The Honours research project is an important part of the Honours program. The project is undertaken over two semesters (under the codes HEA460 and HEA461) and provides an exciting opportunity for students to do extended research and writing on a topic of their choice under the supervision of a staff member with expertise in that field. The project will take the form of a research essay of 12,500 words or a creative writing or editing project of comparable scope. Students are advised to discuss possible areas of research with the Honours coordinator and other staff before completing their enrolment. As soon as they enrol in English Honours, students must nominate an area of study from the list of general research areas below and notify the Honours coordinator of their choice so that supervision arrangements can be made. A short project proposal must be submitted to the Honours coordinator by the end of week four of the student’s first semester of enrolment.

General research areas:

• Contemporary fiction
• Nineteenth-century fiction
• Postcolonial studies
• Screen studies
• Shakespeare Studies
• Renaissance Literature
• Theatre studies
• Science fiction
• Human-animal studies
• Representations of Antarctica
• Australian literary and cultural studies
• Ecocriticism
• Literary Theory
• Creative writing
• Travel writing

Research interests of English staff

Dr Robert Clarke

Travel writing with a focus on Australian travel writing; contemporary Australian fiction, especially the treatment of the theme of reconciliation; literary celebrity; the relationships between and debates concerning the writing of history and fiction; “celebrity colonialism”; and creative nonfiction.

Prof Ralph Crane
Anglo-Indian fiction; Indian English fiction; the fiction of J.G. Farrell
Also: the theory and practise of Imperial Whiteness; New Zealand fiction.

Dr Lisa Fletcher

Representations of gender and sexuality in popular fiction; literature and film; Island narratives (especially Mutiny on the Bounty); theory (especially feminist theory, queer theory, theories of performativity).

Dr Rose Gaby
Shakespeare on stage and screen; Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; Tasmanian theatre history; Australian and open-air Shakespeares; Restoration and modern drama.

Dr Elizabeth Leane
Representations of Antarctica in literature, and the culture of Antarctic communities; the relationship between literature and science; science fiction (see Elle’s bibliography of Antarctic literature and film at: http://www.utas.edu.au/english/Representations_of_Antarctica/).

Dr Dominic Lennard
Genre film, particularly Horror films and Westerns; the representation of children in film and literature.

Dr Narelle Shaw
Contemporary Australian fiction; ecocriticism (Australian literature) and Australian satire.

Ms Hannah Stark
Literary theory; continental philosophy  (particularly Gilles Deleuze); ethical theory; gender and sexuality; embodiment; representations of intimacy in contemporary texts (particularly of family); women's artistic practice.

Dr Danielle Wood
Creative writing.

 

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