The current Academic staff of the New Humanities Transdisciplinary Research Group are listed below, along with their Research Interests.

Dr. Ruth Barcan (r.barcan@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Feminist cultural studies; tourism theory; "alternative" therapies; the body.


Dr. Lindsay Barrett (la.barrett@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Cultural history, governmentality and Australian politics, the language and rhetoric of economic rationalism, cinema history and theory.


Marion Benjamin (m.benjamin@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Multimedia, documentary imaging, politics of representation, indigenous histories, media technologies and social change.


Dr. Gabriela Coronado (g.coronado@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Multiculturalism, intercultural processes, social and ideological aspects of language, cultural complexity, indigenous cultures and social organisation. Social semiotics, anthropology, chaos and complexity.


Dr Chris Fleming (c.fleming@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: History and philosophy of science, ontology, and the work of Rene Girard.


Associate Prof. Jane Goodall (j.goodall@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Experimental arts, histories of technologies, theories of evolution.


Dr. Mary Harvie (m.harvie@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Learning strategies for discourses valued by different disciplines, knowledge communities and the construction of new knowledges, facilitating a learning culture for interdisciplinary contents and conventions


Prof. Bob Hodge (b.hodge@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Cultural theory (semiotics, postcolonial theory, discourse analysis), media studies, popular culture, Aboriginal studies, Australian studies, language and education, language of science, transdisciplinarity in theory and practice, pleasure and lost civilizations.


Dr. Peter Hutchings (p.hutchings@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Asian studies, cinema and photography, critical legal studies, narrative theory, romanticism and postmodernism, French and German thought (esp. Bergson, Benjamin, Deleuze), psychoanalysis, popular culture, contemporary visual art, urban studies.


Dr. Sara Knox (s.knox@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Genre, narrative, cultural narratives of violent crime, death and aesthetics, trauma as narrative, the abject and the grotesque, queer theory, film, 20th century American short fiction, 20th century American women's writing, creativity, Foucault and power.


Dr. Fiona Mackie (f.mackie@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Archaeologies of knowledge and perception; issues of spacetime, the body, communication; intersubjectivity--dimensions of communication; critique of social theory; cross-cultural and transcultural issues--especially dialogue and justice; postmodern strategies--especially links with feminist and postcolonial strategies; critical phenomenology; early education; critical ethnography as an approach in everyday life; internet cultures and issues; ageing, time, memory.


Dr. Steven Maras (s.maras@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: The philosophy of communications; conceptual practice and media education; post-structuralism and post-structuralist theories of writing, text, and assemblage; phenomenology and the history of perception.


Dr. Kath McPhillips (k.mcphillips@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Feminist theory; feminist theologies; postcoloniality; social theory and social action; poststructuralism and religion.


Adrian Marshall (adrian.marshall@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Intercultural cinema; technology; the body (phenomenology, images, corporeality); sport (cultural studies and human movements approaches); intersections of cultural studies and indigenous studies.


Dr. John O'Carroll (j.ocarroll@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Cities; poststructuralism; postcolonialism.


Dr. David Phillips (d.phillips@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: History and theory of photography; gay cultural studies; psychoanalysis; sexuality and pedagogy.


Dr. Catherine Scott (c.scott@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: The experience and outcomes of tertiary study, occupational satisfaction, and the place of work and education in adult identity formation and maintenance. With Steve Dinham of UWS Nepean, she is co-director of the International Teacher 2000 Project investigating teacher and school executive career satisfaction, motivation and well being. The project currently has phases in Australia, New Zealand, USA, England, France, Romania and Israel.


Dr. Brendon Stewart (br.stewart@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Contemporary and visual arts, ecology as metaphor, multiculturalism, phenomenology, the ecology of place, spirituality/soulfulness, the ecology of the artificial, cultural ecology.


Dr. Anthony Uhlmann (a.ulhmann@uws.edu.au)

Research Interests: Samuel Beckett; Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari; theories of communication; postmodern theory.


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