Speakers
Kath Albury
KATH ALBURY is the author of Yes Means Yes: Getting Explicit about Heterosex (Allen & Unwin, 2002). She is a PhD candidate in the school of Media and Communications at the University of New South Wales.Barbara Creed
Barbara Creed is a graduate of Monash and Latrobe Universities. Her
doctoral thesis was on the cinema of horror, feminism and psychoanalysis.
Her areas of interest include contemporary film, surrealism, feminist and
postcolonial theory. She is currently conducting research on popular
culture, sexuality and the media. Barbara is active in the film community
as a reviewer, speaker and writer.
Leigh Dale
Leigh Dale is Director of the Contemporary Studies Program at the Ipswich
campus of the University of Queensland, and the editor of Australian
LIterary Studies.Guy Davidson
GUY DAVIDSON lectures in English at the University of Wollongong.Gary W. Dowsett
GARY W. DOWSETT, PhD, is Associate Professor and Deputy Director
of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe
University in Melbourne, Australia. A sociologist by trade, he has long been
interested in sexuality, particularly in relation to the rise of modern gay
communities. Since 1986, he has been researching the nature and impact
of the HIV epidemic on Australia's gay communities. He has also worked
as a consultant to WHO's Global Programme on AIDS in Geneva, and as
an adviser to the United Nations Development Programme and the Joint
United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) over the last twelve years.
His international work includes designing a seven-country study of young
people and contexts of risk in relation to HIV/AIDS, reviewing HIV/AIDS
intervention programs for men who have sex with men in Bangladesh, and
collaborating on research on men who have sex with men in Fiji. He has
recently been developing training programs in community-based research
and qualitative research design, and has taught research design courses
in Australia, Fiji and New York. The author, co-author or editor of five books, twenty-three book chapters and over thirty academic articles, his most well-known book is Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS, published by Stanford University Press in 1996. His recent research program undertaken with various collaborators includes (1) a national review of hepatitis C prevention education among injecting drug users, (2) a national study of the HIV/AIDS community education workforce, and (3) an ethnography of sexual culture and injecting drug use in Melbourne’s gay community. He is currently beginning a collaborative study of the male sex work industry in Melbourne.
Dr Michael Flood
Dr Michael Flood is a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Women's Studies at
the Australian National University. He is also the Sexual Health Promotion
Coordinator at Family Planning ACT. Michael's PhD thesis was on young
heterosexual men and safe/unsafe sex.Judith Halberstam
Judith Halberstam is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at UC San Diego. Halberstam teaches courses in queer studies, gender theory, art, literature and film. Halberstam is currently working on a book about queer subcultures called "What's That Smell?" and finishing a book about the Brandon Teena case titled "The Brandon Archive."
Judith has her own, very cool web site, at http://www.jhalberstam.com
Melissa Hardie
Melissa Hardie, is a lecturer in English at the University of Sydney and a
member of the Silvan Tomkins Research Group. Her research interests
include queer theory, camp, cyberculture, and theories of affect.
Hardie's published work includes numerous articles on figures from both
literary history and popular culture, from Woolf and Joyce to Ayn Rand and
Elizabeth Taylor. She is currently working on a book called Shame Became
Famous: A Study of Rhetoric and Cultural Studies.Cathy Hawkins
Cathy Hawkins has recently received her PhD for a thesis titled "The Woman
Who Saved the World: Re-imagining the Female Hero in 1950s Science Fiction
Films". At the U.S. Popular Culture Association conference in 2000 she
received an award for her paper "I Married a Misogynist from Outer Space".
This paper is forthcoming in a "FEMSPEC" special issue on science fiction
film. Cathy is currently the on-line tutor in Women's Studies at
Macquarie University, and is also a research assistant in the Department
of Critical and Cultural Studies. Her interests include science fiction,
film criticism and movie history, television studies, fan cultures, and
science and gender. Susan Knabe
SUSAN KNABE is a PhD candidate in the department of Critical and
Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney where she is
researching the relationship between AIDS and genocide in cultural
production. Her MA thesis, Moral Pan(dem)ic: Deviance and Disease in
Medical Discourse on AIDS in Canada, 1981-1991, has recently been
accepted for publication by Broadview Press in Canada. Alan McKee
ALAN MCKEE lectures in cultural studies at the University of Queensland. His most recent book is Australian Television: A Genealogy of Great Moments; his favourite television programs are Buffy and Temptation Island.Wendy Pearson
WENDY PEARSON is a Ph.D. student in English Studies at the University of Wollongong where she is working on issues of national and sexual identity in Canadian culture. She has published a number of articles on science fiction, one of which, "Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer," won the Science Fiction Research Association's Pioneer Award in 2000 for the best critical article of the year.Nikki Sullivan
NIKKI SULLIVAN is a Lecturer in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University where she teaches courses on Poststructuralism, and Queer Theory. She is the author of Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, and Pleasure, (2001) published by Praeger and is currently working on the manuscript of A Critical Introduction to QueerTheory which is being published by Edinburgh University Press and is due for release in 2003. Nikki's main area of
research interest is the body and, in particular, the ways in which the body is read and written as 'strange', and the ethical implications of such processes.