Current Research Projects
These are some of the Research Projects that members of Staff are working on at the moment:
English
Affect & Artificial Intelligence (Elizabeth Wilson)
An Edition of the Letters of Alan Paton (Peter Alexander)
Culture and Climate in Nineteenth-Century Literature - English and Amercian Writing about Southern Europe (Roslyn Jolly)
Early Modern English Lives (Philippa Kelly)
Neogoitating Whiteness: Reading Australian Indigenous Literature (Anne Brewster)
The Embodiment of Melancholy: A Feminist Analysis of Depression (Elizabeth Wilson)
The Theory and Practice of Early Modern Autobiography (Philippa Kelly)
Twenty-first Century Omniscience: Fiction After Postmodernism (Paul Dawson)
Media
Dynamic Media: innovative social and artistic developments in new media in Australia, Britain, Canada and Scandinavia since 1990 (Andrew Murphie)
The Queue Project (Gillian Fuller)
The Ethics of Waste (Gay Hawkins)
Music
Aboriginal Music (John Napier)
Artistic signatures in violin playing on sound recordings:
What makes the performance of a prominent violinist recognizable and legendary? (Dorottya Fabian)
Australian Composed Music (Christine Logan)
Dotted Rhythms in Baroque Music (Dorottya Fabian, Emery Schubert)
Empirical Musicology (Dorottya Fabian, Emery Schubert, John Peterson)
Expressiveness and Emotion in Music (Dorottya Fabian, John Schubert)
J.S. Bach Performance Projects (Dorottya Fabian)
Jazz Studies (Murphy, John Napier)
North Indian Music (John Napier)
Performance Practice (Dorottya Fabian, Christine Logan, John Napier)
Studying Sound Recordings (Dorotttya Fabian, Christine Logan)
Theatre and Performance
A new history of 20th century Australian drama (John McCallum)
Intersections between theatre practice and pedagogy (Meg Mumford)
The development of work on empathy and identification (Meg Mumford)
The performer/audience relationship in stand-up venues (John McCallum)
The politics of German Tanztheater (Meg Mumford)
Film
Contemporary Black American cinema and on theories of time and the image (Jodi Brooks)
Hou Hsiao-hsien and Taiwan film history (Darrell Davis)
Survey of East Asian screen industries (Darrell Davis)
Staging and framing of comic performance in the 19th and early 20th centuries (Lisa Trahair)
Vision in cinema (Lisa Trahair)
