![Emeritus Professor Veronica Kelly](/sites/default/files/profiles/3286.jpg)
Overview
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
Works
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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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2006
Edited Outputs
Australasian Drama Studies
Australasian Drama Studies. (2006). (48)
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
2005
Edited Outputs
Australasian Drama Studies
Australasian Drama Studies. (2005). (46)
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.
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.
2004
Edited Outputs
Australasian Drama Studies
Australasian Drama Studies. (2004). (45)
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
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Emeritus Professor Veronica Kelly is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2010
Doctor Philosophy
Imbricated Identity and the Theatre Star in Early-Twentieth-Century Australasia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Richard Fotheringham
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
Happy Together: The Family in Australian Drama since 1975
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Joanne Tompkins
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2003
Doctor Philosophy
'A servant of art': Robert Helpmann in Australia
Principal Advisor
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
From the liminal to the visceral Professional Learning for Acting (PLA) in Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Adrian Ashman
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
Theatre audience contribution through the post-performance discussion
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Joanne Tompkins, Emeritus Professor Richard Fotheringham
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
Staging the North: Finding, Imagining and Performing an Australian Deep North
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Joanne Tompkins
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2005
Doctor Philosophy
WHAT OH TONIGHT: THE METHODOLOGY FACTOR AND PRE-1930's AUSTRALIAN VARIETY THEATRE (with Special Focus on the One Act Musical Comedy, 1914-1920)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Richard Fotheringham
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