests include: Central America literary and cultural studies; Caribbean cosmopolitianisms from below; aesthetic philosophy; and translation (Spanish to English).
Dr Tara Forrest	Frankfurt School Cultural and Media Theory (Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor W. Adorno, Alexander Kluge) Experimental Film and Television Alternative Public Spheres Political Art and Performance Experimental Approaches to History
Dr Angela Giovanangeli	French national unity in the context of the European union Language policies in French speaking countries Technology in the language classroom
Sabina Groeneveld	Developments within German Language and Culture German Literature Post-/Colonial Studies Constructions of 'self', 'others' and 'place' within everday life Expressions of belonging through letters, diaries and memoirs
Winton Higgins	The human rights of people with mental disorders Genocide prevention The development of secular Buddhism The fist Nuremberg trial
Dr Andrew Hurley	Reception of Jazz in Germany Jazz and popular Music German and Australian Film The interface between law and art Contemporary German Literature Intermedia
Dr Meredith Jones	Gender studies and transgender studies Popular media studies, especially new/digital media Culture and technology studies Cosmetic surgery studies Body modification studies Feminist theories of the body
Dr Maja Mikula	Popular Culture Everyday Life Studies Digital Humanities Technology and Culture Video Games and Culture Augmented Reality Location-Based Mobile Games Virtual Communities Internet Culture Nationalism National Identity European Studies Italian Studies Eastern Europe and Former Yugoslavia Borders Genders and Sexuality
Dr Tony Mitchell	Applied Zoomusicology Psychogeography Ornithomusicology Birdsong and other Soundscapes as sonic information about environment Rythmanalysis Multicultural film Popular Music Youth Subcultures
Dr Julie Robert	Quebec and la Francophonie Medical discourse Views of alcohol and drinking Rural cultures Political writing
Dr Catherine Robinson	Sociologies and geographies of affect and embodiment Methodological developments within qualitative inquiry (in particular within ethnography) Mental health, homelessness, violence, trauma, trauma-informed care Cultural geography
Dr Katrina Schlunke	Poetics of the Past Place and Postcoloniality Critical Whiteness Studies Material Culture Sexuality Studies Fictocriticism Massacre Studies Australian Studies
Dr Ilaria Vanni Accarigi	Political Imaginaries Multimedia Practices and Activism Digital Cultures Visual Cultures Objects, Theories and Histories Digital Media and Cultural Citizenship
Dr Virginia Watson	Australian political and cultural history Governmentality Cultures and politics of citizenship Identity and belonging Ethnographic history Political theory Research Methodologies include: Policy analysis Ethnographic action research Archival and textual analysis History of the present
Associate members	Research interests
Dr Kate Barclay	Dr Kate Barclay's research focuses on the social, cultural and political aspects of economic activity, especially tuna fishing in the Asia-Pacific region.
Dr Barbara Bloch
Dr Anna Clark	The ‘History Wars’ in Australia and internationally Historiography
Eva Cox	Policy Formulation: social policy, child care, women’s services, gender issues Politics: paradoxes of democracy Social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting: stakeholder dialogue, development of social indicators, the nature of ethical organisations
Dr Tanja Dreher	Community media interventions Media and multiculturalism Indigenous media Changing journalism culture Racism and anti-racism after September 11, 2001 Intersections of feminism and anti-racism News and Whiteness
Professor Heather Goodall	Place and contested histories Indigenous histories Environmental history Cross-cultural research International Activism New Media
Associate Professor Yingjie Guo	Nationalism and the politics of national identity on the PRC since 1989 The domestic political impact of China’s WTO membership Language policies The politics of rights The teaching and learning of citizenship in rural China Yingjie Guo's research focuses on nationalism and the politics of national identity in the PRC since 1989. He is currently studying the domestic political impact of China's WTO membership. He is also interested in language policies, the politics of rights, and the teaching and learning of citizenship in rural China. Yingjie Guo is available to provide supervision in these areas and on politics in contemporary China.
Emeritus Professor Liz Jacka	Broadcasting and communications policy Australian Film and Television: history, industry and policy Television studies Globalisation of media and culture Communications history
Dr Linda Leung	The Digital Divide Technology Access and Representation Online Communities Digital Diasporas Digital Media Practices Technology Cultures Dot.com industries
Dr Justine Lloyd
Dr Anthony Macris	The contemporary Novel Creative Non-fiction Poststructuralist theory Narratology French Literature
Dr Francis Maravillas	Contemporary Art in Asia and Australia Critical Geography Art and Spatial Politics Art Theory Visual Culture Cultural and Postcolonial Theory Memory and Mobility Asian-Australian Studies
Dr Jonathan Marshall	Anthropology and History of the Western Occult, Science and Technology Ethnographic Studies of computer and internet use Gender and technology (especially computers) Social theories of the imagination Jungian Psychology
Deborah Nixon
Professor Alastair Pennycook	Implications of the global spread of English Colonialism, language policy, and English language teaching Critical applied linguistics Language, popular culture and identity Metrolingualism and talking in the city
Dr Cameron White