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DR DENISE JOAN VARNEY



Contact Details

Organization: Culture and Communication
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN THEATRE STUDIES.
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Homepage: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/denise-varney.html
Work: 83448579
Fax: 93448462
Room: A210
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts Monash University 31-Dec-1974
Graduate Diploma in Education Monash University 31-Dec-1975
Graduate Diploma in English Monash University 31-Dec-1979
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1989
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1999

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Where culture and politics intersect: trends in German theatre since reunification Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004

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 2008

Books

  • Theatre in the Berlin Republic: German Drama since Reunification
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing(New York)
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Book Chapters

  • Hurting, Hurting, Hurting: Gendered Representations of Reunification in Post-Wende Theatre by Women
    Year: 2008
    Book: Theatre in the Berlin Republic: German Drama Since Reunification
    Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing(New York)
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  • Theatre in the Berlin Republic: Introduction
    Year: 2008
    Book: Theatre in the Berlin Republic: German Drama Since Reunification
    Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Scenographies of the Everyday in Contemporary German Theatre – Anna Langhoff and Sasha Waltz Restage the Family Drama
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Contemporary Theatre Review
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 56-68
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Being Political in German Theatre and Performance: Anna Langhoff and Christoph Schlingensief
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Being There: Before, During and After
    Conference Publication: Being There: After Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: University of Sydney(Sydney)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Gestus, Affect and the Post-Semiotic in Contemporary Theatre
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Journal of the Arts in Society
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 113-120
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  • Transit Heimat: Transnational Subjectivity and Mobility in German Theatre
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Transit
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: http://german.berkeley.edu/transit/2006/curr.toc.html#5
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • The Doll's Revolution: Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Grotesque images and sardonic humour: pain and affect in German drama
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Double Dialogues
    Volume: 6
    Issue: Winter
    Page numbers: http://www.doubledialogues.com/archive/issue_six/varney.html
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  • Heiner Muller and Martin Wuttke: Staging new images in a time of change
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Performance Research
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 60-69
    Publisher: Routledge
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Rhizomatic Dramaturgy: alternative performance practices
    Year: 2004
    Book: Alternatives: debating theatre culture in the age of con-fusion
    Publisher: Lang - Peter Lang(Brussels)
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Journal Articles

  • Joel Schechter ed., Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australasian Drama Studies
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 139-143
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • "White out: theatre as an agent of border patrol"
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Theatre Research International
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 326-338
    Publisher: Cambridge Journal Online(Cambridge)
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  • Hannie Rayson's Life after George: theatrical intervention and public intellectual discourse
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australasian Drama Studies
    Volume: 42
    Issue: April 2003
    Page numbers: 161-177
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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  • Heiner Muller's Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man: atrocity and pain in German history and theatre
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Double dialogues
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: http://www.doubledialogues.com/archive/issue_four/varney.htm
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  • The desire to affirm and challenge: an interview with Hannie Rayson
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australasian Drama Studies
    Volume: 42
    Issue: April 2003
    Page numbers: 146-161
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Performing Sexual Difference: a feminist appropriation of Brecht
    Year: 2001
    Book: Brect Yearbook Volume 26
    Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press(Wisconsin)
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Journal Articles

  • Feminist drama practice: a handbook
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australasian Drama Studies
    Volume: 38
    Issue: April
    Page numbers: 108-112
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  • Life after George
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australasian Drama Studies
    Volume: 39
    Issue: October
    Page numbers: 164-167
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  • Tokyo Diary
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Performance Research
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 71-86
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