Public Memory Research Cluster

Current projects

Plagues of Playing: Theatre and Contagion in Early Modern Culture (Dr Darryl Chalk)
Dundalli: Indigenous sovereignty and life on the colonial frontier (Dr Libby Connors)
Star of Italy: The Story of Giovanni Pulle's Invention of Italians, 1876-1920 (Dr Catherine Dewhirst)
Diaspora Loyalties: Austalia's Italian Notabili and the Transnational Experiment, 1876-1927 (Dr Catherine Dewhirst)
The Aussie Battler Personified: Why Everyone Loves Kenny (Dr Henk Huijser)
A Phenomenology of Cyberspace (Dr Laurie Johnson)
Hamlet and Early Modern Textuality (Dr Laurie Johnson)
It's all about the boys: Gender representation in online sports reporting of the 2008 Olympic Games (Ms Dianne Jones)
Re-Presenting Vietnam War Memory: The Battle of Fire Support Base Coral and the Politics of War Memory and Representation (Ms Leonie Jones)
A Culture for War: The Official Representation of Australians in the War of 1914-1918 (Prof Christopher Lee)
The Frank Hurley Diaries (Prof Christopher Lee)
City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination (Prof Christopher Lee)
Acting like a Man: Gender, Performance and Shakespeare (Dr Janet McDonald and Dr Darryl Chalk)
The Australian Symphony of the 1950s (Dr Rhoderick McNeill)
Youth Wellbeing and Participatory Digital Media: Assessing the Potential of Digital Media to Improve Youth Mental Health (Dr Kelly McWilliam)
From Dirty War to Democracy: Democratic transition in Australia's Hispanic communities (Dr Robert Mason)
Myth and Political Language (Dr Brian Musgrove)

Postgraduate Student Research

Repropriation: the spoils of multiplicity (Deborah Beaumont)
Redefining and Readdressing Domestic Counterinsurgency Post 2001: Sulu Province, Republic of Philippines (Bob East)
"Vi er alle Australiere" - Scandinavian community building, social networking and migrant identity formation in Australia, 1870-1945 (Mark Emmerson)
Around the World in 80 Keywords (Jayne Fenton Keane)
People Beyond the State: An Enquiry into the Self-Identification and Security of German Expatriates (Thorsten Nieberg)
Decorating the Abyss: Crafting a Post-Holocauust Ethics of the Self (Geoffrey Parkes)
Heterophony as migrant senses of home: embodied musical landscapes beyond the ethnographic locale (Kerri-Anne Sheehy)
'When I am in game, I am furious": Gaming and Sexuality in Renaissance Theatre (Daniel Timbrell)
Reversal of Fortunes: lay ecclesial ministry in the Catholic Church in Australia (Regina Ryan)