School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences
History, English, Languages and Screens people
Our team regularly produces new research knowledge on their areas of expertise as well as making it accessible to others through teaching and public engagement initiatives. Further details can be found on their university profile pages linked below.
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
- (02) 4921 5081
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
- (02) 0400717044
Professor Catharine Coleborne
Professor
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
- Catharine.Coleborne@newcastle.edu.au
- +61 2 4913 8040
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
- (02) 4921 5178
Associate Professor 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
- (02) 4348 4055
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
- (02) 4921 5217
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
- (02) 4921 7821
Associate Professor 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
- (02) 4921 5160
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
- (02) 4921 5166
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
- (02) 4921 5221
Dr Effie Karageorgos
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
- (02) 4055 3390
Associate Professor Hans Lukas Kieser
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: Alevilik history; Armenian history; biography; contemporary Middle East; genocide; history of Turkey; massacre; modern history; modern history of the Kurds; Ottoman Empire; political violence; violence studies; religion; war; World War I
- HANSLUKAS.KIESER@NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- (02) 4921 5218
Dr Umit Kurt
ARC DECRA
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
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
Chinese
Expertise: Chinese studies
- Janet.Liang@newcastle.edu.au
- 02 4055 3446
Associate Professor 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
- (02) 4921 7029
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
- (02) 4348 4056
Associate Professor 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
- (02) 4921 5369
Mrs Sophie Rankin
Associate Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
French
Expertise: French language, foreign language acquisition.
- Sophie.Rankin@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6342
Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: gender and war; history of psychiatry; war memorialisation; World War II
Associate Professor Alistair Rolls
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
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, Creative Ind and Social Sci
English and Writing
Expertise: creative writing; contemporary fiction; memoir
- Michael.Sala@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 8811
Ms Claudia Speight
Associate Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
German
Expertise: German studies
- Claudia.Speight@newcastle.edu.au
- 4055 0905 Ext.50905
Dr Graham Squires
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Japanese
Expertise: intellectual history in the Meiji period; Japanese-English translation
- Graham.Squires@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5368
Dr Timothy Stanley
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Philosophy
Expertise: academic responses to religious diversity; 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
- (02) 4921 7927
Dr Ryan Strickler
Lecturer - Ancient History (Education Focused)
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 Chip Van Dyk
Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
History
Expertise: food history; early modern and modern European history; economic history; business history and law
- Chip.VanDyk@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4055 3398
Dr Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
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
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