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Dr Darryl Chalk

Name :	Dr Darryl Chalk
Position :	Senior Lecturer (Theatre) & Program Co-ordinator
Section :	Faculty of Arts School of Creative Arts
Office :	A205
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1105
Extension :	1105
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA(Hons), PhD USQ

Professional Memberships

Treasurer, Executive Committee, Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association
Member, International Shakespeare Association
Member, Shakespeare Association of America

Research Interests

The theatre and culture of the European Renaissance
Shakespeare and his contemporaries in performance
The social history of medicine and epidemic disease
Representations of magic and the occult on the Renaissance Stage
Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

- “Contagious Emulation: Antitheatricality and Theatre as Plague in Troilus and Cressida.” In This Earthly Stage: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, ed. Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. Cursor Mundi 13.

- “‘To Creep in at Mine Eyes’: Theatrical Contagion in Twelfth Night,” in Rapt in Secret Studies: Emerging Shakespeares, ed. Darryl Chalk and Lawrence Johnson. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.

- “ ‘A nature but infected’: Plague and Embodied Transformation in Timon of Athens.” Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 19 “Embodying Shakespeare” (2009) 9.1-28 <URL: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-19/chalplag.html>

Most notable :
- Rapt in Secret Studies: Emerging Shakespeares. Co-edited with Laurie Johnson (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). ISBN (10): 1-4438-2328-7.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

THE1001 - Intro to History and Theory of Drama 1
THS2006 - Pre-Renaissance Drama
THE2007 - Renaissance Drama
THE2002 - Community and Political Theatre
THE2006 - Theatre Manifesto
THE4001 - Shakespearean Negotiations

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 16 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Creative Arts