This thesis examines the political thought of nineteenth-century American author Herman Melville. Reading him in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, I argue his works speak back to the Founders’ ...

Record linkage is the task of finding records in data sources that refer to the same entity across those different resources. In the health domain, record linkage is commonly used for identifying records belonging to the ...

This project sets out to establish that Edouard Borovansky, an ex-Ballets Russes danseur/ teacher/choreographer/producer, was ‘the father of Australian ballet’. With the backing of J. C. Williamson’s Theatres Limited, he ...

This thesis surveys a range of horror film masks to explore why they have been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema. Their potency as transhistorical, transnational artefacts has played a significant role in ...

This thesis is the first detailed, scholarly analysis of the practice of the Berlin-based New Zealand artist Michael Stevenson (b. 1964). It examines the substantial body of work extending from Stevenson’s paintings of the ...

This thesis argues that creative writing is a form of play that uses cognitive patterns of information. It begins with a collection of short fiction, titled Small Science, loosely based around scientific themes, particularly ...

The sustainability of food production, distribution and consumption is becoming increasingly pressing in everyday life. While the representation of environmental issues has been the main focus of debates in media studies, ...

Tasmania’s Collect Art loan scheme enables eligible consumers to take out an interest free loan from the Tasmanian Government in order to purchase works of art. As the first scheme of its kind in Australia, Collect Art ...

Recent art historical scholarship has begun to expand with studies in cross-cultural convergences and transferences garnering newfound attention. This dissertation, through a series of close readings, examines how the ...

My thesis, entitled Here be Monsters: Body Imagery in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath, is 50% Dissertation and 50% Creative Writing. Poetry is a bridge between the experience of individual realities and a world of representation, ...