ProfessorCatherine Driscoll

TEACHING

Most years Catherine teaches in one or more of the following units. Check the Gender Studies and Cultural Studies majors' unit offerings for more information.

Undergraduate units:

GCST1601 "Culture, Power, Identity"

GCST1603 "Screen Cultures and Gender: From film to apps"

GCST2612 "Youth and Youth Culture"

GCST3604 "Cultural Theory"

Postgraduate units:

GCST5909 "Key Thinkers for Cultural Studies"

GCST5211 "Girls and Boys: Gendered Formations of Youth"

SUPERVISION

Current Primary HDR Supervisions

• Alice Weber, "Feminine temporalities: girls, time and ballet" PhD
• Lynn Zheng, "Transformative Pleasure in Fantasized Intimate Relationship: Chinese Danmei Online Novels and Digital Fandom" PhD
• Sarah Demekech Graham, "Learning from girls studies for African American and Australian Indigenous boys studies" PhD
• Soomin Hong, "Toys, Play-Things, Networks" PhD
• Helen Greenwood, "A Genealogy of Taste: the historic present of Jewish food" - with Elspeth Probyn - PhD

Past Primary Supervisions

• Meihua Lu, "The Men Question in Chinese Digital Feminism: Embodied Gender Subjectivity and Ugly Affects" PhD thesis submitted 2025
• Finola Laughren, "The unpopular (manosphere) men of popular feminism" PhD thesis submitted 2025
• Zahra Shafigh, "The Child Audience: Impressionability, Pedagogy, and Popular Culture" PhD thesis submitted 2024
• Francesca Ferrer-Best, "Beyond the Ballet Idea: Embodiment, Labour, Music" - with Ruth Barcan and Amanda Card - PhD thesis submitted 2024
• Ellen McGeogh, "Monstrous Girls and Popular Gothic Repetition" PhD thesis submitted 2023
• Vivien Nara, "The campus romance: Patterns, repetitions and a popular imaginary of youth in contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese cinema" PhD thesis submitted 2022
• Junyi Cai "Conceptualising State Feminism in China: Possibilities and Challenges" - with Minglu Chen - PhD thesis submitted 2022
• Mahli-Ann Rakkomkaew Butt "Gaming Lifeworlds: Videogames in Culture" - with Gerard Goggin and Marcus Carter - PhD thesis submitted 2022
• Rachel Faleatua, "'Ordinary' Insta-Branding: Behind-the-Scenes Labour of 'Ordinary' Producers on Instagram" - with Anthea Taylor and Tess Lea - PhD thesis submitted 2022
• Jan Filmer, "Infrastructures of Intimacy: Queer (re)configurations of cultural space" PhD thesis submitted 2020
• Rachel Cole, "Reasonable Adults and Vulnerable Minors" PhD thesis submitted 2019
• Grace Sharkey, "Pornography and Representation" PhD thesis submitted 2018
• Daniela Villegas, "Young Women and Politics in Mexican Hip-Hop" PhD thesis submitted 2018
• Bin Wang, "Chinese Modernity and Contemporary Young Feminism" PhD thesis submitted 2017
• Alexandra Heatwole, "Postfeminist Heroines" PhD thesis submitted 2016
• Liam Grealy, "Punishing Paedophilic Sex Offenders in NSW: Cultural Studies, Criminology, and Consent" PhD thesis submitted 2013
• Timothy Laurie, "Deleuze, Music and the Politics of Cultural Criticism" PhD thesis submitted 2012
• Meng Li, "Estrangement and Escape: A Feminist Analysis of Intellectual Women In Huang Beijia's Novellas (1980-1989)" PhD thesis submitted 2011
• Mark Steven, "The Afterlives of Modernism" MPhil thesis submitted 2011
• Carina Garland, "Girlhood: A Discursive History" PhD thesis submitted 2011
• Hongwei Bao, "'Queer comrades': gay identity and politics in postsocialist China" PhD thesis submitted 2010. AASA best doctoral thesis award.
• Hae Seong Jang, "Social identities of indigenous people in their twenties in contemporary Australian society, based on the rural indigenous community at Yarrabah in Queensland" Doctor of Arts thesis submitted 2010
• Nazanin Ghanavizi, "Persian blogging: a cultural study" Masters (Research) thesis submitted 2009
• Prudence Black, "Lines of flight: the design history of the Qantas flight attendants' uniforms" PhD thesis submitted 2009
• Will Tregoning, "The uses and disadvantages of authentication for cultural studies" PhD thesis submitted 2007