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Graduates with Higher Degrees from English, Creative Writing, and Australian Studies

(starting with the most recent completions)

Name		Subject of thesis
Dr Ben Chandler	2009	Creative Writing: Flight of the Dragon: A Comparative Study of Heroes in Japan and the West as Represented in Modern Fantasy Genre Fiction
Dr Karen Hughes	2009	My Grandmother on the other side of the lake
Dr Rex Hunter	2009	Creative Writing: Tom Tomsen's Talisman and other Adventure Stories/ Novel: Tom Tomsen's Talisman
Dr Mag Merrilees	2009	Creative Writing: Blame: Seaching for Redemption in the Australian Story
Dr Michael Savvas	2009	Creative Writing: The Crime Novel as a Vehicle for Reconciliation
Dr Emily Sutherland	2009	Creative Writing: Framing the Portrait: Finding the balance between imagination and research in the creation of an historical novel
Dr Jay Bland	2008	The generation of Edward Hyde: the animal within, from Plato to Darwin to Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr Varga Hosseini	2008	Interpreting Christian Symbols and Narratives in Indigenous Australian Visual Culture, 1930-2003
Dr Evelyn Wallace-Carter	2008	"The danger is in standing to't" The possibility of transformation for Shakespeare's immature male characters
Dr Ianto Ware	2008	Zines, Subculture and Media Culture
Dr Lester Rigney	2007	Indigenist Research Epistemologies: A Historical Journey of Conviction, Contradiction and Transformation, PhD
Dr Clare Johnson	2007	Objects and Interiors: Australian Travel Writing, Culture and Empire, PhD
Dr Susan Williams	2007	At the Cutting Edge: a Kristevan Approach to the Subject Positioning of Women Protagonists in the Crime Fiction of Patrician Cornwell and Kathy Reichs
Dr Julia Archer	2007	The Minaret Path, PhD
Dr Lara Derham	2006	'A few true facts': Historiographic metafiction and the contemporary British novel, PhD
Dr Chad Habel	2006	Ancestral Narratives in History and Fiction: Transforming Identities, PhD
Dr Nick Prescott	2006	Allusive Paranoia: Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and the Hidden Signifier, PhD
Dr Alice Healy	2005	Nomadic Narratives: Australian Novel to Film, PhD
Dr Richard Hillman	2004	Cultural Metaporphosis: Lacan, Zizek and the poetry of Francis Webb
Dr Brooke Thomas	2004	South Pactific diaspora literature: connected island, connected texts (PhD)
Dr Esti Sugiharti	2004	Racialised and Gendered Identities as Constructed in Some Contemporary Afro-American and Aboriginal Australian Women's Fiction (PhD)
Dr Nigel Starck	2004	Writes of passage: a comparative study of newspaper obituary practice in Australia, Britain and the United States
Dr Bruce Shaw	2004	Mind and paws: the carnivalesque in science fiction and fantasy tales (1936-1964) inspired by the tradition of the animal fable, PhD
Emily Sutherland	2004	The Pagan's Messiah, MA
Kelvin Rodrigues	2004	"a pencil/for a wingbone": Lorine Niedecker's poetics of digression, MA
Dr Michele Gater	2004	Speaking Wisdom, Doing Wisely: The use and usefulness of gnomic utterance in old English poetry, PhD
Margaret Fletcher	2003	Dreaming: Interpretation and Representation, MA
Nicholas Richardson	2003	Public schooling in the Sandover River region of Central Australia during the twentieth century - a critical historical survey, MA
Dr Stephen Brock	2003	A Travelling Colonial Architecture: Home and Nation in Selected Works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon, PhD
Dr Brenda Glover	2003	" 'Battened Down' and 'Buttoned Up'. Postcolonial women's writing: a comparative study of Australian and Canadian settler women's life-writing and fiction." PhD
Dr Bernard Wilson	2003	Malaysian Literature written in English: paths towards individual and collective identity(ies) in the writing of Lee Kok Liang, Lloyd Fernando and K.S. Maniam, PhD
Dr Dymphna Lonergan	2003	The Irish Language in Australia, PhD
Dr Robyn Cadwallader	2003	The virgin, the dragon and the theorist: readings in the 13th-century Seinte Marherete, PhD
Dr Robert Dowling	2002	Macro Marketing: The Art of Cultural Management and the Business of Meaning, PhD
Dr Leonie Hardcastle	2002	Big Picture, Small Picture: Perspectives on Asia among Anglo-Celtic Working-Class Australians, PhD
Dr Barbara Harding	2002	The Broken Stage: A Gathering of Australian Women Playwrights 1920-1955, PhD
Dr Rosemary Nursey-Bray	2002	Pecking at Your Head: Ideology, policy and practice in Theatre for young people in a developing cultural context: Magpie in South Australia, PhD
Dr Rebecca Vaughan	2002	Peter Carey, PhD Peter Carey
Dr Glenn Blackmore	2002	" Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell and the Middle Generation Twentieth Century Poets." , PhD
Dr Giselle Bastin	2001	"Pandora's Voice-Box: some aspects of gossip in the writings of Helen Garner and Kate Grenville." PhD
Dr Peter Doley	2001	Caribbean Codes: Code mixing in postcolonial literature from the English-speaking Caribbean. PhD
Dr Gillian Dooley	2001	Courage and truthfulness: ethical strategies and the creative process in the novels of Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul, PhD
Dr Lorraine Duance	2001	The Political and Social Rhetoric of the Nineteenth Century: Hazlitt, Carlyle, Arnold and Disraeli, PhD
Melinda Graefe	2001	"Vulcan and Venus under the net of art": the ethos of Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, MA
Dr Ioana Petrescu	2001	'The Thrills of the Pharmakon: A Postmodern Approach to Contemporary Thrillers in English', PhD
Dr Ruth Starke	2001	A Festival of WritersL Adelaide Writers' Week 1960-98, PhD
Martin Christmas	2000	The Open Platform: from fringe to focus in pursuit of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, MA
Dr Darren Gaunt	2000	Mother and Sun: Reading Brathwaite's Mother Poem and Sun Poem, PhD
Dr Michael Deves	2000	Apart from the expected?: Brian Castro's Novels, PhD
Dr Elizabeth Bullen	1999	Masculinity in Recent Australian Fiction, PhD
Dr Judy King	1998	The Spirit giveth life: a reading of Beowulf in a literary context, PhD
Dr Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf	1998	Women's Writing in Malaysia, PhD
Dr Sudesh Mishra		Modernism and Indian Poetry, PhD
Dr Anandhi Sundar	1997	Wordsworth in India: A study of the influence of Wordsworth and the other Romantics on 19th and 20th century Indian poets writing in English (PhD)
Dr Yvonne Miels	1997	The net under the tightrope: The Poetry and Prose of Amy Witting , PhD
Dr Lois Ann Greet	1996	Derek Walcott: language, place and time. A study in reconciliation
Dr Chandani Lokuge	1995	Colonial writing , PhD
Dr Som Prakash	1993	R.K. Narayan & Maurice Gee , PhD
Judy Waterman	1993	Australian Women Writers, 1978-1988, MA
Dr Dawn Partington	1992	Joseph Furphy & Knowledge , PhD
Stephen Milnes	1992	Community Wholeness in Four Post-colonial Novels, MA
Dr Margaret Allen	1992	Matilda Evans, Catherine Spence and Catherine Martin , PhD
Dr Mohamad Quayum	1991	Saul Bellow , PhD
Dr Ron Blaber	1988	The Picaresque in Indian and Australian Fiction , PhD
Dr Lyn Jacobs	1986	Poetry of Kenneth Slessor, Francis Webb & Vincent Buckley, PhD
Dr Paul Sharrad	1986	C.J. Koch, Raja Rao & Wilson Harris, PhD
Dr Ken Gelder	1981	Recent Australian Fiction , PhD
Michael Singleton	1981	Australian Fiction: Philosophical Development Nineteenth C. to Patrick White, MA
Dr John Dally	1978	Jindyworobak Movement , PhD
Rick Hosking	1978	Australian Fiction of the Second World War , MA
Dr Peter Morton	1976	Theoretical Biology and Victorian Prose , PhD