Alumni

Name Thesis title Program Date of completion
Jake Goetz The Ecological Anti-Epic: Unsettling Environmental Myth Conceptions through Contemporary Longform Ecopoetics Doctor of Creative arts 27/11/2023
Frances Massey Children of Chaos and The Goddess with a Thousand Faces: Unravelling the Heroine's Journey in the Myth of Persephone Doctor of Creative Arts 29/6/2023
Jazz Money The Fire Inside Master of Research 25/2/2023
Geoff Gates Province Spoke Instinctively to Province': International Australians and Universal Catalans Doctor of Creative Arts 25/2/2023
Benjamin Muir The McMillan Diaries' and Grief, Trauma and Letting go in Mark Z. Danielewski's 'House of Leaves' Doctor of Creative Arts 24/3/2023
George Haddad A Changed Man: masculinities and shame in suburban Australian fiction and Losing Face: a novel Doctor of Creative Arts 23/1/2023
Virginia Barratt Beside Our Selves: Panic as Unbecoming Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 22/6/2023
Xuehai Cui The Representation of Orality in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and Uljiburin’s A Journey to Steppe Mongolia
Solomon Wakeling The Nightmare Realm: trauma, the child and creative practice in fictional dream worlds Doctor of Creative Arts 11/2023
Emily Stewart Walking Seven Walks: Solitaries, spirit-mediums and matrilineal influence in Lisa Robertson's poetics of soft architecture Doctor of Creative Arts 18/11/2022
Henry Richards Postapocalypse Reimagined: Catastrophe, Capitalism and Simulation in Briohny Doyle’s The Island Will Sink Master of Research 13/7/2022
Amanda Tink Never Towing a Line': Les Murray, Autism and Australian Literature Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 2/10/2023
Simon Wang Poetics of Flowing Water and the Art of Immersion
Laura Matekovic Finding Feminism: An Exploration of Feminist Identity in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction Master of Research 8/2/2023
Jack Jeweller You are, I: A Study in Abjection with Exiting the Maze of Form in Gerald Murnane: A Boothian Reading of A Million Windows Master of Research 3/1/2023
Faisal Sayani The Dissident: Addressing Historical Lacuna and State Censorship with Documentary Prose Master of Research 3/10/2022
Carly Cappielli Listurbia : lists as narrative Doctor of Creative Arts 9/8/2022
Louise Carter Luke Davies and the Electrified Lyric: Praise and Lament in Australian Postmodern Romantic Poetry Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 2/8/2022
Natalie Phillips Death’s human shroud : an interdisciplinary journey through the realm of death personification Doctor of Creative Arts 12/7/2021
Samantha Trayhurn Real and imagined birds : constructing meaning in writings on grief Doctor of Creative Arts 12/7/2021
Harry Fairless Being and becoming : the flux worlds of Philip K. Dick Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 11/29/2021
Gary Bryson Doctor of Creative Arts 11/5/2021
Katharine Pollock ‘It’s not the biggest story ever, I know, but it’s telling’ : women, music, and the confessional mode and Her Fidelity : a novel Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 9/29/2021
Lucia Moon An Unquiet Poetry: Eco-Consciousness in Kate Fagan's First Light and Earthworks, a collection of poems Master of Research 29/9/2021
Sergej Kozul The History of Serbian Community Theatre in Sydney Master of Research 29/9/2021
Jane Scerri The power and the passion : representation of single mothers in Australian fiction since Whitlam and a novel, The Verge Doctor of Creative Arts 9/14/2021
Samantha Roberts The Nights Belong to the Woman Writer. A mediation on Women's Writing Practices in Elizabeth Jolley's Miss Peabody's Inheritance Master of Research 23/7/2021
Darren Dillman Resistance in dystopian fiction Doctor of Creative Arts 7/23/2021
Justin Wolfers Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 7/22/2021
Lynn Garlick From rant to revolution : the possibilities and limitations of motherhood memoir Doctor of Creative Arts 7/3/2020
Natalie Conyer Present Tense : crime fiction in postapartheid South Africa Doctor of Creative Arts 6/30/2020
Geoffrey Munns Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 6/30/2020
Rebecca Law Seculum, an epic trilogy in verse by Peter Dale Scott : the poem as structure for a new dawn Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 6/29/2020
Narelle Ontivero Reading the in-between : gender, space and identity in the serialised novels of Ada Cambridge and Tasma Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 6/29/2020
Natalie Day Expressionism and the unconfined female protagonist in three novels by Patrick White Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 2/13/2020
Claire Corbett "Hold on, hold on to your old ways" : nostalgia in indie folk Doctor of Creative Arts 2/11/2020
Sarah Gilbert Reading books in Buenos Aires Doctor of Creative Arts 2/6/2020
Theresa Holtby Molly Haydock Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 7/9/2019
Louise Jillett ‘Wanderers like the Stars at Which They Gaze’: Suttree's Ever-moving Figures after Ulysses Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 7/9/2019
Umit Kennedy Becoming on YouTube : exploring the automedial identities and narratives of Australian mummy vlogging Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 7/9/2019
Amanda De Clifford At her Desk: the Writing Woman's Desire Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 3/8/2019
Katherine Sutherland Unbroken: Personal storytelling as a method of illuminating parenting experiences of disability, illness and diversity Doctor of Creative Arts 2/8/2019
Martin Murphy Hilarious Downfall: Comic Affect and the Shared Grammar of Literary and Screen Comedy Narratives Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 1/18/2019
Megan Brayshaw Reflectant Tides: The Aqueous Poetics of Sydney in Women's Fiction, 1934-1947 Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 10/23/2018
Luke Beesley Blocks of liquid theme : Barbara Guest paints out Doctor of Creative Arts 7/23/2018
Melvyn Macarthur Of Cancer and Other Things: Conversations with the Royal Philosopher on Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella Doctor of Creative Arts 7/23/2018
Lesley Gissane Literary Recognition: Muslim Representation in Post 9/11 Novels Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 7/20/2018
Glenn Stewart ‘You as You Always Were’: Samuel Beckett and Kantian Critical Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 2/12/2018
Peter Boyle Ghostspeaking: Heteronyms and the Translation of Poetry Doctor of Creative Arts 2/9/2018
Jennifer Craig Disgusting Woundedness: Anorexia and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 2/9/2018
Adam Daniel Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms: From Found Footage to Virtual Reality Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 2/9/2018
Lucy Neave The Imagined Border: Humans, Animals and Biopolitics in Contemporary Australian Fiction Doctor of Creative Arts 2/9/2018
Kate Middleton Echoes and Polyphonics: Dan Beachy-Quick’s Poetics and Passage (New Poems) Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 10/30/2017
Michael Ahmad Writing the Arab-Australian Narrative: The Development of New Autobiographical and Semi-autobiographical Literature on Arab-Australian Muslim Male Identities from Western Sydney Doctor of Creative Arts 7/17/2017
Arka Chattopadhyay “Just Enough Still to Joy”: Beckett, Lacan and the Jouissance of Writing a Little Real Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 11/9/2016
Megan Mundell Mapping Intervention: How Creative Writers Use Experiential Techniques to Produce Literary Sense of Place/The Fever Diaries: A Novel Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 11/9/2016
Philippa Smith Multiple Pasts and Possible Selves: Negotiating Uncertainty in the Actualist Historical Novel Doctor of Creative Arts 11/9/2016
Miro Bilbrough An Exploration of How A Feature Film Narrative Might be Reconceived as a Ciné-Poem Doctor of Creative Arts 11/8/2016
Luke Carman Sons of Shame: Deconstructing White, Male Subjectivity in Greater Western Sydney Doctor of Creative Arts 8/2/2016
Hoa Pham Lingering Phantoms: Haunted Literature from the Vietnam/American War Doctor of Creative Arts 8/2/2016
Felicity Castagna Space, Anxiety and the Politics of Belonging in Suburban Australia Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 7/1/2016
Fiona Wright Staging the Suburb: Imagination, Transformation and Suburbia in Australian Poetry Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 7/1/2016
Rory Dufficy The Content of the Avant-Garde: Subjectivity, Community, Revolution Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 2/16/2016
Jessica Gilbey A Mother (A)Rosa: Anais Nin and Reconceiving Subjective Birth Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 2/16/2016
Gretchen Shirm Self Identity and the Ethics of Portraiture in Photography and Writing Doctor of Creative Arts 2/16/2016
Jason Tuckwell Creation and the Function of Art Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 11/3/2015
Liesel Senn Worshipping the Household Gods: Dickens and Domesticity Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 10/15/2015
Moslim Eidan Maya Angelou's Aesthetic South in the Mirror of Poetic Translation Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 8/26/2015
Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini The Merchant's House: The Private and the Public in the Writing of Home Doctor of Creative Arts 8/26/2015
Kay Rozynski Vital Signs and Surface Effects: On the Affordances of the New Materialisms For the Discipline and Practice of Creative Writing Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 8/26/2015
Annee Lawrence The Colour of Dissonance: Ethics, Aesthetics, Alterity and Form in the Cross-Cultural Novel Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 2/13/2015
Hannah Ianniello Drawn to the Slaughter: Violence in Jazz Novels Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 7/17/2014
Patrick Jones Walking for Food: Regaining Permapoesis Doctor of Creative Arts 7/17/2014
Gavin Smith From Robert Frost to Cognitive Poetics: A Theory of Poetic Experience Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 7/10/2014
Jesse Blackadder Illuminations: Casting Light Upon the Earliest Female Travellers to Antarctica Doctor of Creative Arts 6/27/2014
Gillian Barlow Nomad's Home: A Pilgrimage to Translation Doctor of Philosophy 3/13/2014
Angela Meyer Resistance and its Limits in Consumer Society Doctor of Creative Arts 2/12/2014
Michael Richardson If This Is the World: Writing Torture, Affect and Power in the War on Terror Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 2/11/2014
Joanne Taylor 'Evermore': a Novel and Accompanying Exegesis Doctor of Creative arts 12/4/2013
Meera Atkinson The Transgenerational Transmission and Poetics of Trauma: A Fictional-Conceptual Manifesto Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts 11/22/2013
Martin Edmond Double lives : Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira Doctor of Creative Arts 11/22/2013
Claire Scobie The representation of the figure of the devadasi in European travel writing and art from 1770 to 1820 with specific reference to Dutch writer Jacob Haafner : an exegesis and The pagoda tree, a novel Doctor of Creative Arts 7/24/2013
Christopher Kremmer The Chase: Truth, Testimony and Myth in the Neo-Historical Novel Doctor of Creative Arts 7/18/2013
Tessa Lunney Silence in Contemporary Australian War Fiction Doctor of Creative Arts 7/18/2013
Elizabeth Day Discontinued narratives of migration and an art practice with earth Doctor of Creative Arts 7/17/2013
Irini Savvides Doctor of Philosophy 7/17/2013
Belinda Castles What we don't know : exploring the inheritance of history through fiction Doctor of Creative Arts 2/12/2013
Lucy Hopkins Figuring the child : the politics of the child subject in contemporary literary fiction Doctor of Philosophy 2/12/2013
Thomas Lee At all events, in retrospect I became preoccupied : the prose fictional metaphysics of W. G. Sebald Doctor of Philosophy 2/12/2013
Joshua Meyer Doctor of Philosophy 2/12/2013
James Ley The secular wood : literary criticism in the public sphere Doctor of Philosophy 7/27/2012
Jane Skelton The venae cavae Doctor of Creative Arts 7/27/2012
Elizabeth Dalman Doctor of Philosophy 12/8/2011
Janet Starr The epistemology of the fag hag's closet a Dionysian experience Master of Arts (Honours) 7/27/2011
Nicola Brown Tom Boyd : Victorian working man both ordinary and peculiar : a lesson in applied physiognomy Doctor of Philosophy 7/15/2011
James Gourley "The pure event" : terrorism and temporality in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo Doctor of Philosophy 7/15/2011
Elizabeth Slottje Stories tell culture, connecting identity with place : Australian cultural policy and collective creativity Doctor of Philosophy 7/15/2011
Cindy Barrow Between sympathy and the glitch : study of magic, magicians and the disruptive subject Doctor of Philosophy 2/4/2011
Kristel Thornell Night Street Doctor of Philosophy 2/4/2011
Matthew Thompson My Colombian Death: A Journey into the Heart of South America's Most Dangerous Country Doctor of Creative Arts 2/9/2010
Benjiman Denham Gestural sense : art, neuroscience and linguistic embodiment Doctor of Philosophy 12/3/2009
Jill Farrar The glossary as fictocriticism : a project ; and, New moon through glass : a novel Doctor of Philosophy 2/6/2009
Stephanie Dowrick Rainer Maria Rilke : bearing witness Doctor of Philosophy 10/16/2008
Melinda Jewell The Representation of Dance in Australian Novels: The Darkness Beyond the Stage-Lit Dream Doctor of Philosophy 10/16/2008
Susan Boyer
Jacqueline Elliot A Heuristic Inquiry into the Writing Process of a Feature Film Script - The Red Sun Trail Doctor of Philosophy - Humanities and Communication Arts

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