Dr Fiona Gregory - Researcher Profile

Biography

My interest in theatre history and literature was developed during undergraduate studies in drama and English. However it was the opportunity to uncover lost stories in the letters and scrapbooks of long-forgotten performers during postgraduate fieldwork at the British Library and New York Public Library that convinced me to pursue an academic career.

I received my Ph.D from the Australian National University, working on theatre historiography within the English program. My research has continued in an interdisciplinary mode, bringing together areas such as Elizabethan performance, nineteenth-century cultural history and classical Hollywood cinema. My current research project is a wide-ranging study of actresses and mental illness, drawing on historical examples and literary and cultural representations to consider the intersections of ‘hysteria’ and the ‘histrionic’.

I taught in the School of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania before joining Monash University in 2006. At Monash I have had the pleasure of introducing first-year students to the history of drama and performance. I have also taught units in Elizabethan performance, nineteenth-century literature, modern fiction and British comedy.

Qualifications

DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Aust National Uni

Year awarded: 2003

B ARTS (HONS)

Institution: Aust National Uni

Year awarded: 1998

Publications

Book Chapters

Gregory, F., 2008, Chasing modernity: an expatriate star's return 'home', in Impact of the modern : vernacular modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s, eds Robert Dixon and Veronica Kelly, Sydney University Press, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 223-231.

Journal Articles

Gregory, F., 2012, Performing the rest cure: Mrs Patrick Campbell's Ophelia, 1897, New Theatre Quarterly [P], vol 28, issue 2, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 107-121.

Gregory, F., 2006, High-cultural histrionics: Judith Anderson's 1955 Australian tour, Australasian Drama Studies, vol 48, issue 48, University of Queensland, Vic Australia, pp. 99-114.

Conference Proceedings

Gregory, F., 2006, "The Haunting of Mrs Pat", Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) Annual Conference 2006: Being There: Before During and After: Abstracts, 4 July 2006 to 7 July 2006, Department of Performance Studies, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW, Australia, p. 51.

Other

Gregory, F., 2009, John Palgrave Simpson, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nineteenth-Century British Dramatists, vol 344, Gale, Cengage Learning, Detroit, pp. 327-335.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A Quarreling Pair by Jane Bowles: Beyond a Biographical Reading..

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Gregory, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Adapting the Theatrical Potential of the Sri Lankan Ritual Performance for the Modern Theatre..

Supervisors:

Peterson, W (Main), Gregory, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Glimpses of a Devoured Reality: Self-Expansion Through the Ritual of Telling.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Gregory, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Revival of Bangsawan through Project "Semarak Bangsawan".

Supervisors:

Peterson, W (Main), Gregory, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Sexual bodies: Exploring female sexual agency in performance.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Gregory, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Survival of Jatra.

Supervisors:

Peterson, W (Main), Gregory, F (Associate).