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Dr Rob Conkie

Rob Conkie

Position: Lecturer
Room: HU2 427
Tel: +61 3 9479 2434
Fax: +61 3 9479 3037
Email: R.Conkie@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA Melb, Dip Ed Melb, MA Birmingham, PhD Southampton

Major Research Areas:
  • Shakespeare in Performance
  • Early Modern Theatre and Drama
Current Projects:
  • ‘Writing Performative Shakespeares’; new forms of writing about Shakespearean theatre
  • ‘Shakespeare Aftershocks’; contemporary representations and circulations of early modern ideas
Major Teaching Areas:
  • Post-Graduate Co-ordinator
  • Shakespeare in Performance
  • Popular Theatre
  • Australian Drama
  • Canon Formation and ‘Explosion’
Recent Publications:
  • ‘Red Button Shakespeare’, Shakespeare Survey 62, forthcoming, 2009.
  • ‘A gentle conference, soft and affable: The British Shakespeare Association Conference, 2007’, Shakespeare, 4.1, pp. 82-94, 2008.
  • ‘Constructing Femininity in the New Globe’s All-Male Antony and Cleopatra’, in Shakespeare Re-Dressed: Cross-Gender Casting in Contemporary Performance, edited by James C. Bulman, Associated University Presses, pp. 189-209, 2008.
  •  ‘Sudokothellophobia: Writing Hypertextually, Performatively’, Shakespeare Survey 60, pp. 154-69, 2007.
  • The Globe Theatre Project: Shakespeare and Authenticity, Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
  • ‘Democratising Shakespeare’, Studies in Theatre and Performance 23.3, pp. 179-90, 2004.
 
 
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