Research disciplines
Creative Writing
We are a collective of award-winning writers who work across multiple modes, genres, and disciplines to examine and challenge the issues of our times through the medium of story.
Drama & Performance
We study ground-breaking and overlooked performance practices, with special emphasis on historical and contemporary Australian drama.
We bring expertise from industry – as actors, playwrights, directors, and dramaturgs – and work closely with performance and policy makers from around Australia and internationally.
Our research is powered by AusStage, the Australian live performance database, which has been hosted at Flinders since 2002.
Screen & Media
We produce innovative research about screen industries and aesthetics, while investigating developments in screen production and the transformative possibility of new technologies.
We support creative practitioners, Honours and postgraduate students to become world-class scholars. We have expertise in media authorship, genres, and policies. We drive discussions about the future of screen media and their socio-political possibilities.
Our research builds on and activates cutting-edge technologies in creative practice, powering virtual production and immersive digital art. We work closely with industry to solve challenges of the cultural and creative sector.
Creative Writing
Dr Amy Matthews
Fiction writing (novels and short stories), genre fiction, historical fiction, holocaust representation, popular romance studies, film and television, literary theory.
Dr Sean Williams
Novel writing, fiction writing, speculative fiction, creative history, art in Antarctica, and music.
Dr Lisa Bennett
Novel writing, fiction writing, speculative fiction, contemporary Australian genre fiction, myths and mythology, and Vikings in history, literature and popular culture.
Dr Alex Vickery-Howe
Political storytelling, intercultural storytelling, myth and fantasy, and emerging audiences.
Drama & Performance
Professor Chris Hay
Australian theatre and cultural history, contemporary drama, directing, actor training, Eurovision Song Contest.
Dr Sarah Peters
Verbatim theatre, collaborative theatre making, playwriting, dramaturgy.
Dr Christopher Hurrell
Shakespeare, musical theatre, directing, dramaturgy, actor training.
Dr Renato Musolino
Acting, actor training, psycho-physical training, Laban Movement Analysis, embodiment, yoga, Active Analysis, Movement Analysis.
Screen & Media
Dr Nicholas Godfrey
Hollywood cinema, film aesthetics, film distribution, Australian cinema, Asian cinema.
Associate Professor Julia Erhart
Women screen practitioners, Feminist film theory, LGBTQ+ representations, documentary and factual media, biopics and history films, screen comedy.
Ms Claire Henry
Contemporary cinema, the representation and regulation of sex and violence on screen, and genre and auteur studies.
Associate Professor Tully Barnett
Interdisciplinary research into investigating ways of valuing art and culture beyond econometrics, and digitisation as a cultural practice.
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