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Maryrose Casey Curriculum Vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE MARYROSE CASEY
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QUALIFICATIONS
- Graduate Certificate in Higher EducationUniversity of Queensland 2003
- PhD (Theatre History) LaTrobe University 2002
Thesis: `Creating Frames: A History of Theatre Production by Indigenous Australian Artists, 1967-97’.
- MA Prelim (Theatre & Drama) LaTrobe University 1996
Thesis: `Differing Perspectives’. The thesis examined the Euro-centric mythologies/narratives imposed within critical reception on theatre work by Indigenous Australian artists.
- Bachelor of Arts (History and Politics) LaTrobe University 1983
- Licentiate Trinity College London (Public Speaking) 1980
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2013-2016Associate Professor,Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Monash Indigenous Centre,Monash University
2010-12Senior lecturer continuing Centre for Theatre and Performance (formerly Drama & Theatre Studies), Monash University
2008-09LecturerB continuing Centre for Drama & Theatre Studies, Monash University
2007ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Centre for Drama & Theatre Studies, Monash University
2005-2006ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland.
2004 Lecturer B fixed term Theatre and Drama Studies
School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland.
2002-2003 AssociateLecturer A fixed term Theatre and Drama Studies
School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland.
RESEARCH AWARDS & PRIZES
Book Awards
- Rob Jordan Prize, 2014. Australasian Association for the study of Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies award for the best book of drama, theatre and performance studies scholarship of the previous 2 years, co-winner. (awarded to Telling Stories ASP 2012) citation:
- Rob Jordan Prize, 2006. Australasian Association for the study of Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies award for the best book of drama, theatre and performance studies scholarship of the previous 2 years. (awarded to Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre, UQP, 2004) citation
- Walter McRae Russell Award, 2005. Association for the Study of Australian Literature award for the best work of literary scholarship in the previous 2 years (co-winner). (awarded to Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre, UQP, 2004)
Awards for Articles
- Marlis Thiersch Award 2014: Honourable Mention. Australasian Association for the study of Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies (ADSA) award for the best article or chapter. ‘Conditions of Recognition: social aesthetics and Aboriginal Australian performance’ Aesthetics, 23 (1) 2013.Citation
- Marlis Thiersch Award 2010: Short listed. ADSA award for the best article or chapter. ‘Theatre or Corroboree, what’s in a name? Framing Indigenous Australian nineteenth century commercial performance practices’ in Creating White Australia, (eds) Jane Carey and Claire McLisky, University of Sydney, 2009.
- Marlis Thiersch Award 2010: Short listed. ADSA award for the best article or chapter. ‘Ngapartji Ngapartji: Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories’ in Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present. (eds) Chris Megson & Alison Forsyth, Palgrave Macmillan 2009.
- Marlis Thiersch Award 2008: Shortlisted. ADSA award for the best article or chapter. ‘Carnivalising Sovereignty: Containing Indigenous Protest within the ‘white’ Australian nation’,About Performance 7 2007
Awards for Research
- Dean of Arts Early Career Researcher of the Year Award 2010, Monash University
- Award for Excellence in Early Career Research 2009: Special CommendationDean of Arts Early Career Researcher of the Year Award, Monash University.
- Award for Excellence in Early Career Research 2007: Honourable Mention. Dean of Arts Early Career Researcher of the Year Award, Monash University.
- Dwight Conquergood Award, 2006. Performance Studies international ECR/artist award for work around cultural performance that approaches ‘ethnographic research as an ethical act, an act of performative witnessing’.
- Australian Postgraduate Award, LaTrobe University 1998- 2001
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
- Buffalo Bill Centre of the West, Resident Fellow 2012-2013
- Australian Research Council Future Fellowship 2011 (2012-2016)
- Monash Research Accelerator Program 2011-12
- National and State Libraries of AustralasiaFellowship, 2005
- ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship 2004, (2005- 2007)
Other awards and honours include:
Membership AIATSIS
Literary Awards:
Joyce Foundation Guinness Award, 1994: Short listed,‘Ssh be Quiet’
Bauhinia Literary Awards, (Open) 1994: Highly Commended, ‘Being Twelve’
RESEARCH GRANTS
External
LE140100024 ARC LEIF 2014 ‘AusStage 5: Australian Live performance and the World’ lead CI Prof Julian Meyrick, administered by Flinders University. ($325,000) Monash CI ($48,000)
FT110100019 ARC Future Fellowship 2011 ‘Performing Nations and Cultures: Rethinking Authenticity in the Performing Arts’ 2012-2016 ($586,482)
DP1093266 ARC DP10 ‘Performing Indigenous Sovereignty: Aboriginal Australian commercial performances 1800-1949’ 2010-2012sole CI ($155,000)
ARC LEIF 2010 ‘AusStage Phase 4: Harnessing collective intelligence and pioneering new visual methodologies for innovative research into Australian live performance’,lead CI Prof Julie Holledge, administered by Flinders University. ($650,000) Monash CI ($24,000)
ARC LIEF 2007 ‘AusStage: Gateway to Australian live performance, Phase 3 - enhancing collaborative research methodologies through digital networking technologies’, lead CI Prof Julie Holledge, administered by Flinders University. ($300,000)Monash CI ($15,400)
ARC DP05 Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, Confronting Representations: Performing Indigenous Protests’. Australian Studies Centre, UQ, 2005-2007,sole CI ($210,000)
Internal research grants
Faculty of the Arts Monash Publishing grant 2014 (2000)
Faculty of the Arts Monash, Conference Travel Grant 2014 (1500)
School of ECPS, Research Publication and Activity Scheme 2013 ($1000)
Monash Research Accelerator program 2011-12 ($110,000)
Faculty of the Arts, Monash University, Teaching Led Research Grant 2009 ($5000)
Faculty of the Arts, Monash University, Conference Travel Grant 2009 ($1200)
School of ECPS, Monash University, Conference Travel Grants, 2009 ($1800 + $600)
DTS/Pratt Foundation grant, Monash University, 2009 ($10,000)
Faculty of the Arts, Monash University, New Staff Scheme 2008 ($7,000)
MU Link Assist 2008 ($1200)
School of ECPS, Monash University, Research Grant, 2008 ($8,000)
School of ECPS, Monash University, Conference Travel Grant, 2008 ($1,800)
School of ECPS, Monash University, Quality Research/Research Teams Scheme 2007 ($2,975)
School of ECPS, Monash University, Conference Travel Grant 2007 ($1,500)
Faculty of Humanities, University of Queensland, International Conference Fund, 2006 ($2,000)
University of Queensland, New Staff grant, 2006 ($10,000)
Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland, Travel grant, 2006 ($2,500)
Australian Drama Studies Centre, University of Queensland, Research grant, 2003 ($1,675)
School of Media, Arts and Critical Enquiry, LaTrobe University, Research Enhancement Grant,
2001 ($2,500)
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Maryrose Casey (ed), (2015) Embodying Transformations: Studies in Transcultural and Transnational Performance, Monash University Publishing.
Maryrose Casey, (2012) Telling Stories: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Performance, Studies in Indigenous History and Culture series, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
(co-winner of Rob Jordan Prize 2014)
Aileen Moreton-Robinson,Maryrose Casey & Fiona Nicoll (eds), (2008)Transnational Whiteness Matters. Lanham MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.
Maryrose Casey, (2004) Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre 1967-97. University of Queensland Press.
(co-winner of Walter McRae Russell Award, 2005. winner of Rob Jordan Prize 2006)
Edited Special issues
Maryrose Casey & Will Peterson (eds) (2011) ‘Transcultural Transnational Transformation’, Special Issue ADS 59, October.
Maryrose Casey, Martin Crotty & Delyse Ryan (eds) (2006) Parading Ourselves, Special Issue Journal of Australian Studies 89.
Maryrose Casey (ed) (2006) Horizons of Race, Special Issue Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Vol 2 Issue 1, July. .
What reviewers said about Telling Stories (2012)
‘Casey’s capacity to light-footedly move between summarisingcore conceptions in Indigenous knowledge systems (kin groups, moieties, etc) and enhancing these descriptions and/or connecting them to vivid, well-narrated examples of performance practice is fascinating… a book that offers an inspiring way of coping with a plurality of “counter-frames”.’ Andre Bastian Australasian Drama Studies 2014
‘The book is significant for the richness of the material, the variety of its sources and its distinctive handling of the matrix of postcolonial/intercultural issues involved.’ Rob Jordan Award Citation 2014
Telling Stories is an exemplary artist–scholar collaboration avoiding past traps of categorization and othering that have made ‘researcher’ a dirty word in many Indigenous communities in the Pacific. David O’Donnell Theatre Research International2014
What reviewers said about Transnational Whiteness Matters (2008)
The essays in the collection are insightful and offer a new perspective on whiteness studies, particularly in the Australian context. Penelope Ingram Australian Feminist Studies 2011
Thought-provoking, well-researched interrogations of whiteness. Highly recommended. *** J C Eustace, Choice (USA Librarians Journal) 2009
This new collection adds an exciting transdisciplinary dimension to the path-breaking Australian scholarship on the transnational politics of whiteness" Professor Marilyn Lake 2008
What reviewers said about Creating Frames(2004):
‘a comprehensive and engaging presentation …Creating Frames is a major achievement, providing a unique and valuable history.’ Michelle Evans, Australian Literary Studies 2005
‘… significant scholarly text which seeks to redress a glaring absence in Australian theatre history.’ Bernadette Brennan, Southerly.2005
‘With its foundational emphasis on the ethics of cross-cultural research and reception, it is an important addition to the international debates.’ Alan Filewod, Theatre Research International.2005
BOOK CHAPTERS
Maryrose Casey, ‘Embodying the essentialised abject: challenging colour blind racism in performance’, Elfriede Jelinek: Austr(al)ian Andre Bastian (ed) Monash University Publishing due out 2016
Maryrose Casey, (2015) ‘The Great Australian Silence: Aboriginal Theatre and Human Rights’ in Things Unspeakable: Theatre and Human Rights after 1945, Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin (eds) Palgrave MacMillan: 74-92.
Maryrose Casey, (2015) ‘“Notorious” mimics: mimetic performance for entertainment in the transcultural encounter in colonial Australia’ in Maryrose Casey (ed), Embodying Transformations: Transcultural Performance Monash University Publishing: 17-32.
Maryrose Casey, (2014) Serving the Living Land: Place and Belonging in Australian Aboriginal Dramas’ in Enacting Nature: Ecocritical Perspectives on Indigenous Performance, Birgit Däwes Marc Maufort,(eds) “Dramaturgies,” P.I.E.-Peter Lang: 151-164.
Maryrose Casey, (2013) ‘Claiming and Changing Boundaries: Indigenous theatre practitioners in the 2000s’ in Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s, Richard Fotheringham & James Smith, (eds) Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi: 99-122.
Maryrose Casey, (2013) ‘Bold, Black, and Brilliant: Aboriginal Australian Drama’ in A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature, Belinda Wheeler (ed), NY: Camden House: 155-172.
Maryrose Casey, (2011)‘Hanging Around’ in The Voyage Chandani Lokuge & David Morley (eds), East Sussex, UK: Silkworms Ink: 44-58
Maryrose Casey, (2011)‘Tales still to be told: Indigenous Australian theatre practice and the archive’ in Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia,Glen McGillivray(ed), Brussels: Peter Lang: 29-43
Maryrose Casey, (2009)‘Theatre or Corroboree, what’s in a name? Framing Indigenous Australian nineteenth century commercial performance practices’ in Creating White Australia,Jane Carey and Claire McLisky (eds), Sydney: University of Sydney: 117-132
Shortlisted Marlis Thiersch Award 2010
Maryrose Casey, (2009) ‘Ngapartji Ngapartji: Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories’ inGet Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present.Chris Megson & Alison Forsyth (eds), ‘Performance Interventions’ series,London: Palgrave Macmillan: 122-139.
Shortlisted Marlis Thiersch Award 2010
Maryrose Casey, (2009) ‘Indigenous Australian Drama: Decolonising Australian Stages’ in Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader.(eds) Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal. New Delhi: SSS Publications: 193-204
Maryrose Casey, (2008)‘Managing resistance: Whiteness and the storytellers of Indigenous Protest in Australia’ in Transnational Whiteness Matters (eds) Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Maryrose Casey, & Fiona Nicoll, Lanham MD:Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield: 19-38.
Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Maryrose Casey & Fiona Nicoll, (2008)‘Virtue and Transnational Whiteness’, in Transnational Whiteness Matters (eds) Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Maryrose Casey & Fiona Nicoll,Lanham MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield: ix-xvi.
Maryrose Casey, (2007) ‘Australian Drama 1900-1970’ in Companion to Twentieth Century Australian Literature, (eds) Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer, New York: Boydell & Brewer/University of Rochester Press: 207-218.
Choice(American Librarians Assoc USA) Outstanding Academic Title, 2008
Maryrose Casey, (2007)‘Australian Drama since 1970’ in Companion to Twentieth Century Australian Literature, (eds) Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer, New York: Boydell & Brewer/University of Rochester Press: 219-232.
Choice(USA) Outstanding Academic Title, 2008
Maryrose Casey, (2006) ‘Alma de Groen’ in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 325, Australian Writers, 1975–2000 (ed) Selina Samuels, Columbia SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Thomson Gale: 71-5.
Maryrose Casey, (2005) ‘A Compelling Force: Indigenous Women Playwrights’ The Doll’s Revolution: Australian Theatre and Cultural Imaginations, Rachel Fensham and Denise Varney with Maryrose Casey and Laura Ginters.Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing: 199-237
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Maryrose Casey, & Liza-Mare Syron, (2005) ‘The Challenges of Benevolence: the role of the Indigenous Actor.’ (Journal of Australian Studies, No 85, 2005) Reprinted in 25th Anniversary Collection Australian Studies Centre University of Queensland (ed) David Carter and Martin Crotty. St Lucia: ASC: 292-308.
Maryrose Casey, (2001) ‘A Garden of Drama: Talking with John Harding’ inSiting the Other: Marginal Identities in Australian and Canadian Drama (ed) Marc Maufort. Brussels: PIE/Peter Lang: 53-68.
Maryrose Casey, (2001)‘Siting Themselves: Indigenous Australian Theatre Companies’ inSiting the Other: Marginal Identities in Australian and Canadian Drama (ed) Marc Maufort. Brussels: PIE/Peter Lang: 363-370.
What reviewers said about:
‘Bold, Black, and Brilliant: Aboriginal Australian Drama’ (2013)
‘Casey makes a persuasive case that the time has come for a move away from a static, monolithic stereotype to a more fluid, authentic view of Aboriginals as diverse and individuated’ David GuginPacific Asia Inquiry 2014
Tales still to be told: Indigenous Australian theatre practice and the archive’ (2011)
‘Maryrose Casey ‘s chapter… identifies one of the most crucial challenges for those scholars who forage through hidden archives… Glenn D’Cruz Australasian Drama Studies 2013
‘Ngapartji Ngapartji: Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories’(2009)
…an illuminating analysis of responses to Indigenous Australian theatre…
Fintan Walsh, Irish Theatre Magazine, 2009
‘Managing resistance: Whiteness and the storytellers of Indigenous Protest in Australia’(2008)
‘insightful analysis of the “history wars.”’ Jane Carey, Aboriginal History, 2009.
‘compelling analysis’. Penelope Ingram Australian Feminist Studies2011
‘Australian Drama 1900-1970’ and ‘Australian Drama since 1970’ (2007)
‘Maryrose Casey’s two essays… provide remarkable detail in their compressed discussion of an extensive range of developments in theatre and performance.’Maryanne Dever, Australian Literary Studies, 2009.
‘She uncovers a rich and varied field.’Delys Bird Journal Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2008.
‘A Compelling Force: Indigenous Women playwrights’(2005):
‘an excellent chapter on Aboriginal women’s theatre’ Glenn D’Cruz, Age, 2005.
‘an important contribution to Australian theatre scholarship… thoroughly researched and beautifully written, and the authors have framed their discussion by paying careful attention to the social and political contexts.Helena Grehan, Theatre Research International. 2006
‘a significant and refreshing addition to Australian theatre praxis and scholarship.’
Tina Muir NLA 2006
‘Siting Themselves: Indigenous Australian Theatre Companies’ 2002:
‘a fascinating case study … Casey's analysis reveals the consequences of institutionalizing cultural recognition and reconciliation’.James Dugan,Modern Drama, 2002.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Maryrose Casey, (2015) ‘Aboriginal Performance as war by other means in the nineteenth century’ International Journal of Critical Indigenous StudiesVol 8 no 2: 2-15
Maryrose Casey, (2014) ‘Making fun of trauma: Laughing at racialised violence’Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre and Performance ‘Acting Out – Trauma and the Ethics of Remembrance’, Volume 4, Issue 1 (July): 9-23.
Maryrose Casey,(2014)‘O discurso das Tiddas: dramaturgas aborígenes australianas’(Tiddas Speaking out: Aboriginal Australian Women Playwrights) trans Carolina Gosch Figner de Luna, Kysy Amarante Fischer and Lívia Sudare de Oliveira,Urdimento: Revista de Estudos em Artes Cenicas, No 21, December: 192-210.
Maryrose Casey, (2013) ‘Conditions of Recognition: social aesthetics and Aboriginal Australian performance’ Aesthetics, 23 (1): June: 92-109.
Marlis Thiersch Award 2014: Honourable Mention
Maryrose Casey, (2013)‘Colonists, settlers and Aboriginal Australian war cries: Cultural Performance and Economic Exchange’ Performance Research 18:3 (June) 'On Value':56-66.
Maryrose Casey & Superkaleidoscope, (2013) ‘Performing Life: Indigenous Australian Performance’, Das Superpaper‘Re: Performance’ Issue 26: 62-63.
Maryrose Casey, (2012) ‘Bungaree and the Grand Corroboree: “White fellow sit down all about; Black fellow murry miserable”’ About Performance 11: 185-200.
Maryrose Casey, (2012) ‘Colonisation, Notions of Authenticity and Aboriginal Australian Performance’ Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Vol 8.1
Maryrose Casey, (2011)‘Performing for Aboriginal life and culture: Aboriginal Theatreand Ngurrumilmarrmiriyu’ ADS59: 53-68
Maryrose Casey& Will Peterson, (2011) ‘Transcultural, Transnational, Transformation: Introduction’, ADS59, October: 4-7
Maryrose Casey& John Bradley, (2011) ‘Aeroplane Dance: Whose Story is it?’ Screening the Past, Issue 31
Maryrose Casey, (2011) ‘Cross-Cultural Encounters: Aboriginal performers and European audiences in the late 1800s and early 1900s’, Double Dialogues: Boom or Bust, Issue 14, Summer
Maryrose Casey, (2009) ‘Disturbing Performances of Race and Nation: King Bungaree, John Noble and Jimmy Clements.’ International Journal Critical Indigenous StudiesVol 2 no 2: 25-35
Maryrose Casey& Jodi Gallagher, (2009) ‘Lygon Street Limbo’ Double Dialogues: Enter the New Wave: Australian Theatre 1967-1970, Issue 11, Winter
Maryrose Casey with Peter Snow and Stuart Grant,(2009)‘Do theories and events deliver: A tripartite meditation of social dramaturgy:Part 2 Delivering on expectations’ About Performance 9: 15-44
Maryrose Casey, (2007) ‘Carnivalising Sovereignty: Containing Indigenous Protest within the ‘white’ Australian nation’,About Performance 7: 69-86.
Shortlisted Marlis Thiersch Award 2008
Maryrose Casey, (2006/2007), ‘Indigenous theatre and the cultural interface of reception’, ‘Whiteness Matters/Il Bianco Al Centro Della Questione’ Athanor: Semiotica, Filosofia, Arte, Letteratura Anno XVII, nuova serie, n. 10: 215-228.
Maryrose Casey, (2006)‘Referendums & Reconciliation Marches: what bridges are we crossing?’ in ‘Parading Ourselves’,Journal of Australian Studies89: 139-150.
Maryrose Casey, Martin Crotty & Delyse Ryan, (2006) ‘Colour, movement & jostling in public’ in ‘Parading Ourselves’,Journal of Australian Studies 89 December
Maryrose Casey,(2006) ‘Whiteness and the Horizons of Race’ ACRAWSA e-Journal Vol II No 1, July
Maryrose Casey, Liza-Mare Syron, (2005) ‘The Challenges of Benevolence: the role of the Indigenous Actor.’ ‘Benevolence’,Journal of Australian Studies, No 85: 97-112.
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