School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences
Mr Benn Banasik
Associate Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Philosophy
Expertise: philosophy of video games; artificial intelligence; gaming as religious experience; new religious movements
- Benn.Banasik@newcastle.edu.au
- 0434832636
Dr Rebecca Beirne
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Screen and Cultural Studies
Expertise: television studies; gender, sexuality and LGBTIQ studies; film studies; media audiences and consumption; race and ethnicity in media cultures; postcolonial studies; documentary film and television; popular culture; media institutions; comics and graphic novels
- Rebecca.Beirne@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215081
Dr Kit Candlin
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: American History, especially colonial America; European empires; the history of violence and war
- Kit.Candlin@newcastle.edu.au
- 49216413
Professor Catharine Coleborne
Professor and College Associate Dean Research and Innovation
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: Australian history; New Zealand history; colonialism; cultural history; digital history; gender; histories of the family; institutional closures; medical history; mental health service history; mobilities; social history of insanity
Dr Brooke Collins-Gearing
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
English and Writing
Expertise: Indigenous literature; postcolonial literature; children's literature; Young Adult Literature
- Brooke.Collins-Gearing@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215178
Assoc Prof Nancy Cushing
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: air pollution; Australian cultural history; environmental history; food studies; heritage studies; human/animal relations; Newcastle; urban history
- Nancy.Cushing@newcastle.edu.au
- 0243484055
Dr Sacha Davis
Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: Germany; Habsburg; Hungary; Roma; Romania; Saxon; Transylvania; Transylvanianism; Zigeuner; diaspora; eugenics; fascism; landscape; migration; minority; nationalism; transnationalism; travel writing; travelogue; wine
- Sacha.Davis@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215217
Mr Tom Doe
Associate Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Languages - Auslan Studies
Expertise: Australian Sign Language studies
Dr Hamish Ford
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Screen and Cultural Studies
Expertise: film theory and history; post-war European cinema, cinema and philosophy; post-colonial studies; contemporary world cinema; film modernism; documentary cinema; race and ethnicity in media cultures; politics and media culture
- Hamish.Ford@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249217821
Assoc Prof Keri Glastonbury
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
English and Writing
Expertise: contemporary Australian poetry; nonfiction; creative writing.
- Keri.Glastonbury@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215160
Professor Jesper Gulddal
Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
English and Writing
Expertise: global crime fiction; mobility studies; World Literature; comparative literature; history and theory of the novel; 18th and 19th century literature; literary theory
- Jesper.Gulddal@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215166
Professor Victoria Haskins
Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: Aboriginal history; Australian history; colonialism; cross-cultural history; dance history; domestic labour; domestic service; gender history; Indigenous history (US, Asia); museum studies; women's history
- Victoria.Haskins@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215221
Dr Effie Karageorgos
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: war history; history of psychiatry and mental illness; history of gender; history of race; South African history; Vietnamese history
- Effie.Karageorgos@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240553390
Dr Umit Kurt
Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: early Turkish Republic; modern Middle East; Armenian history; collective and political violence; comparative genocides; nationalism; intercommunal and interethnic strife; Armenian genocide; social and economic history of the late Ottoman Empire; race and ethnicity
- Umit.Kurt@newcastle.edu.au
- 0422172831
Dr Alexandra Lewis
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
English and Writing
Expertise: Australian literature; creative writing; fiction; fin-de-siècle literature; history of medicine, psychology and the emotions; life writing; literature and science 1800 to present; memory studies; Neo-Victorian fiction; short fiction; the Brontes and George Eliot; trauma narratives circa 19th century to present; travel writing; twentieth-century women’s writing; Victorian literature and culture
Dr Janet Liang
Lecturer in Chinese
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Languages - Chinese Studies
Expertise: Chinese language studies
- Janet.Liang@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240553446
Dr Ash McIntyre
Student Advocate
Student Central
English and Writing
Expertise: storytelling in environmental crisis; storytelling's impact on personal and communal change; visual representation of literature research
- Ash.McIntyre@newcastle.edu.au
- 40339065
Assoc Prof Julie McIntyre
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: agriculture; Australia's Atlantic; Australian and international wine studies; environmental history; global Newcastle; histories of science; knowledge mobilities; theories of civilising processes; tourism; trans-imperial migration
- Julie.Mcintyre@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249217029
Dr David Musgrave
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
English and Writing
Expertise: contemporary Australian poetry and novel; the satire; creative writing
- David.Musgrave@newcastle.edu.au
- 0243484056
Assoc Prof Trisha Pender
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
English and Writing
Expertise: early modern women's literature; Jane Austen; literature and film; popular culture; contemporary women's literature
- Patricia.J.Pender@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215369
Mrs Sophie Rankin
Associate Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Languages - French Studies
Expertise: French language, foreign language acquisition.
- Sophie.Rankin@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249216342
Assoc Prof Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: gender and war; history of psychiatry; war memorialisation; World War II
Assoc Prof Alistair Rolls
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Languages - French Studies
Expertise: Boris Vian; existentialism; fetishism; twentieth and twenty-first century literature
- Alistair.Rolls@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215559
Dr Michael Sala
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
English and Writing
Expertise: creative writing; contemporary fiction; memoir
- Michael.Sala@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249218811
Ms Claudia Speight
Associate Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Languages - German Studies
Expertise: German language studies
- Claudia.Speight@newcastle.edu.au
- 40550905Ext50905
Dr Connie Skibinski
Associate Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Ancient History
Expertise: Greek mythology; ancient Mediterranean literature; ancient folklore and fairytale
Dr Graham Squires
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Languages - Japanese Studies
Expertise: intellectual history in the Meiji period; Japanese-English translation
- Graham.Squires@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215368
Dr Timothy Stanley
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Philosophy
Expertise: deliberative democracy; ethical technology; extended mind theory (EMT); hermeneutics; metaphysics; methodology in the study of religion; political and social theory; print/codex information technology; scientific studies of religion; secularization theory; situated religious cognition; tolerance and antibigotry studies
- Timothy.Stanley@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249217927
Dr Ryan Strickler
Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Ancient History
Expertise: religion and identity in the Greco-Roman world; responses to crisis in the Greco-Roman World; late antiquity; religion and authority in the later Roman Empire
Dr Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Languages - French Studies
Expertise: foreign language acquisition; French culture, language and literature; literary analysis; literary translation theories and practices
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