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)

101 - 120 of 136 works

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Michael Gow

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.

Introduction

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

Melodrama, an Australian pantomime, and the theatrical constructions of colonial history

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.

Williamson, D., Siren and Money and Friends

1993

Journal Article

Giovanni in Botany

Kelly, Veronica (1993). Giovanni in Botany. Australasian Drama Studies, 23, 102-120.

Giovanni in Botany

1993

Journal Article

Orientalism in Early Australian Theatre

Kelly, Veronica (1993). Orientalism in Early Australian Theatre. New Literatures Review (26), 32-45.

Orientalism in Early Australian Theatre

1993

Other Outputs

Gow, Michael

Kelly, Veronica (1993). Gow, Michael.

Gow, Michael

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.

Louis Nowra

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.

Falling between stools: the theatre of Janis Balodis

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.

The Golden Age by Louis Nowra

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.

Louis Nowra

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.

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

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.

Review. Shearer, J. Shimada (Sydney:Currency Press, 1989)

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.

James Smith: The Making of a Colonial Culture, by Lurline Stuart. James Edward Neild: Victorian Virtuoso, by Harold Love.

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.

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.

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.

The melodrama of defeat: Political patterns in some colonial and contemporary Australian plays

1990

Journal Article

Les nouveaux dramaturges australiens

Kelly, Veronica and Bonnet, Lise (translator) (1990). Les nouveaux dramaturges australiens. Theatre Public, 91, 33-40.

Les nouveaux dramaturges australiens

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.

Projecting the inner world onto an existing landscape: An interview with Janis Balodis

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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