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)

121 - 136 of 136 works

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.

'Nowt more outcastin": Utopian myth in Louis Nowra's The Golden Age

1987

Journal Article

George Essex Evans the playwright

Kelly, Veronica (1987). George Essex Evans the playwright. Margin (19), 1-6.

George Essex Evans the playwright

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.

A mirror for Australia: Louis Nowra's emblematic theatre

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.

Explorers and bushrangers in nineteenth-century Australian Theatre

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.

Apocalypse and after: historical visions in some recent Australian drama

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.

General Editoral Preface

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.

Review: Love, H., ed. The Australian Stage: a Documentary History. (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1985)

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.

Irvin, E. Dictionary of the Australian Theatre 1788-1914

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.

Queensland Theatre Company

1986

Journal Article

Garnet Walch in Sydney

Kelly, Veronica E. (1986). Garnet Walch in Sydney. Australasian Drama Studies, 9, 93-109.

Garnet Walch in Sydney

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.

Lest we forget: Louis Nowra's "Inside the Island"

1984

Journal Article

Nowra, L. Sunrise

Kelly, Veronica E. (1984). Nowra, L. Sunrise. Australasian Drama Studies, 2 (2), 124-126.

Nowra, L. Sunrise

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.

The Banning of Marcus Clarke's 'The Happy Land': Stage, Press and Parliament

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.

Irvin, E. Australian Melodrama: Eighty Years of Popular Theatre

1981

Journal Article

Clarke's sketches

Kelly, Veronica (1981). Clarke's sketches. Margin, 7, 29.

Clarke's sketches

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.

A mirror for Australia: Louis Nowra's emblematic theatre

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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