Gender Research Group: Conference Papers 2001: Authors

Wendy Davis

Wendy is a PhD student in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Health and Sciences. She is based at the Bundaberg campus of CQU. Her research is addresses the specificity of television as a visual technology through a post-structuralist deconstruction of melodrama on Australian television. Of particular interest is the televisual constitution of time and space and its resulting affective force and position as a contemporary cultural commodity.

Kaylene Douglas

Kaylene is currently completing her final year in the Bachelor of Psychology program in the Faculty of Arts, Health and Sciences, Central Queensland University. For the previous two years Kaylene has been involved in a number of research projects at the university, primarily researching in the area of gender studies. Currently, she holds the positions of secretary within Women in Research at CQU; student representative of the local branch of the Australian Psychological Society; and elected as parent representative on the Glenmore State School Council. Kaylene’s career goal is in Forensic psychology with an emphasis on researching gender issues within criminology. Research areas of interest - Abnormal psychology in particular Psychopathy and Anti-social personality disorder with an emphasis on gender and adolescent issues. Kaylene has an Associate Diploma in Education working extensively with special needs children; both within a child care setting and a respite care setting.

Helen Miller

Helen is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Humanities, Central Queensland University. Her research is in the area of the female image and how it can be understood as force rather than ‘lack’. Her research is concentrated around silent films as a site to examine how the female image can be read outside the boundaries of psychoanalytic feminist film theory. Helen is a tutor in Cultural and Film studies and has done extensive research in the history of local Rockhampton Cinema. At present she is working with a collection of “home movies”, which is connected to the work of Warwick Mules and Steve Mullins through the Central Queensland University CRG grants scheme involving “history” through film. Helen has published in Southerly. She has recently presented at the Screen Conference in Glasgow and is currently organising an Australian silent film festival in Rome.

Warwick Mules

Warwick is a senior lecturer and teaches and reads in Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Poststructuralist Theory. He has a doctorate from the University of Queensland, and has extensive experience in University teaching and research. Warwick has published widely, including two joint authored textbooks, Tools For Cultural Studies and Introducing Cultural and Media Studies: a semiotic approach, as well as many journal articles, film and book reviews.

Judith Wooller

Judith has an MA in literature from CQU and has lectured and tutored for many years at the Rockhampton Campus. Judith is the Director, Women in Science and Technology (WIST) a job that takes her all over Central Queensland. Her research interests are concerned with gender issues, mainly focused around the area of science and technology. Judith is widely published and has had a long association with CQU.

Susan Yates

Susan is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Humanities, CQU and was formerly a Lecturer in French at the University of Wollongong. She gained her MA in Modern Languages (French, German, Spanish,) from Cambridge University (England) and her Ph.D. in French Literature from Columbia University (New York). Her book Maid and Mistress (Peter Land, 1992) focuses on the role of the maidservant in the nineteenth-century French family and the French realist novel. Other interests include the representation of women in medical discourse, and the relations between the doctor and the female patient in the novels of Balzac



	Wendy Davis Wendy is a PhD student in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Health and Sciences. She is based at the Bundaberg campus of CQU. Her research is addresses the specificity of television as a visual technology through a post-structuralist deconstruction of melodrama on Australian television. Of particular interest is the televisual constitution of time and space and its resulting affective force and position as a contemporary cultural commodity. Kaylene Douglas Kaylene is currently completing her final year in the Bachelor of Psychology program in the Faculty of Arts, Health and Sciences, Central Queensland University. For the previous two years Kaylene has been involved in a number of research projects at the university, primarily researching in the area of gender studies. Currently, she holds the positions of secretary within Women in Research at CQU; student representative of the local branch of the Australian Psychological Society; and elected as parent representative on the Glenmore State School Council. Kaylene’s career goal is in Forensic psychology with an emphasis on researching gender issues within criminology. Research areas of interest - Abnormal psychology in particular Psychopathy and Anti-social personality disorder with an emphasis on gender and adolescent issues. Kaylene has an Associate Diploma in Education working extensively with special needs children; both within a child care setting and a respite care setting. Helen Miller Helen is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Humanities, Central Queensland University. Her research is in the area of the female image and how it can be understood as force rather than ‘lack’. Her research is concentrated around silent films as a site to examine how the female image can be read outside the boundaries of psychoanalytic feminist film theory. Helen is a tutor in Cultural and Film studies and has done extensive research in the history of local Rockhampton Cinema. At present she is working with a collection of “home movies”, which is connected to the work of Warwick Mules and Steve Mullins through the Central Queensland University CRG grants scheme involving “history” through film. Helen has published in Southerly. She has recently presented at the Screen Conference in Glasgow and is currently organising an Australian silent film festival in Rome. Warwick Mules Warwick is a senior lecturer and teaches and reads in Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Poststructuralist Theory. He has a doctorate from the University of Queensland, and has extensive experience in University teaching and research. Warwick has published widely, including two joint authored textbooks, Tools For Cultural Studies and Introducing Cultural and Media Studies: a semiotic approach, as well as many journal articles, film and book reviews. Judith Wooller Judith has an MA in literature from CQU and has lectured and tutored for many years at the Rockhampton Campus. Judith is the Director, Women in Science and Technology (WIST) a job that takes her all over Central Queensland. Her research interests are concerned with gender issues, mainly focused around the area of science and technology. Judith is widely published and has had a long association with CQU. Susan Yates Susan is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Humanities, CQU and was formerly a Lecturer in French at the University of Wollongong. She gained her MA in Modern Languages (French, German, Spanish,) from Cambridge University (England) and her Ph.D. in French Literature from Columbia University (New York). Her book Maid and Mistress (Peter Land, 1992) focuses on the role of the maidservant in the nineteenth-century French family and the French realist novel. Other interests include the representation of women in medical discourse, and the relations between the doctor and the female patient in the novels of Balzac \| Home \| Papers \| Authors \| Top \|