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Email

dvarney@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professor Emeritus)
School of Culture and Communication
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Masters (Research)
University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma
Monash University
Graduate Diploma
Monash University
ORCID

0000-0001-7697-7932

Prof Denise Varney

Honorary (Professor Emeritus)
School of Culture and Communication

113 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Book

    Ecology and Climate in Theatre and Australian Performance
    DOI: 10.1017/9781009618298
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Climate Theatre
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003584445-2
  • 2025

    Journal article

    CLIMATE THEATRE: Ecology and Performance in a Climate Emergency
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003584445-2
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    PERFORMING CLIMATE ACTIVISM
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003584445-21
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Australian Coal Theatrics
    DOI: 10.1017/S1054204322000867
  • 2022

    Journal article

    ‘Droughts and Flooding Rains’: Ecology and Australian Theatre in the 1950s
    DOI: 10.1017/S0266464X22000239
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Towards an Australian Ecological Theatre
Denise Varney

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2022
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Book

    Climate Theatre: Ecology and Performance in a Climate Emergency
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003584445
  • 2022

    Journal article

    The Climate Siren
    DOI: 10.1017/S1054204322000338
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Caught in the Anthropocene: Theatres of Trees, Place and Politics
    DOI: 10.1017/S030788332100047X
  • 2021

    Book

    Patrick White's Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960-2018
    DOI: 10.30722/sup.9781743327555

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2014

    Research Grant

    Patrick White and Australian Theatrical Modernism: From Modern Drama to Contemporary Performance
  • 2014

    Research Grant

    Austage, Phase 5: Australian Live Performance and the World - Global Networks, National Culture, Aesthetic Transmission
  • 2009

    Research Grant

    Theatre in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Culture in a Modern Global Context
  • Research Grant

    Where Culture and Politics Intersect: Trends in German Theatre Since Reunification

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