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Email

sarah.balkin@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Senior Lecturer - English Theatre Studies
School of Culture and Communication
Education
PhD
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Masters (Coursework & Research)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of California - Los Angeles
ORCID

0000-0002-1430-9063

Dr Sarah Balkin

Senior Lecturer - English Theatre Studies
School of Culture and Communication

25 Scholarly works
1 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Book

    Comedy and Controversy
    DOI: 10.1017/9781009396820
  • 2023

    Journal article

    On Quitting: Dave Chappelle’s The Closer and Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette
    DOI: 10.1017/S1054204322000958
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Theory: Deadpan and Comedy Theory
  • 2020

    Journal article

    The Killjoy Comedian: Hannah Gadsby's Nanette
    DOI: 10.1017/S0307883319000592
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Archival contingencies: institutional afterlives of an antipodal library
    DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2020.1731588
  • 2019

    Book

    Spectral Characters: Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage
    DOI: 10.3998/mpub.10152084
  • 2017

    Internal Research Grant

    Nineteenth-Century Performance Styles
Sarah Balkin

Latest 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

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Authorship Across Media: Considering Wednesday Addams
    DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2025.2518968
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Editor’s introduction, special issue on ‘the comic audience’
    DOI: 10.1080/2040610x.2025.2551447
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Can AI read the room?: Attuning machines to the affective atmospheres of stand-up comedy performance
    DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2025.2544414
  • 2024

    Journal article

    [Review of the book] Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, by Tina Post
    DOI: 10.1353/mod.2024.a956662
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Expository spirits: media and the material occult in J.R. Planché’s 'The Vampire'
    DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2024.2380575
  • 2021

    Book Chapter

    Transporting Humour: Artemus Ward and American Comedy in Britain
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003055860-13

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