Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
My interest in theatre history and literature was developed during undergraduate studies in drama and English. However it was the opportunity to uncover lost stories in the letters and scrapbooks of long-forgotten performers during postgraduate fieldwork at the British Library and New York Public Library that convinced me to pursue an academic career.
I received my Ph.D from the Australian National University, working on theatre historiography within the English program. My research has continued in an interdisciplinary mode, bringing together areas such as Elizabethan performance, nineteenth-century cultural history and classical Hollywood cinema. My current research project is a wide-ranging study of actresses and mental illness, drawing on historical examples and literary and cultural representations to consider the intersections of andlsquo;hysteria' and the andlsquo;histrionic'.
I taught in the School of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania before joining Monash University in 2006. At Monash I have had the pleasure of introducing first-year students to the history of drama and performance. I have also taught units in Elizabethan performance, nineteenth-century literature, modern fiction and British comedy.
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Research area keywords
- Actress studies
- Theatre historiography
- Celebrity
- Representations of mental illness
- Shakespeare
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Gender, Performance and Global Citizenship: Actresses' tours of Australia, 1920s-1960s
1/05/22 → 31/01/23
Project: Research
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Review of Mental disorders in popular film: how Hollywood uses, shames and obscures mental diversity
Gregory, F., 2021, In: The New Review of Film and Television Studies. 19, 1, p. 118-122 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short Review › Other
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Get Krack!n: Intersectional Comedy Goes Mainstream
Gregory, F., 2020, In: Performance Paradigm. 15, p. 40-55 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines
Gregory, F., 2019, Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge. 161 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Vanishing acts: The actress and the archibald prize
Gregory, F., Dec 2019, In: Australasian Drama Studies. 75, p. 126-149 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Hybrid creatures: Mrs Patrick Campbell’s contributions to Pygmalion
Gregory, F., 2017, In: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film. 43, 1, p. 107–121 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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Rose Library Short-Term Award Fellowship
Gregory, Fiona (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Competitive Fellowships
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Australasian Drama Studies (Journal)
Fiona Gregory (Peer reviewer)
Sep 2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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'Infinite Variety: The Older Actress on Stage, 1660-Present'
Fiona Gregory (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Oct 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Australasian Drama Studies (Journal)
Fiona Gregory (Peer reviewer)
Dec 2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Biennial Conference 2018
Fiona Gregory (Speaker)
Feb 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies 2018
Fiona Gregory (Invited speaker)
Oct 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference