Dr Kate Flaherty

BA Syd MA Leeds PhD Syd
ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

+61 2 9351 6963
Room N329, John Woolley Building (A20)

My research focuses upon ways in which Shakespeare's plays make meaning through performance and cultural context. My doctoral thesis examined cultural and imaginative intersections brought to light through performance of Shakespeare's plays in contemporary Australia. My current project extends this focus to the context of tertiary education; exploring the legacy of Shakespeare as a university subject, the forms of pedagogy applied in teaching Shakespeare, and the theoretical bases that inform them.

Research areas

• Shakespeare in performance
• Shakespeare in Australia
• Shakespeare and education

Current projects

• Shakespeare Reloaded: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning Shakespeare in Australian Universities and Secondary Schools (ARC Linkage Project, 2008-10).

Publications 2005-2011

Journal articles

• Flaherty, K J 2009, As You Like It: Re-imagining Arden in Australian Space, Contemporary Theatre Review, 19(3), 317-330
• Flaherty, K J 2005, Theatre and Metatheatre in Hamlet, Sydney Studies in English, 31(1), 3-20

Book chapters

• Flaherty, K J, Gay, P D 2010, Finding local habitation: Shakespeare's Dream at play on the stage of contemporary Australia, Shakespeare in Stages, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 229-247

Conference proceedings

• Flaherty, K J 2008, 'More than common tall': measuring up to the 'real' Rosalind in Australia, Being There: 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1-14