Emeritus Professor
Overview
Professor Joanne Tompkins is currently seconded to the Australian Research Council as Executive Director of the Humanities and Creative Arts panel, for a period of three years (until 2019).
Her research interests include spatial theories and virtual reality; post-colonial, intercultural, and multicultural drama, literature, and theory; performance theories; and feminist performance.
Her current research includes 3D visualisation and modelling of theatre spaces; the spatial theory of heterotopia; space in Australian and Canadian theatre; database of Australian performance; multicultural theories and drama, and intercultural performance.
She is the author of articles on: Spatial theory and virtual reality; post-colonial, multicultural, and intercultural drama and theory; Australian drama and literature and Canadian drama;
She is author of: Theatre’s Heterotopias: Space and the Analysis of Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; and Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006.
She is co-author of: A Global Doll's House: Ibsen and Distant Visions. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 (with Julie Holledge, Frode Helland and Jonathan Bollen); Women's Intercultural Performance, Routledge, 2000 (with Julie Holledge); and Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics, Routledge, 1996 (with Helen Gilbert).
She is editor of: Theatre Journal, "Space and the Geographics of Theatre," a special issue of Modern Drama, 2004; "Theatre and the Canadian Imaginary," a special issue of Australasian Drama Studies, 1996.
She is co-editor of: Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (with Anna Birch); Site-Specificity and Mobility, a Special Issue of Contemporary Theatre Review 2012 (with Anna Birch); Performance and Design, a special issue of Australasian Drama Studies (with Andrew Filmer and Miranda Heckenberg) 2012;Modern Drama: Defining the Field, University of Toronto Press, 2003 (with Ric Knowles and WB Worthen); Modern Drama 1999-2005; Performing Women / Performing Feminisms: Interviews with International Women Playwrights (with Julie Holledge).
Research Interests
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Theatre and Spatiality
I am interested in the creation and manipulation of imaginative space/locations on stage, and the ways in which architecture contributes to imaginative stage space. I am also interested in the relationship between space on stage and space in the cultural context outside a theatre venue. I describe this through the concept of heterotopia, a development of Kevin Hetherington's formulation of Foucault's version of the term. -
Theatre and Virtual Reality
I research the ways in which theatre might engage with virtual reality. I explore this primarily through the redevelopment of historical theatre venues, virtually. These venues are useful to explore architectural structure, how special effects worked, how actors moved and performed on such stages, and how stage properties functioned then.
Research Impacts
Professor Tompkins has made a research impact in terms of the development of cultural spaces for theatres, galleries, and museums. Through the Ortelia project (www.ortelia.com), she, in conjunction with two Virtual Reality modellers, has developed tools for managing contemporary cultural venues. There is also the capacity for curating and archiving gallery and museum exhibitions and designing theatre productions. There is also a historical component to the theatre projects: this aspect of Ortelia models early modern theatres from London to investigate how performance was staged then. Ortelia has also developed the capacity to provide the curation of 3D mobile objects for museum exhibitions and for greater investigation by the museum community and by the cultural community from which the objects have emerged.
She is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Queen Mary, University of London (2015).
Qualifications
- Doctoral Diploma, Queen Mary University of London
- Masters (Coursework), University of Waterloo
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Toronto
Publications
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Journal Article: Putting virtual theatre models to work: ‘virtual praxis’ for performance research in theatre history
Bollen, Jonathan, Holledge, Julie and Tompkins, Joanne (2021). Putting virtual theatre models to work: ‘virtual praxis’ for performance research in theatre history. Theatre and Performance Design, 7 (1-2), 6-23. doi: 10.1080/23322551.2021.1925469
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Journal Article: Roger Clegg, principal investigator, and Eric Tatham, developer. Reconstructing the Rose: 3D Computer Modelling Philip Henslowe’s Playhouse. Other
Tompkins, Joanne (2020). Roger Clegg, principal investigator, and Eric Tatham, developer. Reconstructing the Rose: 3D Computer Modelling Philip Henslowe’s Playhouse. Other. Renaissance and Reformation, 43 (1), 177-180.
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Book Chapter: Teaching spatial theory and theatre ‘site-specifically’
Tompkins, Joanne (2017). Teaching spatial theory and theatre ‘site-specifically’. International Performance Research Pedagogies: Towards an Unconditional Discipline?. (pp. 163-174) edited by Sruti Bala, Milija Gluhovic, Hanna Korsberg and Kati Röttger. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-53943-0_12
Grants
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(2017–2018) Flinders University
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(2015) UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund - FirstLink
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(2014–2015) Flinders University
Supervision
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Brecht in India: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Theatre
(2018) Doctor Philosophy
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(2016) Master Philosophy
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Shakespeare's Voice: A Theory of the Voice in Performance
(2014) Doctor Philosophy
Available Projects
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Theatre
Among the topics I could supervise are theatre history, theatre theory, and cultural, national, spatial approaches to theatre. I am particularly interested in Australian and Canadian theatre.
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Digital Humanities and Virtual Reality
I am interested in topics relating to digital humanities and theatre and VR theatre.
Publications
Book
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A global doll's house: Ibsen and distant visions
Holledge, Julie, Bollen, Jonathan, Helland, Frode and Tompkins, Joanne (2016). A global doll's house: Ibsen and distant visions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-43899-7
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Theatre's heterotopias: performance and the cultural politics of space
Tompkins, Joanne (2014). Theatre's heterotopias: performance and the cultural politics of space. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137362124
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Performing site-specific theatre: politics, place, practice
Anna Birch and Joanne Tompkins eds. (2012). Performing site-specific theatre: politics, place, practice. Performance Interventions, Hampshire, U. K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre
Tompkins, Joanne E. (2006). Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230286245
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Modern Drama: Defining the Field
R. Knowles, J. E. Tompkins and W. B. Worthen eds. (2003). Modern Drama: Defining the Field. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
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Women's Intercultural Performance
Holledge, J. and Tompkins, J. E. (2000). Women's Intercultural Performance. London: Routledge.
Book Chapter
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Teaching spatial theory and theatre ‘site-specifically’
Tompkins, Joanne (2017). Teaching spatial theory and theatre ‘site-specifically’. International Performance Research Pedagogies: Towards an Unconditional Discipline?. (pp. 163-174) edited by Sruti Bala, Milija Gluhovic, Hanna Korsberg and Kati Röttger. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-53943-0_12
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Making the invisible visible: virtual stage props and Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus
Tompkins, Joanne (2014). Making the invisible visible: virtual stage props and Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus. Performing objects and theatrical things. (pp. 161-172) edited by Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy. Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137402455
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Tompkins, Joanne (2013). Noëlle Janaczewska’s twenty-first-century theatre: explorations of Australian cultural constructs and theatrical form. Catching Australian theatre in the 2000s. (pp. 207-220) edited by Richard Fotheringham and James Smith. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.
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Reproduction, mediation, and experience : virtual reality, motion capture and early modern theatre
Delbridge, Matthew and Tompkins, Joanne (2012). Reproduction, mediation, and experience : virtual reality, motion capture and early modern theatre. SPACE–EVENT–AGENCY–EXPERIENCE: open access epublication of the DREX Project Centre for Practice as Research in Theatre. (pp. 56-65) Tampere, Finland: University of Tampere.
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The 'Place' and practice of site-specific theatre and performance
Tompkins, Joanne (2012). The 'Place' and practice of site-specific theatre and performance. Performing site-specific theatre: politics, place, practice. (pp. 1-17) edited by Anna Birch and Joanne Tompkins. Houndmills, Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137283498
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Tompkins, Joanne (2010). Balancing the 'Local' and the 'Global' in theatre for the international stage: The stage adaptation of David Malouf's Johnno. The local meets the global in performance. (pp. 81-98) edited by Pirkko Koski and Melissa Sihra. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Spatiality and contaminated land: Staging Maralinga
Tompkins, Joanne (2010). Spatiality and contaminated land: Staging Maralinga. Halfway house the poetics of Australian spaces. (pp. 310-319) edited by Jennifer Rutherford and Barbara Holloway. Crawley, W.A., Australia: UWA.
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AusStage: From database of performing arts to a performing database of the arts
Harvey, Neal, Grehan, Helena and Tompkins, Joanne (2009). AusStage: From database of performing arts to a performing database of the arts. Resourceful reading: The new empiricism, eResearch and Australian literary culture. (pp. 325-333) edited by Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press.
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Staging the imagined city in Australian theatre
Tompkins, Joanne (2009). Staging the imagined city in Australian theatre. Performance and the city. (pp. 187-203) edited by D. J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr and Kim Solga. UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Landscapes and Soundscapes in Noelle Janaczewska's Theatre
Tompkins, Joanne (2008). Landscapes and Soundscapes in Noelle Janaczewska's Theatre. Songket; This territory/two plays by Noëlle Janaczewska. (pp. ix-xiv) edited by Noelle Janaczewska. Strawberry Hills, Sydney, N.S.W: Currency Press.
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Performing history's unsettlement
Tompkins, Joanne (2007). Performing history's unsettlement. Critical theory and performance. (pp. 71-84) edited by J. Reinelt and J. Roach. Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.: The University of Michigan Press.
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Counter-monumentalising and Janis Balodis's The Ghost Trilogy
Tompkins, J. E. (2006). Counter-monumentalising and Janis Balodis's The Ghost Trilogy. Unstable Ground: Performance and the Politics of Place. (pp. 81-93) edited by McAuley, Gay. Berlin: P.I.E. Peter Lang.
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Gendering space: The desert and the psyche in contemporary Australian theatre
Tompkins, Joanne (2006). Gendering space: The desert and the psyche in contemporary Australian theatre. Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory. (pp. 190-208) edited by Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris. New York, N.Y, United States: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Tompkins, Joanne (2006). The Shape of a Life: Constructing the ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in Joan MacLeod’s The Shape of a Girl and Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef’s A Line in the Sand. Theatre and autobiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice. (pp. 124-136) edited by Sherrill Grace and Jerry Wasserman. Penticton, British Columbia: Talonbooks.
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Virtual reality and negotiating problems of real theater space
Harvey, N. A. and Tompkins, J. E. (2006). Virtual reality and negotiating problems of real theater space. Mapping Uncertain Territories: Space and Place in Contemporary Theater and Drama. (pp. 169-178) edited by T. Rommel and M. Schreiber. Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
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Conflicting fields of vision: Performing self and other in two intercultural Shakespeare productions
Tompkins, Joanne (2005). Conflicting fields of vision: Performing self and other in two intercultural Shakespeare productions. A companion to Shakespeare and performance. (pp. 610-624) edited by Barbara Hodgdon and W. B. Worthen. Oxford: Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9780470996706.ch33
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Yellow Fever, Yellow Claw, Yellow Peril: Performing the Fantasy of the
Tompkins, Joanne (2003). Yellow Fever, Yellow Claw, Yellow Peril: Performing the Fantasy of the. Performing National Identities: International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre. (pp. 289-302) edited by Grace, Sherrill and Glaap, Albert-Reiner. Vancouver, Canada: Talonbooks.
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Tompkins, J. E. (2001). "Fatherlands and Mother-tongues": Family Histories and Futures in Recent Australian and Canadian Multicultural Theatre. Siting the Other. (pp. 347-362) edited by M. Maufort and F. Bellarsi. Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang.
Journal Article
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Putting virtual theatre models to work: ‘virtual praxis’ for performance research in theatre history
Bollen, Jonathan, Holledge, Julie and Tompkins, Joanne (2021). Putting virtual theatre models to work: ‘virtual praxis’ for performance research in theatre history. Theatre and Performance Design, 7 (1-2), 6-23. doi: 10.1080/23322551.2021.1925469
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Tompkins, Joanne (2020). Roger Clegg, principal investigator, and Eric Tatham, developer. Reconstructing the Rose: 3D Computer Modelling Philip Henslowe’s Playhouse. Other. Renaissance and Reformation, 43 (1), 177-180.
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Tompkins, Joanne and Kastanis, Lazaros (2017). Staging supernatural creatures in a computer-based visualisation of London’s sixteenth-century Rose Theatre. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 13 (1), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/14794713.2017.1280306
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Editorial comment: possible worlds
Tompkins, Joanne (2015). Editorial comment: possible worlds. Theatre Journal, 67 (2), ix-xi. doi: 10.1353/tj.2015.0036
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Delgado, Maria M. and Tompkins, Joanne (2015). Editing matters: an editorial. Contemporary Theatre Review, 25 (1), 11-16. doi: 10.1080/10486801.2015.1007759
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National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion. By Erin Hurley.
Tompkins, Joanne (2013). National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion. By Erin Hurley.. Theatre Survey, 54 (1), 141-143. doi: 10.1017/S0040557412000452
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Performing ghosts in Australia: Ibsen and an example of Australian cultural translation
Tompkins, Joanne (2013). Performing ghosts in Australia: Ibsen and an example of Australian cultural translation. Ibsen Studies, 13 (1), 2-27. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2013.792663
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Ros Merkin, ed. "Liverpool Playhouse: A Theatre and Its City"
Tompkins, Joanne (2013). Ros Merkin, ed. "Liverpool Playhouse: A Theatre and Its City". Modern Drama, 56 (3), 416-417. doi: 10.1353/mdr.2013.0034
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Theatre's heterotopia and the site-specific production of Suitcase
Tompkins, Joanne (2012). Theatre's heterotopia and the site-specific production of Suitcase. TDR, 56 (2), 101-112. doi: 10.1162/DRAM_a_00169
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Tompkins, Joanne (2011). Site-specific theatre and political engagement across space and time: The psychogeographic mapping of British Petroleum in Platform's And While London Burns. Theatre Journal, 63 (2), 225-243. doi: 10.1353/tj.2011.0048
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'Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar': Australian theatre blogging practice
Harvey, Neal, Grehan, Helena and Tompkins, Joanne (2010). 'Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar': Australian theatre blogging practice. Contemporary Theatre Review, 20 (1), 109-119. doi: 10.1080/10486800903225626
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The politics of locating Othello in Finland
Tomkins, Joanne (2010). The politics of locating Othello in Finland. Nordic Theatre Studies, 22, 20-29.
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Staging International Feminisms. Edited by Elaine Aston and Sue-Ellen Case
Tompkins, Joanne E. (2009). Staging International Feminisms. Edited by Elaine Aston and Sue-Ellen Case. Contemporary Theatre Review, 19 (1 Special Issue: The Broadway Musical: New Approaches), 118-119. doi: 10.1080/10486800802556444
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Tompkins, Joanne (2009). Review: Impact of the Modern: Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s edited by Robert Dixon and Veronica Kelly. Contemporary Theatre Review, 19 (3), 372-374. doi: 10.1080/10486800903000151
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The politics of location in Othello, Djanet Sears's Harlem Duet, and Ong Keng Sen's Desdemona
Tompkins, Joanne (2009). The politics of location in Othello, Djanet Sears's Harlem Duet, and Ong Keng Sen's Desdemona. Contemporary Theatre Review, 19 (3), 269-278. doi: 10.1080/10486800902985881
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Tompkins, Joanne (2009). Urban entanglements in three African Canadian plays: Lorena Gale's Angelique, George Boyd's Consecrated Ground, and Andrew Moodie's Riot. Theatre Research in Canada, 30 (1-2), 17-36.
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Tompkins, Joanne (2008). Adapting Australian novels for the stage: La Boite Theatre's versions of Last Drinks, Perfect Skin, and Johnno. Australian Literary Studies, 23 (3), 305-317.
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Review: Staging social welfare
Tompkins, Joanne (2007). Review: Staging social welfare. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review (193), 112-115.
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Remember the nation: Lorena Gale's Je me souviens
Tompkins, J. E. (2006). Remember the nation: Lorena Gale's Je me souviens. Canadian Theatre Review, 125, 56-61.
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Theoretical methodologies and the advent of virtual analytical tools in theatre
Harvey, N. and Tompkins, J. (2005). Theoretical methodologies and the advent of virtual analytical tools in theatre. Contemporary Theatre Review, 15 (4), 455-469. doi: 10.1080/10486800500280479
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Directing and producing theatre with the help of virtual reality
Tompkins, J. E. (2004). Directing and producing theatre with the help of virtual reality. Scenography International (7), 1-5.
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Review: The semiotics of theatre and drama, second edition by Keir Elam
Tompkins, J. E. (2004). Review: The semiotics of theatre and drama, second edition by Keir Elam. Australasian Drama Studies, 44, 146-148.
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Tompkins, Joanne (2003). Canadian Theatre and Memorializing: Memorializing and counter-memorializing in The Death of General Wolfe, Angélique and Sled. Canadian Theatre Review (115), 5-11.
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Space and the geographies of theatre: Introduction
Tompkins, J. (2003). Space and the geographies of theatre: Introduction. Modern Drama, 46 (4), 537-541. doi: 10.3138/md.46.4.537
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Review of the Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine
Tompkins, Joanne E. (2002). Review of the Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine. Etudes Théatrales/Essays in Theatre, 20 (2), 157-158.
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Tompkins, Joanne (2001). Peter Dickinson, Here Is Queer: Nationalisms, Sexualities, and the Literatures of Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.. AUMLA (95), 126-127.
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'Homescapes' and identity reformations in Australian multicultural drama
Tompkins, J (2001). 'Homescapes' and identity reformations in Australian multicultural drama. Theatre Research International, 26 (1), 47-59. doi: 10.1017/S0307883301000050
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Modern: Drama (defining the field), Part II
Tompkins, J. E. (2001). Modern: Drama (defining the field), Part II. Modern Drama, 44 (1), 1-2.
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Teaching Canadian Plays in Australia
Tompkins, J. E. (2001). Teaching Canadian Plays in Australia. Canadian Theatre Review, 105 (Winter), 27-28.
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The Drama of South Africa, by Loren Kruger
Tompkins, J. E. (2000). The Drama of South Africa, by Loren Kruger. Australasian Drama Studies, 37 (October), 124-126.
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Review of Humphrey Bower, Adaptor, Natural Life
Tompkins, J. E. (1999). Review of Humphrey Bower, Adaptor, Natural Life. Australasian Drama Studies, 35 (October), 186-189.
Conference Publication
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The use of virtual reality models in capturing the spatiality of early modern venues
Tompkins, Joanne (2011). The use of virtual reality models in capturing the spatiality of early modern venues. 9th World Shakespeare Congress 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-22 July, 2011.
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BoF: AusStage and the Aus-e-Stage Project: Collaborative eResearch in the performing arts
Tompkins, Joanne and Erskine, Shona (2009). BoF: AusStage and the Aus-e-Stage Project: Collaborative eResearch in the performing arts. eResearch Australasia 2009, Sydney, Australia, 9 - 13 November, 2009. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: The University of Queensland.
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Using virtual reality modelling in cultural management, archiving and research
Tompkins, Joanne and Delbridge, Matt (2009). Using virtual reality modelling in cultural management, archiving and research. EVA 2009 London Conference, London, UK, 6-8 July 2009. Swindon, UK: British Informatics Society.
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Virtual recreations of historical theatres: How VR meets theatre history
Tompkins, Joanne (2009). Virtual recreations of historical theatres: How VR meets theatre history. eResearch Australasia 2009, Sydney, Australia, 9 - 13 November 2009. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Edited Outputs
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Contemporary Theatre Review. (2015). 25 (1)
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Contemporary Theatre Review. (2012). 22 (2)
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Modern Drama. (2005). 48 (1)
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Modern Drama. (2005). 48 (2)
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Modern Drama. (2005). 48 (3)
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Modern Drama. (2005). 48 (4)
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Modern Drama. (2004). 46 (4)
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Modern Drama. (2004). 46 (3)
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Modern Drama. (2004). 46 (3)
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Modern Drama. (2004). 46 (3)
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Modern Drama. (2003). XLVI (2)
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Modern Drama. (2003). XLVI (1)
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Modern Drama. (2001). 44 (1)
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Modern Drama. (2001). 43 (4)
Other Outputs
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Tompkins, J. E. (2002). James Reaney.
Grants (Administered at UQ)
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(2017–2018) Flinders University
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(2015) UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund - FirstLink
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(2014–2015) Flinders University
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The AustLit Resource: supporting research in studies of Australian literary and narrative cultures
(2013–2014) ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
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(2013–2014) University of Tampere
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UQ Travel Awards Category 1 - Professor Maria Delgado
(2013) UQ Travel Grants Scheme
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(2012–2013) ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
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The Mobile Museum: Digital 3D objects and participatory design in the Pacific
(2011–2013) UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund
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(2011–2012) ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
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(2010–2011) ARC LIEF Collaborating/Partner Organisation Contributions
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(2010–2011) ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
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(2009–2011) Flinders University
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(2009–2010) ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
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The Local Spaces of Contemporary Brisbane Theatre: A Strategy for Analysing and Interpreting Theatre
(2008–2010) ARC Discovery Projects
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(2007)
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(2004–2006) ARC Linkage Projects
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Analysing Theatre Space: History, Culture, Politics
(2001–2004) UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards - DVC(R) Funding
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(2001–2003) ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
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(2000) ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
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Intercultural women's performance: crossing cultural boundaries in performance theory and practice
(1998–1999) ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
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(1998) ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
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Post-colonialism, interculturalism and feminist performance
(1997) University of Queensland New Staff Research Grant
PhD and MPhil Supervision
Current Supervision
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Gender Equality and the Cycle Play
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Completed Supervision
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Brecht in India: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Theatre
(2018) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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(2016) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Shakespeare's Voice: A Theory of the Voice in Performance
(2014) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Dramaturgy, Playtext, and Structure
(2013) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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(2013) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Re-Imagining Citizenry: National Identities in Canadian and Australian Multicultural Drama
(2012) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Carving Out a Space: Founding Performance Space in the City
(2011) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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The space and performance of virtual reality
(2010) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Theatre audience contribution through the post-performance discussion
(2009) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Staging the North: Finding, Imagining and Performing an Australian Deep North
(2008) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Beyond the Visible: Disability and Performing Bodies
(2007) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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RECONCILIATION ON STAGE: THE POLITICS OF INDIGENOUS REPRESENTATION IN BRISBANE THEATRE'S 1999 'RECONCILIATION PLAYS'
(2006) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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DEERMEKAAR
(2004) Master Arts Creative Writing — Principal Advisor
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Vampires in the Bush (text for performance)
(2003) Master Arts Creative Writing — Principal Advisor
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Concrete Mirage, An Anthropocene Fever Dream: City Space on Stage in a New Epoch
(2023) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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(2018) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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Posthuman Drama: Identity and the Machine in Twenty-First-Century Playwriting
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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(2011) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Happy Together: The Family in Australian Drama since 1975
(2008) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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WHITE VANISHING: A SETTLER AUSTRALIAN HEGEMONIC TEXTUAL STRATEGY, 1789-2006
(2007) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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THE KINESTHETICS OF ROCK MUSIC PERFORMANCE: AN EXAMINATION THROUGH PERFORMATIVITY, MASCULINITY, AND NICK CAVE.
(2005) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Possible Research Projects
Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.
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Theatre
Among the topics I could supervise are theatre history, theatre theory, and cultural, national, spatial approaches to theatre. I am particularly interested in Australian and Canadian theatre.
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Digital Humanities and Virtual Reality
I am interested in topics relating to digital humanities and theatre and VR theatre.
