Leadership team
Dean of Arts
Professor Katie Stevenson
Faculty Management
Helen Boyd
Faculty General Manager
The Faculty General Manager provides high-level leadership to, and has oversight of, the faculty’s administrative, resource and business planning activities, and contributes to its effective governance. The position is responsible for the faculty’s professional staff support functions and for leading interactions with university administration on behalf of the Faculty.
Deputy and Associate Deans
Professor Rita Wilson
Deputy Dean Academic Affairs
Associate Professor Kevin Foster
Associate Dean Academic Development
Professor Brett Hutchins
Deputy Dean Research
Professor Kerry O'Brien
Associate Dean Research
Professor Robyn Bartel
Deputy Dean Education
Robyn is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Social Sciences. In addition to her expertise in geography, she holds qualifications in law, science, higher education and governance. She has substantial experience in senior leadership roles including at her former institution as Chair of Academic Board and President of the Institute of Australian Geographers. Robyn is an accomplished educator with extensive experience in curriculum design and development, having founded and coordinated degree programmes, including externally accredited awards.
Associate Professor Bea Trefalt
Associate Dean Education
Bea is Associate Dean Education (Teaching and Learning). She joined the Faculty's leadership team after several years as the Education Director and Deputy Head of School for the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. She is a historian of Japan, specialising in Japanese experiences and legacies of the Second World War and she teaches first and second year Global Asia units.
Professor Cecilia Hewlett
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Prato Centre and Global Network Development) and Associate Dean (International)
Cecilia provides strategic oversight of the faculty’s international partnerships. She is a member of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and has published on urban–rural relations in Early Modern Italy. Cecilia is also the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Prato Centre and Global Network Development).
Professor Megan Farrelly
Associate Dean Graduate Research
Megan is interested in the broad fields of environmental and natural resource governance, including the drivers of institutional change and unpacking urban transformations. Her research focuses on exploring the role of sustainability experimentation (technical and governance) in helping to promote and deliver changes in policy and on-ground practices.
Heads of Schools
Professor Jo Winning
School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
Jo is Professor of Modern Literature and Critical Theory. She has published widely on 20th-century and 21st-century literature, culture, theory and practice, with particular focus on modernism and the avant-garde. She also researches in the field of medical humanities, examining the relations between illness, language and patient subjectivity, and the interface between critical theory in the humanities and clinical practice in medicine. She is a passionate advocate for the HASS disciplines, sitting on the British Academy’s Strategic Forum for the Humanities. Prior to joining Monash, she was Assistant Dean for Equalities (2017-21) and College Dean (2021-23) at Birkbeck, University of London.
Associate Professor Shane Homan
School of Media, Film and Journalism
Shane has built an international reputation in cultural industries policy work, especially relating to popular music and its governance. He has led or been a Chief Investigator on seven Australian Research Council grants examining youth music programs; national music policy; music exports; and music heritage. Shane has also completed commissioned work for the Australia Council, Creative Victoria, Music Victoria, the NSW Ministry for the Arts and the City of Melbourne. His latest books: the Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy (2022); Music City Melbourne: Urban Culture, History and Policy (Bloomsbury, 2021); and The Music Export Business: Born Global (Routledge, 2021).
Professor Catherine Mills
School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Catherine is Director of the Monash Bioethics Centre. Her current research focuses on ethical issues in human reproduction, especially from the perspective of how new reproductive technologies and practices impact on women. She teaches at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Professor Jack Corbett
School of Social Sciences
Jack's research focuses on the politics and development of small island states. He is the author of seven books, two edited volumes, and numerous articles, chapters and commentaries. He also serves as co-director of the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative, editor of the Topics in the Contemporary Pacific book series with University of Hawaii Press, and associate editor of the Australian Journal of Public Administration.