Professor Greg Hainge
FAHA
Head of School
School of Languages and Cultures
Researcher biography
Greg Hainge is a leading expert in cultural studies whose work reaches into the realms of French literature, film and philosophy, the films of David Lynch, sound and noise studies, the music of Radiohead and much much more. The analysis of challenging and difficult texts is the connecting thread that links the very diverse range of topics he has published on. Greg believes that engagement with difficult texts or objects of study are important because they require us to engage deep critical thinking, forcing us to formulate a response to something that we do not understand. Why does this matter? Because if we only engage with what we already know, we are not learning. Because we need to learn how to engage with things and people who are not like us if our societies are going to be healthy and thrive.
As Professor of French and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Greg is also passionate about the importance of languages and knowledge of other cultures in education and is driving a large-scale program of work that seeks to flip the script on the importance of languages, which he sees as a critical skill for the future, never more so than right now given the rise of generative AI.
The author of three monographs and over 50 academic chapters and articles, Greg has also written articles for The Australian, and catalogue essays for major international exhibitions, including ‘David Lynch: Between Two Worlds’ at the Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland and 'Audiosphere' held at the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid.
Greg is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is editor in chief of Culture, Theory and Critique and serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary French Civilization, Études Céliniennes, Corps: Revue Interdisciplinaire and French Screen Studies.
Publications
Books
Hainge, Greg (2017). Philippe Grandrieux: sonic cinema. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hainge, Greg (2013). Noise matters: Towards an ontology of noise. New York, United States: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hainge, Greg (2001). Capitalism and schizophrenia in the later novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline : D'un ... l'autre. New York, United States: Peter Lang Publishing.
Book Chapters
Hainge, Greg (2023). Distortion. Sound affects: a user’s guide. (pp. 186-198) edited by Sharon Jane Mee and Luke Robinson. New York, NY, United States: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Hainge, Greg (2021). Sound is silence. The Oxford handbook of sound art. (pp. 255-271) edited by Jane Grant, John Matthias and David Prior. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274054.013.20
Hainge, Greg (2021). Painting with numbers: the fine art of digital chronophotography. Sleep has her house . (pp. 31-42) edited by Scott Barley. London, United Kingdom: Scott Barley.
Hainge, Greg (2020). Anti Social Media Social Music. Audiosphere. (pp. 129-137) edited by Francisco López. Madrid, Spain: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
Hainge, Greg (2020). The uncanny hinterland of things: on Chambers’s An atmospherics of the city and speculative realism. Still loitering: Australian essays in honour of Ross Chambers. (pp. 83-97) edited by Valentina Gosetti and Alistair Rolls. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang.
Hainge, Greg (2020). When is a door not a door? Transmedia to the nth degree in David Lynch’s multiverse. Transmedia directors: artistry, industry and new audiovisual aesthetics. (pp. 271-284) edited by Carol Vernallis, Holly Rogers and Lisa Perrott. New York, United States: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781501339295.0028
Hainge, Greg (2016). Material music: speculations on non-human agency in music. Music's immanent future: the Deleuzian turn in music studies. (pp. 207-217) edited by Sally Macarthur, Judy Lochhead and Jennifer Shaw. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315597027-23
Hainge, Greg (2015). Neither here nor there: Lynch dissolves. David Lynch: between two worlds. (pp. 31-44) Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art.
Hainge, Greg (2015). L'art (immersif) des bruits. Le corps du Rock et arts immersifs. (pp. 151-161) edited by Luc Robene and Philippe Liotard. Paris, France: CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) Éditions. doi: 10.3917/corp1.013.0151
Hainge, Greg (2012). Unlocking the cage with/in the key of silence. Dead silence. (pp. 53-55) edited by Lawrence English. Brisbane, Australia: Room 40.
Hainge, Greg (2010). Red velvet : Lynch's cinemat(ograph)ic ontology. David Lynch in theory. (pp. 24-39) edited by Glezon, Francois-Xavier. Prague, Czech Republic: Litteraria Pragensia Books.
Hainge, Greg (2009). No sympathy for the devil, or, Lobby Music: Spaces of disjunction in Barton Fink, The Shining and Muzak. Moving Pictures/Stopping Places. Hotels and Motels on Film. (pp. 255-276) edited by Clarke, David B., Crawford Pfannhauser, Valerie and Doel, Marcus A.. Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books.
Hainge, Greg (2008). L'Invention du Troisième Peuple: The utopian vision of Philippe Grandrieux's dystopias. Nowhere is perfect: French and Francophone utopias/dystopias. (pp. 228-239) edited by John West-Sooby. Newark, DE, United States: University of Delaware Press.
Hainge, G. (2006). Interdisciplinarity in rhizome minor: on avoiding rigor mortis through a rigorous approach to jazz, metal, wasps, orchids and other strange couplings. Rhizomes: connecting languages, cultures and literatures. (pp. 2-12) edited by Ramière, N. and Varshney, R.. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hainge, Greg (2005). To(rt)uring the Minotaur: Radiohead, Pop, Unnatural Couplings and Mainstream Subversion. Strobe-Lights and Blown Speakers: The Music and Art of Radiohead. (pp. 62-84) edited by J. Tate. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers.
Hainge, Greg. (2005). Allegorical Geographies: Topographical Transposition and Allegorical Function in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Aesthetic Spaces. Discursive Geographies: Writing space and place in French. (pp. 25-38) edited by Jeanne Garane. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.
Hainge, Greg (2004). The Death of Education, a Sad Tale: Of Anti-Pragmatic Pragmatics and the Loss of the Absolute in Australian Tertiary Education. Innovation and Tradition: Arts, Humanities and the Knowledge Economy. (pp. 35-45) edited by Kenway, Jane, Bullen, Elizabeth and Robb, Simon. New York: Peter Lang.
Hainge, Greg (2004). Weird or Loopy? Specular Spaces, Feedback and Artifice in Lost Highway’s Aesthetics of Sensation. The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions. (pp. 136-150) edited by Annette Davison and Erica Sheen. London: Wallflower Press.
Hainge, Greg (2004). Is Pop Music?. Deleuze and Music. (pp. 36-53) edited by I. Buchanan and M. Swiboda. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hainge, Greg (2001). Le fol amour du Dr Destouches, ou comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à lire les pamphlets: Louis-Ferdinand Céline et Stanley Kubrick. Actualité de Céline. (pp. 143-158) Tusson: Du Lérot.
Hainge, Greg (1999). When the End is the Means; Becoming-Music. Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s German Trilogy’, Dialogues, 2. (pp. 77-83) edited by Amherst, Ann and Astbury , Katherine. Exeter: Elmbank Publications.
Hainge, Greg (1995). Quand je ne peut être autre; Féerie pour une autre fois de Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Le Moi littéraire. (pp. 85-93) edited by Russell King and Essais sur la Littérature Française et Francophone, 1. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, Department of French.
Journal Articles
Hainge, Greg (2021). Rapt in (destructive) plasticity: Demonlover and the annihilation of cinematic form. French Screen Studies, 23 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/26438941.2021.1935561
Hainge, Greg (2021). “Un film français et fier de l’être”: Gaspar Noé’s Climax in Context. Australian Journal of French Studies, 58 (1), 100-116. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2021.09
Hainge, Greg and Iveson, Richard (2020). Immediacy, causality, plasticity: Catherine Malabou and the future undoing of philosophy. Culture, Theory and Critique, 61 (1), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1815359
Hainge, Greg (2020). Delirium, Disruption and Death: On Stéphane Vanderhaeghe’s Charøgnards (Quidam éditeur, 2015). Electronic Book Review doi: 10.7273/vvqz-8173
Hainge, Greg (2018). Blanchot and the resonant spaces of literature, sound, art and thought. Angelaki, 23 (3), 94-111. doi: 10.1080/0969725x.2018.1473931
Hainge, Greg (2017). Review of Tim Palmer, Irreversible. New York: Palgrave, 2015. H-France Review, 17 (100), 1-3.
Hainge, Greg (2016). Adapted voices: transpositions of Céline’s ‘Voyage au bout de la nuit’ and Queneau’s ‘Zazie dans le métro’. By Armelle Blin-Rolland.. French Studies, 70 (4), 617-617. doi: 10.1093/fs/knw184
Hainge, Greg (2016). Art matters: philosophy, art history and art’s material presence. Culture, Theory and Critique, 57 (2), 137-141. doi: 10.1080/14735784.2016.1161903
Hainge, Greg (2015). Cadrage exquis: Reframing Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva. Australian Journal of French Studies, 52 (2), 112-126. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2015.10
Hainge, Greg (2015). Review: Benjamin Thomas (ed.) (2012) Tourner le dos: Sur l’envers du personnage au cinema, Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes.. Film-Philosophy, 19, 115-117.
Hainge, Greg and Simons, Jon (2015). A letter of thanks to a man of letters: Mark Millington and Culture, Theory and Critique. Culture, Theory and Critique, 56 (3), 263-265. doi: 10.1080/14735784.2015.1070977
Hainge, Greg (2014). Blue movies: Diva, The Smurfs 2 and the ontology of cinema. Sight and Sound
Hainge, Greg (2014). Jonathan Ervine, cinema and the Republic: filming on the margins in contemporary France. H-France Review, 14 (148), 1-4.
Hainge, Greg (2014). David Novak. Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation. Asian Studies Review, 38 (2), 309-310. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2014.902738
Powrie, Phil, Austin, Guy, Conway, Kelley, Dobson, Julia, Hainge, Greg, Higbee, Will, Leahy, Sarah and Martin, Florence (2014). Editorial. Studies in French Cinema, 14 (1), 1-4. doi: 10.1080/14715880.2014.891373
Hainge, Greg (2014). Wright, Alexa, Monstrosity: The Human Monster in Visual Culture. Somatechnics, 4 (1), 185-187. doi: 10.3366/soma.2014.0119
Hainge, Greg (2014). Guerre et exil chez Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Ana Maria Alves. Modern and Contemporary France, 22 (2), 253-254. doi: 10.1080/09639489.2013.870144
Hainge, Greg and Rolls, Alistair (2014). The larrikin as hero (in French Studies). Australian Journal of French Studies, 51 (2-3), 269-280. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.2014.21
Hainge, Greg (2014). Three non-places of supermodernity in the history of French cinema: 1967, 1985, 2000. Playtime, Subway and Stand-by. Australian Journal of French Studies, 51 (2-3), 234-249. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.2014.19
Hainge, Greg (2013). Metacritique in the eighth circle of hell. Symploke, 21 (1-2), 341-345. doi: 10.1353/sym.2013.0024
Hainge, Greg (2012). To have done with the perspective of the (biological) body: Gaspar Noe´’s Enter the Void, somatic film theory and the biocinematic imaginary. Somatechnics, 2 (2), 305-324. doi: 10.3366/soma.2012.0063
Hainge, Greg (2012). A full face bright red money shot: Incision, wounding and film spectatorship in Marina de Van's Dans ma peau. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 26 (4), 565-577. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2012.698036
Hainge, Greg (2012). Celine Chez les fils de la Perfide Albion: Les etudes Celiniennes dans le contexte Universitaire Anglophone depuis 1961. Études Céliniennes, 7, 5-19.
Hainge, Greg and Cullen, Jason (2011). Formulating God: The ongoing place of theology in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Culture, Theory and Critique, 52 (2-3), 303-319. doi: 10.1080/14735784.2011.630888
Pratt, Murray, Stephens, Elizabeth, Rolls, Alistair, Hardwick, Joe and Hainge, Greg (2011). Larry Schehr. Australian Journal of French Studies, 48 (3), 348-352. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.48.3.348
Hainge, Greg, De Nooy, Juliana and Hanna, Barbara E. (2011). Tekhne, technique, technologie. Australian Journal of French Studies, 48 (2), 121-128. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.48.2.121
Hainge, Greg (2010). Une voix déplacée: La ventriloquie chez Céline ou pour en finir avec le jugement historique. Études Céliniennes, 5 (Hiver 2009-2010), 71-94.
Hainge, Greg (2009). Airport music: Muzak, 'Non-lieux' and film sound in Stéphanik's Stand-by and Lioret's Tombés du ciel. Studies in French Cinema, 9 (3), 201-214. doi: 10.1386/sfc.9.3.201/1
Hainge, G. (2008). Three non-places of supermodernity in the history of French cinema: 1967, 1985, 2000. Playtime, Subway and Stand-by. Australian Journal of French Studies, 45 (3), 197-211. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.45.3.197
Hainge, G. (2008). Unfixing the photographic image: Photography, indexicality, fidelity and normativity. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 22 (5), 715-730. doi: 10.1080/10304310802311659
Hainge, G. (2008). The unbearable blandness of Being: The everyday and Muzak in Barton Fink and Fargo. Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, 27 (2), 38-47.
Hainge, Greg (2008). A tale of (at least) two Hiroshimas: Nobuhiro Suwa's H Story and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima Mon Amour. Contemporary French Civilization, 32 (2), 147-174. doi: 10.3828/cfc.2008.8
Hainge, G. (2007). The architect’s scalpel: The monstrous digital futures of Alexa Wright’s Precious. Social Semiotics, 17 (3), 327-340. doi: 10.1080/10350330701448652
Hainge, Greg (2007). Of glitch and men: The place of the human in the successful integration of failure and noise in the digital realm. Communication Theory, 17 (1), 26-42. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2007.00286.x
Hainge, Greg (2007). Vinyl is dead, long live vinyl: the work of recording and mourning in the age of digital reproduction. Culture Machine, 9, 1-23.
Hainge, Greg (2007). Le corps concret: Of bodily and filmic material excess in Philippe Grandrieux's cinema. Australian Journal of French Studies, 44 (2), 153-171. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.44.2.153
Hainge, Greg. (2006). Tempest in another time: Shakespeare, Greenaway, Céline. Romanic Review, 97 (1), 15-32. doi: 10.1215/26885220-97.1.15
Hainge, G. (2006). Review of Le Grand Transit Moderne: Mobility, Modernity and French Naturalist Fiction by L. Duffy. Carnet Austral, 24, 12-14.
Hainge, Greg. (2006). Review of Formless: Ways In and Out of Form by P. Crowley & P. Hegarty (eds). Carnet Austral, 25, 33-34.
Hainge, Greg (2005). Carax and the ambiguities - a book that needs to fail, perhaps: on Daly and Dowd's Leos Carax. Film-Philosophy, 9 (4).
Hainge, Greg (2005). The language of suffering: The place of pain in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Féerie Pour Une Autre Fois I. L'Esprit Créateur, 45 (3), 18-28. doi: 10.1353/esp.2010.0339
Hainge, Greg (2005). No(i)stalgia: On the impossibility of recognising noise in the present. Culture, Theory and Critique, 46 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/14735780500102348
Hainge, Greg (2005). Surmodernites: Entre reve et technique. Contemporary French Civilization, 29 (1), 174-177.
Hainge, Greg (2004). "Pagan poetry", piercing, pain and the politics of becoming. Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture, 1 (3), 1-9.
Hainge, Greg (2004). Come on Feel the Noise: Technology and its Dysfunctions in the Music of Sensation. To The Quick (5), 42-58.
Hainge, Greg (2003). Le Prologue de Guignol’s band comme porte vers l'espace lisse, ou, chronique manquée d'une réussite à venir. Essays in French Literature, 40, 57-79.
Hainge, Greg (2003). Frozen Music [Book Review]. Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, 36 (2), 80-81.
Hainge, Greg (2002). Seeing Silence: Filmic and Acoustic Convergences in the Work of Thierry Knauff and Francisco López. Culture, Theory and Critique, 43 (2), 155-170. doi: 10.1080/1473578022000038004
Hainge, Greg (2002). In search of Frenchness lost? French Cinema in the 1990s: Continuity and Difference. Edited by Phil Powrie. Film-Philosophy, 6 (2).
Hainge, Greg (2002). Platonic relations: the problem of the loop in contemporary electronic music. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 5 (4)
Hainge, Greg (2002). A Taste for the Decadent. Review of Agnès Hafez-Ergaut 'Le vertige du vide: Huysmans, Céline, Sartre. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.. Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, 35 (1), 139-141.
Hainge, Greg (2002). A whisper or a scream? experimental music sounds a warning for the future of theory. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 16 (3), 285-298. doi: 10.1080/1030431022000018654
Hainge, Greg (2001). Impossible narratives: Colonial spaces of dissolution in Voyage au bout de la nuit and To have and to hold. Australian Journal of French Studies, 38 (2), 253-271. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.38.2.253
Hainge, G. (2001). Celine: from one end to the other. French Studies, 55 (4), 566-567. doi: 10.1093/fs/55.4.566-a
Hainge, Greg (2001). The art of automythography: The role of myth in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s German trilogy. New Comparison, 32, 53-65.
Hainge, Greg (1999). Introduction. Renaissance and Modern Studies, 42 (1), 1-4. doi: 10.1080/14735789909391485
Conference Papers
Hainge, Greg (2001). L'insoutenable pesanteur de l'être et l'esthétique imperceptible: l'épisode de la brique dans Rigodon, Pesanteur et légèreté selon Céline. XIIIe colloque international Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Prague, 2001. Paris: Société d'Études Céliniennes.
Hainge, Greg (1999). Céline: classique anti-classique. Classicisme de Céline; Actes du XIIe colloque international Louis-Ferdinand Céline pp.155-167, Paris, 1999. Paris: Société d’Études Céliniennes.
Hainge, Greg (1996). The Atomic Construction of Pablo Neruda’s Littérature Engagée: The Dialectical Poetics of Canto general. 4th Hispanic Studies Postgraduate Conference, London, 1996. London: Embajada de España, Consejería de Educación y Ciencia.
Newspaper Article
Hainge, Greg (2015, 11 25). ‘Paris Attacks: Let Beauty and Culture Strengthen our Resolve’ The Australian 33-33.