Dr Christopher Worth - Researcher Profile

Christopher Worth

Address

School of English Communications and Performance Studies
Faculty of Arts, Clayton

Biography

Having taught at Strathclyde University and for the Open University in the UK in the 1970s, I moved to Australia in 1980 and have been at Monash ever since, with interesting semesters spent working at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Edinburgh in 1988 and at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona in 1994 as well as research time spent at the British Library. From 2000 to 2001, 2002 to 2006 and then again in 2010 for six months I was Head of the School of ECPS.

Qualifications

PHD
Institution: London University
Year awarded: 1981

Publications

Book Chapters

Worth, C.G., 2001, A father and his fate: intertexuality and gender, in Telling Performances. Essays on Gender, Narrative and Performance, eds Brian Nelson, Anne Freadman and Philip Anderson, Associated University Presses and University of Delaware Press, London UK and Newark USA, pp. 71-83.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Abject Tragedy: A Kristevan Approach to War Literature.
Supervisors:
Alizadeh, A (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Foeregrounding and signification: a socio-semiotic approach to the plays of Sam Shepard.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Peterson, W (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Forms of Realism.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Oppy, G (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Key topic area: Writing for contemporary performance. Full length play / exegesis.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Hanan, D (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Modernist Authors, Catherine Lim and the Aesthetics of Space.
Supervisors:
Ng, A (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Narrative psychology at the turn of the twenty-first century: approaches to the subject, transformation and ethics.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Vladiv-Glover, S (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
On uniqueness: narrative and the unrepeatable self.
Supervisors:
Scarparo, S (Joint), Worth, C (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Stealing Fire: Contemporary theatre as an act of adaptation.
Supervisors:
Griffiths, J (Joint-co), Nobis, F (Associate), Worth, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The Emergent Author: Investigating the Formation and Impact of the Reader's Authorial Image.
Supervisors:
Groves, P (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The Pythagorean Shakespeare.
Supervisors:
Groves, P (Main), Dilnot, A (Associate), Worth, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Why tell beast fables? An exploration of the connotations of animal characters and their functions within the narrative structure of fables..
Supervisors:
Do Rozario, R (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Women writing the city: contemporary Australian and Indonesian novels.
Supervisors:
Kossew, S (Main), Worth, C (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Adamson, G.
Program of Study:
METAPHYSICAL TENDENCIES. (PHD) 1999.
Supervisors:
Colebrook, C (Joint), Worth, C (Joint-Co).
Student:
Boss, P.
Program of Study:
CHARACTER AND ENVIRONMENT IN TIM WINTON'S FICTION. 1997.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main).
Student:
Cheatham, L.
Program of Study:
Gender Identity, Sexual Practices/Reproduction and Patriarchal Control in Second Wave Feminist Fiction. (Masters) 2002.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main).
Student:
Coleman, P.
Program of Study:
Ungraspable nature: an eco-exploration of indefinition. (PHD) 2007.
Supervisors:
Rigby, C (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Student:
Cotter, J.
Program of Study:
Tom Roberts's portraits: the complexity of representation of identity in the modern portrait in Australia. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:
Astbury, D (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Student:
Cover, R.
Program of Study:
(Re)Cognising the Subject: Performativity, Subjectivity and Sexuality in Discourse and Media. (PHD) 2001.
Supervisors:
Marsh, A (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Student:
Fitzgerald, J.
Program of Study:
PHARMACONALYSIS: DISCOURSE, DELEUZE AND DRUG USE. (PHD) 2002.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Threadgold, T (Associate).
Student:
Funari, R.
Program of Study:
Everything is personal: Choice and Complementarity in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen. (Masters) 2008.
Supervisors:
Milner, A (Joint-Co), Worth, C (Joint).
Student:
Ghattas, B.
Program of Study:
Re-Imagining Oceania: Women's Drama and Identity. (Masters) 2006.
Supervisors:
Baum, R (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Student:
Hadley, B.
Program of Study:
HABIT IN THEATRE: HENRI BERGSON, GILLES DELEUZE, AND PERFORMANCE, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE PHYSICAL THEATRE OF YUMI UMIUMARE AND DAVID PLEDGER. (PHD) 2004.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Snow, P (Associate).
Student:
Kaji O'Grady, S.
Program of Study:
SERIALISM IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE: CONTEXT AND THEORY . (PHD) 2001.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main).
Student:
Logan, K.
Program of Study:
Confronting escapism: anxiety and escape in the early novels of Martin Amis. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:
Dilnot, A (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Student:
Maclean, H.
Program of Study:
LEARNING LITERACIES IN THE LAW: CONSTRUCTING LEGAL SUBJECTIVITIES. (PHD) 2003.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main).
Student:
Mills, L.
Program of Study:
CHANGING THE CHEMISTRY OF THE SOUL: THE ROLE OF THE WELL IN DENISE LEVERTOV'S POETICS OF LISTENING. (PHD) 2001.
Supervisors:
Hart, K (Main), Worth, C (Main).
Student:
Morrow, J.
Program of Study:
THE SKIN OF THE LAW: RHETORIC AND PERFORMANCE OF THE JUDGEMENT IN AUSTRALIA. (PHD) 2000.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Threadgold, T (Associate).
Student:
Neilson, F.
Program of Study:
Writing subjects: techniques of self-production in the texts of Simone de Beauvoir and Annie Ernaux. (PHD) 2006.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Anderson, P (Associate).
Student:
Nobis, F.
Program of Study:
The presence of the storyteller in contemporary practice and a lost tradition. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Snow, P (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Student:
Novakovic, J.
Program of Study:
Dorothy Hewett: The place of myth and the influence of the avantgarde in her plays. (PHD) 2006.
Supervisors:
Fitzpatrick, P (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Student:
O'Connor, B.
Program of Study:
A LACANIAN READING OF BOSWELL'S MORBID WILL: MELANCHOLIA AND "ANGST". (PHD) 2000.
Supervisors:
Hart, K (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Student:
Otomo, R.
Program of Study:
READING YUKIO MISHIMA'S MAP OF MODERNITY: A PARADIGMATIC TURN IN "THE SEA OF FERTILITY". (PHD) 2002.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main).
Student:
Perfect, T.
Program of Study:
Undecidability and alterity in the works of Jacques Derrida and J.M. Coetzee. (Masters) 2010.
Supervisors:
Benjamin, A (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Student:
Presa, E.
Program of Study:
THE POETICS OF THE BOOK IN SCULPTURE. (PHD) 2003.
Supervisors:
Gregory, A (Joint), Worth, C (Joint-Co).
Student:
Ricketson, M.
Program of Study:
Ethical issues in the practice of book-length journalism. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Philadelphoff-Puren, N (Associate).
Student:
Sarwoto, P.
Program of Study:
The Javanese in transition: a postcolonial study of the priyayi class in the works of Indonesian author, Umar Kayam. (PHD) 2012.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Aveling, H (Associate).
Student:
Sellars, S.
Program of Study:
'The yes or no of the borderzone': J.G. Ballard's affirmative dystopias. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:
Milner, A (Main), Worth, C (Associate).
Student:
Trevena, B.
Program of Study:
The Drum and Bass Scene in the City of Melbourne: Narratives of Urban Identities through Sites of Cultural Production. (Masters) 2009.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main), Milner, A (Associate).
Student:
Williamson, S.
Program of Study:
CONTEMPORY NOVEL. (PHD) 2000.
Supervisors:
Worth, C (Main).