Researcher

My Expertise

Contemporary performance; Australian theatre; cultural memory; museums: archives; memorials, children and youth.

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Performing Arts and Creative Writing

Biography

Bryoni Trezise is the author of two monographs, a co-edited collection and numerous articles, all of which use the disciplinary lens of performance to ask questions about contemporary culture. Her research spans the construction of cultural memories through analysis of archives, museums and memorials and, more recently, the staging of contemporary childhoods in digital media. Bryoni was awarded a State Library NSW Fellowship for her research...view more

Bryoni Trezise is the author of two monographs, a co-edited collection and numerous articles, all of which use the disciplinary lens of performance to ask questions about contemporary culture. Her research spans the construction of cultural memories through analysis of archives, museums and memorials and, more recently, the staging of contemporary childhoods in digital media. Bryoni was awarded a State Library NSW Fellowship for her research into migrant oral histories and has won the Marlis Thiersch and the Forum for Modern Language Studies prizes for her interdisciplinary scholarship in theatrical, literary and media histories. A leading member of UNSW’s Arts and Health Research Group, the Intermedial Composition Network and Children’s and Youth Research Network, Bryoni’s current research maps ecologies of creative thinking and creative care – creative literacies – forthcoming in a co-authored book and podcast series How to Play in Slow Time (2025). Bryoni is also highly invested in championing creative pedagogies for wide-ranging careers: she has been awarded teaching prizes for this work and is currently conducting an impact study with Shopfront Youth Arts on models of creative leadership for young people. This builds on the impact work she previously conducted for Regional Arts NSW involving data sets on arts participation and regional economies, including the ABS. Bryoni has published over 40 reviews for RealTime Arts, The Conversation and The Canberra Times and has been interviewed by ABC Radio. Most recently, Bryoni was awarded the Charlotte Waring Award and a Varuna Fellowship for development of her YA and middle grade novels.


My Qualifications

BA (Hons Class 1) UNSW; PhD UNSW


My Research Activities

 


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

Contemporary performance practice and theory

Cultural performance, memory cultures, national cultures of migration and diaspora, nostalgia

Australian theatre and performance

Dramaturgy

Digital and media cultures

Childhood studies and child performers

 


Currently supervising

Mary-Anne Gifford (PhD, Creative Practice) Australian Vaudeville: The Last Theatre of the Working Class

Maria White (PhD) The Rhetoric of Democracy: The Politics and Aesthetics of the 'Demos' in Contemporary Performance Practices

Nathan Jackson (PhD) Choreographies of Transfer: Reperforming Postmemory in Contemporary Australian Performance

Alex Talamo (PhD, Creative Practice) Performative Personas in Video Game Livestreaming: An Ethnographic Study of Twitch


My Teaching

The courses I am currently responsible for teaching are:

ARTS3123 Solo Performance https://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2020/ARTS3123

HUMS1006 Communication and Presentation Skills https://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2020/HUMS1006

ARTS1121 The Life of Performance https://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2020/ARTS1121

 

 

 

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Location

117, Level 1 Robert Webster

Contact

+61 2 9385 4513