Faculty of Arts School of Languages and Linguistics

Cinema studies, Critical theory, Feminist theory, Intercultural communication, La Francophonie, Quebec studies, 20th Century French history and cultural history.
French language studies - Applied linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation theory and practice.
French literature studies - Early modern women's literature, Experimental writing, French libertine writing, 19th and 20th Century poetry and the novel , Utopian theory and literature.

German literature from 16th to 20th Centuries, Current German literature from the former GDR, German culture and philosophy, European studies, Historical linguistics and aspects of German, German teaching methodology and structural linguistics.

Language studies - Italian linguistics, Dialectology, Applied linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology, Computer Assisted Language Learning.

Medieval and renaissance studies - Dante, Theories of gender, Theories of behaviour and literary patronage.

Literature studies - Modern and contemporary drama and narrative, Women's writing, Theories of intertextuality and hypertext, Theories of modernity and postmodernity.

Cultural studies - Italian cinema, Migrant writing, Italo-Australian (auto)biographical and fictional writing, Avant-garde texts.

Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Language description, typology, and theoretical linguistics - Linguistic typology, Australian Languages, and endangered languages of the Indo-Pacific including Papuan, Aslian, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Amerindian Languages, Language documentation, Syntactic & Morphological theory, Semantics, Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology, Discourse and pragmatics, Language and cognition.

Applied linguistics and language acquisition - First language acquisition, Second Language acquisition, Second language learning and teaching, Interlanguage pragmatics, TESOL, Computer assisted language learning, Language disorders.

Language testing and Language program evaluation - Language testing and assessment, Language curriculum design and pedagogy, Language program evaluation

Language in Society - Language variation, Language contact, Cross cultural communication, Language and identity, Language and gender, Language and Media, Gesture, Bilingualism, Computer mediated communication and Virtual communication, Language and the law, Poststructuralist approaches to language.

Staff in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics are engaged in a wide variety of research projects covering all major areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. Much of this research is funded by Discovery and Linkage grants from the Australia Research Council, and by international funding bodies including the British Academy of Humanities, the DFG and Volkswagen Stiftung (Germany) and the ETS Princeton, and Oxford University.

Language test development and validation, Testing languages for specific purposes, School-based language assessment, Teacher proficiency assessment and, Language program evaluation

Research Unit for Multilingualism & Cross Cultural Communication

Russian language, Russian/Slavic linguistics, phonology, word stress/accent, Czech language, Russian literature.

Spanish turn of the century and national decadence / regeneration, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century universal exhibitions, and the construction of Spanish identity.

Swedish sociolinguistics and discourse studies, Modern Swedish linguistics, Swedish as a second language and Contemporary European society and culture.