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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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1994
Journal Article
Review. Herr, C. ed., For the land they loved: Irish political melodramas 1890-1925 and Watt, S. Joyce, O'Casey and the Irish popular theatre
Kelly, Veronica (1994). Review. Herr, C. ed., For the land they loved: Irish political melodramas 1890-1925 and Watt, S. Joyce, O'Casey and the Irish popular theatre. Yeats Annual, 11, 262-268.
1994
Journal Article
Enright's Mongrels as intervention in the canon of contemporary Australian drama
Kelly, Veronica E. (1994). Enright's Mongrels as intervention in the canon of contemporary Australian drama. Southerly, 54 (2), 5-22.
1994
Book Chapter
Michael Gow
Kelly, Veronica E. (1994). Michael Gow. Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. (pp. 606-607) edited by Benson, E. and Conolly, L. W.. London; New York: Routledge.
1994
Book Chapter
Introduction
Newey, Katherine and Kelly, Veronica (1994). Introduction. East Lynne. From the Novel by Ellen Wood Dramatised by T. A. Palmer. (pp. not found-nout found) edited by Veronica Kelly and Katherine Newey. St Lucia, Brisbane: Australasian Drama Studies Association.
1993
Journal Article
Melodrama, an Australian pantomime, and the theatrical constructions of colonial history
Kelly, Veronica (1993). Melodrama, an Australian pantomime, and the theatrical constructions of colonial history. Journal of Australian Studies, 17 (38), 51-61. doi: 10.1080/14443059309387150
1993
Book Chapter
Louis Nowra
Kelly, Veronica (1993). Louis Nowra. Contemporary Dramatists. (pp. 496-498) edited by K. A. Berney. London ; Washington, D.C.: St. James.
1993
Journal Article
Williamson, D., Siren and Money and Friends
Kelly, Veronica E. (1993). Williamson, D., Siren and Money and Friends. Australasian Drama Studies, 22, 133-138.
1993
Journal Article
Giovanni in Botany
Kelly, Veronica (1993). Giovanni in Botany. Australasian Drama Studies, 23, 102-120.
1993
Journal Article
Orientalism in Early Australian Theatre
Kelly, Veronica (1993). Orientalism in Early Australian Theatre. New Literatures Review (26), 32-45.
1993
Other Outputs
Gow, Michael
Kelly, Veronica (1993). Gow, Michael.
1992
Book Chapter
The Golden Age by Louis Nowra
Kelly, Veronica E. (1992). The Golden Age by Louis Nowra. International Dictionary of Theatre. (pp. 295-296) edited by Mark Hawkins-Dady and Leanda Shrimpton. Chicago ; London, UK: St. James Press.
1992
Book Chapter
Louis Nowra
Kelly, Veronica E. (1992). Louis Nowra. Post-colonial English Drama: Commonwealth Drama Since 1960. (pp. 50-66) edited by Bruce King. New York, USA: St. Martin's Press.
1992
Journal Article
Falling between stools: the theatre of Janis Balodis
Kelly, Veronica E. (1992). Falling between stools: the theatre of Janis Balodis. Ariel: A review of International English Literature, 23 (1), 115-132.
1991
Journal Article
Waterhouse, R. From Minstrel Show to Vaudeville: The Australian Popular Stage 1788-1914 and Gyger, A. Opera for the Antipodes: Opera in Australia 1881-1939
Kelly, Veronica E. (1991). Waterhouse, R. From Minstrel Show to Vaudeville: The Australian Popular Stage 1788-1914 and Gyger, A. Opera for the Antipodes: Opera in Australia 1881-1939. Australian Historical Studies, 24 (97), 466-467.
1990
Journal Article
Review. Shearer, J. Shimada (Sydney:Currency Press, 1989)
Kelly, Veronica (1990). Review. Shearer, J. Shimada (Sydney:Currency Press, 1989). Australasian Drama Studies (17), 224-227.
1990
Journal Article
James Smith: The Making of a Colonial Culture, by Lurline Stuart. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989. Cloth, $34.95. James Edward Neild: Victorian Virtuoso, by Harold Love. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1989. Cloth, $39.95.
Kelly, Veronica (1990). James Smith: The Making of a Colonial Culture, by Lurline Stuart. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989. Cloth, $34.95. James Edward Neild: Victorian Virtuoso, by Harold Love. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1989. Cloth, $39.95.. Australian Literary Studies, 14 (3), 408-412.
1990
Journal Article
James Smith: The Making of a Colonial Culture, by Lurline Stuart. James Edward Neild: Victorian Virtuoso, by Harold Love.
Kelly, Veronica (1990). James Smith: The Making of a Colonial Culture, by Lurline Stuart. James Edward Neild: Victorian Virtuoso, by Harold Love.. Australian Literary Studies, 14 (3), 408-412.
1990
Journal Article
The melodrama of defeat: Political patterns in some colonial and contemporary Australian plays
Kelly, Veronica (1990). The melodrama of defeat: Political patterns in some colonial and contemporary Australian plays. Southerly, 50 (2), 131-143.
1990
Journal Article
Les nouveaux dramaturges australiens
Kelly, Veronica and Bonnet, Lise (translator) (1990). Les nouveaux dramaturges australiens. Theatre Public, 91, 33-40.
1990
Journal Article
Projecting the inner world onto an existing landscape: An interview with Janis Balodis
Kelly, Veronica (1990). Projecting the inner world onto an existing landscape: An interview with Janis Balodis. Australasian Drama Studies (17), 5-39.
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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