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Dr

Sarah Balkin

Senior Lecturer - English Theatre Studies
Culture and Communication
modern drama
nineteenth-century studies
modernism
deadpan
comedy
Hannah Gadsby
audiences
gender and sexuality
genre
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Theatre Studies
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Nineteenth-Century Performance Styles

2017 - 2017
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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On Quitting

Sarah Balkin

Journal article  |  2023  |  TDR: The Drama Review

Like Hannah Gadsby, Dave Chappelle understands the art of quitting. At the end of his 2021 Netflix special The Closer, a show full..

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Transporting Humour: Artemus Ward and American Comedy in Britain

Sarah Balkin

Book Chapter  |  2021

Though early nineteenth-century American comic performers often took English actors and roles as models, by the 1860s “Yankee humo..

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Theory: Deadpan and Comedy Theory

Sarah Balkin

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter considers deadpan’s historical emergence in light of comedy theory, giving particular attention to theories that brac..

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The Killjoy Comedian: Hannah Gadsby's Nanette

Sarah Balkin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Theatre Research International

In her 2017 show Nanette, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby announced that she was quitting comedy. In the show, Gadsby argued tha..

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Archival contingencies: institutional afterlives of an antipodal library

Sarah Balkin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Textual Practice

Ernest Scott (1867–1939), an early history professor at the University of Melbourne, left thirteen thousand books to the universit..

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REMEMBERED PRESENCES: RESPONSES TO THEATRE

Sarah Balkin

Journal article  |  2019  |  AUSTRALASIAN DRAMA STUDIES

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Spectral Characters: Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage

Sarah Balkin

Book  |  2019

Theater’s materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonom..

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Alison Croggon, Remembered Presences: Responses to Theatre

Sarah Balkin

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australasian Drama Studies

Remembered Presences collects in print Alison Croggon's selected reviews and writing about theatre from 2004 to 2017. Most of thes..

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‘The Thin Air of Reality’: Applause in the lecture theatre

S Balkin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Performance Research

As a gesture applause is both a demonstration of etiquette and an expression of feeling. This article asks how applause can help t..

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Theatre Research International

Editorship  |  2018  |  Theatre Research International

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Keyword Analysis

Literary Studies
Performing Arts
Expanding Knowledge
Arts
Cultural Studies
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Communication
Creative and Professional Writing
Heritage, Archive and Museum Studies
Historical Studies

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Comic anticlimax in Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece

Sarah Balkin

Review: Set Piece, by Nat Randall and Anna Breckon, for Rising. Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece explores female intimacy through..

June 14, 2022
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Contemporary and medieval women's voices collide in My Dearworthy Darling

Sarah Balkin

Review: My Dearworthy Darling, Malthouse My Dearworthy Darling is a collaboration between playwright, fantasy novelist, poet, and theatre..

August 13, 2019
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Watt questions being and perception but could have gone further

Sarah Balkin

Review: Watt, Melbourne International Arts Festival. It resembled a pot, it was almost a pot, but it was not a pot of which one could ..

October 8, 2018
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Taylor Mac makes history at Melbourne Festival opening

Sarah Balkin

Taylor Mac described The Inauguration, which helped launch the 2017 Melbourne Festival, as “a Radical Faerie realness ritual”. The Inaugura..

October 6, 2017
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Retelling the biblical Book of Exodus through the eyes of children

Sarah Balkin

The biblical Book of Exodus tells the story of the children of Israel and their liberation from slavery in Egypt. Moses, who as a child is ..

June 2, 2017
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In 887, Robert Lepage has built a memory palace out of theatre

Sarah Balkin

Robert Lepage’s autobiographical show at the Melbourne Festival, 887, is named for his childhood apartment building: 887 Avenue Murray in Q..

October 20, 2016
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2021

Marlis Thiersch Prize for excellence in academic publishing for the article "The Killjoy Comedian: Hannah Gadsby's Nanette"

Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies
2010

Dissertation Teaching Award

Rutgers University

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Senior Lecturer - English Theatre Studies

Culture and Communication

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Master of Arts

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Bachelor of Arts

University of California - Los Angeles

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