She established the Sydney Knowledge and Language Translation Lab which hosts a dozen research students working on environmental, health, literary translations. Dr Ji has published over 70 research papers/book chapters and is the author/editor of two dozen books (with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, Springer, John Benjamins, Waseda University Press, University of Montréal Press, Canada), the editor of two special journal issues published by the MIT Press (Leonardo), USA and University of Montreal Press in Canada (Meta: Journal des traducteurs). Dr Ji is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Translation and Social Practices (2020), New York: Oxford University Press (with Sara Laviosa, Italy) (2020); the editor of Advances in Empirical Translation Studies: Developing Translation Resources and Technologies, Cambridge University Press (with Michael Oakes, Wolverhampton) (2019). Her books are reviewed in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics; Journal of Specialised Translation; International Journal of Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press); The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press); Australian Journal of Linguistics; Routledge Encyclopaedia of Translation Technology; Babel: Revue internationale de la traduction; Target: International Journal of Translation Studies; Languages in Contrast; Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science; Literary and Linguistic Computing (Oxford University Press). The 2012 book Quantitative Methods in Corpus Translation Studies (John Benjamins) has been reviewed in numerous academic journals and yearbooks of applied linguistics with leading publishers such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press. Dr Ji is the founding series editor of the Cambridge Studies in Language Practices and Social Development, Cambridge University Press; founding editorial board member of the book series of Cambridge Elements of Translation and Interpreting, Cambridge University Press; and the founding editor of Routledge Studies of Empirical Translation and Multilingual Communication, New York/Oxon: Routledge. Her research has been supported by the British Academy, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences, Australian Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council of the UK, Toshiba International Foundation, Worldwide University Networks Research Development Fund, and a number of universities in Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea, and Brazil. Dr. Ji is collaborating closely with Prof. Adone and team.

Her research interests combine didactic perspectives and literary/cultural criticism, focusing on the intersection between representations of identity and cultures in the context of school education. Her paper delivered at the conference “Nature and Environment in Australia” (Cologne, October 2016), “Australian Tropes of Nature: Representation and Appropriation in EFL Teaching” (forthcoming: pedocs, 2017), assesses the representation of Australian identity in English school teaching from a perspective of postcolonial scepticism concerning appropriate representation of cultures and identities in their complexity and fluidity.

This interest also extends to her academic teaching: “Teaching Australia in Postcolonial and Intercultural Perspective” (summer semester 2018) will explore the theoretical question of representing cultural identities in view of lesson and sequence planning for school teaching at lower and upper secondary levels, with a special focus on the genres of fiction and short film.

She was also involved in the organization and coordination of the Dr R Marika Chair for Australian Studies at the English Department of the University of Cologne (from 2010-2014).

She is a member of the Centre for Australian Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany where she continues to contribute to conversations about communication in health contexts. With a background in research and evaluation for policy-making and first-hand experience with the impacts of policies applied to remote and regional settings, her academic publications and unpublished commissioned reports are topically diverse. Generally that work addresses gaps and opportunities in valuing livelihood and health and the ecologies of change-impact that trans-disciplinary and creative practice contribute. Communication across governments, organisations, and communities, as well as between cultural sectors and in intercultural settings crosscuts these things. With a role in the Graduate School at Batchelor Institute, Australia’s only First Nations Higher Education Institute, and based for two decades in the Arrernte homelands, she  works in close partnership with people whose responsibilities include to community, kin, knowledge and the more than human elements upon which we all rely. As an academic supervisor, she supports candidates whose approaches require them to apply their Indigenous Knowledge expertise, or who undertake inter or transcultural research.

She specialises in collaborative qualitative research and community education with remote Aboriginal communities. Her primary areas of interest include intercultural communication, particularly related to Indigenous health and early childhood; and culturally responsive policy and practice, in both research and provision of health and education services. Improving recognition of the critical importance of Indigenous cultural and linguistic expertise is an ongoing priority. Anne is collaborating closely with Prof. Adone and team.

His research focuses on Australian Indigenous languages, Contact varieties of English, Language change, variation and contact. Robert has been working in the Top End of Australia documenting the Iwaidjan languages, especially Amurdak and Iwaidja, and Aboriginal English spoken on Croker Island. Together with Mark Harvey (Newcastle), he demonstrated for the first time that almost all Australian languages form one language family (Diachronica, 2017). Robert has worked closely with members of CAS such as Prof. Adone. 

During his three years at Kintore he began studying linguistics and was also learning the local language, Pintupi. Doug then moved to Geraldton in WA, where he was Teacher/Linguist at the Yamaji Language Centre for nine years. In this role he worked with the many endangered languages of the region. While in this position Doug completed an Honours thesis consisting of a description of Wajarri. Doug then moved to Canberra where he undertook a PhD for which he wrote a descriptive grammar of Wutung (Sko family). Following this Doug joined AIATSIS (the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) as the Research Fellow in Linguistics. Currently Doug is heading up the newly formed AIATSIS Centre for Australian Languages. Doug’s research interests include language documentation and description, grammar writing and lexicography, with a core focus on language maintenance and revitalisation. Doug has worked intensively on a number of Australian languages in WA and in recent years has been working closely with the Ngunnawal community of Canberra to assist them with their language work. Doug has worked closely with members of CAS such as Prof. Adone. 

His PhD project, entitled “Twenty-First Century Vibes: Stimmung in Contemporary Anglophone Literature” explores new ways to figure affective presences wothin contemporary works. His work with Bettina Burger on integrating new digital media technologies technologies into teaching Australian Studies has led to two ELFF (Elearning Förderfond) awards as well as the 2021 Digi-Fellowship awarded by the state government of NRW. Their courses, centering around the Australian Fantastic  and Blogging, have so far reached over 200 students. He works and collaborates closely with Bettina Burger and David Kern.

Currently a researcher in the Special Collaborative Research Centre “Media of Co-operation” at the University of Siegen, he has previously taught and held positions at the universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, Potsdam and Sydney. He is the author of the books Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and A History of Modern Linguistics (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), as well as editor of several volumes, including Form and Formalism in Linguistics (Language Science Press, 2019) and The Limits of Structuralism (Oxford University Press, 2023). He is the founding editor of the scholarly blog History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences (https://hiphilangsci.net/) and host of the monthly podcast of the same name. Click here for his personal homepage. Dr. McElvenny is collaborating closely with Prof. Adone and team.

Professionally focused on the management of natural and cultural heritage including the protection of cultural and intellectual property, Liz is also a collected artist, see Liz McNiven, Badyidi (Budjiti) people – Spirit Dreaming – Search the Collection, National Gallery (nga.gov.au) and a published writer, see Titles curated by Liz McNiven on ASO – Australia’s audio and visual heritage online.

In her youth she completed a Cultural Resource Management Skills Development Program in the Film Archive of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, complemented by a Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Communication, at the University of Canberra.

With a career spanning thirty years, Liz worked across leading Australian national and State based cultural and natural resource management institutions with roles including Art Consultant & Project Coordinator, National Gallery of Australia;  Program Director, Museum Victoria; Senior Curator and Branch Manager, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia; Senior Land Rights Officer, New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council; Senior Natural Resource Officer, New South Wales Department of Land and Water Conservation; and Senior Policy Officer and Assistant Program Director at the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. Now, as a BAC director, she is applying her skills and knowledge to support the BAC in managing native title rights and interests over Budjiti lands, waters, and natural resources and in asserting cultural authority over tangible and intangible dimensions of Budjiti heritage.

Liz is collaborating closely with Professor Adone and team.

(Photograph: (c) Romain Morton)

In 2016-2017, Martin Müller held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen, sponsored by the Danish Research Council. The research project was on Territoriality, Governmentality, and Colonial Rule: A Global History of the War on Non-Sedentary Peoples and Itinerant Cultures during the Long 19^th Century. The project is at present continued in other venues and within new national and international networks. Before this, he worked as a lecturer in history and social studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway from 2014 to 2015. He defended his doctoral dissertation at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 2013. The dissertation was entitled Civilization, Culture and Race in John Crawfurd’s Discourses on Southeast Asia: Continuities and Changes, c.1814-1868. Martin Müller has published in books and academic journals on imperial knowledge production, transfer and implementation in Southeast Asia and on how this continues to influence our approaches to- and conceptualization of this region, its peoples and history. Language has occupied a pivotal position in all of these studies; these have in particular focused on how nineteenth century metropolitan scholars, colonial civil servants, soldiers, settlers and travellers thought and theorised about the entangled relationships between language, race, civilization, history and society.

Her research is dedicated to the study of the poetics and politics of Anglophone literatures, to world literatures and transcultural exchange, to postcolonial ecocriticism as well as to intermedial configurations in postcolonial fiction. She is author, co-author and editor of a range of books and articles that explore post/colonial modes of articulation in literature and film.

Her current research projects focus on the polycentric network of Anglophone world literatures and on postcolonial ekphrasis/ literary visuality. Together with Juergen Reulecke she is general editor of the series Forms of Remembering/Formen der Erinnerung (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, since 2004). Recent publications include co-edited volumes on Anglophone World Literatures (Special Issue Anglia, 2017) and on Literary Environments: Ecocritical Theories and Ethics in Anglophone Literatures (anglistik & englischunterricht, 2018) as well as a number of articles on verbal-visual configurations in Anglophone Literatures. She is currently writing a monograph on Postcolonial Ekphrasis and Counter-Visions in Anglophone Literatures – Contacts, Contests and Translations.

He is specialised in language documentation, field linguistics and endangered languages and has published grammars of Dagbani (Ghana), Urarina (Peru) before entering research on the Miriwoong language (North-western Australia). In his current role as senior linguist of MDWg he is engaged in the revitalisation of the Miriwoong language of the East Kimberley region. His academic background includes a PhD from Düsseldorf (Germany) as well as postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley and at La Trobe University (Melbourne). His expertise in endangered languages with a focus on Australia has led to teaching engagements at various German universities, including University of Cologne, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and University of Konstanz. Knut has worked closely with members of CAS such as Prof. Adone. 

She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Australian National University (Canberra, 2014), with additional background in Philosophy (PhD Université Paris-8, 2005). She has extensive experience working with speakers of Indigenous languages in communities of inland Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia. In line with her combined linguistic, philosophical and anthropological interests, Maïa Ponsonnet’s research concerns the role of language in humans’ lives, and in particular how language may channel or modify people’s experience and management of emotions. She is the author of a number of articles and books, in particular a 2014 monograph on the encoding of emotions in Dalabon (Arnhem Land) and a 2019 monograph on a comparison between Dalabon and Kriol, the creole that has replaced Dalabon. Some of her work is also available via the website: www.EmotionLanguageAustralia.com. Maïa has worked closely with Prof. Adone at CAS.

Dr Michael Pickering has worked extensively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organizations, State and Territory Heritage Agencies, and museums across Australia. Dr Pickering moved to the National Museum of Australia as the Director of the Repatriation Program in 2001, later taking on the role of Head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program, from 2004 to 2011. He then moved to the Research Centre. From 2013 to 2014 he was the Acting Head of the Australian Society and History Program. In 2015 he took up the position as Head of Research Centre. From 2018 to 2022 he has been the Senior Repatriation Advisor at the National Museum of Australia.

Dr Pickering is an Honorary Associate Professor with the Department of Museum and Heritage Studies at the Australian National University, an Honorary Professor with the Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity, Hokkaido University, Japan, and a Partner with the Centre for Australian Studies, Cologne University, Germany. Dr. Pickering is collaborating closely with Prof. Adone and team.

Dr Pickering is on the editorial boards of the journals ‘Museum Management and Curatorship’ and ‘Museums and Social Issues’.  He is an ‘Expert Examiner’ under the Australian Protection of Moveable Cultural Heritage Act 1986.

He has a wide range of research interests and has published articles on topics ranging from material culture, cannibalism, settlement patterns, museum exhibitions, museum ethics, workplace health and safety, and repatriation.

Research Field(s)

Repatriation, Cannibalism, museum management of Indigenous cultural heritage, Hunter-gatherer settlement patterns.

He then worked as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Adelaide, Sydney and Darwin before moving to Germany in 1996. In Germany, he has worked as a freelance writer, editor, translator and teacher. In 2009 he joined the English Department in Stuttgart, where he teaches courses on Australian literature and culture, African literature, and British literature and culture. His PhD, completed in 2016, examined the impact of the 1992 High Court Mabo decision on discourses of land and history in contemporary Australian fiction.

Her research in Australian Studies ranges across the fields of Language Variation and Change, Audio-visual and Translation Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, World Englishes and Learning, Media Discourse, Ecocritical, Post-colonial, Whiteness and Gender Studies. She is Associate Professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and since her first appointment as a lecturer in 2007, she has worked towards creating strong ties with Australian Universities and cultural institutions, hosting several events in the field of Australian Studies with renowned scholars such as Bill Ashcroft, Anne Brewster, Brigitta Olubas, Behrouz Boochani and many others.

She is the author of Practices of Proximity: The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature (2010), which won the ESSE Book Award in 2012. The book investigated the appropriation of the English language taking place in the Australian literary contact zone between an official ‘white’ Australia – the apparent owners of both the land and the English language – and Australian Indigenous peoples. Documenting language variation and rescuing the debate from seemingly peripheral locations – the ‘empty’ Great Sandy Desert, or the abject urban margin – it insisted on the complex, ultimately open-ended and multilateral ownership of the English language by all who inhabit its intersubjective space, rendering the inherited authority of who ‘owns’ meaning problematical and ethically suspect. Her second monograph, Global English, Transnational Flows: Australia and New Zealand in Translation, addressed the central, yet unresolved, theoretical debate concerning the translation of post-colonial English language varieties. Her recent research centers on Climate Change and Climate-induced Migration Discourse, Populist Discourse, and Social-media Activism with many case-studies from the Australian context.  Her most recent monograph, The Evaluation of Risk in Institutional and Newspaper Discourse: the Case of Climate Change and Migration, provides an analysis of the evaluation of climate change and climate-induced migration risks in institutional and newspaper discourse. Katherine is collaborating closely with Prof. Adone and team.

Her main research interests are postcolonial studies and eighteenth-century British literature and culture in a comparative European perspective. She is the author of Die verordnete Kultur: Stereotypien der australischen Literaturkritik (1990) – a study of the history of literary criticism in Australia – and Die Kunst der Kritik (2000), a study on the third Earl of Shaftesbury’s concept of criticism. She has edited three collections of essays on aspects of cultural transfer in 18th-century Europe as well as an anthology of Contemporary Indian Short Stories (2006).

She has published numerous articles on postcolonial theory and literatures, especially on Australian literature and culture. She has recently edited, together with Elisabeth Bähr, a collection of essays by Australian and German scholars, ‘And there‘ll be NO dancing’: Perspectives on Policies Impacting Indigenous Australia since 2007 (Cambridge Scholars 2017). She has served on the board of the German Association for Australian Studies (GASt) and is a member of the association’s Academic Advisory Council.

Her research interest are currently focussed on documenting, describing and reviving Indigenous languages. She has a new focus on the Indigenous languages of Pakistan, including Saraiki of the Punjab and Torwali of Swat. She has two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects one with Prof John Maynard on the history of Aboriginal missions and reserves in eastern Australia and the history of Aboriginal people who were not institutionalised. The other DP is about the practise of ‘corroboree’ by Aboriginal people in the ‘assimilation period’ of the mid C20 in Australia. She is interested in the use of Indigenous research methodologies and and community engaged research practises. She is Aboriginal Australian and her community is Ngarigu of the Snowy Mountains in south eastern Australia. Jakelin has worked closely with members of CAS such as Prof. Adone.

Before joining Heidelberg University in 2014, he was Postdoctoral Fellow of the Graduate School Society and Culture in Motion, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow of the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (Australia). Dr. Wergin’s work is located at the intersections of heritage, culture and ecology.

He has published widely on diverse topics such as music, tourism, heritage, environmental activism, resource exploration, as well as more general theoretical aspects of anthropology and transcultural studies research in Australia and elsewhere. Among others, he is author of Der Ruf des Schneckenhorns: Hermann Klaatsch (1863-1916). Ein Heidelberger Wissenschaftler in Nordwestaustralien (with Corinna Erckenbrecht, HeiUP 2018), co-editor of Musical Performance and the Changing City (with Fabian Holt, Routledge 2013) and the Special Issue “Materialities of Tourism” (with Stephen Muecke, Tourist Studies 2014). In his current project, he examines the restitution of artefacts and repatriation of human remains as transcultural processes of connectivity and healing. Dr. Wergin is collaborating closely with Prof. Adone and team.

A trained Americanist, she is interested in the transnational entanglements of Atlantic slavery. While her previous work examined American antislavery literature and looked at, among other literary genres, German immigrant women’s fiction in the United States, her current research explores German immigrants’ recruitment to and involvement in Australia’s cotton and sugar economies and how Atlantic discourses of anti/slavery reverberated in multifaceted ways in German immigrant writings in Australia. She is also working with Emma Christopher (UNSW) on a project tentatively entitled “Atlantic Slavery’s Long Shadow in the Pacific.”

At Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring, Brandon facilitated a team of Miriwoong language teachers at the Miriwoong Language Nest Program, which teaches the language to school children in Kununurra. Brandon’s project investigates ways of understanding how language revitalisation programs work in Australian contexts, redefining what makes language revitalisation efforts successful in terms of how language communities see the future of their languages, and co-designing language learning programs with the local communities. His research seeks to establish theories on which methods of language revitalisation are most effective and how contextual factors of program implementation affect outcomes. Using the tools of realist inquiry, this project intends to gain a deeper understanding of how language programs work, for whom, and in which circumstances, as well as facilitate development of language programs that are sensitive to local contexts and in doing so, are more effective. Brandon is collaborating closely with Prof. Adone and team.

Since 2017 he is a chief investigator in an NHMRC research project assessing language revival and mental health; as well as President of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies. Prof. Zuckermann is the author of seminal books such as Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2020), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan 2003), Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property (2015), the first online Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language (2018), Barngarlidhi Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together, 2019) and Mangiri – Yarda (Barngarla Wellbeing and Nature, 2021). He has been Expert Witness in Branding and Intellectual Property in court cases all over the globe. Prof. Zuckermann is collaborating closely with Prof. Adone and team.