Staff Details

Name:	Dr Peter Eckersall
	BEd Rusden MA Monash PhD Monash
Position:	Senior Lecturer - Theatre Studies
Area:	Theatre Studies
Phone:	+61 3 83448627
Fax:	+61 3 93448462
Room:	208
Email:	eckersal@unimelb.edu.au

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Adam Bronowski	MCA	Theatre Studies	completed	- N/A -
Joanne Poon	MCA	Theatre Studies	completed	View Summary
Alyson Campbell	PHD	Theatre Studies	current	View Summary
Thomas Considine	MCA	Theatre Studies	completed	View Summary
Rachael Ann Scott Swain	PHD	Theatre Studies	current	- N/A -
Georgina Helen Boucher	PHD	Theatre Studies	current	View Summary
Alina Hoyne	PHD	Theatre Studies	current	View Summary
Edward Paterson	PHD	Theatre Studies	current	View Summary
Meredith Rogers	MCA	Theatre Studies	completed	View Summary
Luke Richard Stickels	PHD	Theatre Studies / Cinema Studies	current	- N/A -
Elissa Goodrich	MCA	Theatre Studies	current	- N/A -
Ashley Hibbert	MCA	Creative Writing/Theatre Studies	current	- N/A -
Joanna Melinda Clyne	PHD	Theatre Studies 30%/History 70%	current	- N/A -

Staff Profile - Dr Peter Eckersall

Dr Peter Eckersall is senior lecturer in Theatre Studies and coordinator of the Theatre Studies program. He is also honours coordinator for the SCA.

Research profile:

Research interests include: contemporary Japanese theatre, kyogen, intercultural theatre, politics and the avant-garde, dramaturgy.

Selected publications in the past five years.

Book
2006 Theorising the Angura Space: avant-garde performance and politics in Japan 1960-2000. Leiden, Brill Academic.

Edited Collections
2006, “Japan after the 1960s: the ends of the avant-garde.” Performance Paradigm No 2. (performanceparadigm.net)
2004, Alternatives: Debating Theatre Culture in an Age of Confusion. Edited and introduction by Peter Eckersall [7-22], Tadashi Uchino, Naoto Moriyama. Brussels PIE Lang,

Chapters
2005, “Theatrical Collaboration in the Age of Globalization: The Gekidan Kaitaisha-NYID Intercultural Collaboration Project”, Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts. Edited by Hae-kyung Um. London and NY, Routledge-Curzon. 204-20.
2004, “The Gekidan Kaitaisha-NYID ‘Journey to Confusion’ project: A case study for the interaction of research imperatives for artists and scholars in the performing arts”, Innovation in Australian Arts, Media and Design. Edited by Rod Wissler, et al. Faxton, QLD: Postpressed. 29-40.
2004, “Trendiness and Appropriation? On Australia-Japan Contemporary Theatre in Exchange”, Alternatives, edited by Peter Eckersall, Naoto Moriyama, Tadashi Uchino. PIE Lang, Brussels. 33-54.
2001, “What can’t be seen can be seen: Butoh politics and (body) play”, Body Show/s: Australian Viewings of Live Performance, Peta Tait (Ed.), Rodopi Theatre Series. 145-51.
2001, “Intercultural Theatre in the Context of Cultural Pluralism”, Globalisation and the Live Performing Arts Conference Papers, Melbourne: Monash Theatre Papers.

Journal Articles
2003 “Surveillance Aesthetics and Theatre against ‘Empire’”, Double Dialogues. No 4. http://www.doubledialogues.com/. ISSN 1447 9591.
2003 “On Physical Theatre: A roundtable discussion from ‘Not yet it’s difficult’” with Peter Eckersall, Paul Jackson, David Pledger, Greg Ulfan’, Australasian Drama Studies. No 41, 2003, 15-27. ISSN 0810 4123
2002 “Media, Performance and the Disciplinary Archipelago”, Performing Arts. No. 2, 23-31. (In Japanese).
2002 (Eckersall with Ota Shogo, Otori Hidenaga, et al, “Colloquium: Globaliation and the Expression of our Time”, Performing Arts. No. 1 61-86. (In Japanese).
2001 “Discussing Theory Practice relationships in performance: a round-table discussion”, Australasian Drama Studies. No. 39, 148-61.
2001, (with Scheer, Varney & Fensham), “Tokyo Diary”, Performance Research. Vol. 6, No. 1, 71-86.

Computer Software Products (multimedia products)
2003 Eckersall author of Japanese Theatre section, Voices and Visions from Japan. CD Rom, Curriculum Corporation. ISBN 1 86366 563 3.

In press 2006
2006 “From liminality to ideology: the politics of embodiment in prewar avant-garde theatre in Japan”, Transnational Flows and avant-garde theatre. Edited by John Rouse and James Harding. Michigan, University of Michigan Press.
2006 “Towards an expanded dramaturgical practice: a report on The Dramaturgy and Cultural Intervention Project” Theatre Research International (Vol. 31. No. 2).
2006 “After angura: Recent works by Kawamura Takeshi and the end of the angura system” The Ends of the 60s: Performance Media and Contemporary Culture. Edited by Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall, Sydney: Performance Paradigm.