Dr Stuart Grant - Researcher Profile

Biography

My specialty is philosophy of performance with an emphasis on site-specific work and phenomenology. I also teach Contemporary Performance, Musical Theatre and Comedy. I am a singer.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: The University of Sydney

Year awarded: 2007

GRAD CERT TESOL

Institution: Gyeongsang Natinal University/University California Santa Cruz

Year awarded: 2005

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Institution: The University of Sydney

Year awarded: 2002

BACHELOR OF ARTS (COMMUNICATIONS)

Institution: UTS

Year awarded: 1999

Publications

Book Chapters

Grant, S., 2012, Speaking bodies: Phenomenology and performance in second language learning, in Language Arts in Asia: Literature and Drama in English, Putonghua and Cantonese, eds Christina DeCoursey, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, pp. 226-242.

Grant, S., 2010, Morphological essence: measurement, inexact yet not imprecise, in Halfway Hoses: The Poetics of Australian Spaces, eds Jennifer Rutherford and Barbara Holloway, UWA Publishing, Crawley, Western Australia, pp. 223-235.

Grant, S., 2010, Some suggestions for a phenomenology of rhythm, in Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music, eds Eduardo de la Fuente and Peter Murphy, Brill, Leiden, NL, pp. 151-174.

Grant, S., 2007, How to Stand in Australia, in Unstable Ground: Performance and the Politics of Place, eds Gay McAuley, Peter Lang, Brussels, pp. 247-270.

Journal Articles

Grant, S., 2011, An approach to the affective dimension of speaking, Parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy [P], vol 13, Humanities Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 112-125.

Grant, S., 2010, Fifteen theses on transcendental intersubjective audience, About Performance [P], vol 10, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. 67-79.

Grant, S., Lockitt, M., Egan, A., 2010, The uncertain musical: an experiment in performance as research as pedagogy, Australasian Drama Studies [P], vol 57, ADSA: La Trobe University, Australia, pp. 82-98.

Snow, P.C., Casey, M., Grant, S., 2009, Do theories and events deliver: A tripartite meditation on social dramaturgy, About Performance [P], vol 9, Department of Performance Studies, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 15-44.

Grant, S., 2008, Abysmal Laughter, PhaenEx: journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture [P], vol 3, issue 2, University of Windsor, Canada, pp. 37-70.

Grant, S., 2007, Immanent Description and Writing From, P L I Warwick Journal of Philosophy [P], vol 18, University of Warwick, Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom.

Grant, S., 2005, Practical Intersubjectivity, Janus Head (Print Edition) [P], vol 8, issue 2, Trivium Publications, Amherst NY, pp. 560-580.

Grant, S., 2004, How to Say (Roughlyi??very Roughly): What Sort of a Thing a Triple Alice 3 is, Having Attended One, About Performance [P], vol 5, Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 73-82.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Nobis, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

ANTI-ANTHROPOCENE: a new way of looking at ethical contemporary performance practice.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Casey, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Ambient [NULL] - A Future Archaeology of Sound Design.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Peterson, W (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Apollonian and Dionysian Dynamics in the Contemporay Musical Play.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Casey, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Attending the Song: the 'use of self' in song writing and performing original works.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Casey, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Being moved - the transformative power of Butoh: towards an articulation of an aesthetics of Butoh.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Snow, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

By means of performance: Theatricalising performativity and performing theatricality as an investigation of a performance theory..

Supervisors:

Peterson, W (Main), Grant, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Dancing into balance: Embodied spiritual practice and eco-philosophy.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Rigby, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Emotional truth in opera performance.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Laing, B (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Experiencing electronic dance floors: a comparative approach.

Supervisors:

Homan, S (Main), Grant, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

From Root to Bloom: An investigation into the contemporary relevance of a classical dance form.

Supervisors:

Peterson, W (Main), Grant, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Staging Sri Lankan cultural identity for the global theatre market: A Contemporary Natyashilpa.

Supervisors:

Peterson, W (Main), Grant, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The performativity of (dis)closure.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Peterson, W (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Tools for shock: the grotesque and Katyn - a performance.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Griffiths, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Transgressive 'infants', precarious subjects - the anthropomorphic impulse in adult puppet theatre.

Supervisors:

Snow, P (Main), Grant, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Waiting for godot to call us wogs: the refusal to perform the ethnic stereotype.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Grant, S (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Petty, L.

Program of Study:

Social Dance in Australia's World War II Dancehalls. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Peterson, W (Main), Grant, S (Associate).

Student:

Stewart, J.

Program of Study:

Moments of the everyday: opening to the possibility of making. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Snow, P (Associate).

Student:

Veerapen, M.

Program of Study:

Leading a symbembodied life: a phenomenological investigation of Second Life. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Snow, P (Associate), Hutchins, B (Associate).