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Personal profile
Biography
I am a Professor in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance. My research focuses broadly on performance as socially, culturally, and politically resistive and transformative activity. Over the course of a 22-year career, I have developed an international reputation for leading the development of performance studies, particularly in the area of feminist and queer theory and new materialst and affect studies-based research. I am a recognised leader in the development of innovative and critical arts-based methodologies. My performance-based and narrative research spans cultural critique and social inclusion, education and resilience building, and enhancing health and well-being among minoritarian cultures and communities. I am recognized for a collaborative and impact-focused research program that integrates theory and creative practice as a means of critique and transforming lives, relationships, ways of living, and communities.
I have has published or have in press more than 100 articles, book chapters, reviews, and editorials and has authored, co-authored and edited 14 books: Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women’s Music and Organizational Culture(1998, AltaMira), Torch Singing: Performing Resistance and Desire from Edith Piaf to Billie Holiday(2007, AltaMira), Handbook of Autoethnography (2013, Left Coast Press, co-edited with Tony E. Adams and Carolyn Ellis) Autoethnography(2015, Oxford University Press, co-authored with Tony E. Adams and Carolyn Ellis), Identity, Place, Exile: Storying Home(2015, Lexington, co-edited with Devika Chawla), Writing for Performance(2016, Sense, co-authored with Anne M. Harris), Queering Families, Schooling Publics: Keywords(2017, Routledge, co-authored with Anne M. Harris, Sandra L. Faulkner and Eloise Brook), Creative Selves/Creative Cultures: Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy(2017, Palgrave MacMillan co-edited with Marc Pruyn) Queering Autoethnography(2018, Routledge, co-authored with Anne Harris), The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human(2019, Lexington, co-authored with Anne M. Harris), Wayfaring and/as Critical Autoethnography (2020, Routledge, co-edited with Fetaui Iosefo and Anne Harris)The Handbook of Autoethnography, 2ndedition (2021, Routledge, co-edited with Tony E. Adams and Carolyn Ellis), and Autoethnography, Autofiction and Autotheory: Writing Relationships, Everyday Realities and Social Justice (forthcoming Routledge 2024).
I am the founding editor of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, a journal dedicated to publishing innovative, experimental, aesthetic, and provocative works on the theories, practices, and possibilities of critical qualitative research. My writing, directing and performance work has been featured at international events including FEAST Festival in Adelaide, the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in the US, and in performance and conference venues in Australia, New Zealand, the US and Scotland. I have been part of 3 successful ARC applications totalling $1,353,604 including:
- DP200102876 Staging Australian Women’s Lives: Theatre, Feminism and Socially Engaged art (DP200102875, 2020-2023) (Lead CI)
- LP190100247 Borderline Personality Disorder as Social Phenomena (LP190100247, 2020-2023) (Co-CI)
- AusStage LIEF 7: The International Breakthrough (LO20110007, 2021-2024)
I am the recipient of several research and teaching/mentoring awards, including the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry's Special Career Award, National Communication Association’s Distinguished Service Award in Performance Studies, the Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender Feminist Teacher/Mentor Award.
Supervision interests
My supvervision interests include theatre and performance studies, social change and social justice and critical communication research projects. In particular, I am invested in supervising research that focuses on or involves:
- The role of performance in identity politics, efforts to effect social change, and improve individual and community health and well being
- Feminist and queer theory analyses of cultural phenomena including performance
- New materialist and affect studies in/as performance
- Research involving critical and performance ethnography and autoethnography
- Innovative critical qualitative methods including performative writing and non-representational modes of reserach creation
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Communication/Performance Studies, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Aug 1996 → Dec 2001
Award Date: 22 Dec 2001
Communication, MA, California State University Sacramento
Aug 1993 → May 1996
Award Date: 20 May 1996
Humanities, BA
Aug 1984 → May 1988
Award Date: 20 May 1988
Research area keywords
- Theatre and performance studies
- Critical qualitative methods
- Queer theory
- Gender and sexualities studies
- New materialisms
- Affect studies
- Critical autoethnography
- Health and wellbeing of minoritarian communities
Network
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Borderline Personality Disorder as Social Phenomena
Kokanovic, R., Thomas, S., Duff, C., Harris, A., Jones, S., Flore, J., Chanen, A. M., Pollock, S., McCutcheon, L. K., Blanchard, M. & Rao, S.
29/09/20 → 28/09/23
Project: Research
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AusStage LIEF 7: The international breakthrough
Holledge, J., Casey, M., Cochrane, M., Fensham, R. S., Dennis, R., Jones, S., Hadley, B., Bollen, J., Ginters, L., Marshall, J. W., Tait, P. L., Woollard, J., Meyrick, J. & Hamilton, M. M.
9/07/21 → 8/07/22
Project: Research
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Staging Australian Women’s Lives: Theatre, Feminism and Socially Engaged Art
Jones, S., Harris, A., Campbell, A., Myers, M. & Murray, P.
7/05/20 → 6/05/22
Project: Research
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New approaches for youth to enact digital and live game-based learning
Jones, S. & Harris, A.
1/05/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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Against lists: A post-manifesto to a wild, ecological creativity
Harris, D. & Holman Jones, S., 2022, Transformative visions in qualitative inquiry. Denzin, N. K. & Giardina, M. (eds.). Abindong Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 85-97Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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A Manifesto for Posthuman Creativity Studies
Harris, D. & Holman Jones, S., 2022, In: Qualitative Inquiry. 28, 5, 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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Norman Denzin: Making room for capacious inquiry
Jones, S. H., 17 Oct 2022, Studies in Symbolic Interaction: Festschrift in Honor of Norman K. Denzin: He Knew His Song Well. Chen, S-L. S. (ed.). Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Vol. 55. p. 79-82 4 p. (Studies in Symbolic Interaction; vol. 55).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
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2020 at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, Monash University: Heads of creative arts schools and faculties to provide short pieces on how 2020 has affected them.
Barrett, M. S. & Holman Jones, S., Mar 2021, Non Traditional Research Outcomes (NiTRO), 22 1 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Editorial › Other
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Affective Leanings in Performance
Holman Jones, S. & Harris, A., 2021, Affective movements, methods and pedagogies. Harris, A. & Holman Jones, S. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 11-24 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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2019 Over the Rainbow Recommended Book List for Queering Autoethnography
Jones, Stacy (Recipient) & Harris, A. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: National/international honour
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2020 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Qualitative Book Award, Honourable Mention for Queering Autoethnography
Jones, Stacy (Recipient) & Harris, A. (Recipient), May 2020
Prize: National/international honour
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International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Special Career Award
Jones, Stacy (Recipient), May 2020
Prize: National/international honour
Activities
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Monash Meets Malthouse panel to discuss "Underground Railway Game"
Stacy Holman Jones (Host), Rachel Standfield (Contributor), Maryrose Casey (Contributor) & Fleur Susannah Kilpatrick (Contributor)
16 Feb 2019Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
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International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry President
Stacy Jones (Fellow)
2015 → 2018Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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TANK 3. MELBOURNE 2015 International Body Weather Masterclass & Symposium
Angela Viora (Performer), Stuart Grant (Contributor), Stacy Jones (Contributor), Tess De Quincey (Advisor) & Frank van der Ven (Advisor)
Nov 2015Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Autoethnography Special Interest Group Organizer
Stacy Jones (Fellow)
2012Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Lifetime Achievement Award Committee (Chair)
Stacy Jones (Fellow)
2010 → …Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
Press / Media
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The Critical Impact of Music and Performance Engagement
Stacy Jones & Margaret S. Barrett
17/11/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Profile/Interview
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COVID-19: It's Time for Theatre to Address the Violence Experienced by Australian Women
28/07/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature