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
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Alexandra 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 French and North American...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Jumana Bayeh
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
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
Department of History and Archaeology
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
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Dr. Kebsi joined Macquarie University in 2018 when she was hired as a Permanent Full-time Assistant Professor. Since becoming a Tenured Assistant Professor, she has held different roles including the MA Program Convenor and Director of Learning & Teaching. Dr. Kebsi is an expert in Arab refugee literature and...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Benedicte Andre
Faculty of Arts
Dr Bénédicte André is a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, and the Learning and Teaching Coordinator for Languages and Cultures in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature (MCCALL). Originally from Reunion Island, she completed her PhD at The University of Western Australia in 2014. Her first monograph, Iléité....View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Tom Baudinette
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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
Department of History and Archaeology
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
Faculty of Arts
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
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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 Australian politics. He is especially interested in supervising PhD theses on Australian literature, including film, and poetry in...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Ms Rhonda Davis
Office of the University Librarian (Art Gallery)
Marcelle Freiman
Associate Professor
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Dr Michelle Hamadache
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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
Mr Emilio Lomonaco
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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), Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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
Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie School of Social Sciences
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
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
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, Department of History and Archaeology