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MR PAUL FLETCHER MONAGHAN



Contact Details

Organization: Victorian College of the Arts
Position: LECTURER IN THEATRE MAKING, VCA DRAMA
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Homepage: www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/paul-monaghan.html
Work: 83448289
Fax: 93448462
Room: A205
Level: 02
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Paul Monaghan lectures in the Creative Arts Program (Theatre Studies), School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.  His specialist research area is Greek and Roman Theatre in performance, both in antiquity and in the modern world. He is also a professional theatre maker and director, has devised and directed numerus original works and a number of Greek and Roman plays. Paul is co-convenor/co-editor of Double Dialogues conference and journal (www.doubledialogues.com), an ongoing project linking academic discourse with arts practice, and co-convenor of the Dramaturgies Project, which examines dramaturgical practices in contemporary Australian theatre. Paul was also co-convenor of Close Relations: the Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre, an international conference in Melbourne in September 2006 (www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/close), and Enter The New Wave: Australian theatre 1967-1970 in 2007. Before joining Creative Arts, Paul worked in the professional theatre industry for 16 years, in a variety of roles including actor, director, lighting designer, production and stage manager, general manager and artistic director.  From 1994 to late 1998 Paul was General Manager / Artistic Director of Theatreworks in Melbourne. He has directed performances in four different languages (English, French, Indonesia & Latin), and toured to a number of countries including Japan, Bulgaria, Indonesia and Austria. He also continues to work as dramaturge for numerous emerging artists. 

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Australian contemporary theatre Australia
Greek and Roamn Theatre in performance - antiquity and modern reception Greece, Australia, France, Germany, England

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom The Open University Exchange

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
French Speak, Read & Write
Latin Read
Greek Read
English Speak, Read & Write
German Read

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts The Australian National University 31-Dec-1979
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2001

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Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Greek Tragedy in Australia: 1984-2005
    Year: 2007
    Book: Staging of Classical Drama Around 2000
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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Journal Articles

  • The School of Lies
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Double Dialogues
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 1-5
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  • Theatre and Philosophy: the Lies in Plato's Closet
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Double Dialogues
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 1-9
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Medea in Australia: responses to Greek Tragedy in contemporary Australian theatre
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Didaskalia
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 3
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  • The Promethean Artist: From Theif, via Metaphysical Rebel, to Cliché
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Traffic
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 67-86
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Art War '44: Documentary Theatre from an Australian Culture War
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Double Dialogues
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: Double Dialogues(Melbourne)
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  • Managerialism meets Dionysos: Theatre and Civic Order
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Double Dialogues
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: Double Dialogues(Melbourne)
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  • The Dramaturgies Project
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Real Time
    Volume: 70
    Issue: December 05
    Page numbers: 25-32
    Publisher: Open City(Sydney)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Bloody Roman narratives: gladiators, fatal charades and Senecan theatre
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Double Dialogues
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 24
    Publisher: Double Dialogues(Melbourne)
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  • Nescio, sed sentio et excrucior, the many faces of art and pain
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Double dialogues
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Ccurrent isssue RR(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • The Plautine persona
    Year: 2002
    Book: Greek and Roman drama: translation and performance
    Publisher: Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart(Stuttgart)
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Journal Articles

  • The space in between: four languages in a swamp
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Double dialogues
    Volume: 2
    Issue: Winter
    Page numbers: 10-18
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • The Masks of Pseudolus
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Didaskalia
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
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