Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Completed Theses

Completed Theses

Australian Defence Force Academy
Australian National University
Curtin University of Technology
Deakin University
Flinders University
Griffith University
James Cook University of North Queensland
Latrobe University
Macquarie University
Monash University
Murdoch University
University of Adelaide

University of Melbourne
University of Newcastle
University of New England
University of NSW
University of Queensland
University of Sydney
University of Tasmania
Central Queensland University
Charles Darwin University
Edith Cowan University
Queensland University of Technology
RMIT
Southern Cross University

Australian Defence Force Academy

Barton, Patricia. Second Thoughts: The Poetry of Ada Cambridge. MA (Qual), 1986.
Burchill, Sandra. Katharine Susannah Prichard: Romance, Romanticism and Politics. PhD, 1988.
Conte, Steven. A Study of the Novels of David Foster. MA, 1994.
Darby, Robert. While Freedom Lives: Political Preoccupations In The Writing Of Marjorie Barnard And Frank Dalby Davidson, 1935-1947. PhD, 1989.
de Groen, Frances. Xavier Herbert: A Biography. PhD, 1996, ADFA.
Jarvis, Douglas. Realism and Australian Critical Thought 1880-1900. PhD, 1982.
Pratt, Catherine. Gender Ideology and Narrative Form in the Novels of Henry Handel Richardson. PhD, 1995.
Bowers, Tim. Belonging and Estrangement: Narrative Strategies of Self-Representation in Contemporary Australian Autobiography. PhD, 1997.
Kato, Megumi. Representations of Japan and Japanese People in Australian Literature. PhD, 2005.
Pender, Jennifer Anne. Christina Stead Satirist. PhD, 1997.
Saldais, Margaret. Singing a New Dreaming: The Portrayal of the Aboriginal Male as Agent of Change in the Writings of Jack Davis, Ruby Langford, Sally Morgan and Archie Weller. MA, 1993.
Weber, Therese. Port Philip Papers: The Australian Journal of Georgiana McCrae. PhD, 2001.

Australian National University

Alomes, Stephen. Intellectual Awakening In Australia In The 1930s. PhD, 1978.
Ashcroft, Bill. Horizontal Criticism: Language, Consciousness And The Literary Text. PhD, 1979.
Ayres, Marie-Louise. ‘Me is Not a Stable Reality’: Sexual and Poetic Identities in the Poetry of Dorothy Green, Dorothy Hewett, Rosemary Dobson and J.S.Harry. PhD , 1995.
Brydon, Diana Lee. Themes and Preoccupations in the Novels of Australian Expatriates. PhD.
Chion, Loretta Ravera. The Female Dilemma: Subversion and Art in some novels by Australian women writers. MA, 1986.
Cotter, Michael Thomas. Some Aspects Of Imagery In The Novels Of Patrick White. PhD, 1979.
Cowan, Susan. The ‘Scottish Quality’ in Australian Writing. MA, 2000.
Dalziell, Rosamund. Patterns of Shame in Australian Autobiography, 1960-1990. PhD, 1996, ANU.
Dobrez, Patricia Ann. Martin Boyd: The Aesthetic Temperament, A Critical Study. PhD, 1980.
Docker, John. Literature And Social Thought. PhD, 1980.
Elder, Catriona. Dreams and Nightmares of a ‘White Australia ‘: The Discourse of Assimilation in Selected Works of Fiction from the 1950s and 1960s. PhD, 1999.
Glass, Frances Devlin. Daniel Henry Deniehy: A Study of an Australian Man of Letters. PhD, 1975.
Lawson, Alan John. Patrick White: An Analysis of the Structural Use of Imagery in the Earlier Novels Together With a Comprehensive Bibliography. MA, 1972.
Maguire, Carmel Jane. An Original Reaction From Art: Analysis of the Criticism of A.G, Stephens on the Red Page of the Bulletin, 1894-1906. MA, 1972.
Mitchell, Andrea. Female Quest In Modern Australian Fiction. MA, 1983.
Nandan, Satendra Pratap. The Image Of The Artist In Patrick White’s Fiction. PhD, 1977.
Poole, Michael. Illicit Imaginings: An Australian History of Vietnamese Stories Retold. PhD, 2002.
Rombouts, Alexandra. Imaginative Possession: Evocation of Place in Works by Malouf, Hanrahan and Murnane. MA, 1990.
Saunders, Maeve. Structures Of Discovery In The Novels Of Patrick White. PhD, 1984.
Shoemaker, Adam M. Black Words, White Page; The Nature And History Of Aboriginal Literature, 1929-1984. PhD, 1985.
Thomas, Alan. The ABC In The 1930s And 1940s. PhD, 1978.
Walker, David Robert. Writer and Community: Vance Palmer, Louis Esson, Frank Wilmot and Frederick Sinclaire, 1905-1930. PhD, 1972

Curtin University of Technology

Holliday, Brian. ‘For the Term of its National Life: The Australian (Imagi)nation’. MA, 1993.
Iswalono, Sugi. The Primary Target Audience of ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’. MA, 1995.
Neuenfeldt, Karl. Sounding Silences: Indigenous People’s Use of Popular Music to Address Issues of Social Justice. PhD, 1991.

Deakin University

Bentley, Michelle. The Poetry of Mary Gilmore. MA, 1989.
Carter, David John. A Career In Writing: Judah Waten And The Cultural Politics Of A Literary Career. PhD, 1993.
Doecke, Brenton. Australian Historical Novels of the 1930s and 1940s. PhD, 1989.
Edmonds, Philip. More Than a Mere Story: Social and Political Markers in Australian Short Fiction of the 1980s. PhD, 1997.
Freeman, Robin Ann. Holocaust Literature: An Exploration of Second-Generation Publication in Australia . MA, 2004.
Gardiner, Kelly. Poetry, Politics and Place: Black and White Perceptions of Landscape in Modern Australian Poetry 1965-1990. MA, 1999.
Jacklin, Michael. Cross Talk: Collaborative Indigenous Life Writing in Australia and Canada . MA, 2004.
James, Kathryn. Matilda’s Last Dance: Death, Gender, Sexuality and Australian Adolescent Literature. PhD, 2005.
Martin, Antoinette. (Post)colonial Ambivalences: Christina Stead and Janet Frame. PhD, 2005.
McCarthy, Bridie. At the Limits: Postcolonial and Hyperreal Translations of Australian Poetry. PhD, 2007.
Nanlohy, Elizabeth Mavis. Fundamentalism Meets Feminism: Postmodern Confrontation in the Work of Janette Turner Hospital . MA, 2000.
Newman, Joan. Constructions of the Self in Australian Autobiography. PhD, 1992.
Parsons, Elizabeth. Poetry and Silence: “A Sequence of Disappearances”. PhD, 2001.
Rizzo, Santina. Private & Public Mythologies: Reading Some Italo-Australian Women’s Prose in English. MA, 1995.
Stahmer, Hazel Doreen. Responses to Australian Society and Culture by Greek-Australian Writers. MA, 1998.
Tyas, Gillian Mary. Transformations: Landscape in Recent Australian Fiction. PhD, 1995.
Watkins, Catherine. Celebrating Difference. PhD, 2004.
White, Barbara A. Beyond God the Father: The Metaphysical in a Physical World. MA, 2002

Flinders University

Allen, Margaret. Three South Australian Women Writers, 1854-1923, Matilda Evans, Catherine Spence And Catherine Martin. PhD, 1992.
Blaber, Ronald. Without Words or Visas: The Picaresque in Indian and Australian Fiction. PhD, 1988.
Brock, Steve. ‘Home and Nation’ in Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon. 2003.
Bullen Elizabeth. Lost in Space: Representations of Masculinities in Recent Australian Fiction. PhD, 1999.
Bullen, Elizabeth. Redefining Images of Masculinity in Contemporary Australian Fiction. MA, 1992.
Crabbe, Judy. Childhood and Adolescence in the Australian Novel. MA, 1974.
Dally, John Alton. The Jindyworobak Movement 1935-1945. PhD, 1978.
Deves, Michael. ‘Apart from the Expected’: The Novels of Brian Castro. PhD, 1999.
Deves, Michael. Brian Castro’s Fiction. PhD. 1996.
Driver, Beverly. Aboriginal Folkspirits in Australian Children’s Literature. MA, 1995.
Gelder, Kenneth. A Perspective in Recent Australian Fiction. PhD, 1981.
Glover, Brenda. ‘Battened Down’ and ‘Buttoned Up’: Postcolonial Women’s Writing: A Comparative Study of Australian and Canadian Settler Women’s Life-Writing and Fiction. PhD, 2002.
Healy, Alice . Nomadic Narratives: Australian Novel to Film. PhD, 2005.
Hosking, Richard Gordon. Australian Fiction Of The Second World War. MA, 1978.
Jacobs, Lyn. Worlds Between Words: A Study of the Poetry of Kenneth Slessor, Francis Webb and Vincent Buckley. PhD, 1986.
Miels, Yvonne. The Net under the Tightrope: The Poetry and Prose of Amy Witting. PhD, 1997.
Milnes, Stephen. Revolution and Sacrifice: The Struggle for Community Wholeness in Four Post-Colonial Novels. MA, 1992.
Niscioli, Paola Gemma. Migrant Writing and Beyond: The Voices of Four Italian-Australian Poets: Lino Concas, Mariano Coreno, Enoe di Stefano and Luigi Strano. MA, 1996.
Partington, Dawn. Truth from Error and Reality from Illusion: Knowledge and Ways of Knowing in the Novels of Joseph Furphy. PhD, 1993.
Sharrad, Paul. Open Dialogue: Metropolitan-Provincial Tensions And The Quest For A Post-Colonial Culture In The Fiction Of C.J. Koch, Raja Rao And Wilson Harris. PhD, 1986.
Singleton, Michael. Australian Fiction: A Philosophical Development from the late Nineteenth Century to the Novels of Patrick White. MA, 1981.
Sugiharti, Esti. Indigenous Australian and Afro-American women’s fiction, 2003.
Waterman, Judy. Dislocation, Affirmation and Connection: Fiction by Australian Women Writers, 1978-1988. MA, 1993.

Griffith University

Beere, Diana. Nurturing Ideology: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Australian Adolescent Fictions. PhD, 2000.
Martin, Sylvia. The Polygamy of Friendship: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin. PhD, 1996.
Papa, Aspasia. From Greek Myths to Aussie Yarns: An Analysis of Post-World War II Greek-Australian Writing and its Position in Australian Literature from a Cultural Prospect. MA, 1998.
Richards, Cameron. Dialogical Criticism: Reframing the Problem of Interpreting Narrative Models of Australian Cultural History. PhD, 1994.
Sheahan-Bright, Robyn. To Market, To Market: The Development of the Australian Children’s Publishing Industry. PhD, 2004.
Williams, Peter. Writing, Reading, Politics: An Analysis Of Some Debates Within And Around The Institution Of Literature In Australia, With Particular Reference To The Work Of Frank Hardy. PhD, 1987.

James Cook University of North Queensland

Baker, A.W. ‘Death is a Good Solution’: A Study of the Origins and Development of Literature Relating to the Transportation Era in Australia. PhD, 1976.
Bartlett, Alison. Jamming the Machinery: Ecriture Feminine and the Practice of Contemporary Women Writers in Australia PhD, 1994.
Bock, Hanne Kirstine. Scandinavian Influences On Henry Handel Richardson: With Special Emphasis On Bjornson And Jacobsen. PhD, 1983.
Kwast-Greff, Chantal. Distorted Bodies and Suffering Souls: Women in Australian Fiction, 1984-1994. PhD, 2001.

Latrobe University

Blackmore, Elva. Australian Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction. MA 1996
Capp, Fiona. Australian Writers and the Security Services. PhD, 1993.
Carr, Julie. The Representation of Dance in the Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley. MA, 1992.
Collis, Christy. The Edge Men: Narrating Late Twentieth-Century Exploration on Australia ’s Desert and Antarctic Frontiers. PhD, 2000.
Dawson, Jean I. Australian Fantasy And Patricia Wrightson: Steps Into The Dreaming. PhD, 1987.
Dutton, Patricia. Aboriginality as the Unconscious White Australia. PhD 1996
Forsyth, Ludmilla. Fantasy And Dream In Stead’s Fiction: An Examination Of Christina Stead’s ‘Seven Poor Men Of Sydney’, ‘The Beauties And Furies’, And ‘House Of All Nations’. PhD, 1984.
Gillett, Sue. Contemporary Departures from Realism: Placing Australia. PhD, 1990.
Keane, Colleen. Plural Partings: A Post Humanist Reading of Recent Novels by Australian Women Writers. PhD, 1996.
Lloyd, Brian. Angry Penguins, ‘Ern Malley’ and Surrealism. PhD, 1998.
Ouyang, Yu. Australian Literature. PhD,1995.
Perrett, Bill. Aboriginal Writing in Australia. PhD, 1996.
Sawyer, Philippa. Fictions of White Australia : Identity, Land and Community in Contemporary Australian Women’s Life Narratives. MA, 1996.
Stuyfbergen, John. Writing with an Accent: Situating the Immigrant Authobiographical Voices of Andrew Riemer, Lolo Houbein, Mary Rose Liverani and Graham McInnes. PhD, 2003.

Macquarie University

Akerholt, May-Brit. Five Plays By Patrick White:A Critical Study. MA (Hons), 1981.
Boman, Christine. Representations of Masculinities in Australian Contemporary Drama and its Film Adaptations. PhD, 2001.
Halliday, Alison. The Ideology of Australian Poetry Anthologies for Children. PhD, 1999.
Hussain, Sabina. Intercultural Encounters and Cultural Transformation: The Migrant Experience in Selected Postcolonial Fiction in Australia . PhD, 2003.
Macleod, Mark. To Live With Ambivalence: The Poetry Of Bruce Dawe. MA(Hons), 1977.
McDonald, Avis G. Patterns Of Exile And Bondage In Selected Australian And West Indian Fiction. PhD, 1987.
Pennell, Beverley. Australian Childhood Through the Looking Glass: Changing Representations of Childhood in Australian Children’s Fictions 1953-2003. PhD, 2004.
Petersen, Teresa. The Enigmatic Christina Stead: An Oedipal/AntiOedipal Dialectic on Love and Desire. PhD, 1999.
Shea, Beverley. The Odd Couple: The Unique Manner in which Australians Adapt and Integrate Japanese Influence into Their Various Cultural Works. PhD, 2002.
Toop, Wilma Jean. The Operation of Myth and Imagery in the Major Novels of Christina Stead, Patrick White and Thomas Keneally. PhD, 1975.

Monash University

Barker, Jillian. The Concept of ‘the Lady’ in Certain Novels by Australian Women 1880-1900. MA, 1993.
Batchelor, Elise. Eurhythmics in the Novels and Short Stories of Tim Winton. MA, 1994.
Bullen, Andrew. Religious Preoccupations In Modern Australian Poetry: A Study Of Vincent Buckley, A. D. Hope, James McAuley, Francis Webb, And Judith Wright. MA, 1984.
Burgess, Sheryl. Imagined Womanhood: The Possibilities and Insecurities of the Heroines of the Interwar Years. MA, 2002.
Cogan, Felicity. An Examination of Connections Between Adolescent Rites of Passage and the Mythology of National Identity in Postcoloinal Settler Myths in New Wave Cinema. MA, 1985.
Delmonte, Rodolfo. Myth, Creativity And Society In The Poetry Of James Mcauley, A.D. Hope, Francis Webb. PhD, 1977.
Disher, G. D. Before The Age Of Hurry-Up: Australian Landscape Writing, 1925-1950. MA, 1979.
Dixon, Steven. Re-Reading Place: An Ecocritical Exploration in Contemporary Australian Fiction. MA, 2000.
Duncan, Roy Alexander. Her ‘Brilliant (?) Career’: The Literary History Of Miles Franklin. PhD, 1980.
Excell, Patricia. ‘Eyre All Alone’: Structural Analogues in a Sequence of Poems by Francis Webb. MA, 1984.
Gerster, Robin. Big-Noting: The Promotion Of An Heroic Theme In Australian War Prose. PhD, 1985.
Grant, Donald J. Realism and the Australian Novel in the 1930s. MA, 1973.
Grossman, Michele. Entangled Subjects: Talk and Text in Collaborative Indigenous Australian Life-Writing. PhD, 2005.
Hillel, Margot. Know You What It Is to Be a Child? A Study of Representations of Children in Australian Children’s Literature. PhD, 2000.
Hollier, Nathan. Australian Poetry Anthologies Since 1975: Their Significance to Australian Literature and Its Study. MA, 2000.
Horrocks, Linley. The Creation Of The Anzac Market 1914-1918: The Role Of The Press And The Book Trade. MA, 1989.
Kafkarisos, Steven. A Long Silence: Library Attitudes to Australian Literature 1900-1971. MA, 1988.
Karakostas-Seda, Alexandra. Creative Writing In Languages Other Than English In Australia, 1945-1987. MA, 1988.
Kilner, Kerry.Performing Women’s History:Reassessing the role of women in Melbourne’s Little Theatre Movement 1901-1930. [A history of The Mermaid Play Society, a Melbourne theatre group 1919-1928, and biographical studies of two of the women involved: Mary Wilkinson and Elizabeth Apperly]. MA, 1996.
Lindsey, Charles Paul. Purpose, Context, Access: A History of the Second Series Australian Book Review. MA, 1995.
Magner, Brigid. Trans-Tasman: Proximity and Detachment in New Zealand/Australian Literary Relations. PhD, 2003.
Mahy, Margaret. Grace Under Pressure: The Process of Rehearsal to Performance of Hannie Rayson’s ‘Falling From Grace’. MA, 1995.
Mann, Maureen. The German Novels Of Henry Handel Richardson. PhD, 1978.
Martin, Sue. Ideas of the Self and of the Landscape in Nineteenth Century Australian Women’s Writing. PhD, 1990.
McCulloch, Ann Maree. A Tragic Vision: Consciousness And Self-Consciousness Of The Artist In Patrick White’s Novels. MA, 1977.
McLaren, John. Patrick White and the Realist Tradition in Australian Fiction. MA, 1972.
Murray, Sue. The Creative Voice is Heard: Inspiration and Accomplishment in Australian Poetry 1935-1955. [includes bibliography and criticism]. PhD, 1990.
Niall, Brenda. Martin Boyd; Biography. PhD, 1988.
O’Brien [Hillel], Angela. The Road Not Taken: Political and Performance Ideologies at Melbourne New Theatre 1935-1960. PhD, 1990.
Paul Adams, THE STRANGER FROM MELBOURNE Crisis and Modernism in the writings of Frank Hardy: A Literary Biography 1944-1975 PhD 1997.
Poppenbeck, Patricia. Black and White on Black: Black Australian Stereotypes in Prose Fiction and Plays. MA, 1990.
Prain, Vaughan. Forging The Self: The Australian Autobiographical Novel Of Childhood. PhD, 1987.
Quigley, Marian. ‘Homesick’: Women’s Entrapment within the Father’s House. A Comparative Study of the Fiction of Helen Garner, Beverley Farmer, Jessica Anderson and Elizabeth Harrower. PhD, 1995.
Reinschmidt, Achim. Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in the Fiction of Brian Castro, Mark Henshaw, Janette Turner Hospital and Gerald Murnane. PhD, 1996.
Shen, Yuanfang. Inscribing China: Australian Fictional Representations 1979-1989. MA, 1994.
Sheridan, Joan. Australia as a Literary Invention: Rhetoric as Philosophy in the Invention of Australia . PhD, 1998.
Strauss, Jennifer. Boundary Conditions: the Poetry of Gwen Harwood. PhD, 1992.Stuart, Lurline. James Smith: His Influence On The Development Of Literary Culture In Colonial Melbourne. PhD, 1983.
Stuart, Lurline. Nineteenth Century Australian Periodicals: Literary And Partly-Literary. MA. 1977.
Thomson, Helen. The Mad Women in the Bush: Female Madness in Australian Literature. PhD, 1995.
Vance, Sheila. The Religious Philosophy of Charles Harpur. PhD, 1993.
Wang, Rong-Sheng. A Comparative Study of the Fiction of Peter Carey and Liu Denghan. MA, 1993.
Warren, Michael John. A Handful Of Trends: A Study Of The Relationship Between Audience And Repertoire In The Australian Establishment Theatre: David Williamson. MA, 1987.
Warren, Michael. Nineteenth Century Australian Literature. PhD, 1997.
Watkins, Catherine. Fiction and Empire. MA, 1996.
Wynne, Warrick William. The Long Poem In Australia 1960-1980. MA, 1988.

Murdoch University

De Mill, Jacqueline. Migrant Writing and the Multicultural Debate. MA, 1991.
Kelly, Jennifer. Expanding Space: A Study of Selected Contemporary Native Canadian and Aboriginal Australian Prose Writing in English. MA, 1990.
McCarron, Robyn. Aboriginal Women’s Writing: ‘Murditji Yorka’ - Women of Strength. MA, 1991.
Mitchell, Barry. The Evocation of National Culture Through Australian Feature Films in the 1980s - a Comparison of Internationalist and Indigenous Product. MA, 1991.
Murphy, Wayne. Reading Post: A Study of the General Interest Magazine ‘Australian Post’. MA, 1990.
Reardon, Judith. Images of Women in Fiction by Queensland Women Writers. MA, 1991.
Wearn, Karen. A Feminist Reading of Two Patrick White Novels: ‘The Aunt’s Story’ and ‘A Fringe of Leaves’. MA, 1990.
Wilson, Belinda. The Making of the Modern Myth: The Chamberlain Case and the Australian Media. MA, 1991.

University of Adelaide

Abbott-Young, Wendy. The ‘Felix and Felicitas’ Papers of Marcus Clarke: An Annotated Edition with Introduction. MA, 1987.
Barker, Elaine. Civilization in the Wilderness: The Homestead in the Australian Colonial Novel 1830-1860. MA, 1990.
Carter, Philip George. Victor Daley: Man and Poet. MA, 1970.
Delrez, Mark. Fragmentation as a Conceptual Mode in the Novels of Randolph Stow and David Malouf. MA, 1988.
Fulcher, Helen. A Qualitative Analysis of Radio News in Australia. MA, 1987.
Gale, Mary-Anne. “Poor Bugga Whitefella Got No Dreaming”: The Representation and Appropriation of Published Dreaming Narratives with Special Reference to David Unaipon’s Writings. PhD, 2000.
Gilding, Kevin Rex. Political, Social and Literary Significance of Joseph Furphy’s Novel. MA, 1967.
Goldsworthy, Kerryn. Place and Displacement as Major Structural and Thematic Elements in Some Australian Novels. PhD, 1980.
Heley, Matthew. Men Made Out of Words: Reading Men Writing Masculinities in Australian Literature . MA, 1996.
Heuzenroeder, John. The Image of the Australian in the European Eye: A Study of Interpretations by a Group of Novelists from Charles Reade to Nevil Shute. MA, 1968.
Jones, Dorothy. The Treatment of the Aborigine in Australian Fiction. MA, 1960.
Manuel, Dean J.H. Journalism in Adelaide 1845-54. MA, 1975.
Maurer, Louise. Symbolic Structures and Transformations in Three of Patrick White’s Novels. MA, 1980.
McDougall, Russell. Xavier Herbert’s ‘Capricornia’: Ironic Structure and Imaginative Vision. MA, 1981.
Muecke, Ian Donald. The Life and Novels of William Hay. MA, 1965.
Myers, David Allan. The Peacocks And The Bourgeoisie: Ironic Vision In Patrick White’s Shorter Prose Fiction. MA, 1980.
Nettelbeck, Amanda. Post-Colonial Concerns in the Works of David Malouf and Christopher Koch. PhD, 1991.
Pellizzer, Marina. Translating Judith Wright into Italian: A Linguistic Study of Selected Poems. 1980.
Potter, Emily. Non-indigenous belonging in recent Australian fiction, PhD, 2003.
Reid, Ian William The Influence of the Depression on Australia and New Zealand Fiction, 1930-50. PhD, 1971.
Schwerdt, Dianne. Apocalyptic Themes and Images in the Novels of Patrick White. MA, 1973.
Sellick, Robert. The Epic Confrontation. Australian Exploration and the Centre 1813-1900. A Literary Study. PhD, 1973.
Sloggett, Maria.(Joseph)’Gargantuan Texts: Bakhtinian Theory in Dialogue with Six of Christina Stead’s Novels’, University of Adelaide PhD, 1997.
Tacey, David. The Reign of the Mother Goddess: A Jungian Study of the Novels of Patrick White. PhD, 1981.
Tan, Yvette. On Asian-Australian fiction, 2003.
Taylor, William Mark. Gradations of Reality in Christina Stead. MA, 1983.
Thoday, Heather. Lived Spaces of Representation: Thirdspace and Janette Turner Hospital ’s Political Praxis of Postmodernism. PhD, 2004.
Twidale, Kate. ‘The Golden Thread’: The Search for Love and Truth in Shirley Hazzard’s Writings. MA, 1988.
Wakeling, Louise. Themes and Preoccupations in the Writing of Hal Porter. MA, 1974.

University of Melbourne

Adams, Paul. The Stranger from Melbourne: Crisis and Modernism in the writings of Frank Hardy: A Literary Biography 1944-1975, PhD, 1997.
Barlow, Allison. Flight Patterns: An Interpretation Of The Socio-Political Contexts Of Aboriginal Written Literature. MA, 1990.
Carter, David. Realism As Contemporary Response To The Modern: Left-Wing Cultural Attitudes And The Concept Of Modernity In Australia, 1930-1965. MA, 1982.
Daniel, Helen. Outsider And Society: A Study Of The Post-War Australian Novel. PhD, 1980.
English, David. Order Is Beyond Me: Subject And Object In Thomas Keneally’s ‘Bring Larks And Heroes’ and ‘The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith’. MA, 1982.
Giles, Fiona. Creative Decay: Some Contemporary Forms Of Menippean Satire In Australian Literature. MA, 1985.
Harrop, Leslie. Australian Verse, 1944-1980: An Interrupted Psychographic History. PhD, 1983.
Hogan, Eleanor. Aboriginal Women’s Autobiographical Writing. MA, 1989.
Jordan, Deborah. Nettie Palmer: Australian Women And Writing. PhD, 1982.
Kane, Thomas Paul. Origins And Absence: Romanticism In Australian Poetry. MA, 1985.
Kinnane, Garry. A Critical Biography Of George Johnston. PhD, 1988.
Kynoch, Hope. Mysticism, Magic and Madness: The Novels of E.L. Grant Watson. MA, 1989.
McCredden, Lynette M. Language And Belief: The Poetry Of James McAuley. PhD, 1987.
Mead, Philip. Reading Origins In Australian Literature. PhD, 1990.
Nickas, Helen. The Female Voice In Greek-Australian Prose Fiction. MA, 1990.
Strahan, Lynne. Just City In A Convex Mirror: ‘Meanjin Quarterly’, 1940-1965. PhD, 1982.
Sunderland, Lynn. The Fantastic Invasion: The London Odyssey Of Kipling, Conrad And Lawson And Its Impact Upon Their Perceptions Of The Imperial/Colonial Relationship As Presented In Their Shorter Fiction. MA, 1987.
Tierney, Jacqueline. Temporality and Recent Aboriginal Literature. MA, 1995.
Vallence, Timothy. Poetry and Criticism of Vincent Buckley. MA, 1995.

University of Newcastle

Croft, Julian. The Concepts of Time, History, and Memory in the Poetry of Kenneth Slessor and R.D. Fitzgerald. MA, 1967.
Dyce, J. R. A Structuralist Approach to the Plays of Patrick White. MA, 1970.
Dyce, Jessie Reid. An Assessment Of The Poetry Of Christopher Brennan In ‘Poems’ (1913) And ‘The Burden Of Tyre’. PhD, 1983.
Hanna, Clifford J. The Mutinous Heart: A Study of God, Love and Nature in the Poetry of John Shaw Neilson. PhD, 1975.
Holmes, Bruce. Moral Dialectic In The Fiction Of Christina Stead. PhD, 1984.
Novak, Jill. Mother and Madwomen, Nuns and Whores: The Women in Patrick White’s Novels. MA, 1992.
Robson, John. A Study of the Plays of David Williamson. MA, 1976.
Rose, Jennifer. The Portrayal of Aborigines in Australian Novels 1950-1980. MA, 1982.
Rowe, Noel Michael. The Will Of The Poem: Religio-Imaginative Variations In The Poetry Of James McAuley, Francis Webb And Vincent Buckley. PhD, 1989.
Shaw, Janice. Australian Discontinuous Narrative: the Continuing Story. PhD, 1995.
Smith, Shirley. The Australian Squatter Novel 1859-1936. PhD, 1995.
Stanford, Leone. The Isolated Protagonist and Human Relationships in Patrick White’s ‘The Aunt’s Story’ and ‘Voss’. MA, 1985.
Uten, Lutgart. Religious Concerns in Patrick White’s ‘The Tree of Man’, ‘Voss’, and ‘Riders in the Chariot’. MA, 1985.
Walton, Susan. Paradox and Irresolution: the Search for the Self in the Characters of Barbara Baynton and Eve Langley. MA, 1986.

University of New England

Brock, Paul. A History of the Development of English Syllabuses in New South Wales Secondary Education 1953-1976: A ‘Continuum’ or a ‘Series of New Beginnings’? PhD, 1984.
Cotter, K.J. Seers and Makers: The Child as Narrative Strategy in Some Postwar Australian Fiction. MA, 1988.
Davidson, Frank. Recognition of the Soul: Culture and Ethical Perception in the Fiction of Martin Boyd. PhD, 1991.
Doyle, Honoria Mary. The Theme of Integration in Thea Astley’s Fiction. MA, 1990.
Edwards, Vanessa ‘The Space in Between’: The Battle for Spacial Supremacy in Kate Grenville’s ‘Lilian’s Story’ and ‘Dark Places.’ MA, 1996.
Ellis, Cath. Between Revolutionary Rupture and Historical Inhibition: The Novels of Katharine Susannah Prichard. PhD, 1997.
Frost, S.T. The Representation of the Women Artist Figure in Australian Women Writers’ Fiction. PhD, 1989.
Gajer, E. Australian Women Short Story Writers and the Realist Tradition. PhD, 1989.
Gaut, Colin Charles. The Poetry of Judith Wright. MA, 1960.
Holloway, Barbara. Race, Place and Gender in Australian Poetry 1800-1938. PhD, 1991.
Hu, Yi Feng. Comparison of the Writings of Colonial Women and Women Writers of the American West. PhD, 1994.
Johnstone, E.M. Continuity and Development in the Later Novels of Patrick White. MA, 1980.
Makeham, Patricia. A Study of the Poetry of A.D. Hope. PhD, 1987.
Manuel, Jill. Exploring 20th Century Women’s Poetry of Grief and Mourning PhD, 1991.
Nash, P.L. Characterization and Thematic Responsiblity in the Work of Xavier Herbert: an Examination of Characterization. MA, 1983.
Nugent, Frances. Time Images in Modern Australian Poetry. MA, 1959.
Pfisterer-Smith, Susan. Australian Suffragette Theatre: With Particular Reference to Miles Franklin and Inez Bensusan. PhD 1996.
Semmler, Clement. Doctor of Letters, 1969.
Stenhouse, Paul. Pegasus Impounded - The Life and Times of John Farrell (1851-1904): Poet, Journalist, Social Reformer. MA, 1986.
Walker, Shirley. The Search for Unity in Judith Wright’s Poetry. PhD, 1977.
Walker, Wendy. Some Aspects of the Novels of Katharine Susannah Prichard. MA, 1963.
Wilkes, Florence. Some Aspects of Satire in the Australian Novel. MA, 1973.
White, G.G. The Expanding Vision: Images of Landscape in Australian Colonial Fiction. PhD, 1989.

University of NSW

Dyne, Janet. Singing the land, Kissing the Earth: a study of language and illumination, Poieses and reconciliation in Patrick White, David Malouf, Francis Webb and others. MA (Hons), 1997.
Harris, Stephen. The Myth of History: The Treatment of History in (Some) Novels by Peter Carey, David Foster and Rodney Hall. MA, 1993.
Heath, Leslie. ‘Sydney literary societies of the nineteen twenties: cultural nationalism and the promotion of Australian literature. PhD, 1997.
Ljungdahl, Lesley. Catherine Helen Spence: From ‘A Colonist of 1839′ to ‘The Grand Old Woman of Australia’. PhD, 1993.
Modjeska, Drusilla. Women Writers; A Study In Australian Cultural History, 1920-1939. PhD, 1979.
Nile, Richard. The Rise Of The Australian Novel. PhD, 1988.
Redenbach, Johnathan. Liminality in the Novels of Janette Turner Hospital. MA, 1995.
Salter, John. ‘Cultural reading’. PhD, 1996.
Thiersch, Marie-Louise Mathilde. An Investigation of Patronage in the Development of Australian Playwriting from 1870 to the Present Day, with Special Reference to the Twentieth Century. PhD, 1975.

University of Queensland

Arifin, Anata. The Construction of the Feminine in Family Relationships in Indonesian and Black Australian Contemporary Women’s Writings. MA, 1994.
Atkinson, Heather. A Comparison of Selected Recent Autobiographies by Australian Writers, Male and Female. MA, 1994.
Barcan, Ruth. Site/Counter-site: A Semiotic Study of the Gold Coast. PhD, 1994.
Batchelor, Don. The context of Austalian playwriting, 1939-1968: a case study of the theatre career of Ric Throssell. PhD. 1995.
Beilby, Ray. The Life and Novels of Jessie Catherine Couvreur (Tasma). MA, 1969.
Bergmann, Laurel . Different Subjects: Contemporary Women’s Fictions of the Self in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. PhD, 1996.
Bertagnin, Lucia. Narrowing the Aperture: Beverley Farmer’s Short Stories. MA, 1996
Birchley, Delia. The Life and Works of George Essex Evans (1863-1909). MA, 1978.
Bode, Katherine. In/visibility: Women Looking at Men’s Bodies in and through Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction. PhD, 2006.
Bonnin, M.R. A Study of Australian Descriptive and Travel Writing 1929-1945. PhD, 1980.
Bourke, L.H. On Being Subject Matter: The Construction of the Bard in the Poetry of Les A. Murray. PhD, 1988.
Bushell, Maureen. Picnic at Hanging Rock: An Australian Myth of Origin. MA.
Carr, John. The Australian Teacher. MA, 1976.
Carson, Susan. Seeking a life in the literary position: the Writing of Charmian Clift. MA, 1994.
Conley, David. A Telling Story: Five Journalist-Novelists and Australia ’s Writing Culture. PhD, 2003.
Corkhill, Annette. A History of Australian Migrant Literature (1945-89). PhD, 1993.
Crebert, Gay. Patrick White’s Use of Colour. PhD, 1988.
Crouch, David. Dwelling Spaces: A Poetics of Intimate Space in Contemporary Australian Interiors. MPhil, 2003.
Cul len, Susan Diana. Australian War Drama 1909-1939. MA, 1990.
Dale, Leigh. Courting Captivity: The Teaching Of English And The Incul cating Of Englishness In Australian Universities. PhD, 1993.
Dale, Leigh. Territorial Wars: Literary Criticism and Australian Aboriginal and Black South African Poetry. MA, 1989.
de Lizio, Nora. Reading the Silences: The Representation of Female Identity in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centruy Rural Australia. MA, 1987.
Douglas, Kate. Remembering Childhood: Nostalgia, Trauma, and the Child Self in Recent Australian and British Autobiography. PhD, 2003.
Duwell, Martin. That source of so much of our continuing inspiration: American Poetry and Australian Poets of the 1960s and 1970s. PhD, 1988.
Eliades, Patricia. By the Company she keeps: Feminism and the Anthologising of Short Creative Prose written by Australian women between 1970-1991. MA, 1994.
Feros, Kate. Counter-Discourse in Australian Political Literature: The Picaresque. PhD, 2003.
Ferrier, Elizabeth. Mapping the Space of the Other: Transformations of Space in Postcolonial Fiction and Postmodern Theory. PhD, 1991.
Fotheringham, Richard. Sport in Australian Drama 1788-1915: Industry Narrative and Paradigm. PhD, 1987.
Fox, Gwen. Writing for Bread: The Professional Life of Mabel Forrest 1902-1935. MA, 1987.
Franklin, Carol. The Resisting Writer: The Short Stories of Henry Handel Richardson. PhD, 1989.
Gardiner, Allan. Ralph De Boissiere and the Communist cul tural discourse in Cold war Australia. PhD. 1994
Garlick, Barbara. Australian Travelling Theatre, 1890-1935: a study in popul ar entertainment and national ideology. PhD, 1994.
Gibbons, Sacha. Aboriginal Testimonial Life-Writing and Contemporary Theory. PhD, 2005.
Gilbert, Helen.Historical Re-play: Post-Colonial Approaches to Contemporary Australian Drama. PhD, 1994.
Gillian, Mary. Studies of Nationality in the Work of Canadians F.P. Grove and Hugh McClennan and Australian Patrick White. MA, 1969.
Goldsmith, Ben. Producing cul ture for the nation: a comparative analysis of industrial, institutional and critical determinants of Australian literary production in the 1930s and film production in the 1970s, PhD, 1997.
Gzell, Sylvia. Patrick White’s Novels. MA, 1967.
Hanet, Monique. The Theme of the Journey in Australian Fiction: Four Essays on Australian Novels. M.Lit.Stud. 1978.
Hann, Desmond. Single Actor Plays in Canada and Australia. MA, 1994.
Hartshorn, Alma. The Presentation Of Old Age In Selected Twentieth Century Australian Novels. M.A, 1993.
Hawkes, Lesley. Transporting the Imaginary: Representations of the Railway in Australian Literature. PhD, 2005.
Henderson, Margaret. Women/Postmodernism/Australia: Australian Women’s Writing and Postmodern Discourse. PhD, 1997.
Henricksen, W.F.N. Aut Australia Aut Nihil? A Consideration of the Nature of Joseph Furphy’s Literature. MA, 1985.
Henrickson, Noel. Brothers Bound by the Mystery of Earth-Kinship: The Nationalism of Xavier Herbert. PhD, 1989.
Hughes, Carolyn. The Paradoxical Taboo: White Female Characters and Interracial Relationships in Australian Fiction. MPhil, 2004.
Johnston, Anna. The Memoirs of Many in One: Post-colonial Autobiography in Settler Cultures. MA. 1996
Kelly, David J. The Structure of Two Novels by Patrick White: ‘The Eye of the Storm’ (1973) and ‘A Fringe of Leaves’ (1976). MA, 1979.
Khoo, Tseen Ling. Banana Bending: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian Literature. PhD, 1999.
Khoo, Tseen-Ling. What the Hell are you still angry about? Asian Australian Women’s Writers 1980-1995. MA, 1996.
Lamb, Karen. Peter Carey: Critical Reception and the Social Function of Authorship. MA, 1991.
Lavercombe, Mary. A Report on the Drama and Literary Columns of the ‘Queenslander’ 1890-1895. M.Lit.Stud. 1978.
Lawson, Alan. The Recognition of National Literatures: The Canadian and Australian Examples. PhD, 1987.
Lee, Christopher. Madness and Society: Representations of Madness in Selected Literary and Medical Discourses of the 19th Century. PhD, 1993.
Leer, Martin. Edge to Centre: Geography and the Imagination in the Work of David Malouf, Randolph Stow and Les A. Murray. PhD, 1989.
Levy, Bronwen. Reading/Writing Women: Feminist Criticism in/and Australia. PhD, 1991.
Ling, Rebecca. ‘Voss’ and ‘A Fringe of Leaves’: Community and Place in the Historical Novels of Patrick White. MA, 1983.
Little, Janine. The Critique of Race: Critical Migration and Memory in Australian and American Cultural Representations. PhD, 1999.
Little, Janine. Which Way: dIrections in Recent Aboriginal Women’s Prose. MA, 1995.
Lloyd, Victor. Conscience and Justice: A Study of the Values in Conflict in the Novels and Plays of Dymphna Cusack. MA, 1987.
MacDonald, Julie. Extra-realist concerns in the short stories of Vance Palmer and Katharine Susannah Prichard. MA, 1994.
McCluskey, Philip. Supplementing fictions: Metafiction and Interpretation. MA, 1994.
McInnes, Jul iana. The Lost Earl of Ellan (Rosa Praed): A Critical Edition. MA, 1996.
McKeown, Irene. Narratives of Freedom: Gender Oppression and Female Sexuality in Recent Novels of Australian and Canadian Women Writers. MA, 1996
Mellick, Stan. Henry Kingsley: A Biography. PhD, 1978.
Messor, M.J. Australian Fiction 1830-1860 as Social Ethnic and Literary Evidence of the Period. MA, 1973.
Molloy, Bruce. Some Political Aspects of the Australian Novel 1930-1959. MA, 1974.
Moore Nicole. Covert Operations: Abortion in Austrlaian Women?s Writing 1920s to 1950. PhD, 1997.
Morris, Margaret M. ‘Undone Years’: English and Australian Poetry of the First World War. M.Lit.Stud. 1985.
Morrison, Judith. Religious Consciousness in Australian Literature: Reference to Keneally, Stow and Koch. MA, 1989.
Mudge, Neil. Indications of Xavier Herbert’s World-view Reflected in His Four Major Works. PhD.
Mul ler, Vivienne. Imagining Brisbane : Narratives of the City 1975-1995. PhD, 2005.
Munro, Craig. PR. Stephensen: A Biography. PhD, 1983.
Newton , Nerida. The Lambing Flat: Writing the Oriental Other: Representation of Chinese Characters in Three Modern Australian Novels. MPhil, 2004.
Nicklin, Cynthia. Images of Women in the Poetry of Gwen Harwood. MA, 1984.
Norton, Roz. The Representation of Asia in Contemporary Australian Fiction. MA, 1996
Oakley Angela. The Treatment of the Subject of Growing Up in Selected Australian Literature 1960-1980. MA, 1990.
O’Brien, Susie. The Representation of Silence in Post-colonial Writing: David Malouf, Janet Frame, Robert Kroetsch, J.M. Coetzee and Keri Hulme. MA, 1991.
Painter, Cheryl. Queer (Dis)positions: lesbian spectatorship and subjectivities in some mainstream and independent films. MA, 1994.
Parr, Bruce. A Reassessment of the Plays of Peter Kenna. MA, 1995.
Perkins, Elizabeth. A Perspective of Australian Drama 1941-1971: Aspiration, Survival and Expansion as Themes in English, American and Australian Stage Drama. PhD, 1983.
Perkins, Elizabeth. Charles Harpur and the Concept of the Poet. MA, 1972.
Petersson, Irmtraud. German Images in Australian Literature from the 1940s to the 1980s. PhD, 1988.
Radbourne, Jennifer. Little Theatre: Its Development since World War II in Australia with Particul ar Reference to Queensland. MA, 1979.
Rombouts, Alexandra. Admitting the Intruder: a study of the uses of the Gothic in Five Contemporary Australian novels. PhD, 1995.
Ryan, Simon. The Cartographic Eye: Scopic Regimes in Journals of Australian Exploration. PhD, 1993.
Scott-Matthew, Kari. Voice traiining in Australian theatre. MA, 1995.
Searle, Samantha. Cul tural and institutional politics in Australian queer screen cul ture in the 1990s. MA, 1995.
Seaton, Dorothy. Discourses of the Land in Australia and Western Canada: Dominance and Resistance. MA, 1989.
Sharma, Meenakshi. Vance Palmer’s stories: bridging the old and the new. MA, 1994.
Sheehy, K.M.M. Magic in Strangers: A Study of Misfits in Thea Astley’s Novels. MA, 1982.
Sherman, Paul . Personal and National Identity in the Works of Xavier Herbert. MA, 1986.
Simmons, Kathleen. “The Ireland Inside Me”: Irish Cul tural Memory in Writing Since World War II. PhD, 1997.
Sircar, Sanjay. Feminist Metafiction: Two Pairs of Novels by Rhoda Broughton and Miles Franklin. PhD, 1989.
Slemon, Stephen. Counter-Discourse in Post-Colonial Writing. PhD, 1989.
Smith, J.M. The Religious Quest of Francis Webb. MA, 1982.
Smith, Ross Stanley. Image and Theme in the Work of Douglas Stewart. MA, 1967.
Steggall, Stephany. Colin Thiele: Double Vision: A Biographical Study of an Australian Writer and Educator. PhD, 2005.
Stocks, Ian. What’ll We Do Now? A National Cinema in Development. MA.1996
Strugnell, John. Nature Preserved: Attitudes to Nature in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Fiction 1925-1965. PhD, 1976.
Strugnell, Maureen. The Idea of Europe in Contemporary Australian Drama. PhD, 1994.
Syson, Ian. Surveying the Construction Site: The Criticism of Working Class Writing. PhD, 1994.
Thomas, Glen. Discourses of Dominance: Colonialism, Post-colonialism and the Placement of the Female Subject. MA, 1993.
Thompson, E. Veronica. Representations of the Return to “Mother” in Canadian and Australian Settler-Invader Women’s Writing. PhD, 2002.
Tiffin, Chris. Australian Literary Criticism 1890-1910. MA, 1969
Torre, Stephen. The Australian Short Story 1940 to 1980: A Critical Survey and Bibliography. PhD, 1983.
Travers, Erica. ‘Those Gods made Permanent’: Modes of Aesthetic Realisation for a New Semiotic Poetry in Australia 1968-88. PhD, 1992.
Tucker, Shirley. Asian-Australian Women’s Writing: Literary Re-Orientations. PhD, 1999.
Vaughan-Pow, Catherine. A Girl’s Own Image: The Images Offered to British and Australian Adolescent Girls in Periodicals and Annuals 1890-1920. PhD, 2000.
Wallace, Andrew. Transcriptions of Self: The Poetry of Peter Porter. PhD, 1989.
Watego, Cliff. Identity And Politics In Contemporary Aboriginal Literature. MA, 1986.
Wei Wei Lo, Miriam. “Until a Connection”: Re-thinking Hybridity Through Novels Written by Asian-Australian Migrants. MA, 1998.
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Woods, Stephen. The Gendered landscape in the Novels of Joseph Furphy. MA.

University of Sydney

Adelaide, Debra. Australian women’s literature: a bibliography to 1988. PhD, 1991
Ailwood-Keel, Grace Diana. Homespun Exotic: Australian Literature 1880-1910: A Study Of Writing In Australia During The ‘Nationalist Period’ With Particular Emphasis On Overseas Influence. PhD, 1978.
Ashcroft, Bill. The Poetry of Francis Webb. MA(Hons), 1974.
Brennan, Bernadette. The Wounds of Possibility: Reading Absence and Silence in some Contemporary Australian Writing. PhD, 2001.
Bruce, Candice. Art and Australia Felix: Art Criticism, Taste and Nostalgia in mid-nineteenth-century Victoria. PhD, 1997.
Bulman May, James. Patrick White and Alchemy. PhD, 1995.
Butterss, Philip. Australian Ballads. PhD, 1990.
Clark, Axel. The Life And Writings Of Christopher Brennan: A Literary-Critical Biography, 1870-1914. PhD, 1979.
Cook, Michael. James McAuley’s Encounter with Modernism. PhD, 1994.
Day, Kerin Mary. A Study of the Aesthetic Theory and Creative Writings of Norman Lindsay, and Their Relationship to the Work of Kenneth Slessor and R.D. FitzGerald. PhD, 1976.
Dever, Maryanne. Speaking For Yourself: A Discussion Of The Function Of Language In Post-Colonial Writing. MA(Hons), 1987.
Dever, Maryanne. Subject to Authority: A Study of M. Barnard Eldershaw. PhD, 1994
Dixon, Robert. The Course Of Empire: Neo-Classical Culture In The English Colony Of N.S.W. 1788-1860. PhD, 1982.
Evans, Jennifer. The Stirrings of Desire: Power and sexuality in the work of Tasma and Ada Cambridge. MPhil, 1996.
Fantasia, Josephine. Entrepreneurs, Empires and Pantomimes: J.C. Williamson’s Pantomime Productions 1882-1914. PhD, 1996.
Godfrey, Andrea. ?Chance’s well?: aspects of surreality in the writings of David Campbell. MA, 1987.
Goulston, Stan. The Humanities in Medical Education: The Place of Literature. MPhil, 1997.
Griffith, Michael Joseph. Francis Webb’s Poetry In The Context Of Mid-Twentieth Century Australian Culture: The Years Up To The Canticle (1953). PhD, 1984.
Gunn, John. Australian Vocabulary: A Study of Land Settlement, Stock Raising and the Wool Industry. PhD. 1996
Han, Jing. Modernism and the Modern Australian Novel. PhD, 1994.
Hanna, Clifford J. J. The Mutinous Heart: A Study of God, Love and Nature in the Poetry of John Shaw Neilson. PhD, 1975.
Harvie, Mary. Essays on the subject of pedagogy: self and the subjects of selfwriting in literary studies, women’s studies, cultural studies and Australian studies. PhD, 1995.
Herlinger, Paul. History of the New Theatre, 1940-1953. MA (Hons), 1989
Herlinger, Paul. New Theatre - The Pre-War Years, 1932-39. MA, 1984
Hewson, Helen. Shaw Neilson: Collected Letters. PhD, 1995.
Hort, Harold. Fact and fiction, form and fantasy: the novels of Elizabeth Jolley. MPhil, 1994.
Ikin, Van George. Twentieth Century Australian Political Novelists. PhD, 1980.
Ivison, Elizabeth. A Gentlewoman’s Word. MA, 1995.
Jensen, Dorothy. Grace Perry: Australian poet and publisher in the 1960s and 1970s. PhD, 1996
Kirkpatrick, Peter. Et In Bohemia Ego: Poetic Culture And Bohemianism In Sydney During The 1920s. PhD, 1987.
Lee, Stuart Edward. The Self-Made Critic: A Literary And Biographical Study Of A.G. Stephens. MA, 1978.
Lindsay, Elaine. Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction. PhD, 1996.
Lindsay, Hilarie. The Washerwoman. Winifred Steger: Her Life and Work 1882-1981. PhD, 1997
Macnamara, Liz. Representations of the Family in Modern Australian Political Rhetoric. MA, 1998.
Maddocks, John Ross. The Sense Of History In Australian Fiction, 1850-1890. PhD, 1987.
Mansfield, Nick. More than the Art of Meaningful Death: Eight Australian Post-War Novels. PhD, 1990.
McCooey, David. Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography. PhD, 1994.
McInerney, Colleen. Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Post World War II Australian Dramatists. MA, 1995
McKernan, Susan P. Australian Literature 1950-1959: The Context And The Response. PhD, 1982.
McKernan, Susan P. The Meaning Of Pleasure In The Novels Of Martin Boyd. MA, 1978.
McMahon, Elizabeth. Outdressed: Cross-Dressing in Australian Fiction from 1890 to 1980. PhD, 1995.
Mendelssohn, Joanna. Norman Lindsay and his Family: Myths and other narratives. PhD, 1995.
Mercer, Gina. The Subversive Fiction of Janet Frame. PhD, 1990.
Muranty, Susan. Australian poetry and painting in the battle with tradition, 1923-1948. PhD, 1992.
O’Carroll, J.J Hermeneutical Theory and Critical Practice in Australia. MA (Hons), 1988.
Olubas, Brigitta. Movement Of Meaning: The Novels Of Shirley Hazzard. MA, 1987.
Plunkett, Felicity Paradoxical powers in the writing of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Jolley. PhD, 1995.
Richardson, Paul. Character Types and National Themes in Australian Drama and Theatre in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. MA (Hons), 1979.
Scullion, Joseph. Sydney Writers of the 1870s: a consideration of some of the British influences. MA, 1995.
Sirmai, Geoff. Absurd, Cinematic, Surreal - New Directions In Recent Australian Drama. MA (Hons), 1987.
Smith, Vivan Brian. Vance and Nettie Palmer: A Study of Their Contribution to a National Literary Culture. PhD, 1971.
St. Pierre, Paul. The Limits Of Omniscience: Narrative Method In Australian Fiction. PhD, 1982.
Taaffe, Benjamin. Douglas Stewart: Poet, Editor, Man of Letters. PhD, 1995.
Turcotte, Gerry. The Transformation of the Gothic in Australian and English Canadian Fiction. PhD, 1991.
Wakeling, Louise Katherine. Themes And Occupations In The Novels Of Hal Porter. MA, 1976.
Walton, Robyn. A survey of utopian and anti-utopian prose fiction by Australians since 1870. MA, 1978
Webby, Elizabeth. Henry Handel Richardson: A Reappraisal. MA (Hons), 1966.
Webby, Elizabeth. Literature and the Reading Public in Australia 1800-1850. PhD. 1972.
Wilkes, G.A. The Poetry of Christopher Brennan. MA (Hons), 1952.

University of Tasmania

Anae, Nicole. “A Crowned and Selected Band of Women” – Tasmanian Actress/Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century and “Home-grown” Identity. PhD, 2005.
Ball, Martin. The story of the story of Anzac. PhD, 2001.
Brown, Denise. Wakers and Sleepers: The Dynamics of Christina Stead’s ‘Drama of the Person’. PhD, 1988.
Cooper, Desmond, John. The Australian and Spanish-American Novel of the Land: An Inquiry into Some Modern Aspects of the Pastoral. MA, 1970.
Cranston, CA. Deformity as Device in the Twentieth Century Australian Novel. PhD, 1991.
Hamilton, Vivienne. Aspects of Metamorphosis: The Fiction of David Malouf. MA, 2001.
Holzer, Valarie. Unveiling the Female ‘I’: Autobiographies of Australian Women Born in the 1920s. PhD, 1991.
Iida, Natsuko. Women and Writing: A comparative study of some texts by Miles Franklin and Higuchi Ichiyo. MA, 2003.
Parker, Merryl. Bringing the Dingo home: Discursive representations of the dingo by Aboriginal, Colonial and Contemporary Australians. PhD, 2006.
Polack, Fiona. Littoral Fictions: Writing Tasmania and Newfoundland. PhD, 2002.
Richardson, Joanna. The journals of Mary Morton Allport 1832-1833 and 1852-1854. PhD, 2006.
Roberts, Margaret. John Shaw Neilson: The Collected Verse. A Critical Edition, Edited from the Manuscripts. PhD, 1994.
Sherwood, Toni-Anne. Reappraising Forgotten Fictions: The Tasmanian Romances of Marie Bjelke Petersen. MA, 2004.
Shipway, Jesse. Scars on the Archive, Visions of Place: Genocide and Modernity in Tasmania. PhD, 2005.
Spaulding, Ralph. Poetry and Tasmanian Educational Institutions 1840-1950. PhD, 2005.
Stewart, Kenneth Alexander. Henry Handel Richardson: A Reconsideration: A Bibliographical and Critical Study of Henry Handel Richardson the Novelist and the Evolution of ‘The Fortunes of Richard Mahony’. MA, 1970.

Central Queensland University

Danaher, Geoffrey. Discipline and Punish and the Discursive Production of Australian Historiography. PhD, 1995.
Hall, Ayesha Elizabeth. Changing Perspectives: Formulations of Identity in Contemporary Australian Literature . PhD, 2003.

Charles Darwin University

Burke, John. A Kind of Longing: Aboriginality, Authenticity and Spirituality in Selected Works of Mudrooroo. MA, 1995.
Dewar, Michelle. In Search of the Never-Never: The Northern Territory Metaphor in Australian Writing , 1837-1992. PhD, 1993.

Edith Cowan University

Driehuis, Raymond. Man Makes Man: A Study of Uplifting and Upbuilding in the Novels of Joseph Furphy. PhD, 1999.

Queensland University of Technology

Archer-Lean, Clare. Blurring Representation: The Writings of Thomas King and Mudrooroo. PhD, 2000.
Cain, Lara Anne. Reading Culture: The Translation and Transfer of Australianness in Contemporary Fiction. PhD, 2001.
Reddy, Colleen. Ecological Consciousness in Modern Australian Poetry. MA, 1998.

RMIT

Raschke, Jessica. Riding the ‘Ethnic Bandwagon’: Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Cultural Difference in Australian Publishing and Literature. PhD, 2005.
Tzimourtas, Polyxeni. From Landscape to Endotopia: Themes of Self, Body and Place in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction. PhD, 2004.

Southern Cross University

Gordon-Thomas, Jill. Myths and Metaphors: The Portrayal of Aboriginality in the Discourse of Indigenous Australians and Others. PhD, 2002.