Personal profile
Qualifications
PhD (English) Sydney; MA (Theatre Studies) Leeds; BA Hons (English) Sydney
Research Interests
What in the world do plays do? What happens when imaginative plots touch our present concerns through the embodied experience of performers and audiences? With Shakespeare as an expansive test case, I investigate how drama functions on the stage of public culture. My first book, Ours as we play it: Australia plays Shakespeare, examines contemporary Australian performance. In other books, articles, and chapters I analyse theatrical touring, theatrical rivalry, civic disorder, sectarian tension, military commemoration, and education through their intersections with Shakespeare in 19th and early 20th-century contexts. I am currently working on a book entitled Moving Women: The Touring Actress and the Politics of Modernity.
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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Nic Leonhardt. Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange (1890–1925)
Flaherty, K., Mar 2023, In: Modern Drama. 66, 1, p. 126-129 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960: Making Tracks
Bush-Bailey, G. & Flaherty, K., 2021, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 294 p.Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › peer-review
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Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016
McMullan, G., Mead, P., Ferguson, A. G., Flaherty, K. & Houlahan, M., 2018, 1st ed. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing. 227 p.Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › peer-review
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Are the works of Shakespeare still popular? Interview about Shakespeare in connection with the 'Lakespeare' outdoor production of Much Ado About Nothing
Flaherty, K. (Creator), 2018Research output: Non-textual form › Other Non-textual Work Form
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Introduction: Shakespeare and Riot
Flaherty, K. & Lamb, E., 3 Jul 2018, In: Shakespeare. 14, 3, p. 199-204 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Transferring or Transforming Theatre? Theatrical Touring in the Nineteenth Century, ANU
Flaherty, K. (PI)
1/01/19 → 30/11/19
Project: Research