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From figure skating to board games and more… the POPSICULE collaborates with scholars studying pop culture, popular media and entertainment across the ANU!

Dr Wesley Lim

Wesley’s research broadly focuses on depictions of and discourses on dance and the moving body (often in a German cultural context). He is also interested in exploring screendance as well as figure skating studies. While his first book project looks at the interconnection between dance and city space in modernist writings of German-speaking authors around 1900, his second addresses figure skating history and practices in the former East Germany. 

Dr Mathieu Leclerc

Mathieu is an early career researcher and archaeologist. His primary research interests focus on using archaeological science techniques to better understand the manufacturing process of artefacts, as well as past population movements/ exchange networks and environmental conditions. He also has an interest for non-traditional outputs and is actively engaged in outreach activities outside academia. He is currently working on a project aiming at democratising knowledge about the human settlement of the Pacific and some key cultural expressions in the region by integrating Indigenous perspectives and archaeological/anthropological knowledge into an educative board game. 

Dr Gemma King

Gemma is a film scholar whose research focuses on contemporary French, francophone and transnational cinemas. She is interested in the relationship between language, culture and power in screen contexts, especially representations of multilingualism, sign languages and deafness, violence and post/colonial histories. She teaches in French and English at the ANU, including the French Studies course Cinéma-monde and the Screen Studies course Transnational Screens. She is currently working on a book with her colleague Loïc Bourdeau (National University of Ireland Maynooth) on representations of Frenchness in French Netflix series.

Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller

Terhi is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the Australian National University. She focuses on interdisciplinary experimentation into ways digital technologies can support and diversify research in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and in relation to public culture (including Web Science, and the cultural heritage sector).

More coming soon!

Dr Chris Bishop

Chris is fascinated by the representation of historical periods in modern popular culture (especially in comics and consul games), by the way that contentious imaginings such as the “Middle Ages” and the “Ancient World” can be used as cyphers for our own hopes and fears, and by the ways in which these imaginings continue to define and direct us. He has been a John W. Kluge Fellow at the Congressional Library, Washington (DC) — the product of this research being published as Medievalist Comics and the American Century (University Press of Mississippi, 2016) — and he continues to teach History, Latin and Ancient Greek at the ANU (Centre for Classical  Studies).

The ANU Humanities Research Centre

The Humanities Research Centre advances the production, dissemination and public translation of outstanding and innovative, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship in the humanities across The Australian National University, nationally and globally. Since 1972, the HRC has worked closely,  collaboratively, and extensively with research centres, museums,  galleries, libraries, and archives in Australia and globally, as well as with researchers and in sectors that cross disciplinary distinctions across the humanities, creative arts, social sciences, and technological and natural sciences to understand what it is to be human today, historically, and into the future. 

…and there were previous events, such as the ‘Circus and Science’ conference in 2018, organised by a Popsiculist at the ANU Humanities Research Centre.