Our people
Global Literatures and Cultures is led by three stream leaders: Ulrike Garde and Alexandra Kurmann are located in the Department of International Studies (INTS), Jumana Bayeh is based in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations (MHPIR). Our centre includes researchers in areas such as International Studies, English (ENGL), Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies (MMCCS), and Ancient History (AHIST), reflecting our name ‘Global Literatures and Cultures’
All prospective members are welcome to send us an email providing details of their work and fields of research.
Stream Leaders

Ulrike Garde
Associate Professor
School of International Studies
Ulrike Garde’s research interests range across Intercultural German Studies, in particular German theatre, performing arts and literature with a particular interest in how they create and and destabilize our perceptions of cultural identities. Her current project investigates 'Multilingualism on the Berlin Stage' with her most recent article published in Contemporary...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Alexandra Kurmann
School of International Studies
Alexandra (Alex) Kurmann is Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies. She completed her PhD in Comparative French and German Literature at the University of Melbourne (2014) and a Masters in European Comparative Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. She is a specialist in comparative diaspora and...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Jumana Bayeh
School of International Studies
I am an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. My research sits at the intersection of postcolonial studies and Middle East studies, especially the Arab Middle East and its diaspora. My main research interests include Arab diaspora literature and culture, the history of colonialism in the...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Stream Members

Bronwen Neil
Professor
School of Humanities
Bronwen Neil is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie, and member of the Macquarie University Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Envirinmnet and deouty directir of the Creative Documentary Research Centre. She studied Linguistics, Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland (1987-1991), before undertaking a Master of Arts in...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Jyhene Kebsi
School of Communication, Society and Culture
Dr. Jyhene Kebsi is a tenured Assistant Professor. She has held different roles including the MA Program Convenor, Early Career Representative, Research Strategy Committee Representative and Director of Learning & Teaching. Before Joining Macquarie University, Dr. Kebsi taught at the University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, SME College and the...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Benedicte Andre
Faculty of Arts
Dr Bénédicte André is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies. Originally from Reunion Island, she completed her PhD at The University of Western Australia in 2014. Her first monograph, Iléité. Perspectives littéraires sur le vécu insulaire [Islandness. Literary Perspectives on Lived Insularity] was published in 2016 with Les Editions...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Tom Baudinette
School of International Studies
Thomas joined Macquarie University in 2017. He holds a PhD and a BA(Hons, first class) in Japanese Studies from Monash University. Thomas is a cultural anthropologist whose work has explored consumption of popular culture among queer communities in Japan, Mainland China, Thailand and the Philippines. He has a particular interest in the...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Susanne Binder
Susanne Binder is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology and member of the Australian Centre for Egyptology. She researches in the discipline of Egyptology. Until 2022, Susanne Binder taught across the disciplines of German Studies and Egyptology in the Department of MCCALL (Media, Communication, Creative Arts,...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Mio Bryce
Mio Bryce is Head of Japanese Studies and has been developing and teaching a diverse range of units including Japanese language (from Introductory to Advanced), literature, manga/anime and popular culture, as well as a PACE unit, aimed at capturing and magnifying students' passion for Japanese culture and language....View full profile in our Researcher's database

Louise D'Arcens
Professor
School of Humanities
Louise is a literary and cultural historian whose main current research area is medievalism. Medievalism examines post-medieval receptions and constructions of the Middle Ages, and considers the impact of these constructions on modern cultural, political, and social life. Her current research is on theMiddle Ages in modern global culture, comic...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Toby Davidson
School of Humanities
Dr Toby Davidson is an Australian poetry scholar, creator, facilitator and editor. His research interests include Australian, British, Irish and American poetry, the public commemoration of writers and interactions between poetry and mental health. Toby's archival work as the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Visiting Scholar led to groundbreaking new...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Ms Rhonda Davis
Office of the University Librarian (Art Gallery)


Marcelle Freiman
Associate Professor
School of Humanities

Dr Michelle Hamadache
School of Humanities
Michelle teaches English Studies and Creative Writing at Macquarie University. Michelle writes fiction and creative non-fiction, and is working on a history of Resettlement Camps in Algeria during the Algerian War for Independence from France (1954-62). She was an editor at Southerly until 2018 and is now Managing Editor at Mascara...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Jane Hanley
Jane Hanley investigates topics related to travel, tourism and migration and the Spanish language in multilingual and multicultural environments, past and present popular culture in Spain, and contemporary Mexico within broad research areas including travel writing, transnational cultural production, and gender in Spanish-language popular culture. Her current research project is...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Miss Reilly Keir

Dr Sung-Ae Lee
School of International Studies
Sung-Ae Lee's major research focus is on literature, film and television drama of East Asia, with particular attention to Korea. Her research centres on relationships between cultural ideologies in Asian societies and representational strategies. She is interested in cognitive approaches to adaptation studies, Asian popular culture, Asian cinema, the impact...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Ms Michelle Mead

Jane Messer
Associate Professor
Current: My work now as an Honorary Associate Professor focuses on my creative writing research. I also mentor emerging writers, and teach on a freelance basis. Background: I have had extensive teaching and research experience drawn from working in universities in Australia, Germany and the USA for over twenty years:...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Kathryn Millard
Professor
Centre for Media History (CMH), School of Communication, Society and Culture
Kathryn Millard is a writer (scripts, essays, nonfiction), interdisciplinary scholar and filmmaker with a passion for big ideas. Her films are internationally recognised and much awarded. Kathryn's body of work as a filmmaker spans documentary, drama and hybrids. They include The Bystander Story (2021), Experiment 20 (2018), Shock Room (2015),...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Mr Chris Miller

Dr Alys Moody
School of Communication, Society and Culture
Alys specialises in twentieth and twenty-first century European, American and world literature, with an emphasis on modernism and its contemporary and global heirs. Her research investigates how the persistence and proliferation of modernism's aesthetic ideas have shaped how authors, scholars and the public think about literature and its role in...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Lara Palombo
Macquarie Law School, School of Communication, Society and Culture, School of International Studies
Dr Lara Palombo (she/her) is a Lecturer in Criminology. She holds a BA (Hons), M.A. in Gender Studies and PhD in Cultural Studies. Her interdisciplinary research focuses upon spaces, practices and technologies of incarceration. In 2015, Lara completed her doctoral research on historical mutations of camps of indefinite incarceration and...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Stephanie Russo
School of Humanities
Stephanie Russo is an Associate Professor of Literature in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature. Stephanie is one of the leading researchers in the field of historical fiction, encompassing film, television, and theatre, especially musical theatre, as well as the historical novel and biofictions. She is...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr John Severn
School of International Studies, School of International Studies
I received my PhD from the University of New South Wales with a thesis entitled "Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical". I also hold an MA with Distinction in Shakespeare and Theatre from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham and separate first-class honours degrees in Theatre Studies and in Opera Studies from...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Hsu-Ming Teo
Professor
School of Humanities
Hsu-Ming Teo teaches creative writing and literature in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her academic publications include Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels (2012), and the edited books Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Yue Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Management
Yue Wang received his PhD in Management (International Business) from the University of Melbourne and currently is an Associate Professor of International Business at the Department of Management, Macquarie University, Australia. His previous positions include a senior lectureship in the School of Management at University of New South Wales and...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Can Yalcinkaya
Macquarie University College
Dr Can Yalcinkaya is an academic program manager at Macquarie University College, where he is the course authority for the Diploma of Arts Media and Communications, along with other Diploma and Undergraduate Certificate courses. He is a researcher, multidisciplinary artist, editor, curator, translator, and musician, whose work is placed at...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge
Data Horizons Research Centre, School of Humanities