About
Dr Kane Race-
His research interests include gender and sexuality, popular culture and consumption, sociology of health and biomedicine, Foucaults ethics, biopolitics, citizenship, social policy, body technologies, and queer theory.
About
Dr Ruth Barcan-
Dr Barcan joined the Department of Gender Studies in 2004, after working at the University of Melbourne and the University of Western Sydney. Her research interests include nudity and nudism; feminist cultural studies approaches to the body; alternative therapies and New Age practices; and pedagogy.
About
Dr Catherine Driscoll-
Dr Catherine Driscoll is Chair of Gender and Cultural Studies at Sydney. She has worked at the Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide before joining the Department in 2003 she teaches undergraduate students in Youth Cultures: Images and Ideas of Youth and Cultural Theory and postgraduate students in Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture.
About
Dr Natalya Lusty-
Dr Lusty's contribution to these fileds has been concerned with mapping the terrain of modernism as a cultural diagnostic for our own time, one that performs a number of critical interventions across modernist and contemporary cultural formations. This is also the subject of her book, Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis.
About
Dr Jane Park-
Dr Jane Chi Hyun Park has a PhD in Radio-TV-Film from The University of Texas at Austin and a MA in English from the University of California, Irvine and previously worked at the University of Oklahoma. .
About
Professor Elspeth Probyn-
Elspeth has published several books in these areas, including Sexing the Self, Outside Belongings, Carnal Appetites, Sexy Bodies. Her latest book, Blush: Faces of Shame (University of Minnesota Press, and UNSW Press, 2005) focuses on shame as a positive force in society.
About
Dr Fiona Probyn-Rapsey-
BA Hons (Monash University), PhD (1999, Literature, University of New South Wales). Research, supervision and teaching areas include multidisciplinary approaches to postcolonial feminism, transnationalism, critical whiteness studies, Australian literature and film.
About
Dr Guy Redden-
Dr Redden's research revolves around the relationships between culture and economy. Among his interests are commodification, alternative cultures, and the moralisation of consumption/lifestyle.
Gender and Cultural Studies
Summary
The Gender and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Sydney is the leading centre for research into gender and culture in Australia, renowned internationally for interdisciplinary research and teaching in feminist, gender and cultural studies.
Supervisor(s)
Dr Kane Race, Dr Ruth Barcan, Dr Catherine Driscoll, Dr Natalya Lusty, Dr Jane Park, Professor Elspeth Probyn, Dr Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Dr Guy Redden
Research Location
Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts
Program Type
Synopsis
With some of Australia's foremost academics and theorists on staff, the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies provides you with critically engaging ideas and the tools to analyse a wide range of issues. The Department's academics draw on a number of theoretical and empirical research paradigms, spanning social science and humanities research methods. In the discipline of Gender and Cultural Studies, students engage critically with the changing representations and meanings of gender and culture in the everyday world. The department is renowned globally for its interdisciplinary research and teaching in feminist, gender and cultural studies, and has on its staff some of Australia’s foremost theorists in gender and culture. The department has a vibrant research culture where students are actively involved in research seminars and are frequently offered the chance to contribute to teaching and collaborative research projects. The program profoundly enriches study and work in the humanities and social sciences as well as law, the physical sciences, government and education.
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Keywords
feminist, gender, sexuality and queer theory, sociology, media studies, cultural studies, philosophy, critical race studies, visual culture, literature, post colonial theory, cultural history, feminist theory, political theory, community, alternative cultures
Opportunity ID
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 443