ProfessorCatherine Driscoll
Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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- Professor of Gender and Cultural StudiesFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Catherine supervises research students at Honours, Masters, and PhD level. She is particularly interested in supervising projects that focus on one or more of the following areas: modernity and modernism; cultural theory; popular culture and popular genres; online culture, especially gaming and fan culture; rural studies, especially with a focus on youth or aging; and girlhood and girl culture / boyhood and boy culture.
Availability for such supervision is limited, but Catherine can be approached by email with a CV and a research proposal.
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION‘Ordinary’ Insta-Branding: Behind-the-Scenes Labour of ‘Ordinary’ Producers on Instagram
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA Genealogy of Taste: the historic present of Jewish food
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAdorned Hands: Male Identities and Ring Wearing in the Italian Quattrocento
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAshmedai: Sex and sacred canopies
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBecoming Somebody: Cultural Politics and Precarious Belonging of Rural Youth in China
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBeyond the Ballet Idea: Embodiment Labour Music
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONConceptualising State Feminism in China: Possibilities and Challenges
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDealing with the Future Experimental governance in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONGaming Lifeworlds: Videogames in Culture
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONHow is a gravel pit like a uranium mine? Spacetimes of property, development and the state in northern Australia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONImperiality and Political Imaginaries: Chinese Culture Industries under ‘Cultural Confidence’
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONInfrastructures of Intimacy: Queer (re)configurations of cultural space
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONLearning from girls studies for African American and Australian Indigenous boys studies
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMonstrous Girls and Popular Gothic Repetition
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONNegotiated Survival: Everyday Cultural Practices and the Continuity of Chinese Alternative Rock
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONReasonable Adults and Vulnerable Minors: A history of the media classification system in Australia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONRepresentations of Female Sexuality and Subjectivity in the Fiction of Wang Anyi, Tie Ning and Chi Li
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONTechnologies of Fantasy: Ludic Pleasure and the Playful Politics of Desire in Otome Games
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe campus romance: Patterns, repetitions and a popular imaginary of youth in contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese cinema
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Child Audience: Impressionability, Pedagogy, and Popular Culture
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe girl-ification of ballet: age gender discipline.
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Men Question in Chinese Digital Feminism: Embodied Gender Subjectivity and Ugly Affects
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Unpopular Men of Popular Feminism: Heteropessimistic feminisms in the era of the manosphere
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONToys Are Us: New Materialist Ideas of Playthings in the Case of Franchised Dolls
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONTransformative Pleasure in Fantasized Intimate Relationship: Chinese Danmei Online Novels and Digital Fandom