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Dr Stuart Grant
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Centre for Theatre and Performance
Rm 213, Bldg 68
Monash University Wellington Rd, Clayton Victoria 3800 Australia
17A/181 Exhibition St
Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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CURRICULUM VITAE
12/06/13
Qualifications
2007
2005
2001
1998
PhD, Performance Studies, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Postgraduate Certificate in TESOL (Hons)—University of California (Santa Cruz)/ Gyeongsang National
University, Korea.
BA (Hons I w/University Medal), University of Sydney—Department of Performance Studies.
BA (Communications), University of Technology Sydney—Dual major (practical/theoretical) in Film and
Philosophy of Culture.
Current Employment
2008—Current
Lecturer, Centre for Theatre and Performance. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Administrative Positions
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Chair School Workloads Committee 2011—Current. Committee member since 2009.
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Director, Performance Research Unit 2013—Current. Oversee management and expenditure of researchers
in Theatre and Performance section
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Coordinator Graduate Program in Theatre and Performance 2010—Current. Managing 40+ Graduate
Students. Wrote and implemented assessment procedures for MA and PhD practice degrees in Theatre
Performance. Devised and teach Postgraduate Unit, Researching Performance.
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Section Undergraduate Coordinator 2009—Designed rationalised curriculum reducing 40 undergraduate
units to 12 flexible units. Restored and coordinated research track unit Independent Theatre Project.
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School Postgraduate Committee 2010-2012
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School Web Steering Committee 2009
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School Education Committee 2010
Recent Units Taught
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Researching Performance (Unit Coordinator) (PhD Unit)
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2013handbooks/units/APR6025.html
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Independent Theatre Project (Unit Coordinator)
http://monash.edu/pubs/2011handbooks/units/ATS3775.html
Theatre Theory II—Movements (Unit Coordinator)
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2011handbooks/units/ATS2887.html
Performance Studies I—Concepts (Unit Coordinator)
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2011handbooks/units/ATS2912.html
Performance in Context
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2011handbooks/units/ATS1288.html
ESL Drama (Unit Coordinator)
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2011handbooks/units/ATS3911.html
The Public Sphere
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2011handbooks/units/ATS2440.html
Music as Communication
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2011handbooks/units/ATS2447.html
Musical Theatre Workshop (Unit Coordinator).
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2011handbooks/units/ATS3478.html
Music Theatre (Unit Coordinator)
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2011handbooks/units/ATS2477.html
Comedy (Unit Coordinator).
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2011handbooks/units/ATS3456.html
Supervisions—Current
PhD
 Paul Woodward (main)—Performativity of HIV Disclosure
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Zsuzsi Sloboslay (main)—Anthems and Angels—Landscapes of Immigration
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Claire Farley (main)— Negotiating Ecology in Contemporary Ritual Temple Dance Performance
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Jim Daly (main)—The Katyn Massacre—Shock and the Grotesque
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Chris Wenn (main)—Theatre Sound: An Archaeology of the Present
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Ian Nisbet (main)—Why Do Musicals Sing?
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Matt Lockitt (main)—Dionysian and Apollonian Elements in Musical Theatre
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Angela Clarke (main)—Attending the Song: the ‘use of self’ in song writing and performing original works
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Kerry Loughrey (main)—What is a poem worth?
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Botond Vitos (associate)—Experiencing Electronic Dance Floors
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Tharanga Dandeniya (associate)—Cross-Cultural Performance of Sri Lankan Folk Theatre
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Reagan Maiquez (associate)—By Means of Performativity and Theatricality: Investigating Performance
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Alamgir Hossain (associate)—The Preservation of Jatra
MA
 Oliver Torr (main)—Truth in Acting in Opera Singing
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Helen Smith (main)—Transformation in Butoh Practice
Honours
 Fina Po—Grass—Sun Moth—Human: An Ecological Performance Investigation
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Molly Henry—Comedy and the Limits of the Political
Supervisions—Completed
PhD
 Jeff Stewart (main)—Everyday Performance and the Making of Work
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Maeva Veerapen (main)—Leading a Symbembodied Life: A Phenomenological Investigation of Second
Life
MA
 Lisa Petty (associate)—Social Dance in WWII Melbourne
Honours
 Kat McBarron—Autobiographical Performance
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Nick McMahon—Acting the Song in Musical Theatre
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Hayley Ricketson—Hip Hop in Australia
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Ellen Rijs—Dancing the Dead Body
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Riannon Berkeley—The Female Body in Performance
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Jarrod Lester—Character and Time in Musical Theatre
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Lucy Greco—Stage Managing Musical Theatre
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Terence Leong—Cheating in Video Games
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Sam Helps—The Director as Researcher
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Tom Pitts—Musical Rhythm in Theatrical Performance
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Danielle Meloney—The Ethics of the News Release
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External Examinations
MA
Winnie Ha, RMIT, School of Design, White Froth: Phenomenology of Clothing
PhD
David Brown, RMIT, School of Communications, Designing Sound for Health and Wellbeing
Previous and Completed Employment
2011
University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, Visiting Professor, Phenomenology Research Center.
2010
Seoul National University, Visiting Professor, Department of Communications.
2007—2008
Tutor—English Drama, Literature, Poetry, Language, Business English, EAP. Independent work
in Hong Kong.
2006—2007
Drama Workshop Instructor. Dramatic English, Hong Kong.
2005—2006
Lecturer. Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea—English Language, Philosophy,
Literature, Drama, Humanities.
2001—2005
University of Sydney—PhD scholarship. Tutor.
1996—2001
General Manager/Manager/Entertainment Coordinator. Shumen Holdings—
Night Club Industry.
Publications
Book Chapters
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“Being-together-towards recovery”, Philosophical Approaches to 12 Step Recovery, University of Virginia
Press, 2013 (forthcoming)
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“Speaking Bodies”. Language Arts in Asia. C. DeCoursey, (ed). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
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“Outline for a Phenomenology of Rhythm”. Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music. P. Murphy & E.
De La Fuente (eds). Leiden: Brill, 2010.
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“Morphological Essence: Measurement Inexact, Yet Not Imprecise”. Halfway Houses: Poetics of Australian
Space. Jennifer Rutherford (ed.). Perth: UWA Press, 2010.
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“How to Stand in Australia”. Unstable Ground: Performance and the Politics of Place. Gay McAuley (ed.).
Brussels: Peter Lang, 2007.
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Edited Book
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Time Happens: Performance and Temporalisation. Palgrave Macmillan (In review).
Edited Proceedings
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Online
proceedings
of
the
time.
transcendence.
http://arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/conferences/ttp/#proceedings 2009.
performance
conference,
(Editor),
Journal Articles
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“Dispositioned Intimacy”, Choreographic Practices, (forthcoming 2013).
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“Performing an Aesthetics of Atmosphere”, Journal of Literature and Aesthetics23(1), 2013.
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“Review of A Pathognomy of Performance by Simon Bayly”, Performing Ethos, (forthcoming 2013).
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“Genealogies and Methodologies of Phenomenology in the Study of Performance”, Nordic Theatre Journal
24, Special Issue on Phenomenology 2013.
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“Affectivity of Speaking”, Parrhesia 13, 2011.
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“The Uncertain Musical. An Exercise in Performance as Research as Pedagogy”, Australasian Drama
Studies, (Special Issue on Theatre Pedagogy), 2010.
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“Fifteen Theses on Transcendental Intersubjective Audience”, About Performance 10. 2010.
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“The Saying of Saying Sorry”, About Performance 9, 2009.
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“Abysmal Laughter”. Phaenex 3(2), 2008.
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“Immanent Description and Writing From…,”, Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy 18, 2007.
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“Practical Intersubjectivity”, Janus Head 8(2): 560-580. http://www.janushead.org/8-2/Grant.pdf, 2005.
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“Phenomenology and the use of Drama in the EFL Classroom” The Study of Language 3, 2005, SOLEIP.
South Korea.
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“How to Say (Roughly…very Roughly): What Sort of a Thing a Triple Alice 3 is, Having Attended One”,
About Performance 5, 2004.
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“Chasing Sticks Around”, Ten Days in Tathra, http://www.bodyweather.net/tathra.pdf
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“Hot Talk in Central Australia”, Realtime 47, http://www.realtimearts.net/rt47/grant.html
Conferences/Papers
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“Genealogies and Methodologies in the Study of Performance”, Performance Philosophy Conference,
University of Surrey, April 10-13, 2013
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“A Performed Aesthetics of Atmosphere”. Defining Social Aesthetics Symposium, Monash University,
February 7, 2012.
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“Temporality of Performance and Performativity of Time”. Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy,
Latrobe University, December 13, 2011.
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Convenor. “Where the Image Meets the Body: Performing Images in Butoh”. Monash University, 4-5
November, 2011.
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Panel Chair. “Bodily Echoes in Merleau-Ponty”, SPEP conference, Philadelphia, Sheraton Society Hill,
October 19-22, 2011.
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“The Affective Dimension of Speaking”. Invited paper to Phenomenology Research Centre, University of
Southern Illinois, Carbondale, USA, October 13, 2011.
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“Speaking as Performance”, ADSA conference 2011, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, June 28July 1, 2011.
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“Phenomenology of Speaking in Second Language Learning”, APELA 1, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
June 4-5, 2011.
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“Affectivity of Speaking”, Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy, University of Queensland,
December 4-6, 2010.
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“Phenomenology of Audience”. Invited Paper to Philosophy Dept. Seoul National University, South Korea,
July 2010.
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“Performativity in the Public Sphere”. Invited Paper to Communications Dept, Seoul National University,
South Korea, Feb 2010.
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“Truth and Performance”, Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy, Monash University, December 46, 2009.
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Convenor. Time, Transcendence, Performance. Monash University Oct 1-3, 2009.
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“The Flow”, Music, Culture, Society 2, Monash University, June, 2009.
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“Phenomenology of Ephemeral Places”, Back to The Things Themselves Conference, Congress of the
Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, May 26-29, 2009.
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“Transcendental Intersubjective Audience”. Organization of Phenomenological Organizations XIII. Chinese
University of Hong Kong. December 15, 2008.
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“Outline for a Phenomenology of Rhythm”, Music, Culture, Society 1, Monash University, March, 2008.
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Convenor of Panel on Time and Performance: ADSA conference 2006, University of Sydney, July 2006.
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“From the Interior”, ADSA Conference, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, July 2005.
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“Measure, Inexact Yet Not Imprecise”, Poetics of Australian Place and Space Conference, Art Gallery of
New South Wales, February 2005.
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“Phenomenology and Skill Acquisition in a Korean EFL Immersion Classroom”, Annual Conference, The
British and American Language and Literature Association, Jinju National University of Education, Jinju,
South Korea, November, 2005.
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“Gathering to Witness”, Exhibit A: Spectatorship, University of Melbourne, November 2004.
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“Performing A Dictionary of Atmospheres”, Body Modification Conference, Macquarie University, April
2003.
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“Ethos as Abode”, Advanced Seminar on Place and Performance, University of Sydney, May 2003.
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“Neither and nor Subjective/Objective”, Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics Annual Conference,
December 2002.
Current research interests
Current projects—Urban Water Performance Project, Genealogies and Methodologies of Phenomenology in the
Study of Performance.
Philosophy of performance. Time and performance. Phenomenological methodologies in the Performance
Research.
Site-specific performance.
Drama in language learning.
Professional and Research Positions
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Coordinator Phenomenology Group, Performance Philosophy.
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Peer Reviewer. Routledge, Theatre and Performance Studies.
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Convenor. Phenomenology Panel. Australasian Drama Studies Association conference 2011.
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Convenor. October 2009. Time, Transcendence, Performance conference.
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Member of the Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy.
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Member of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
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Founding member Association for Phenomenology in Performance Studies.
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Founding member Social Aesthetics Research Unit, Monash.
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Founding member Performance Research Unit, Monash.
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Founding Member Association for Putonghua and English Language Arts.
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Member of management committee for Music, Culture, Society 2008-2010.
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Member of Advanced Seminar on Place and Performance. Culminating in publication of collection of essays,
Unstable Ground: Performance and the Politics of Place 2003-2007.
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Peer Reviewer. Proceedings of ADSA conference 2006, “Being There”.
Performance
Recent Performance
2013
Director: Urban Waterways Performance Group. Currently staging series of site-specific performances around
Melbourne.
2012
Director: Everynight Everynight, by Ray Mooney, Gasworks Arts Park, Port Melbourne, May 8-26, 2012
2009
Musical Director, Composer, Performer: Primitive Calculators. ATP Festival, Mt Buller, January 9-10, 2009.
2006-2007
Actor: Confusions, by Alan Ayckbourn, Hong Kong Fringe Club.
Actor: The Goat, by Edward Albee, Y Theatre, Hong Kong Fringe Club.
Musical Director, Performer: Club Internationale, Le Rideau Theatre Club, Hong Kong
Director/Actor: Chew on This, Deer Theatre, Hong Kong.
Musical Director/Narrator: Rapunzel: Shadow Puppet Adaptation, Deer Theatre, Hong Kong.
2006
Performer/Writer: Bugger We. ADSA Conference. University of Sydney. Site-specific performance with dancer
Tess De Quincey.
2005
Performer/Writer: Measurement Inexact Yet Not Imprecise - Art Gallery of New South Wales. Site-specific
performance. With dancer, Tess de Quincey. Poetics of Australian Space Conference.
2004
Actor/Narrator: The Pink House Director: Spadinski’s Sperm – Baywrite Theatre Company, Byron Bay.
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2001-2003
Attachment with deQuinceyco, devising, performing, observing, documenting, and theorizing a number of
performances, including:
Triple Alice 3: Alice Springs 17/09 – 7/10/2001 – An interdisciplinary performance forum, comprised of 25
artists, performers and other researchers conducting performed site-specific research in the Central Desert. Daily
performances with a variety of different artists using sound, body, place and other media.
URL = http://www.triplealice.net/tamain3.htm
13 July 2001. ‘Form of Scent’. FIRT conference. Site-specific performance - a wandering series of danced and
sung tableaux.
2000-2003
Master of Ceremonies. Continuum. Series of eclectic nights of dance, from table dancing to contemporary to
classical to flamenco to street to postmodern to jive.
Music
2013
Record Album, The World is Fucked, The Primitive Calculators, Chapter Records 2103.
2008-Current
Composer, Singer, Guitarist. The Primitive Calculators. Various performances in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
and Adelaide.
I have been continually involved in live music as my main source of income for over thirty years. During that
time I have performed as a singer, arranger, musical director and composer in a wide variety of musical forms and
styles. From experimental electronic composition to cabaret to jazz to C&W to punk.
I have been a singer by trade for my whole working life.
Prizes
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Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Monash University, 2011.
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Award and Scholarship for Excellence in Honours. College of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
University of Sydney, 2000.
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University Medal. The University of Sydney, 1999.
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Referees
Prof. Peter Murphy
Professor of Creative Arts and Social Aesthetics
Head of the School of Creative Arts
James Cook University
SoCA Building DA300, room 004C
Townsville QLD 4811
Australia
+61 7 4781 3166
[email protected]
Assoc. Prof. Ian Maxwell (PhD Supervisor)
Pro-Dean, Teaching and Learning
Faculty of Arts
University of Sydney, Australia
+61 2 9351 6847
[email protected]
Dr Will Peterson (Current Supervisor)
Centre for Theatre and Performance
School of English Communications and Performance Studies
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
+61 3 9905 9351
[email protected]
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