RECENT GRADUATES
Louise North
Project title
The gendered production of news in Australian
print media
Supervisor
Dr Barbara Baird
Associate Supervisor
Dr Llewellyn Negrin, Art School
Dr. Louise North received the 2006 Dean's Commendation Award for her PhD thesis.
Dr. North was one of only nine UTAS postgraduates to receive this honour, and we congratulate her on this achievement.
CURRENT PhD STUDENTS
Anitra Goriss-Hunter
Project title
From Traditional Tropes and Cybernetic
Rapture to Cybernetic Rupture: Maternity Morphs to the Monstrous
Maternal in Cyber(cultural)space
Supervisor
Dr Barbara Baird
Associate Supervisor
Dr Llewellyn Negrin, Art School
I'm interested in examining representations of
maternity that go beyond conventional notions of maternal bodies
as flesh-bound or purely socially constructed. In order to do
this I will turn to tropes of motherhood in cyber(cultural)space.
The conceptualisation of cyberspace as multiplicitous, dynamic
and discursive is important for my project as it demonstrates
the potential to move away from the tyranny of two and, thus,
re-present images of maternity that do not adhere to the conventional.
My project focuses on Shelley Jackson's cd rom, Patchwork Girl;
Ariel Gore's e-zine, Hip Mama's Survival Guide; and, the work
of artist, Patricia Piccinini.e
Work experience
I have worked as tutor and lecturer within
Gender Studies. I was co-editor of the magazine, Split,
produced by the University of Tasmania's women's collective.
And I was also actively involved in the women's collectives'
activites such as organising body image awarness campaigns,
Blue Stocking Week, and Reclaim the Bar. I am also a proud member
of the online Bad Mothers Club.
Miranda Morris
Project title
The Perilous Journey of Alice Gertrude
Kenny
Supervisor
Dr Barbara Baird
Associate Supervisor
Margaret Lindley, History
Email: morrisme@utas.edu.au
I am a PhD candidate in the School of Philosophy
(Gender Studies) with an educational and professional background
in history.
My provisional thesis title is The Perilous
Journey of Alice Gertrude Kenny. The form of the thesis is constructed
around events in the life of Alice Gertrude Kenny, and the subject
positions she occupied. Drawing principally on the work of Catherine
Hall and Laura Ann Stoler, I look at the interrelationship between
metropole and colony, and the colonial domestic hearth as the
site where values of race, class and gender are most contested.
Within the context of Tasmania as a post-penal colony, I examine
the way Kenny negotiated her life from her arrival in the colony
as a bounty immigrant, through her rise to the position of matron
at the New Norfolk Asylum, to her departure after a prolonged
series of enquiries and court cases.
My previous work includes
Pink Triangle; the gay law reform debate in Tasmania Sydney:
University of New South Wales Press, 1995
100 Hobart Houses Hobart: Hobart City Council, 2001
Polly McGee
Project title
Born Digital: Gender, Technology and Identity in Folk Surgery Network Narratives
Supervisor
Dr Yvette Blackwood
Associate Supervisor
TBA
This thesis is concerned with identity creation using network theory to map the individual and clustered formation of identity and subjectivity. Using the digital networks of the internet facilitated body modification and folk surgery communities and [sub cultural] clustering as an artefact of mass communication/class[ification], I aim to explore the nexus between network theory and the evolution of the modified subject's identity. The thesis will investigate whether this identity is mimetic of the technological processess from which it was 'born digital'. This discussion will be facilitated by representations of identity within the body modification cyber community 'BME' (Body Modification Ezine www. bmezine.com) networks.
Nadia Mahjouri
Project title
The Nature of Nature in the Era of the Genome
Supervisor
Dr Barbara Baird
Associate Supervisor
TBA
The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 (an international research effort to map and sequence all the genes in human DNA) has been hailed as one of the most ambitious scientific undertakings of all time, being compared to the moon landing or splitting the atom and, according to the media hype which surrounded the its completion, heralds the start of a new era - 'the era of the genome'. In my thesis, I investigate how our understandings of nature, and our bodies, change when we come to understand ourselves genetically. This is primarily an ontological, rather than an ethical, investigation, resting on a theoretical model that sees the bodies, technologies and subjects as mutually constructive, as opposed to inherently separate and divisible. My investigation is broad and far-reaching, and covers many of the major debates that have arisen around genetic technologies, such as PGD and the designer baby, the question of race and genetic science, the patenting of genes and the discourse of posthumanism.
I have worked as a tutor and lecturer in both Philosophy and Gender Studies.
Published work
Mahjouri, N 'Techno-Maternity: Rethinking the Possibilities of Reproductive Technologies' thirdspace 4/1 (November 2004): 9-26 (print), 27 pars (web). [http://www.thirdspace.ca/vol4/4_1_Mahjouri.htm]
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