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, politics and everyday life - with a focus on radical writing practices. His books include The Contemporary American Monologue (Bloomsbury, 2015) 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).

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Eddie Paterson's highlights

FEATURED Book Chapter

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

Eddie Paterson's selected work

Power And Performance: Revaluing Theatre In The 21st Century

Research Grant

The last avant garde?

Book Chapter

Disability And The Performing Arts In Australia: Beyond The Social Model

Research Grant

Introduction: Performance Climates

Journal article

Disability And The Performing Arts In Australia: Beyond The Social Model

Research Grant

Introduction: Micro-climates

Journal article

Projects

Displaying the 3 most recent projects by Eddie Paterson.

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

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

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 44 most recent scholarly works by Eddie Paterson.

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

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

Introduction: Performance Climates

E Paterson

Journal article | 2018 | Global Performance Studies Journal

Guest Editor Introduction to GPS 1.2, Performance Climates

Introduction: Micro-climates

Rachel Fensham, Eddie Paterson, Paul Rae

Journal article | 2018 | Performance Research

Labourscrape

E Paterson

Original Creative Work - Textual Work | 2018

Performance Research: On Climates

Editorship | 2018 | Performance Research

Redactor

E Paterson

Book | 2017

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

Sheep Poems - Standard Operating Procedure

E PATERSON

Original Creative Work - Textual Work | 2016

Sheep Poems - The Review

E PATERSON

Original Creative Work - Textual Work | 2016

Bodies of Data: Informatics in Contemporary Performance

E PATERSON

Journal article | 2016 | Performance Paradigm

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..

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).

Love Poem

E PATERSON

Original Creative Work - Textual Work | 2015

Beyond Access: The Creative Case for Inclusive Arts Practice

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

Report | 2015

We Will Not Pay

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work | 2014

going jungle

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work | 2013

Script after script: Back to Back and dramaturgy of becoming

ER Paterson

Book Chapter | 2013

From Shakespeare to the Super Bowl: Theatre and Global Liveness

ER Paterson, L Stevens

Journal article | 2013 | Australasian Drama Studies

The Celebration

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work | 2013

ghost sonata

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work | 2013

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

ER Paterson

Journal article | 2012 | Antithesis

Love Poem

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work | 2012

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

Gameshow. Gameshow.

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work | 2012

Slow dramaturgy: Renegotiating politics and staging the everyday

P Eckersall, E Paterson

Journal article | 2011 | Australasian Drama Studies

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

ER Paterson

Journal article | 2011 | Performance Paradigm

This is the only place

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work | 2011

just to the right of the heart of it

ER Paterson

Creative Published Work | 2011