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Name:	Mr Paul Monaghan
	BA(Hons) ANU MA (Melb)
Position:	Lecturer - Theatre Studies
Area:	Theatre Studies
Phone:	+61 3 83448289
Fax:	+61 3 93448462
Room:	A213
Email:	pmonag@unimelb.edu.au
URL:	"http://www.doubledialogues.com"

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Staff Profile - Mr Paul Monaghan

Paul Monaghan is a lecturer in Theatre Studies. He previously worked in theatre in a variety of capacities (actor, director, lighting designer, manager) for over 15 years. His teaching includes Greek Theatre, Space and Light in Theatre, Theatre and Realism, Sport as Performance, and the annual Performance Project.

Research profile:

Paul is co-editor of Double Dialogues (http://www.doubledialogues.com) an online journal and conference that discourses arts theory and practice. He is also co-convenor of the Dramaturgies Project, which investigates dramaturgical practice in contemporary Australian theatre (see http://www.realtimearts.net/ and click on 'Dramaturgy Now'), and co-convenor of an international conference in September 2006: 'Close Relations: the 'spaces' of Greek and Roman theatre' (see http://www.cca.unimelb.edu.au/close/)

Research areas include Greek and Roman theatre in performance (in the ancient world as well as in late C19 and early C20, and in Australia), Australian culture wars, scenography and the connection between theatrical practice and philosophy

He is currently working on a Phd, examining productions and adaptations of Aeschylus's 'Prometheus Bound' and of the Prometheus myth at the turn into the twentieth century, and their place in the development of Modernist theatre.

Paul is also commencing a major project examing the reception of Greek tragedy in Australia.

PUBLICATIONS
"Greek Tragedy on the Australian Stage: 1984-2005", The Staging of Classical Drama Around 2000, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007 (forthcoming)

“Bodies and Stairs: Modernist Theatrical Space and Consciousness”. Frameworks, Artworks, Place: The Space of Perception in the Modern World. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007 (forthcoming)

"Medea in Australia: responses to Greek Tragedy in contemporary Australian theatre" Didaskalia, Vol. 6 Issue 3 (2006), ed Hugh Denard, http://www.didaskalia.net/journal.html

"The Promethean Artist: from thief, via metaphysical rebel, to cliche", Traffic, 8 (2006), Melbourne, University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association

"The Dramaturgies Project", co-authored with Peter Eckersall and Melanie Beddie, RealTime magazine, Dec-Jan 2005-06, Sydney, Open City Inc

"Art War ’44: Performing Documents from the Front Line", Double Dialogues, Issue 3 (Summer 2005-06), eds Ann McCulloch, Ron Goodrich, Paul Monaghan; ISSN 1447-9591; http://www.doubledialogues.com

“Managerialism Meets Dionysos: Theatre and Civic Order”, Double Dialogues, Issue 3 (Summer 2005-06), eds Ann McCulloch, Ron Goodrich, Paul Monaghan; ISSN 1447-9591; http://www.doubledialogues.com

“Nescio, sed sentio et excrucior: the many faces of art and pain”, Double Dialogues, Issue Four (Winter 2003), eds Ann McCulloch, Ron Goodrich, Paul Monaghan. ISSN 1447-9591; http://www.doubledialogues.com

“Bloody Roman Narratives: Gladiators, ‘Fatal Charades’ and Senecan Theatre”, Double Dialogues, Issue Four (Winter 2003), eds Ann McCulloch, Ron Goodrich, Paul Monaghan. ISSN 1447-9591: http://www.doubledialogues.com

"The Plautine Persona", DRAMA: Beitraege zum antiken Drama und seiner Reception, Band 12 (2002), ed. John Barsby, M & P Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Stuttgart

"The Space in Between: four languages in an intercultural swamp", Double Dialogues, Issue Two (Winter 2002); eds Ann McCulloch, Ron Goodrich, Paul Monaghan. ISSN 1447-9591; http://www.doubledialogues.com

"The Masks of Pseudolus", Didaskalia, Vol. 5 Issue 1 (2001), eds Hugh Denard and John Barsby, http://www.didaskalia.net/journal.html