Research interests
* The Frankfurt School and Psychoanalysis
* The Frankfurt School and Literature
* Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
* Psychoanalysis and Literature
Renaissance Studies from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Affiliations
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
Teaching interests
Geoff Boucher teaches literatary studies in the following units:
ALL374 Supernatural Literature
ALL375 Shakespeare
Professional activities
Academic referee for several professional journals
General editor, Thinking Politics series, Edinburgh University Press
Projects
Geoff's current research projects are:
* Analysing the Cultural Contribution of Fantasy Literature
* The Rationality of Literature--Third Generation Frankfurt School and Literature as Communication
Geoff is interested in supervising projects of the following types:
Honours
Projects that focus on the work of Slavoj Zizek and/or Jurgen Habermas
Analyses of contemporary fantasy literature, especially epic fantasy
Shakespeare and other Renaissance drama (Marlowe, Webster pref.)
PhD
Critical interrogations of contemporary Lacanian theory especially the questions of (1) post-Oedipal society (2) the literary sinthome and late Lacan (3) psychoanalysis and politics
Applications of Habermasian approaches to literature to contemporary literature or theoretical explorations of Habermas and literature, including reconstructions of first generation Frankfurt positions
Zizek and literature
Other projects would need to be thoroughly discussed in advance of any application; please look at my publications below for general indications
Publications
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Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
Shelise Marjorie-Rose Robertson
Thesis entitled: Calculated Investors: John Arbuthnot, Hans Sloane, John Woodward, and Slavery
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Mitchell David Cunningham
Thesis entitled: Performing the 'Fiction-Writer's Reader': David Foster Wallace and Critical Rhetoric
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Ilona Urquhart
Thesis entitled: Diabolical Literature: Questioning the Morality of Modernism
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Amy Antonio
Thesis entitled: Fatal Women in Renaissance Tragedy, 1550-1650
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Paul Belanger
Thesis entitled: The Utopian (R)evolution
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Benjamin Walters
Thesis entitled: Free Speech in the Modern World
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kirk Turner
Thesis entitled: Development of the Lacanian Concept of Fantasy: Uncertainty and Signification
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kevin Murphy
Thesis entitled: Asexuality: Towards a Freudian-Lacanian Understanding
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Vincent Le
Thesis entitled: Being and Evil: Philosophy in the Shadow of Augustine
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Michelle McRae
Thesis entitled: Textual Strategies for Promoting Deep Reading in Adolescents
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Ruth Cumberland
Thesis entitled: Revealing the Open Wound: Body Metaphors in Literary Representations of Grief
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Adrienne Margarian
Thesis entitled: A Cross Cultural Study of Somatic Countertransference
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Salvatore Guido
Thesis entitled: After Freud: The Fateful History of Psychoanalysis in Exile
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Leslie Hartley
Thesis entitled: When Fathers Murder Sons: Male Melancholy in Dostoyevsky, Mailer and Murakami
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Daniel Jeffrey Edward Townsend
Thesis entitled: Leo Strauss and Islam
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Paul Venzo
Thesis entitled: Achipelago: a journey across poetic islands of the self
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Daniel Tom Baker
Thesis entitled: Exploring the fantastic: new critical frameworks in an evolving genre
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Robert Bruce Thomson
Thesis entitled: Sir Walter Scott in the Western District: 1836 - 1851
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Adelle Louise Sefton-Rowston
Thesis entitled: Polities and poetics: a 'place' for reconciliation
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Jonathon Redmond
Thesis entitled: Elementary phenomena, body disturbances & symptom formation in ordinary psychosis
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Tim Themi
Thesis entitled: Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism
Doctor of Philosophy, School of International and Political Studies
Alyson Miller
Thesis entitled: Scandalous Texts: The Anxieties of the Literary
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Scott William Tyndale Rawlings
Thesis entitled: Literature and Environmental Ethics: A Dissensual Ecosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts