John Fitzsimmons teaches in the area of Literary and Cultural Studies. He also teaches Honours and Master of Letters students in literary studies and creative writing. He supervises PhD students in creative Writing and Literary Studies.

BA Honours completions

• • 1994: Wendy O'Brien (BA-Hons) – ‘Marxist perspectives on the construction of 'women': an analysis of the fiction of Toni Morrison’: 1st Class Honours;
• • 1994: Kirsten Braun (1994):
• • 1994: Daniel Logovik (1994):
• • 1996: Ayesha Hall (1996):
• • 1997: Kellie Graham (1996):
• • 1996: Matthew Lamb (BA – Hons) – ‘A Dissertation Concerning A Dilatation of the Concussed Constatation in Beckett's Fiction’: 1st Class Honours;
• • 2009: Helen Ramoutsaki (BA – Hons) – ‘Patterning the pieces: perspectives on tessellating text in Brian Castro’s Drift and B.S. Johnson’s Albert Angelo’: 1st Class Honours;
• • 2015: Karen Newburn (BA – Hons) – ‘Stephen King’s horror novels evoke multiple and varied emotional responses in readers’: 1st Class Honours;

Master of Letters completions

• • 2005: Lyn McLintock (MLitt):
• • 2010: Amanda Rooks (MLitt): ‘Murray Bail and the Australian Gendered Nation’;
• • 2011: William Holloway (MLitt): ‘The Independent Woman in Australian Literature’;
• • 2014: Amanda Whinnerary (MLitt) – ‘Beaches, mountains and rainforests: traces of the human spirit in untamed Australian landscapes’;
• • 2015: Allanah Hunt (BA (Hons): Spectrum: Ist Class Honours
• • 2016: Catherine Cuddihy (MLitt): Wife versus Adulteress in Nikki Gemmell’s The Bride Stripped Bare: High Distinction
• • 2016: Lyn Chan (MLitt): The American Dream, nightmare and reality in The great Gatsby and Cosmopolis: High Distinction
• • 2016: Christine Gruss (MLitt): Patrick White and The tree of man: Distinction
• • 2017: Catherine Cuddihy (MLitt): 'Wife versus Adulteress in Nikki Gemmell’s The Bride Stripped Bare': High Distinction

PhD Completions (as principal supervisor):

• • 2003: Matthew Lamb - ‘(Re)Framing Freud in Contemporary Literary Theory’.
• • 2012: Lyn McLinock – ‘Leavers, loners and little ones lost: an exploration of Australian suburban fiction’.
• • 2015: John Gintowt – ‘Collaborative Autobiography: Exploring a Genre through Reflection on Personal Practice’ (resubmission).
• • 2015: Stephen Butler – ‘“Rock around the Real” – Fictional bands on film: the evolution of an invisible genre’.