
School of Humanities and Social Science
SLEW people
Dr Rebecca Beirne
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Film, Media 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
- (02) 4921 5081
Dr Brooke Collins-Gearing
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
English and Writing
Expertise: Indigenous literature; postcolonial literature; children's literature; Young Adult Literature
- Brooke.Collins-Gearing@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5178
Emeritus Professor Hugh Craig
Emeritus Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
English and Writing
Expertise: authorship; computational stylistics; drama; early modern; English literature; Jane Austen; literary studies; Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; stylistics; text mining.
Dr Gabriella Edelstein
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
English and Writing
Expertise: drama; early modern literature; Jacobean and Elizabethan playwrights; Shakespeare
- Gabriella.Edelstein@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4055 3040
Dr Hamish Ford
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Film, Media 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
- (02) 4921 7821
Dr Jessica Ford
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Film, Media and Cultural Studies
Expertise: contemporary feminisms; American indie cinema; gender studies; women filmmakers; television studies; Australian television; authorship on screen; race and gender in media cultures; feminist media studies; gender, sexuality and race in digital cultures; popular culture; reboots, adaptations and retellings; celebrity studies
- Jessica.Ford@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5175
Associate Professor Keri Glastonbury
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
English and Writing
Expertise: contemporary Australian poetry; nonfiction; creative writing.
- Keri.Glastonbury@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5160
Associate Professor Jesper Gulddal
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
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
- (02) 4921 5166
Dr Alexandra Lewis
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
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 Erin McCarthy
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Digital Humanities/English and Writing
Expertise: British literature; bibliography; book history; computational humanities; digital humanities; early modernity; history of reading; manuscript studies; paleography; poetry and poetics; quantitative methods; scholarly editing; women’s writing
- Erin.McCarthy@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5140
Dr David Musgrave
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
English and Writing
Expertise: contemporary Australian poetry and novel; the satire; creative writing
- David.Musgrave@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4348 4056
Associate Professor Trisha Pender
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
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
- (02) 4921 5369
Mrs Sophie Rankin
Associate Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
French
Expertise: French language, foreign language acquisition.
- Sophie.Rankin@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6342
Associate Professor Alistair Rolls
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
French
Expertise: Boris Vian; existentialism; fetishism; twentieth and twenty-first century literature
- Alistair.Rolls@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5559
Dr Michael Sala
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
English and Writing
Expertise: creative writing; contemporary fiction; memoir
- Michael.Sala@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 8811
Professor Paul Salzman
Conjoint Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
English and Writing
Expertise: early modern literature (sixteenth and seventeenth century); Australian literature; women's writing; prose fiction; literary and cultural history.
- Paul.Salzman@newcastle.edu.au
- 4921 5155
Dr Shigeru Sato
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Japanese
Expertise: Socio-economic impact of World War II in Southeast Asia; literary studies
- Shigeru.Sato@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 8986
Professor Rosalind Smith
Conjoint Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
English and Writing
Expertise: sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, especially women’s writing; material cultures of the book; marginalia; form; genre; sonnets; complaint; authorship and attribution; true crime in early modern and Australian literature
- Ros.Smith@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5180
Dr Graham Squires
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Japanese
Expertise: intellectual history in the Meiji period; Japanese-English translation
- Graham.Squires@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5368
Dr Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
French
Expertise: foreign language acquisition; French culture, language and literature; literary analysis; literary translation theories and practices
- Marie-laure.Vuaille-barcan@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5550
Associate Professor Caroline Webb
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
English and Writing
Expertise: SF and fantasy literature, including Children's/YA fantasy literature; British modernist literature; recent British women's fiction
- Caroline.Webb@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4348 4061
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