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Susanne Julia Thurow

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
The University of New South Wales

Dr Thurow is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research. Her interdisciplinary research encompasses the fields of Performing Arts, Media Art, Digital Media, Literary-, Cultural-, as well as Indigenous Australian Studies, with a primary focus on contemporary theatre, narrative and interactive aesthetics.

Subjects: Theater

Biography

I am a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of New South Wales (UNSW, Kensington). My interdisciplinary research encompasses the fields of Performing Arts, Media Art, Digital Media, Literary-, Cultural-, as well as Indigenous Australian Studies. It is primarily focused on contemporary theatre, narrative and interactive aesthetics. My research spans the arts and humanities, as well as technology, undertaken in programmatic collaboration with iCinema’s key collaboration partners, such as the Sydney Theatre Company.
My current work builds on my bi-national post-graduate studies exploring representations of contemporary Indigenous Australian identity in two acclaimed theatre productions, contextualising the plays in their culturally specific production contexts and evaluating the aesthetic configuration of Indigenous and Western theatrical languages in regards to their decolonising capabilities. The project was supervised by Prof P. Eckersall (CUNY, New York, USA) and Prof A.-M. Horatschek (CAU Kiel, Germany) and has been published as a monograph by Routledge in 2019.
In addition to my academic work at iCinema (since 2014), I have also worked for UNSW’s Nura Gili Indigenous Programs Unit, the University of Melbourne’s Indigenous Studies Program and Christian-Albrecht-Universität's English Department, having also conducted research into Indigenous petitions to the Government for the University of Sydney. Moreover, I have supported the arts and social change company Big hART Inc. as Associated Arts Manager on their ‘Namatjira’ and ‘Yijala Yala’ projects from 2011 to 2013. My professional background is further consolidated by work in education, print media, public broadcasting and marketing, for -among others- the ABC, Goethe Institut and Hamburg-based Thalia Theater, where I assisted in the company’s 2009 rebranding and supported the curation of the 2017 Theater der Welt festival.

Education

    PhD, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel (Germany), 2017

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    Contemporary Theatre
    Indigenous Performing Arts
    Postcolonial Theatre
    Interactive Art
    Digital Media
    Aesthetics

Websites

Books

Featured Title
 Featured Title - Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage - 1st Edition book cover

Articles

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art

Response to the Metamaterial Turn: Performative Digital Methodologies for Creative Practice and Analytical Documentation in the Arts


Published: Sep 10, 2019 by Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
Authors: Susanne Thurow
Subjects: Art & Visual Culture

The article traces the history of technological impact on scenographic practices by drawing on select case studies, focusing especially on the increasing adoption of digital tools in Australian mainstage theatre.

News

Awards for Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage

By: Susanne Julia Thurow
Subjects: Theater, Theatre & Performance Studies

Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage was awarded the 2021 Alvie Egan Book Award by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL). This award is bestowed on the best first book of literary scholarship by an Early-Career Researcher on an Australian subject, published in the preceding two calendar years.

It was also the winner of the 2019 Dean's Award for Research Excellence (Best Monograph) of the Faculty of Art & Design (formerly COFA) at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia).