Network Participants
The network convenor will be Professor Graeme Turner; he and the administrator will be located at the University of Queensland. Professor Turner is ideally placed to coordinate the interdisciplinary objectives of the network: his published work is used by students and scholars in literary studies, film studies, media studies, cultural studies, communications and cultural history. His international reputation is well established and his work has been translated into Mandarin, Thai, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, German, and Slovenian. He has served as Director of Research for the Faculty of Arts since 2000; over that time the research income of the Faculty has doubled, and the number of research-only staff in the Faculty has increased by a factor of four.
Most participants locate themselves primarily within cultural and media studies, however they draw upon a wide range of disciplines and expertise. For instance, these include cultural and media history (Homan, Jacka, Turner), cultural policy studies (Cunningham, O'Regan, Healy), political economy (Sinclair), cultural ethnography (Luckman, Noble), creative industries (Flew, Hartley, Donald, Yue), sociology (Bonner, Hawkins), cultural anthropology (Bloustien, Sun), gender and new media (Probyn, Lumby), Asian studies (Ang, Mackie, Martin, Sen, Sun, Yue, Donald, Keane, McLelland), Australian and postcolonial literary studies (Carter, Dixon, Collis). In addition, there are participants who locate their work primarily within cultural history (Hamilton, Nile, Darian-Smith, Healy), cultural geography (Chris Gibson, Anderson), and cultural anthropology (Noble, Thomas) but who have also worked on topics focused upon the media or popular culture. Those working on new media (Flew, Goggin, McLelland, Brabazon, Thomas) have worked within an intrinsically interdisciplinary environment. What links these diverse disciplinary locations are shared concerns with the construction of cultural identities—especially through the media and popular culture; the development of cultural literacies—especially in relation to new cultural technologies; and the fundamental importance of time and place (cultural history and geography) to the understanding of cultural formations.
The track record and reputations of individual participants is outstanding: Ang, Cunningham, Carter, Darian-Smith, Dixon, Donald, Flew, Mark Gibson, Hartley, Hawkins, Healy, Jacobs, Jacka, Keane, Lumby, Mackie, Muecke, Martin, Nile, O'Regan, Probyn, Sen, Sinclair, and Turner are all recipients of current (in some cases, multiple) ARC grants, and are all internationally established. Younger researchers McLelland, Yue, Collis, Broderick, Homan, and Luckman have excellent track records relative to opportunity as ECRs.
Nine participants are elected members of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Communications and Cultural Studies electoral section; at present there are only 14 elected members of this section resident in Australia.
Participants
Associate Professor Tara Brabazon
Associate Professor David Carter
Professor Stuart Cunningham, FAHA
Associate Professor Kate Darian-Smith
Associate Professor Stephanie Donald
Associate Professor Paula Hamilton
Associate Professor Gay Hawkins
Professor Elizabeth Jacka, FAHA
Associate Professor Catharine Lumby
Professor Stephen Muecke, FAHA