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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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1988
Book Chapter
'Nowt more outcastin": Utopian myth in Louis Nowra's The Golden Age
Kelly, Veronica (1988). 'Nowt more outcastin": Utopian myth in Louis Nowra's The Golden Age. A sense of exile : Essays in the literature of the Asia-Pacific region. (pp. 101-110) edited by Bruce Bennett and Susan Miller. Nedlands, W.A.: The Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, University of Western Australia.
1987
Journal Article
George Essex Evans the playwright
Kelly, Veronica (1987). George Essex Evans the playwright. Margin (19), 1-6.
1987
Book Chapter
A mirror for Australia: Louis Nowra's emblematic theatre
Kelly, Veronica (1987). A mirror for Australia: Louis Nowra's emblematic theatre. Contemporary Australian Drama. (pp. 537-564) edited by Peter Holloway. Sydney, NSW Australia: Currency.
1987
Book Chapter
Explorers and bushrangers in nineteenth-century Australian Theatre
Kelly, Veronica (1987). Explorers and bushrangers in nineteenth-century Australian Theatre. The writer's sense of the past : Essays on Southeast Asian and Australian literature. (pp. 119-132) edited by Kirpal Singh. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
1987
Journal Article
Apocalypse and after: historical visions in some recent Australian drama
Kelly, Veronica E. (1987). Apocalypse and after: historical visions in some recent Australian drama. Kunapipi, 9 (3), 68-78.
1987
Book Chapter
General Editoral Preface
Kelly, Veronica (1987). General Editoral Preface. Stalwart the bushranger with The tragedy of Donohoe by Charles Harpur. (pp. vi-x) edited by Elizabeth Perkins. Sydney: Currency Press.
1986
Journal Article
Review: Love, H., ed. The Australian Stage: a Documentary History. (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1985)
Kelly, Veronica (1986). Review: Love, H., ed. The Australian Stage: a Documentary History. (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1985). Australian Literary Studies, 12 (4), 546-550.
1986
Journal Article
Irvin, E. Dictionary of the Australian Theatre 1788-1914
Kelly, Veronica E. (1986). Irvin, E. Dictionary of the Australian Theatre 1788-1914. Australasian Drama Studies, 8, 134-138.
1986
Book Chapter
Queensland Theatre Company
Kelly, Veronica (1986). Queensland Theatre Company. Theatre Companies of the World. (pp. 179-182) edited by Colby H. Kullman and William C. Young. New York, USA: Greenwood Press.
1986
Journal Article
Garnet Walch in Sydney
Kelly, Veronica E. (1986). Garnet Walch in Sydney. Australasian Drama Studies, 9, 93-109.
1985
Journal Article
Lest we forget: Louis Nowra's "Inside the Island"
Kelly, Veronica (1985). Lest we forget: Louis Nowra's "Inside the Island". Island Magazine (23), 19-23.
1984
Journal Article
Nowra, L. Sunrise
Kelly, Veronica E. (1984). Nowra, L. Sunrise. Australasian Drama Studies, 2 (2), 124-126.
1983
Journal Article
The Banning of Marcus Clarke's 'The Happy Land': Stage, Press and Parliament
Kelly, Veronica (1983). The Banning of Marcus Clarke's 'The Happy Land': Stage, Press and Parliament. Australasian Drama Studies, 2 (1), 71-111.
1983
Journal Article
Irvin, E. Australian Melodrama: Eighty Years of Popular Theatre
Kelly, Veronica E. (1983). Irvin, E. Australian Melodrama: Eighty Years of Popular Theatre. Australian Literary Studies, 11 (1), 136-138.
1981
Journal Article
Clarke's sketches
Kelly, Veronica (1981). Clarke's sketches. Margin, 7, 29.
1981
Journal Article
A mirror for Australia: Louis Nowra's emblematic theatre
Kelly, Veronica E. (1981). A mirror for Australia: Louis Nowra's emblematic theatre. Southerly, 41 (4), 431-458.
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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