Members
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Postgraduate Members:
Michael Adams
Woolyungah Indigenous Centre
 Michael is a geographer, focussing on relationships between Indigenous peoples and environmental issues. He lectures at the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre at UoW. His work is interdisciplinary and collaborative, and addresses cultural, spatial and policy aspects of Indigenous/environment rfelationships. Michael has carried out collaborative research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in numerous contexts, including ‘remote’ Aboriginal and Islander communities (Cape York), and Aboriginal people from regional centres in Queensland and NSW (Townsville, Bowen, Wollongong) and urban areas (Sydney). He has 20 years employment and consultancy experience with Aboriginal organisations across a spectrum of responsibilities, as well as professional roles in environment NGOs and state agencies.
Michael is currently carrying out collaborative work with Saami reindeer herders (the Indigenous people of Fenno-Scandinavia) and Swedish academics, focusing on contested approaches to the Laponia World Heritage Area in arctic Sweden. (http://www.laponia.nu/, http://www.padjelanta.com). He plans to extend this research to other circumpolar societies with strong relationships to reindeer/caribou, including Canada.
At UoW, Michael’s research is conducted through the interdisciplinary Institute for Conservation Biology and Law. Michael is a member of: the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the Institute of Australian Geographers; and the International Geographical Union Commission on Indigenous Peoples and Rights.
Anne Collett
English Studies Program
 Research Interests:
Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake - poetry, performance and shorts stories.
Anne Collett is a lecturer in the English Studies Program at the University of Wollongong. She has published primarily in the area of Caribbean, Canadian and Australian women's writing and her current research brings together the work of three women of the Americas, Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake, Frida Kahlo and Jamaica Kincaid. She is also editor of Kunapipi, a journal of postcolonial creative and critical writing (www.uow.edu.au/arts/kunapipi). She is an executive member of The Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ).
Professor Susan Dodds, BA (Toronto), PhD (La Trobe)
Philosophy Program
 Susan is the Philosophy Program Convenor. She teaches a number of subjects in the Philosophy Program, as well as subjects contributing to the Bachelor of Nursing, and LLB Degrees. Her teaching is primarily in the areas of health ethics, political philosophy, feminism and philosophy of law. She is on Study Leave in Spring 2006.
Susan's research interests address some issues in political and social philosophy, philosophy of feminism, philosophy of law and bioethics. In particular, she is engaged in an examination of key concepts of modern political theory, for example: property, citizenship, sovereignty, civil society and democratic representation in light of contemporary challenges to those concepts. Susan is interested in exploring the practical implications of this theoretical examination for policy making and civil life.
Susan is Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Grant (2005-2009) “Big-Picture Bioethics: policy-making in liberal democracy” and Chief Investigator and leader of the Ethics Project for the ARC of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES).
Sample publications:
Book (edited collection)
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Rosemarie Tong, Anne Donchin, Susan Dodds (eds.), 2004. Linking Visions Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights and the Developing World Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 074253278X (hardcover) 0742532798 (paper).
Commissioned Federal Government Reports
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National Health and Medical Research Council, 2002. Human Research Ethics Handbook: Commentary on the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans. Paul Komesaroff, Susan Dodds Paul McNeill, Loane Skene (editorial committee); Colin Thomson (executive editor). Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, ISBN 1864960701 (print) 1864960760 online) pgs. 360, plus appendices.
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/hrecbook/misc/contents.htm
Refereed Journal Articles
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Jocelyn Downie, Patricia Baird, Jon Thompson, & Susan Dodds 2005, ‘The Olivieri Case: Lessons for Australasia' Journal of Bioethical Inquiry vol 2 no 2 90-105.
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Susan Dodds 2005. ‘Gender, Ageing and Injustice: social and political contexts of bioethics' Journal of Medical Ethics vol 31 no 5; 295-298.
Brian Ferry
Faculty of Education
 Dr. Brian Ferry is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate) in the Faculty of Education. He is the co-holder of two ARC Discovery grants and works in the area of Information technology in education; Science education; Environmental education; Problem-based learning in teacher education. He is the holder of the The Australian Colleges Award for Outstanding Achievement in Tertiary Education (1995); The Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996) and a University of Wollongong Teaching Fellowship (1999). He is also President of the Australian College of Educators (Illawarra/ South Coast Regional group).
Penny Harris
Faculty of Creative Arts
 Penny is a lecturer in Visual Arts at the University of Wollongong. Her doctoral research explored a body of photography taken by her grandfather as a child on the Canadian prairies as a recent migrant. In March 2006 she coordinated an exhibition in the Faculty of Creative Arts gallery of work by studio arts staff at Capilano college, Vancouver, curated by Toni Latour and titled ‘Art from a Southern Colony’. She is currently curating a return exhibition of Visual Arts faculty staff to be exhibited at Capilano college in February 2007. She has links with Concordia University in Montreal and in March 2006 with UIC funding invited Barbara Layne to the Wollongong University to speak about Hexagram Research Institute and electronic textiles. She was a visiting fellow at Hexagram in April 2006.
Luke McNamara,
BA LLB (UNSW), LLM (Manitoba), PhD (Wollongong)
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law
 Luke's primary research interests are in the fields of human rights, criminal law and justice administration, and cultural diversity and the law. He has conducted research, in Australia and Canada, on the regulation of hate speech, the involvement of Indigenous people in criminal justice decision-making processes, and the significance of different legal models for human rights protection. He has been a recipient of several Canadian Studies Faculty Research Awards, most recently in 2005, for a study of equality rights and the legal recognition of same-sex relationships.
Luke is a member of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand and the Canadian Law and Society Association, and is a former co-editor of Australian-Canadian Studies.
Selected Publications
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“Negotiating the Contours of Unlawful Hate Speech: Regulation Under Provincial Human Rights Laws in Canada” (2005) 38(1) University of British Columbia Law Review 1-82
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“Appellate Court Scrutiny of Circle Sentencing" (2000) 27(2) Manitoba Law Journal 209-240
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“The Locus of Decision-making Authority in Circle Sentencing: The Significance of Criteria and Guidelines” (2000) XVIII Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 60-114
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“The Recognition Of Indigenous Land Rights As 'Native Title': Continuity And Transformation” (1999) 3(2) Flinders Journal of Law Reform 137-162 (with Scott Grattan)
Richard Mohr
Faculty of Law
 Rick Mohr is Co-Director of the Legal Intersections Research Centre and is the Faculty of Law's Director of Postgraduate Programs. He is Managing Editor of the journal Law Text Culture. He has a background in sociology, public sector management and research consultancy in a range of legal, evaluation and policy fields.
Rick works at the intersections of law and sociology. His theoretical work deals with legal semiotics, the constitution of power and authority, the relationships between law and material objects and the application of discourse theory to legal decision-making.
From 1994 to 2000 when LIRC was established, Rick was Research Director of the Faculty's Centre for Court Policy and Administration, and continues to work on issues related to courts and the administration of justice. This work has included: the development of standards and benchmarks for court services, research into issues affecting litigants in person in courts and tribunals; and the role of the judiciary, training for magistrates and court staff in New South Wales and Singapore and supervision of higher degree research students. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Research into Judicial Systems (IRSIG-CNR), Bologna, in 2001 and 2005, most recently signing a memorandum of understanding between IRSIG-CNR and LIRC to collaborate in research, education and consultancy.
Rick organised the first Representing Jutice Conference on court architecture, design and planning in 1998. In 1999 he was guest editor of the first edition of the electronic Journal of Social Change and Critical Inquiry on 'Representations of Justice' and in 2000 edited a special issue of the Journal of Judicial Administration (vol 9 no 3). 'Building Courthouses for the Twenty-First Century'.
Professor Wenche Ommundsen
English Studies Program
 Wenche joined the University of Wollongong in 2006 as Professor of English Literatures. Formerly of Deakin University, she has taught and published across a number of fields in Australian and comparative literature, cultural studies and critical theory, with particular emphasis on multicultural, postcolonial and diasporic writing. She is the author of Metafictions (1993) and the editor (or co-editor) of five collections of essays: Refractions: Asian-Australian Writing (1995), From a Distance: Australian Writers and Cultural Displacement (1996), Appreciating Difference: Writing Postcolonial Literary History (1998), Bastard Moon: Essays on Chinese-Australian Writing (2001), Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalisation (forthcoming).
Wenche is a member of the executive committee of EASA (European Association of Australian Studies) and of the board of the AustLit database, with particular responsibility for the multicultural subset.
Her current research projects include:
- Australian Literature and Public Culture (ARC Discovery 2002-2005, with Michael Meehan and David McCooey)
- Building Cultural Citizenship: Multiculturalism and Children’s Literature (ARC Discovery 2005-2008, with Clare Bradford)
- AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature (ARC Linkage Infrastructure funding 2001-2003, 2006, joint project involving eight universities and the National Library of Australia)
- Refugees in contemporary Australian literature
- Literatures of the Chinese diaspora
Associate Professor Paul Sharrad
English Studies Program
 Paul is Associate Professor in English Literatures at the University of Wollongong. He teaches postcolonial literatures and has published on many Commonwealth authors. His particular fields of study are Indian English writing and literatures of the Pacific, and he has book on Raja Rao and Albert Wendt. He has also taught texts by Atwood, Ondaatje, Mistry, Thomas King; was organiser/judge for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (which included Diana Brydon, M G Vassanji, Mordecai Richler) and for many years edited two journals (CRNLE Reviews Journal and New Literatures Review) that commented on Canadian writing as part of their postcolonial brief. Currently on the Boards of the Journal of Commonwealth literature, Postcolonial Text (based in Vancouver) and Postcolonial Writing. Worked on an ARC grant on textiles and texts that brought museum curator Jill Baird and Musqueam weaver Vivian Campbell to Australia. Currently working on collaborative links with UBC around food, affect and culture.
Associate Professor Gerry Turcotte
English Studies Program
 Gerry Turcotte is a poet and novelist. He is currently Head of the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages at the University of Wollongong. He is Past President of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), Past Secretary of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) and Founding Director of the Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies (CCAS). He is the author and editor of numerous publications including Jack Davis: The Maker of History (Harper Collins), Writers in Action (Currency), Masks, Tapestries, Journeys (CRITACS), Canada Australia: Towards a Second Century of Partnership with Kate Burridge and Lois Foster (Carleton University Press) and Compr(om)ising Post/colonialisms: Challenging Narratives & Practices, with Greg Ratcliffe (Dangaroo).
His creative writing publications include three collections of poetry: Neighbourhood of Memory (Dangaroo), Winterlude (Brandl & Schlesinger) and Hauntings: the 'Varuna' Poems (Five Islands Press). His novel, Flying in Silence, was published in Canada and in Australia and was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year in 2001. He was one of four writers chosen to perform, with a live Jazz Ensemble, at the Sydney Opera House in 2002. He also held his first solo photographic/poetry exhibition at the Wollongong City Gallery in the same year. His most recent book, Border Crossings: Words & Images, was published by Brandl & Schlesinger in June. He is the winner of the 2000 OCTAL/Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching & Learning, an inaugural winner of the 2001 New South Wales Government/ACE Teaching Excellence Award, and a recipient of the 2006 Carrick Award for Australian University Teaching Excellence.
Associate Professor Wilhelmina Vialle
Faculty of Education
 Dr Wilma Vialle is an Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Director of Graduate Teaching in the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong. She teaches subjects in the undergraduate program on child development, thinking and learning, and psychological foundations of education. At the postgraduate level, she teaches subjects on gifted education and supervises a number of postgraduate research students in related fields. Her interests are predominantly in the nature of intelligence and creativity, with a particular focus on giftedness.
Associate Professor Heather Yeatman
School of Health Sciences
 Associate Professor Yeatman is a continuing member of the Complementary Medicines Evaluation Committee. Her background is in public health and consumer issues related to food and medicines. She is Head of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Wollongong. She coordinates the undergraduate program in Population Health and teaches in the areas of health promotion and public health nutrition. Prior to joining the University she was with the South Australian Health Commission in the areas of health promotion and health policy.
Associate Professor Yeatman holds a number of positions on national and state committees related to complementary medicines. She is a Board member of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) agency. She is also a member of the Interim Advisory Committee of SafeFood NSW and has been on the management committee of Healthy Cities, Illawarra, until 2001. Associate Professor Yeatman is particularly interested in the areas of consumer understanding of information on labels, both medicines and food labels, and the role that public consultation can play in improving the regulation of food and drugs to ensure better public health outcomes.
Dr Mary Zournazi
Communication and Cultural Studies Program
Mary Zournazi is a writer and philosopher living in Sydney. She currently teaches at the University of Wollongong in the Media and Cultural Studies program and has a PhD in cultural theory, politics and philosophy from the University of Western Sydney. She held an advanced Junior Research Fellowship at the Peter Wall Institute, University of British Columbia in 2002.
Her published works include: Foreign Dialogues (1998); After the Revolution - On Kristeva (with John Lechte, 1998); Hope - New Philosophies for Change (2002) and The Kristeva Critical Reader (2003). She is currently working on a book 'Keywords to War' (Scribe,2007), as well as a collaborative book on Peace and Cinema with the German film director, Wim Wenders.
Mary also works as a freelance radio producer and cultural commentator for ABC Radio National. Her books Foreign Dialogues and Hope were produced for ABC Radio National.
Mary was born in Australia to Egyptian-Greek parents. Her experience of being a child of migrants has profoundly influenced her writing and work.
Marueen Clark
 Maureen Clark is an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong having graduated PhD in English Studies in 2004. Her thesis title is Mudrooroo: A Likely Story and its focus is identity and belonging in postcolonial Australia. Maureen has published in a number of books and journals on the fiction of both Mudrooroo and Janette Turner Hospital.
Dorothy Jones
Dorothy Jones was an academic staff member of the English Department at Wollongong University from 1971 to 1996 and is currently a senior fellow of the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages. She has published widely in the field of Post Colonial women's writing and developed a particular interest in Canadian writing during the 1980s and has made several visits to Canada in connection with her research. In 1987 she initiated a course in Comparative Canadian/Australian writing at Wollongong University which she taught that year along with Canadian Writer Aritha van Herk who spent a semester as writer in residence at the university. She is currently engaged in a research project with colleague, A/Professor Anne Collett undertaking a comparative study of the work of Canadian artist, Emily Carr and Australian poet, Judith Wright.
Sample Publications:
- "Living the Country; a Woman's Reading", Australian-Canadian Studies, vol. 10, no.2, 1992pp.86-98
- "Mapping and Mythmaking: Women Writers and the Australian Legend', Ariel, vol.17, no.,4, pp.63-86, Fall 1986
- "'Waiting for the rescue'': a Discussion of Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm", KunapipiI, vol. 6, no.3, 1984, pp. 86-100
Kimberley McMahon-Coleman
Kimberley McMahon-Coleman is a former secondary English teacher, who has written over thirty workshops for students undertaking the Higher School Certificate. She teaches at the Shoalhaven Campus of the University of Wollongong, where she is completing her Doctorate. Her thesis examines shamanism and indigenous diasporas in the work of Inuit and Murri writers. She is a member of the Executive of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), and is co-editor of the association’s newsletter.
Robyn Morris
Robyn Morris teaches in the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages at the University of Wollongong where she is currently completing her PhD. Her area of interest is contemporary Asian Canadian and Asian Australian women’s writing with a particular focus on the issues of race and gender. She has articles, book chapters and interviews published on the work of Larissa Lai, Joy Kogawa, Hiromi Goto, Simone Lazaroo and Hsu-Ming Teo. She is an executive member of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), and is also co-editor of the association’s newsletter and a member of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN).
Colin Salter
Colin Salter is a social scientist and environmental engineer, currently undertaking comparative research on contemporary grass-roots community activism in Australia and Canada. He adopts cultural and activist ethnological approaches to his current research, within a broader framework of hegemony, power relations, and nonviolence in (never quite post) colonial societies. He is currently focusing on the implications of hegemonic whiteness and patriarchal white sovereignty on community campaigns explicitly supporting the actions of Aboriginal and First Nations peoples in Australia and Canada, respectively. He is completing a PhD in the Faculty of Arts.
Annie Werner
Annie Werner is a PhD candidate in the school of English Literature, Philosophy and Languages at the University of Wollongong. Her thesis examines representations of Indigenous tattooing in colonial and postcolonial literature from the Pacific and North America. Annie is currently working on an article exploring the resurgence of traditional tattooing in the Indigenous community in Haidia Gwaii, British Columbia. She is also co-convening the Fabulous Risk circus conference, in association with the CCAS, ACAPTA and Circus Monoxide. |
