Staff profile

Dr Rob Conkie

Lecturer, Honours and Postgraduate Coordinator (Theatre and

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 427, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-Melbourne), Dip Ed (Melbourne), MA (Birmingham), PhD (Southampton).

Area of study

Creative Arts
Theatre and Drama

Brief Profile

Rob Conkie’s teaching and research incorporates practical and theoretical approaches to Shakespeare in performance.

Research interests

Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

- Early modern theatre and drama

- Shakespeare in performance

Teaching Units

DRA2/3SIP - Shakespeare in Performance. DRA2/3AUD - Australian Drama. DRA1TKP - Theatre Knowledge and Practices. DRA1PBP - Process-based Performance.

Recent Publications

  • 2012 ‘Rehearsal: The Pleasures of the Flesh’, in Rehearsing Shakespeare: Alternative Strategies in Process and Performance, Special Issue of Shakespeare Bulletin, 30.4, forthcoming
  • 2012 ‘Entrances and Exits’, in Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre, edited by Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves, Palgrave, forthcoming
  • 2012 ‘Surveying Survey’, in Cahiers Élisabéthains 40th Anniversary Special Issue 2012, 37-44
  • 2011/12 Henry IV, Part 1, Tour: La Trobe University, New Fortune Theatre, UWA, 45Downstairs, Melbourne. Director 
  • 2011 ‘Red Button Shakespeare’, in Shakespeare Closely Read: A Collection of Essays, edited by Frank Occhiogrosso, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 117-46
  • 2009 ‘Shakespeare Aftershocks: Shylock’, Shakespeare Bulletin, 27.4, 549-66
  • 2009 ‘Red Button Shakespeare’, Shakespeare Survey 62, 123-40
  • 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, 189-209
  • 2008 ‘A gentle conference, soft and affable: The British Shakespeare Association Conference, 2007’, Shakespeare, 4.1, 82-94
  • 2007 ‘Sudokothellophobia: Writing Hypertextually, Performatively’, Shakespeare Survey 60, 154-69
  • 2006 The Globe Theatre Project: Shakespeare and Authenticity, Edwin Mellen Press
  • 2004 ‘Democratising Shakespeare’, Studies in Theatre and Performance, 23.3, 179-90
  • 2003/04 Othellophobia, Explosive Acts. Tour: Basingstoke, Bracknell, Eastleigh, Winchester, Bath Shakespeare Festival, Oxford, London. Director

Research projects

Writing Performative Shakespeares

An Australian Original Practices Shakespeare