[csaa-forum] Graduate Studies in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University

[Andrew Milner]

The Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies is an 
interdisciplinary research centre, specialising in Comparative 
Literature, Literary and Cultural Theory, and Continental Philosophy. 
CCLCS offers the PhD degree by research only and by research and 
coursework, an MA degree by research, an MA in Critical Theory by 
coursework and research and a PG Diploma (Research) in Critical Theory. 
The postgraduate subjects taught cover the work of critical and cultural 
theorists such as Adorno, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Derrida, 
Foucault, Irigaray, Jameson, Kristeva, Said, Spivak, Williams and Žižek. 
Check the centre’s website for further details: 
www.arts.monash.edu.au/cclcs/postgraduate

CCLCS provides the following resources to candidates enrolled in its 
postgraduate programs:
• Regular research seminars
• Postgraduate workstations
• Financial support for conferences and fieldwork
• Colloquy a fully-refereed postgraduate journal
• An annual Postgraduate Colloquium.

For copies of the 2009 CCLCS Graduate Studies Prospectus contact: Ms 
Gail Ward, Executive Officer, Tel. (03) 9905 2208, email: 
Gail.Ward at arts.monash.edu.au

Postgraduate Scholarships for Research on Utopia, Dystopia and Science 
Fiction
The Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies invites 
applicants for ARC Discovery Postgraduate Research Awards (for either 
PhD or MA candidates) to undertake research on utopia, dystopia and 
science fiction. Possible research projects include: utopia, dystopia 
and theology in Bloch, Benjamin and Adorno; post-structuralism and 
utopianism from Deleuze to Negri; utopia and science fiction in Jameson 
and Williams; culture and ecology in the Australian utopian imagination; 
myth, religion and utopia. Scholarship: Tax-free stipend of $20,007 pa 
(2008) plus project support funding. Applicants must have a First Class 
Honours degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent qualifications, 
and an interest in the research area.

Top Up Scholarships
In 2009 the Centre will offer several top up scholarships of $10,000 pa 
to students who commence work on a PhD in the Centre and who hold an 
APA. These will be offered to students who want to work with the 
Centre’s leading research scholars on nominated topics. Topics and 
supervisor are listed below.  Professor Andrew Benjamin: 1) Walter 
Benjamin; 2) Philosophy and the Visual Arts, epecially work on painting; 
3) Philosophical aspects of 19th and 20th Century Jewish Thought, 
especially Rosenzweig and Levinas. Professor Andrew Milner: 1) Pierre 
Bourdieu, Fredric Jameson, Raymond Williams; 2) Utopia and Dystopia in 
Science Fiction; 3) Sociological Approaches to Literature, especially 
Cultural Materialism. Associate Professor Kate Rigby: 1) Ecophilosophy, 
Ecocriticism and Ecotheology; 2) Romanticism in European Literature; 3) 
German Literature and Critical Theory. Dr Alison Ross: 1) Rancière’s 
Critique of Modernism; 2) Kant’s Moral and Aesthetic Philosophy; 3) 
Michel Foucault.

For further details contact: Professor Andrew Milner, Graduate 
Coordinator, Tel (03) 9905 2979, email: Andrew.Milner at arts.monash.edu.au

Applications close 31 October 2008.

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Professor Andrew Milner
Graduate Coordinator
Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Monash University
Melbourne
Victoria 3800
AUSTRALIA

Phone: (61) (3) 9905 2979
Fax: (61) (3) 9905 5593
Email: Andrew.Milner at arts.monash.edu.au
Homepage:
   http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/cclcs/staff/milner/