Faculty of Arts

Current postgraduates

• Aqeel, Asim - Tales of Oppression and Liberation from the Indian Subcontinent: Case Study of the Works of Arundhati Roy, Bapsi Sidhwa and Deepa Mehta’s Elements Trilogy
• Blanchard, Michael - The Detail of Control: Digital technologies and the appareils de securité.
• Cantero, Herve - This thesis provides a parallel study of Robert Drewe’s and Tim Winton’s novels focusing on the authors’ treatment of the conceptual dichotomy that opposes innocence to experience. The complex symbolism of the Fall is analysed through historical reference
• Clark, Keryn - Novel: Bloom Thesis: So Where to Now? The Female Bildungsroman and the Missing Child
• Clayton Martinez, Lucia - Contextualisation of Indigenous Rock Art in the Western Pilbara: a landscape study of coastal sites.
• Cooke, Claire - Women on a Mission: African American Missionary Women, Gender and Race Relations, 1880-1940.
• Cuevas-Hewitt, Marco - Towards an ethos of more than an ethnos: Changing conceptions of community in Philippine and Filipino American social movements from the national liberation era to the globalised present
• Esler, Joshua - Tibetan Buddhism and Han Chinese Converts: Shaping Identity through Ritual
• Fan, Weina - Six Women Poets of the Modernist Period: A Comparative Analysis
• Fernandez, Charmaine - Singapore Dreaming: Singaporean Fringe Theatre as Social Activism and the Portrayal of the Marginalised Figure in Contemporary Singapore.
• Fyfe, Jane - Old art, new styles? An archaeological investigation of social networks and alliances, identity and ideology expressed through the medium of rock art over space and time in the southern Kimberley, Western Australia.
• Gerard, Kelly - Democratising Regional Governance: An Investigation into the Factors Impeding Participatory Regionalism in East Asia
• Glance, Vivienne - Performing Science: the Portrayal of Science and Scientists in theatrical performance in relation to questions of practice, politics and ethics.
• Golby, Kieran - Understanding Japan’s democracy through analysis of its public debates around the issues of population decline and proposed mass-immigration.
• Hains-Wesson, Rachael - The role of the imaginary world in J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan (1904), the imaginary object in Charlotte’s Chorpenning’s The Emperor’s New Clothes (1934) and the imaginary companion in David Holman’s The Small Poppies (2000) as a scriptwriting and performanc
• Handajani, Suzie - Selling alternative masculinities. Representations of masculinities in Indonesian men's lifestyle magazines.
• Hariyadi, Hariyadi - Islamic Popular Culture and the New Identity of Indonesian Muslims: Investigating the Consumption of Islamic Popular Culture among Indonesian Muslim Youths
• Hodge, Siobhan - Taking Back Sappho: Control, Feminist Poetics, and Sappho’s Obsessive Legacy.
• Hoggart, Carol - The character of the ‘Viking’ in history and fiction, 1980-2010
• Holt-Gragg, Kara - Living and Working Together Towards Environmental Sustainability Goals: How a contemporary intentional community with ecological ideals maintains communitas over the long term.
• Jahya, Noresma - A Study of the Meaning of Poverty Among the Urban Poor in Malaysia: Exploratory Research on the Gender Dimensions of Poverty.
• Kaplanian, Carol - A social policy analysis of honour killings in Jordan
• Kim, Lee-Von - Enduring Presence: Trauma and Haunting in Visual Culture
• Kinsella, Tracy - Crime and the Parvenu: a study of transgression in narratives of upward mobility, accompanied by a novel based on this theme
• Kost (nee Dyason), Fiona - Palaeoenvironments and Fire Regimes in Prehistoric South West Australia
• Lin, Christopher - Narrating Movement in Contemporary Visual and Literary Texts: Mobility, Body, Representation
• Mee Zaw, Mee - Teaching the Youth Dhamma: New Approaches in Myanmar
• Nguyen, Thao - Governing the Chinese Population Through Etiquette Campaigns: The Shanghai Example
• Polzer, Mark - The Bajo de la Campana Shipwreck: Phoenician Trade, Colonization and Cultural Interactions in Iron Age Spain
• Prosser, Ashleigh - The Uncanny Haunting of the Works of Peter Ackroyd.
• Riyandari, Angelika - Cultural Differences in the Representation of Women and Men in Indonesian and Australian Women’s Magazines
• Robertson, Francesca - An exploration of the impact of a tobacco related harm reduction strategy on parents in the hard to reach population
• Rodrigues, Jennifer - Finders keepers: an examination of the impact of diver interaction with shipwrecks as revealed by the 1993 amnesty collections.
• Sabharwal, Alka - Natural Resource Conflicts through the Lens of Cultural Politics: The Case of the Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary in Eastern Ladakh, India.
• Tanu, Danau - Finding home?: The intersections of multiple factors (culture, language, ethnicity, class, and gender) affecting the identities of ‘Asian’ Third Culture Kids
• Thomson, Jane - Flight and the Literary Imagination: From Enlightenment to Modernism
• Viviani, Margherita - Video and social change: Independent documentary filmmaking in post socialist China
• Wang, David - The Urbanization of Shenzhen’s Urban Villages: Self-Government, Economic Activity and City Government Relations
• Wen Zhang, Wen - Transition from University to Work: Dilemmas and Challenges Faced by Graduate Unemployed Youth in Shanghai, China
• Winter, Sean - An Archaeological Investigation of Convict Lifeways in Regional Western Australia, 1850 - 1875
• Wright Webster, Tracy - Pergaulan Bebas and Gendered Youth Culture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
• de Haer, Steven - Law is Story: Indigeneity and Narrative Jurisprudence in Australia after Mabo

Graduated students

• Nicol, Adam - The Romance of Natural History: The Imaginative Project of Philip Henry Gosse
• Rey, Rebecca - Staging DeLillo
• Shimoda, Yukimi - From the Porous Spaces on the Bubble: The Life and Work of Japanese Expatriate Employees in Indonesia and their Relations to the Host Society