Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies and co-director of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne where she has also served as Dean (2018) and Deputy Dean (2016-17) in the Faculty of Arts. She teaches Australian Theatre and Performance, and Modern and Contemporary Drama and supervises PhD students in the English and Theatre Studies Program.
Her research is in modern and contemporary theatre and performance with interests in: ecological theatre, theatrical modernism and modernity; feminism; performance affects; identity, gender and ethnicity; and theatre historiography and the archive. She has been lead investigator on three ARC Discovery Projects and contributed to other projects including AusStage. Her latest book is Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White: Governing Culture (2018) co-authored with Sandra D’Urso. Co-edited volumes include Performance Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times (Palgrave, 2017) with Elin Diamond and Candice Amich, and Feminist Ecologies: Changing Environments in the Anthropocene with Lara Stevens and Peta Tait (Palgrave, 2018). She is the co-author of monographs Theatre in the Asia Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era (2013) and The Dolls’ Revolution: Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination (2005) with Rachel Fensham. She is sole author of Radical Visions: The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama (2011. Her work is published in leading journals including Theatre Research International, Modern Drama, Contemporary Theatre Review and Performance Research.
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Patrick White And Australian Theatrical Modernism: From Modern Drama To Contemporary Perfo..
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A radical new adaptation eviscerates the dominance of male voices in Wake in Fright
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Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White: Governing Culture
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Austage, Phase 5: Australian Live Performance And The World - Global Networks, National Cu..
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Where Australia's great theatre artists trod the boards: 50 years of Melbourne's La Mama t..
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Climate Guardian Angels: Feminist Ecology and the Activist Tradition
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Professor In Theatre Studies.
Culture And Communication
Member Of Feminist Research Group
International Federation for Theatre Research
Member
Australasian Drama Studies Association
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Master of Arts
University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma in English
Monash University
Graduate Diploma in Education
Monash University
Bachelor of Arts
Monash University