Dr Kate Rossmanith
Lecturer
Contact Details
Office: W6A
Phone: (61 2) 9850 8745
Fax No: (61 2) 9850 9355
E-mail: kate.rossmanith@scmp.mq.edu.au
Academic Profile
Kate completed her undergraduate and postgraduate study in Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, where she was awarded her PhD in 2004. Her research interests include rehearsal and performance preparation processes, embodiment, ethnography, theories of place and subjectivity, fieldwork methodologies, and non-fiction writing.
Kate's current research project involves studying how people in northern Australia learn to live with crocodiles, and how they enact that knowledge in their movements and behaviour.
She also works as an essayist, her writing appearing in Best Australian Essays 2007 and The Monthly.
Kate currently convenes CUL312: 'Performing Culture' and CUL205: 'Drama, Screen and Society'.
Selected publications
Recent chapters and articles
'Making Theatre-Making: Fieldwork, rehearsal and performance preparation'. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (9.1), 2009. Forthcoming.
'We are cells: Bioart, semi-livings, and visceral threat'. Performance Paradigm (#4), 2008, pp.1-18.
'Traditions and training in rehearsal practice'. Australasian Drama Studies (issue 53), 2008. Forthcoming.
'Many Me'. In Best Australian Essays 2007, edt by Drusilla Modjeska. Melbourne: Black Inc., 2007, pp.122-128.
'Feeling the Right Impulse: Exploring the affective dimension of rehearsal practice'. About Performance (#6), 2006, pp.75-92.
Essays
'On the Edge'. The Monthly, Black Inc. August 2008, pp.17-19.
'Ivy League'. The Monthly, Black Inc. February 2008, pp.19-21.
'Waterworld'. The Monthly, Black Inc. July 2007, pp.13-15.
'Crocodile Fears'. The Monthly, Black Inc. June 2007, pp.17-19.
'Many Me'. The Monthly, Black Inc. February 2007, pp.14-16.
'Jenolan's Ancient Archives'. The Australian. 11 October 2006.
Conference Publications and Presentations
'Steve Irwin, Crocodiles and Being-in-Place: How people enact a "living-with-crocs"'. Performance Studies International, Copenhagen 2008; and Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Dunedin 2008.
'Documenting the Charting of Troubled Waters'. Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Dunedin 2008.
'Performing Confessions: Making sense afterwards of fieldwork immersion'. Being There: After-Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (peer-reviewed), University of Sydney, 2008, pp.1-6.
'A Practice of Faith: Actors and rehearsal' (co-authored with Paul Moore). Being There: After-Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (peer-reviewed), University of Sydney, 2008, pp.1-7.
'Dolce&Gabbana, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Patrick White: how practitioners perform "intellectual prestige" and "high cultural product" in theatre rehearsals', Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Melbourne 2007.
'Theatre Rehearsal and Quotidian Contexts: Looking obliquely at familiar performance practices'. International Federation of Theatre Research, Jaipur, India, 2003.
'Making the Familiar Strange'. Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Brisbane 2003.