Emeritus Professor Veronica Kelly
Emeritus Professor

Veronica Kelly

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Background

Professor Veronica Kelly’s research interests include pantomime, burlesque and melodrama, contemporary Australian theatre, and colonial star actors and their repertoires.

Her current research includes star actors of the early Australian stage, early twentieth-century commercial managements, gender, nationalism and performance.

She is the author of:

  • Articles on Australian colonial and contemporary drama and theatre history. Specific authors: Charles Harpur, Marcus Clarke, Garnet Walch, Louis Nowra, Janis Balodis, Michael Gow, Nick Enright. Specific topics: recent Australian drama, colonial theatrical culture and performance conditions, Orientalism in Australian performance, theatre reviews in the Sydney Bulletin, glamour postcards sent in Australia, Julius Knight and costume drama.
  • The Theatre of Louis Nowra (1998).
  • Read research articles on Julius Knight the Australian matinee idol (2004; theatre criticism in the Bulletin (2000), J.C. Williamson's production of Parsifal (1995), Orientalism in early Australian theatre (1993); the banning of Marcus Clarke's The Happy Land (1983).

Editor of:

  • Garnet Walch's colonial pantomime Australia Felix.
  • Collection of critiques of Louis Nowra.
  • Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s (1998).

Co-editor of: Australasian Drama Studies (1982-present).

Availability

Emeritus Professor Veronica Kelly is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

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136 works between 1981 and 2019
All (136) Journal Article (73) Book Chapter (26) Conference Publication (1) Book (1) Other Outputs (27) Edited Outputs (8)

21 - 40 of 136 works

2008

Book Chapter

Australian vernacular modernities: People, sites and practices

Dixon, Robert and Kelly, Veronica (2008). Australian vernacular modernities: People, sites and practices. Impact of the Modern: Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s. (pp. xiii-xxiv) edited by Dixon, Robert and Kelly, Veronica. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press.

Australian vernacular modernities: People, sites and practices

2008

Book Chapter

Enright's Mongrels as intervention in the canon of contemporary Australian drama

Kelly, Veronica (2008). Enright's Mongrels as intervention in the canon of contemporary Australian drama. Nick Enright: An Actor's Playwright. (pp. 95-113) edited by Pender, Anne and Lever, Susan. Amsterdam - New York, NY: Rodopi B.V..

Enright's Mongrels as intervention in the canon of contemporary Australian drama

2007

Journal Article

Spatialising the ghosts of Anzac in the plays of Sydney Tomholt: The absent soldier and the war memorial

Kelly, V. E. (2007). Spatialising the ghosts of Anzac in the plays of Sydney Tomholt: The absent soldier and the war memorial. Australian Literary Studies, 23 (1), 18-35.

Spatialising the ghosts of Anzac in the plays of Sydney Tomholt: The absent soldier and the war memorial

2007

Journal Article

Review: Richard Fotheringham, ed., Australian Plays for the colonial Stage 1834-1899

Kelly, V.E. (2007). Review: Richard Fotheringham, ed., Australian Plays for the colonial Stage 1834-1899. Australasian Drama Studies, 50, 202-208.

Review: Richard Fotheringham, ed., Australian Plays for the colonial Stage 1834-1899

2007

Journal Article

Australian plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899

Kelly, Veronica (2007). Australian plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. Australasian Drama Studies, 2007 (50), 202-208.

Australian plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899

2006

Conference Publication

Australian Modernities: Vernacular Performers and Consumers

Kelly, Veronica and Dixon, Robert (2006). Australian Modernities: Vernacular Performers and Consumers. Australian Modernities: Vernacular Performers and Consumers International Conference, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 6-7 December, 2006.

Australian Modernities: Vernacular Performers and Consumers

2006

Journal Article

Oscar Asche's Modernisms: Flesh, Colour and Light

Kelly, Veronica (2006). Oscar Asche's Modernisms: Flesh, Colour and Light. Australian Cultural History : The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia, Special Issue: Antipodean Modern, 25, 233-249.

Oscar Asche's Modernisms: Flesh, Colour and Light

2006

Edited Outputs

Australasian Drama Studies

Australasian Drama Studies. (2006). (48)

Australasian Drama Studies

2006

Journal Article

Australia’s Lily Brayton: Performer and theatre artist

Kelly, Veronica (2006). Australia’s Lily Brayton: Performer and theatre artist. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 33 (1), 39-59.

Australia’s Lily Brayton: Performer and theatre artist

2006

Journal Article

An Australian Idol of Modernist Consumerism: Minnie Tittell Brune and the Gallery Girls

Kelly, Veronica (2006). An Australian Idol of Modernist Consumerism: Minnie Tittell Brune and the Gallery Girls. Theatre Research International, 31 (1), 17-36. doi: 10.1017/S0307883305001859

An Australian Idol of Modernist Consumerism: Minnie Tittell Brune and the Gallery Girls

2006

Book Chapter

The men and the boys: The national dimensions of adult and juvenile masculinity in post-federation Australia, as performed by Oscar Asche and Minnie Tittell Brune

Kelly, Veronica (2006). The men and the boys: The national dimensions of adult and juvenile masculinity in post-federation Australia, as performed by Oscar Asche and Minnie Tittell Brune. What a Man's Gotta Do?: Masculinities in Performance. (pp. 37-55) edited by A. Kierkander, J. Bollen and B. Parr. Armidale, Australia: University of New England Press.

The men and the boys: The national dimensions of adult and juvenile masculinity in post-federation Australia, as performed by Oscar Asche and Minnie Tittell Brune

2005

Journal Article

A portrait of the artist as an Australian: Bizarre work of Barry Humphries

Kelly, Veronica (2005). A portrait of the artist as an Australian: Bizarre work of Barry Humphries. University of Toronto Quarterly, 75 (1), 400-402.

A portrait of the artist as an Australian: Bizarre work of Barry Humphries

2005

Journal Article

A Complementary Economy? National Markets and International Product in Early Australian Theatre Managements

Kelly, Veronica (2005). A Complementary Economy? National Markets and International Product in Early Australian Theatre Managements. New Theatre Quarterly, 21 (1), 77-95. doi: 10.1017/S0266464X04000351

A Complementary Economy? National Markets and International Product in Early Australian Theatre Managements

2005

Journal Article

The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial: The Sydney Bulletin's Theatre Criticism 1880-1900 and Constructions of Australian Modernity

Kelly, Veronica (2005). The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial: The Sydney Bulletin's Theatre Criticism 1880-1900 and Constructions of Australian Modernity. Australian Studies, 18 (1), 129-158.

The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial: The Sydney Bulletin's Theatre Criticism 1880-1900 and Constructions of Australian Modernity

2005

Journal Article

Review: Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840

Kelly, V. E. (2005). Review: Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840. Australian Literary Studies, 22 (1), 113-114.

Review: Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840

2005

Edited Outputs

Australasian Drama Studies

Australasian Drama Studies. (2005). (46)

Australasian Drama Studies

2005

Journal Article

Early Australian high comedy to 1890: Performing the colonial bourgeois self

Kelly, Veronica (2005). Early Australian high comedy to 1890: Performing the colonial bourgeois self. Southerly, 64 (3), 58-77.

Early Australian high comedy to 1890: Performing the colonial bourgeois self

2005

Journal Article

Book Review - Writing and rewriting: National theatre histories

Kelly, V. E. (2005). Book Review - Writing and rewriting: National theatre histories. Australasian Drama Studies, 47, 169-173.

Book Review - Writing and rewriting: National theatre histories

2004

Edited Outputs

Australasian Drama Studies

Australasian Drama Studies. (2004). (45)

Australasian Drama Studies

2004

Journal Article

Beauty and the market: Actress postcards and their senders in early twentieth century Australia

Kelly, Veronica (2004). Beauty and the market: Actress postcards and their senders in early twentieth century Australia. New Theatre Quarterly, 20 (2), 99-116. doi: 10.1017/S0266464X4000016

Beauty and the market: Actress postcards and their senders in early twentieth century Australia

Past funding

  • 2014 - 2015
    AusStage, Phase 5: Australian live performance and the world - global networks, national culture, aesthetic transmission (ARC LIEF Grant administered by the Flinders University of South Australia)
    Flinders University
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2014
    British-Australian Cultural Exchange: Live Performance 1880-1960
    University of Warwick
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2011
    AusStage Phase 4: Harnessing collective intelligence and pioneering new visual methodologies for innovative research into Australian live performance (ARC LIEF administered by Flinders University)
    ARC LIEF Collaborating/Partner Organisation Contributions
    Open grant
  • 2003 - 2005
    Star actors and management in Australia 1880s-1920s
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2002
    Wild thing: Minne Tittell Brune as actor and as Australian cultural icon
    University of Queensland Research Development Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2001
    Costume drama in early twentieth-century Australia: the case of Julius Knight.
    University of Queensland Small Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 1997 - 1998
    Discourses of theatre in 'The Bulletin' 1880-1914
    ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
    Open grant
  • 1997 - 1999
    Playwriting in Australia, 1788 to present
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant

Availability

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