Assoc Prof Peter Eckersall
Senior Lecturer, Theatre Studies
Qualifications
BEd Rusden MA Monash PhD Monash
Research student supervisions
| Adam Bronowski | MCA | Theatre Studies | completed |
| Joanne Poon | MCA | Theatre Studies | completed |
| Alyson Campbell | PHD | Theatre Studies | current |
| Thomas Considine | MCA | Theatre Studies | current |
| Rachael Ann Scott Swain | PHD | Theatre Studies | current |
| Georgina Helen Boucher | PHD | Theatre Studies | current |
| Alina Hoyne | PHD | Theatre Studies | current |
| Edward Paterson | PHD | Theatre Studies | current |
| Meredith Rogers | MCA | Theatre Studies | current |
| Luke Richard Stickels | PHD | Theatre Studies / Cinema Studies | current |
| Elissa Goodrich | MCA | Theatre Studies | current |
| Ashley Hibbert | MCA | Creative Writing/Theatre Studies | current |
| Joanna Melinda Clyne | PHD | Theatre Studies 30%/History 70% | current |
Publications
Books
- 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,
Book 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 "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.

