University of Tasmania, Australia

Postgraduate Coursework

Postgraduate coursework with language content

• Graduate Certificate in Arts (Specialisation) in Chinese, Indonesian or Japanese
• Graduate Diploma in Arts (Specialisation) in Chinese, Indonesian or Japanese

Postgraduate coursework with studies content

• Graduate Certificate in Arts (Specialisation) in Asian Studies
• Graduate Diploma in Arts (Specialisation) in Asian Studies
• Master of Arts (Specialisation) in Asian Studies, Chinese, Indonesian or Japanese

Higher Degree Research

We welcome students with Asian language skills as well as those whose projects intersect with one or more of our areas of research strength. The common theme to our research and the projects of our Higher Degree by Research students is Asia: the peoples, cultures, languages and histories in both traditional and contemporary Asian societies.

• Contemporary Culture and Cultural Studies
• Ethnicity and diasporic communities
• Food studies
• Gender and sexuality
• Literacy and Translation Studies
• National and regional politics
• Nationalism and identity in Asia
• Second/Foreign Language Acquisition

Recent RHD Completions in Asian Languages and Studies

2012
Emerald King
More than skin deep - masochistic imagery in Japanese women's writing, 1960-2005  (PhD)

2011
Victoria Eaves-Young
The influence of the kokutai discourse on Japanese soldiers in WWII: An analysis of Japanese soldiers' personal diaries which will ascertain the extent and depth of the influence of the kokutai discourse on their personal beliefs and decision-making processes.  (PhD)

Melita Eagling
Politics, Society and Trauma: the female perspective in Post-Suharto Indonesian Literature 1998-2008.  (Masters)

2010
Andy Fuller
Representations of urban life in contemporary Indonesian literature. His primary focus is the writings of Seno Gumira Ajidarma.  (PhD)

2009
Bill Lakos
Mind-ing the Ancestors and Ru-ing the Sage: an exposition, deconstruction, and review of two paradigms of Chinese culture - Ancestor Worship and Confucianism  (PhD)

Emily Rowe
HIV-AIDS related issues based on research and work as a Sexual and Reproductive Health Researcher at the Indonesian Planned Parenthood Association in Java.  (PhD)

2008
Adrienne Petty-Gao
The early Chinese presence in North-East Tasmania from the 1870s to 1920s.    (PhD)

2007
Carmencita Palermo
Balinese mask drama    (PhD)

Heather Curnow
Prostitution and concubinage as represented in Indonesian literature    (PhD)

2006
Liu Xirang
Chinese Australian Fiction:  hybrid narrative of the Chinese diaspora in Australia    (PhD)

Current HDR projects

Wulan Dirgantoro
The artist's body in Indonesian contemporary art, using feminist theories as an analytical framework.

Peter Doelle
Population Transfer and Mobility in the Wake of Indonesia's Transmigration Program: A Socio-cultural Analysis

Jo Ingram
Volunteer tourism: 'making a difference' and 'a disaster in the making'?

Machiko Ishikawa
Nakagami Kenji: Paradox and the Representation of Silenced Subaltern Voice

Yi Wang
The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury: tremendous changes of Chinese journalism and an extension of American journalism in China, 1929-1949.

Admissions requirements/ entry pathways

Australian students - information on admissions can be found at  UTAS Graduate Research
International students - for detailed information on higher degrees at UTAS visit International Students