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Dr

Eddie Paterson

Lecturer In Creative Writing-Scriptwriting
performance
arts & humanities
theater
disability
poetry
computers
performing arts
inclusion
art practice
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Dr

Eddie Paterson

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Contemporary performance
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Dr

Eddie Paterson

 

Eddie Paterson is Head of the Creative Writing program at the University of Melbourne. He lectures in scriptwriting for theatre, contemporary performance, new media and games.

His research explores intersections between performance and everyday life - with a focus on radical writing practices, disability arts and climate politics. His books include The Contemporary American Monologue (Bloomsbury, 2015), Once Upon a Pixel: Storytelling and Worldbuilding in Videogames (co-authored with Tim Simpson-Williams and Will Cordner, CRC Press 2019), and Redactor (Whitmore Press, 2017 ), which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Awards and the John Bray Award.

His current ARC funded research is a Linkage project examining notions of aesthetic innovation in Australian arts and disability performance, known to collaborators as 'The Last Avant Garde', and a Discovery project with colleagues from Australia, the US and UK, 'Power and Politics: Revaluing Theatre in the 21st century'. Eddie is managing co-editor of Five Islands poetry press, and Development Officer for PSi (Performance Studies international).

Projects

Displaying the 3 most recent projects by Eddie Paterson.

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Power And Performance: Revaluing Theatre In The 21st Century

This project aims to examine the changing function of the theatre in Western culture. For millennia, theatre has been valued as a way to bri..

2016 - 2019
Completed
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Disability And The Performing Arts In Australia: Beyond The Social Model

This project aims to explore how the creative and aesthetic value of contemporary Australian disability theatre, dance and live performance ..

2016 - 2019
Completed
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Disability And The Performing Arts In Australia: Beyond The Social Model

This project aims to explore how the creative and aesthetic value of contemporary Australian disability theatre, dance and live performance ..

2016 - 2019
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 46 most recent scholarly works by Eddie Paterson.

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Compost and Air-conditioning: Beyond biospherical performance and towards the shimmer

Edward Paterson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts

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Once Upon a Pixel: Storytelling and Worldbuilding in Video Games

Eddie Paterson, Timothy Simpson-Williams, Will Cordner

Book  |  2019

Once Upon a Pixel examines the increasing sophistication of storytelling and worldbuilding in modern video games.

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Conclusion: practicing interdependency, sharing vulnerability, celebrating complexity - the future of disability arts, culture, and media research

E Paterson, Bree Hadley, Donna McDonald, Sarah Austin, Kath Duncan, undefined et al

Book Chapter  |  2019

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The last avant garde?

Sarah Austin, Kath Duncan, Gerard Goggin, Lachlan MacDowall, Veronica Pardo, Eddie Paterson, Jax Jacki Brown, Morwenna Collett, Fiona Cook, Bree Hadley, Kate Hood, Jess Kapuscinski-Evans, Donna McDonald, Julie McNamara, Gaelle Mellis, Eva Sifis, Kate Sulan

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Introduction: Performance Climates

E Paterson

Journal article  |  2018  |  Global Performance Studies Journal

Guest Editor Introduction to GPS 1.2, Performance Climates

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Labourscrape

E Paterson

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

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Introduction: Micro-climates

Rachel Fensham, Eddie Paterson, Paul Rae

Journal article  |  2018  |  Performance Research

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Performance Research: On Climates

Editorship  |  2018  |  Performance Research

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Redactor

E Paterson

Book  |  2017

redactor uses found texts from the everyday - emails, memos, notes, lyrics, text messages, tweets, webfeeds - as poetic material.

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Sheep Poems - Standard Operating Procedure

E PATERSON

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2016

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Sheep Poems - The Review

E PATERSON

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2016

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Bodies of Data: Informatics in Contemporary Performance

E PATERSON

Journal article  |  2016  |  Performance Paradigm

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The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics

E Paterson

Book  |  2015

In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, A..

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A True Garden

E PATERSON, L Stevens

Recorded or Rendered Work - Performance  |  2015

Audio Performance - A solo audio performance based on Hélène Cixous’ short story: Un vrai jardin (1971).

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Love Poem

E PATERSON

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2015

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Beyond Access: The Creative Case for Inclusive Arts Practice

E PATERSON, L MacDowall, W Roberts, S Austin, C Brophy, A Temple

Report  |  2015

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We Will Not Pay

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work  |  2014

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going jungle

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work  |  2013

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Script after script: Back to Back and dramaturgy of becoming

ER Paterson

Book Chapter  |  2013

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From Shakespeare to the Super Bowl: Theatre and Global Liveness

ER Paterson, L Stevens

Journal article  |  2013  |  Australasian Drama Studies

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The Celebration

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work  |  2013

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ghost sonata

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work  |  2013

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Real American Hoax: Karen Finley's 'The Passion of Terri Schiavo'

ER Paterson

Journal article  |  2012  |  Antithesis

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Love Poem

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work  |  2012

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Encounters in the Classroom: A case study of peer review of teaching in creative writing

E Macfarlane, K Brophy, A Birch, A Johnson, E Paterson, G Caldwell

Conference Proceedings  |  2012  |  The Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) conference proceedings

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Gameshow. Gameshow.

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work  |  2012

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Slow dramaturgy: Renegotiating politics and staging the everyday

P Eckersall, E Paterson

Journal article  |  2011  |  Australasian Drama Studies

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We are the fresh food people: The Supermarket as a performance of happiness

ER Paterson

Journal article  |  2011  |  Performance Paradigm

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This is the only place

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work  |  2011

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just to the right of the heart of it

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work  |  2011

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'this is a script'

E PATERSON

Creative Published Work  |  2010

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'HELLO, HELLO goodbye.'

E PATERSON

Creative Published Work  |  2010

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Paperless and penless: headphone performance, audio-scripting and new approaches to writing for performance

ERP Paterson

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  2010 AAWP Refereed Conference Proceedings

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'cold world with you'

E PATERSON

Creative Published Work  |  2010

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Barbara Cartland Love Poem

E PATERSON

Creative Published Work  |  2010

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'after our romantic weekend'

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Creative Published Work  |  2010

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'the future is brite'

E PATERSON

Creative Published Work  |  2010

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'bulk love'

E PATERSON

Creative Published Work  |  2010

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'russell crowe consistently bringing us to tears'

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Creative Published Work  |  2010

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'the run'

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Creative Published Work  |  2010

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'the. other. party.'

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Creative Published Work  |  2010

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'formal thankyou'

E PATERSON

Creative Published Work  |  2010

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'postcolonial subway reflection'

E PATERSON

Creative Published Work  |  2010

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blood on the tracks

Eddie Paterson

Creative Published Work  |  2009  |  Overland

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'the cuteness of _'

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Creative Published Work  |  2009

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'patty cakes & toots'

E PATERSON

Creative Published Work  |  2009

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Communication
Expanding Knowledge
Arts and Leisure
Art Theory and Criticism
Other Cultural Understanding

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2013

Project title: Performances of Life: the social, political, and economic contexts of biomedicine in Singapore, China and Japan.

Singapore Academic Research Fund (AcRF)
2013

Project Title: Beyond Access - a collaborative project with Arts Access Victoria, Dr Lachlan Macdowell and Dr Winsome Roberts

Lord Major's Charitable Foundation
2008

Australian Council for the Arts

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Lecturer In Creative Writing-Scriptwriting

Culture And Communication

Member - Organising Committee Of 2016 Psi Conference

PSi: Performance Studies International, Development Officer - Board Member

Member

ADSA: Australasian Drama Studies Association

Board Member

University of Melbourne Theatre, Board Member

Member

FIRT: International Federation for Theatre Research

Education

Doctor of Philosophy: Creative Arts

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Hons)

University of Melbourne

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