Dr Fiona Gregory

Background

Fiona Gregory completed her Bachelor of Arts (HONS) and PhD at the Australian National University. From 2004 to 2006, she was an Associate Lecturer at the University of Tasmania where she taught courses in nineteenth century literature, contemporary fiction, and comedy. In 2006, she was appointed Lecturer in the Centre for Drama and Theatre, where she coordinates the first year program in Drama. She is also the Honours coordinator for Drama and Theatre Studies.

Research Interests

My primary research focuses on the study of actors and performance identity. I am also interested in broader investigations of nineteenth and twentieth-century literary and theatrical culture. I am currently completing a book on the landmark performances of Mrs Patrick Campbell and Judith Anderson, and have initiated a new project on representations of actresses and mental illness. I am also preparing a performance research production of Hubert Henry Davies’ The Mollusc (1907).

Publications

Articles

F. Gregory “An Alternative Ophelia: Mrs Patrick Campbell in Hamlet, 1897”, in preparation.

F. Gregory “John Palgrave Simpson”, biographical essay for forthcoming “Nineteenth-Century British Dramatists” volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Angela Courtney, published by BCL-Manly. In press 2007.

F. Gregory “High-Cultural Histrionics: Judith Anderson’s 1955 Tour of Australia”, Australasian Drama Studies 48 (April 2006): 99-114.

Conference and seminar presentations

F. Gregory “Consuming Glamour: An Expatriate Star’s Return ‘Home’”, presented at Australian Modernities: Vernacular Performers and Consumers, international conference held at the University of Queensland, December 5-7 2006.

F. Gregory “The Haunting of Mrs Pat”, presented at Australian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Annual Conference, University of Sydney, July 4-7 2006.

F. Gregory “Mrs Patrick Campbell’s ‘Anti-Ophelia’: Embodying Madness on the Late-Victorian Stage”, paper presented at ‘Removing the Boundaries’ seminar series, School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania, April 2005.