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Professor Veronica Kelly's research interests include pantomime, burlesque and melodrama, contemporary Australian theatre, and colonial star actors and their repertoires.
Her current research includes star actors of the early Australian stage, early twentieth-century commercial managements, gender, nationalism and performance.
Articles on Australian colonial and contemporary drama and theatre history. Specific authors: Charles Harpur, Marcus Clarke, Garnet Walch, Louis Nowra, Janis Balodis, Michael Gow, Nick Enright. Specific topics: recent Australian drama, colonial theatrical culture and performance conditions, Orientalism in Australian performance, theatre reviews in the Sydney Bulletin, glamour postcards sent in Australia, Julius Knight and costume drama.
The Theatre of Louis Nowra (1998).
Read research articles on Julius Knight the Australian matinee idol (2004; theatre criticism in the Bulletin (2000), J.C. Williamson's production of Parsifal (1995), Orientalism in early Australian theatre (1993); the banning of Marcus Clarke's The Happy Land (1983).
Garnet Walch's colonial pantomime Australia Felix.
Collection of critiques of Louis Nowra.
Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s (1998).
Co-editor of: Australasian Drama Studies (1982-present).
Kelly, Veronica The empire actors: Stars of Australasian costume drama 1890s-1920s. Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., Australia: Currency House, 2010.
Kelly, Veronica (2018). 'Brayton, Elizabeth [Lily} (married names: Asche, Watson)', in Mark Curthoys, ed., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 41st update (June 2018). In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 41st update ed. (pp. 1-6) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Kelly, Veronica (2015). "A Sweet Tribute to Her Memory": war-time Edith Cavell plays and films. In Andrew Maunder (Ed.), British theatre and the Great War, 1914-1919: new perspectives (pp. 140-160) Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kelly, Veronica (2013). Introduction. In Richard Fotheringham and James Smith (Ed.), Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s (pp. 15-19) Amsterdam, Netherlands: Editions Rodopi.
Kelly, Veronica (2012). Australia's first Belgian Day (1915): history on stage and street. In Gillian Arrighi and Victor Emeljanow (Ed.), A world of popular entertainments: an edited volume of critical essays (pp. 137-149) Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Kelly, Veronica (2010). Theatre Royal Poster, For the Term of His Natural Life. In Follett, Roslyn (Ed.), Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection (pp. 70-71) St Lucia: University of Queensland Library.
Kelly, Veronica (2010). Max and Thelma Afford Collection. In Follett, Roslyn (Ed.), Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection (pp. 104-105) St Lucia: University of Queensland Library.
Dixon, Robert and Kelly, Veronica (2008). Australian vernacular modernities: People, sites and practices. In Dixon, Robert and Kelly, Veronica (Ed.), Impact of the Modern: Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s (pp. xiii-xxiv) Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press.
Kelly, Veronica (2008). Enright's Mongrels as intervention in the canon of contemporary Australian drama. In Pender, Anne and Lever, Susan (Ed.), Nick Enright: An Actor's Playwright (pp. 95-113) Amsterdam - New York, NY: Rodopi B.V..
Kelly, Veronica (2006). The men and the boys: The national dimensions of adult and juvenile masculinity in post-federation Australia, as performed by Oscar Asche and Minnie Tittell Brune. In A. Kierkander, J. Bollen and B. Parr (Ed.), What a Man's Gotta Do?: Masculinities in Performance (pp. 37-55) Armidale, Australia: University of New England Press.
Kelly, V. E. (1999). Hybridity & Performance: The Currency Lass. In Helen Gilbert (Ed.), (Post) Colonial Stages: Critical & Creative Views on Drama, Theatre & Performance 1st ed. (pp. 40-54) Hebden Bridge, Sussex UK: Dangaroo.
Kelly, Veronica (1998). Old patterns, new energies. In Veronica Kelly (Ed.), Our Australian theatre in the 1990s (pp. 1-19) Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1998). Who's the bigger dill? The madhouse in recent Australian drama. In Leigh Dale and Simon Ryan (Ed.), The body in the library (pp. 167-184) Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi.
Kelly, Veronica (1997). 'Lest we forget': Louis Nowra's Inside the island. In Anna Rutherford and James Wieland (Ed.), War: Australia's creative response (pp. 273-282) St Leonards, N.S.W., Australia: Allen & Unwin.
Kelly, Veronica (1996). Female and juvenile meanings in late nineteenth-century Australian popular theatre. In Ken Stewart (Ed.), The 1890s : Australian literature and literary culture (pp. 109-127) St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1996). And what books do you read?' : new studies in Australian literature : essays presented to Laurie Hergenhan celebrating his contribution to the study of Australian literature and marking the occasion of his retirement. In Irmtraud Petersson and Martin Duwell (Ed.), (pp. 112-125) St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Newey, Katherine and Kelly, Veronica (1994). Introduction. In Veronica Kelly and Katherine Newey (Ed.), East Lynne. From the Novel by Ellen Wood Dramatised by T. A. Palmer (pp. not found-nout found) St Lucia, Brisbane: Australasian Drama Studies Association.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1994). Michael Gow. In Benson, E. and Conolly, L. W. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (pp. 606-607) London; New York: Routledge.
Kelly, Veronica (1993). Louis Nowra. In K. A. Berney (Ed.), Contemporary Dramatists 5th ed. (pp. 496-498) London ; Washington, D.C.: St. James.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1992). The Golden Age by Louis Nowra. In Mark Hawkins-Dady and Leanda Shrimpton (Ed.), International Dictionary of Theatre (pp. 295-296) Chicago ; London, UK: St. James Press.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1992). Louis Nowra. In Bruce King (Ed.), Post-colonial English Drama: Commonwealth Drama Since 1960 (pp. 50-66) New York, USA: St. Martin's Press.
Kelly, Veronica (1988). 'Nowt more outcastin": Utopian myth in Louis Nowra's The Golden Age. In Bruce Bennett and Susan Miller (Ed.), A sense of exile : Essays in the literature of the Asia-Pacific region (pp. 101-110) Nedlands, W.A.: The Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, University of Western Australia.
Kelly, Veronica (1987). A mirror for Australia: Louis Nowra's emblematic theatre. In Peter Holloway (Ed.), Contemporary Australian Drama 2 ed. (pp. 537-564) Sydney: Currency.
Kelly, Veronica (1987). Explorers and bushrangers in nineteenth-century Australian Theatre. In Kirpal Singh (Ed.), The writer's sense of the past : Essays on Southeast Asian and Australian literature (pp. 119-132) Singapore: Singapore University Press.
Kelly, Veronica (1987). General Editoral Preface. In Elizabeth Perkins (Ed.), Stalwart the bushranger with The tragedy of Donohoe by Charles Harpur (pp. vi-x) Sydney: Currency Press.
Kelly, Veronica (1986). Queensland Theatre Company. In Colby H. Kullman and William C. Young (Ed.), Theatre Companies of the World (pp. 179-182) New York, USA: Greenwood Press.
Kelly, Veronica (2015) David N. Martin and the Post-war 'Acts and Actors' of Australian Variety. Australasian Drama Studies, 67 131-154.
Kelly, Veronica (2014) Mimi Colligan, Circus and Stage: The Theatrical Adventures of Rose Edouin and G. B. W. Lewis. Australasian Drama Studies, 1 62: 304-310.
Kelly, Veronica (2013) Come over here! The local hybridisation of international ‘Ragtime Revues’ in Australia. Popular Entertainment Studies, 4 1: 24-49.
Kelly, Veronica (2012) The family way. Popular Entertainment Studies, 3 1: 71-76.
Kelly, Veronica (2011) Australia's Svengali: Gaston Mervale in theatre and film. Australasian Drama Studies, 58 107-125.
Kelly, Veronica (2011) Look out behind you. Popular Entertainment Studies, 2 1: 112-116.
Kelly, Veronica (2009) Review: Stage Presence by Jane Goodall. Performance Paradigm, 5 1: 1-5.
Kelly, V. E. (2007) Spatialising the ghosts of Anzac in the plays of Sydney Tomholt: The absent soldier and the war memorial. Australian Literary Studies, 23 1: 18-35.
Kelly, V.E. (2007) Review: Richard Fotheringham, ed., Australian Plays for the colonial Stage 1834-1899. Australasian Drama Studies, 50 202-208.
Kelly, Veronica (2007) Australian plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. Australasian Drama Studies, 2007 50: 202-208.
Kelly, Veronica (2006) Oscar Asche's Modernisms: Flesh, Colour and Light. Australian Cultural History : The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia, Special Issue: Antipodean Modern, 25 233-249.
Kelly, Veronica (2006) Australia’s Lily Brayton: Performer and theatre artist. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 33 1: 39-59.
Kelly, Veronica (2005) The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial: The Sydney Bulletin's Theatre Criticism 1880-1900 and Constructions of Australian Modernity. Australian Studies, 18 1: 129-158.
Kelly, V. E. (2005) Book Review - Writing and rewriting: National theatre histories. Australasian Drama Studies, 47 169-173.
Kelly, Veronica (2005) Early Australian high comedy to 1890: Performing the colonial bourgeois self. Southerly, 64 3: 58-77.
Kelly, Veronica (2005) A portrait of the artist as an Australian: Bizarre work of Barry Humphries. University of Toronto Quarterly, 75 1: 400-402.
Kelly, V. E. (2005) Review: Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840. Australian Literary Studies, 22 1: 113-114.
Kelly, V. E. (2004) Stare wzory, nowe energie. Dialogue, 49 10: 142-148.
Kelly, V. E. (2004) Review: Transgressive itineraries: Postcolonial hybridizations of dramatic realism by Marc Maufort. Australian Literary Studies, 21 3: 399-401.
Kelly, Veronica (2003) Julius Knight, Australian Matinee Idol: Costume Drama as Historical Re-presentation. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, 9 128-144.
Kelly, V. (2001) Mandy Sayer & Louis Nowra (eds), In the Gutter Looking at the Stars: A Literary Adventure Through King's Cross. JAS Review of Books, 4: ---.
Kelly, Veronica (2000) 'Un Sans Culotte': The Bulletin's Early Theatre Criticism and the Masculine Bohemian Masquerade. Australian Literary Studies, 19 3: 254-268.
Kelly, V. E. (2000) English Stage Comedy 1490-1990 by A Leggatt. Australasian Drama Studies, 37: 101-104.
Kelly, V. E. (2000) Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, 6 165-168.
Kelly, Veronica (2000) Bertolt Brecht and critical theory: Marxism, modernity and the 'Threepenny' lawsuit. Aumla-journal of The Australasian Universities Language And Literature Association, 93 93: 116-120.
Kelly, V. E. (2000) Theatre Worlds in Motion. Structures, Politics and Developments in the Countries of Western Europe, ed H Van Maahen & S Wilmer. Australasian Drama Studies, 36: 172-176.
Kelly, V (2000) Alfred Dampier as Performer of Late Colonial Australian Masculinities. Modern Drama, 43 3: 469-495.
Kelly, V. E. (1999) Honour and Redemption by Joanna Murray-Smith. Australasian Drama Studies, 34: 147-152.
Kelly, V. E. (1999) Popular culture and performance in the Victorian city. Australasian Victorian Studies, 5 170-173.
Kelly, Veronica (1998) Review. Misto, J., The Shoe-Horn Sonata; Forde, M., Snapshots from Home and Dean, P., Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls. Australasian Drama Studies, 32 151-155.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1997) Booth, M.R. & Kaplan, J.H., ed., The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage. Victorian Review, 23 1: 130-132.
Kelly, V (1997) Colonial Australian theater writers: Cultural authorship and the case of Marcus Clarke's first play. Australian Literary Studies, 18 1: 31-44.
Kelly, Veronica (1996) Review. Shearer, Jill, The Family (Sydney:Currency Press, 1995) and Acworth, Elaine, Composing Venus (Sydney:Currency Press, 1995). Australasian Drama Studies, 29: 223-227.
Kelly, Veronica (1996) (Reviews) `Sumner Locke Elliott: Writing Life. A Biography,' by Sharon Clarke, `Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson,' by Peter Fitzpatrick and `Stephen Sewell: The Playwright as Revolutionary,' by Peter Fitzpatrick.. Australian Literary Studies, 17 4: 411-415.
Kelly, Veronica (1995) J.C. Williamson Produces Parsifal, or the Redemption of Kundry: Wagnerism, Religion and Sexuality. Theatre History Studies, 15 161-181.
Kelly, Veronica Elaine (1995) More character-driven: an interview with Louis Nowra. Coppertales: A Journal of Rural Arts, 2 79-92.
Kelly, Veronica (1995) Smashing temples: cultural symptoms of the 1980s in Australian mainstage comedy and farce. Modern Drama, 38 1: 97-108.
Kelly, Veronica (1994) Review. Herr, C. ed., For the land they loved: Irish political melodramas 1890-1925 and Watt, S. Joyce, O'Casey and the Irish popular theatre. Yeats Annual, 11 262-268.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1994) Enright's Mongrels as intervention in the canon of contemporary Australian drama. Southerly, 54 2: 5-22.
Kelly, Veronica (1994) Review. Acts of Supremacy: British Empire and the Stage 1790-1930. Australasian Drama Studies, 24 207-212.
Kelly, Veronica (1993) Orientalism in Early Australian Theatre. New Literatures Review, 26: 32-45.
Kelly, Veronica (1993) Giovanni in Botany. Australasian Drama Studies, 23 102-120.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1993) Williamson, D., Siren and Money and Friends. Australasian Drama Studies, 22 133-138.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1992) Falling between stools: the theatre of Janis Balodis. Ariel: A review of International English Literature, 23 1: 115-132.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1991) Waterhouse, R. From Minstrel Show to Vaudeville: The Australian Popular Stage 1788-1914 and Gyger, A. Opera for the Antipodes: Opera in Australia 1881-1939. Australian Historical Studies, 24 97: 466-467.
Kelly, Veronica (1990) Review. Shearer, J. Shimada (Sydney:Currency Press, 1989). Australasian Drama Studies, 17: 224-227.
Kelly, Veronica (1990) James Smith: The Making of a Colonial Culture, by Lurline Stuart. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989. Cloth, $34.95. James Edward Neild: Victorian Virtuoso, by Harold Love. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1989. Cloth, $39.95.. Australian Literary Studies, 14 3: 408-412.
Kelly, Veronica (1990) James Smith: The Making of a Colonial Culture, by Lurline Stuart. James Edward Neild: Victorian Virtuoso, by Harold Love.. Australian Literary Studies, 14 3: 408-412.
Kelly, Veronica (1990) Projecting the inner world onto an existing landscape: An interview with Janis Balodis. Australasian Drama Studies, 17: 5-39.
Kelly, Veronica and Bonnet, Lise (translator) (1990) Les nouveaux dramaturges australiens. Theatre Public, 91 33-40.
Kelly, Veronica (1990) The melodrama of defeat: Political patterns in some colonial and contemporary Australian plays. Southerly, 50 2: 131-143.
Kelly, Veronica (1987) George Essex Evans the playwright. Margin, 19: 1-6.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1987) Apocalypse and after: historical visions in some recent Australian drama. Kunapipi, 9 3: 68-78.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1986) Irvin, E. Dictionary of the Australian Theatre 1788-1914. Australasian Drama Studies, 8 134-138.
Kelly, Veronica (1986) Review: Love, H., ed. The Australian Stage: a Documentary History. (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1985). Australian Literary Studies, 12 4: 546-550.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1986) Garnet Walch in Sydney. Australasian Drama Studies, 9 93-109.
Kelly, Veronica (1985) Lest we forget: Louis Nowra's "Inside the Island". Island Magazine, 23: 19-23.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1984) Nowra, L. Sunrise. Australasian Drama Studies, 2 2: 124-126.
Kelly, Veronica (1983) The Banning of Marcus Clarke's 'The Happy Land': Stage, Press and Parliament. Australasian Drama Studies, 2 1: 71-111.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1983) Irvin, E. Australian Melodrama: Eighty Years of Popular Theatre. Australian Literary Studies, 11 1: 136-138.
Kelly, Veronica (1981) Clarke's sketches. Margin, 7 29.
Kelly, Veronica E. (1981) A mirror for Australia: Louis Nowra's emblematic theatre. Southerly, 41 4: 431-458.
Kelly, Veronica and Dixon, Robert (2006). Australian Modernities: Vernacular Performers and Consumers. In: Australian Modernities: Vernacular Performers and Consumers International Conference, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, (). 6-7 December, 2006.
Kelly, Veronica (1995). Annotated Calendar Of Plays Premiered In Australia 1850-1869.

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