Professor Joanne Tompkins

MA Waterloo, PhD York (Canada)

Head of School & Professor in Drama

Phone: (+61 7) 3365 2593
Email: j.tompkins@uq.edu.au

Biography

Joanne Tompkins is EMSAH Head of School and Professor in Drama.

Research and Teaching Focus

Research

Research interests include spatial theories and virtual reality; post-colonial, intercultural, and multicultural drama, literature, and theory; performance theories; and feminist performance. 

Current research includes 3D visualisation and modelling of theatre spaces; space in Australian and Canadian theatre; database of Australian performance; and multicultural theories and drama, and intercultural performance.

Teaching Interests

Drama and spatial theory.

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• Spatial theory and virtual reality.
• Post-colonial, multicultural, and intercultural drama and theory.
• Australian drama and literature and Canadian drama. 

Other Publications

Co-author of:

• Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics, Routledge, 1996 (with Helen Gilbert).
• Women's Intercultural Performance, Routledge, 2000 (with Julie Holledge).

Editor of:

• Space and the Geographics of Theatre.  Special issue of Modern Drama, 2004.
• Theatre and the Canadian Imaginary.  Special issue of Australasian Drama Studies, 1996. 

Co-editor of:

• Modern Drama:  Defining the Field, University of Toronto Press, 2003.
• Modern Drama 1999-2005 
• Performing Women / Performing Feminisms: Interviews with International Women Playwrights.

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