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Dr Bernadette Cochrane

Senior Lecturer

School of Communication and Arts
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
bernadette.cochrane@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 51435

Overview

Bernadette Cochrane joined UQ in 2014 as a Lecturer in Theatre and Performance in the School of Communication and Arts. She has taught on historical and contemporary drama, dramaturgical theory and performance-making. Her current teaching responsiblities include particular reference to European theatre of the twentieth-century, and directing and dramaturgy. Bernadette, as part of the UQ Drama team, was received the 2018 Award for Programs that Enhance Learning for the "UQ Drama: Building Pathways to Creative Careers" project. In 2016, again as part of the UQ Drama team, she received a Commendation for Teaching Excellence, Prior to joining UQ, Bernadette was a freelance arts worker with a particular focus on directing and dramaturgy. Bernadette completed her dramaturgical PhD at the University of Queensland in 2013.

Her co-edited anthology New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice was published by Methuen in 2014. She is a major contributor to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors and Directing, edited by Maria Delgado and Simon Williams. Bernadette is a member of the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research. She is also a Board Member for the Migrant Dramaturgies Network - the international research network developed in partnership with New Tides Platform (UK) and the Centre for Theatre Research at the University of Lisbon, Portugal - which explores emerging dramaturgies of theatrical responses to migration in light of recent migration and shifts in global politics and economics. Bernadette is currently researching the intersection of live performance, cinema, institutional dramaturgies, and cultural production; and contemporary theatrical representations of Otherness.

Bernadette welcomes applications for higher research degree supervision in: directing, dramaturgy, Early Modern performance practice; theatre and the digital humanities; liveness in contemporary performance, and theatrical cultural production.

Research Interests

  • Dramaturgy
  • Theatre directing and directors
  • The live relay/the broadcast of arts events/digital humanities
  • Contemporary theatre practice
  • Adaptation
  • Theatre history

Research Impacts

2016 “Mediating Authorship: The Live Relay and Postdramatic Mediaturgies”. Invited speaker for the Postdramatic Mediaturgies conference which was part of the interuniversity project on "Literature and Media Innovation: The Question of Genre Transformations" for the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) (Brussels, Ohio State and Université du Québec à Montréal.)

2017 “(Re)mediating Remains of Authorship” . Invited speaker for “Theatre Workings” the public seminar series run by the Central School of Speech and Drama

2018 Board Member, Migrant Dramaturgies Network. An international research network composed of academics, theatre-makers and arts organisations. https://migrantdramaturgies.tumblr.com

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Masters (Coursework), The University of Queensland

Publications

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Grants

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Supervision

  • The Dramaturgy of the Revival Ballet

    Doctor Philosophy

  • The Traveller's Woven Path: Digital Game Theory, Dramaturgy, and Audience Experience in Ergodic Theatre

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Survival on the fringe: Investigating the cultural conditions affecting fringe festival production and reception

    Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Playing the field: an interdisciplinary approach to immersive theatre

    Lennox, Gabrielle and Cochrane, Bernadette (2021). Playing the field: an interdisciplinary approach to immersive theatre. Undergraduate research in theatre: a guide for students. (pp. 177-180) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003023807-15

  • Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance

    Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance. The Routledge companion to adaptation. (pp. 340-348) edited by Dennis Cutchins, Katja Krebs and Eckart Voigts. Abingdon, Oxon, United States: Routledge.

  • Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance

    Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance. The Routledge companion to adaptation. (pp. 340-348) Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315690254

  • Afterword: in lieu of a conclusion

    Trencsényi, Katalin and Cochrane, Bernadette (2014). Afterword: in lieu of a conclusion. New dramaturgy: international perspectives on theory and practice. (pp. 243-244) edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

  • Foreword

    Trencsényi, Katalin and Cochrane, Bernadette (2014). Foreword. New Dramaturgy: international perspectives on theory and practice. (pp. xi-xx) edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Other Outputs

  • The opportunities of reduced distance

    Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). The opportunities of reduced distance. Doing arts research in a pandemic: a crowd-sourced document responding to the challenges arising from COVID-19. (pp. 50-52) edited by Vida L. Midgelow. London, United Kingdom: The Culture Capital Exchange.

  • "Liminality" in Invisible Diaries

    Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). "Liminality" in Invisible Diaries. London, United Kingdom: Dramaturg's Network.

  • New dramaturgy: a roundtable

    Trenscényi, Katalin, Cochrane, Bernadette, Carleton, Stephen and Kelly, Kathryn (2019). New dramaturgy: a roundtable. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.

  • New dramaturgy: a roundtable

    Bernadette Cochrane, Trencsényi, Katalin, Campbell, Alyson and Dorney, Marcel (2019). New dramaturgy: a roundtable. Melbourne, Australia: Victorian College of the Arts.

  • New Dramaturgies

    Cochrane, Bernadette, Trenscényi, Katalin, Campbell, Alyson, Carleton, Stephen, Dorney, Marcel and Kelly, Kathryn (2019). New Dramaturgies. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.

  • Migrations: Harbour Europe

    Musca, Szabolcs, Parmiani, Lara, McFadden, Becka, Cochrane, Bernadette, Angelaki, Vicky, Jeffers, Alison, Correa, Graca and Paire, Roxanne (2019). Migrations: Harbour Europe. London, United Kingdom: Migrant Dramaturgies Network.

  • Dramaturgy, playtext and structure

    Cochrane, Mary (2013). Dramaturgy, playtext and structure. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland.

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • The Dramaturgy of the Revival Ballet

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • The Traveller's Woven Path: Digital Game Theory, Dramaturgy, and Audience Experience in Ergodic Theatre

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Survival on the fringe: Investigating the cultural conditions affecting fringe festival production and reception

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

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