Publication summary
5 books, 30 peer-reviewed scholarly articles and book chapters, 19 unclassified research outputs, 50 conference papers (not listed here)
Authored Books
Arrighi, G. Pinafores Prodigies Precocities: child actors on popular stages 1879-1914 (under consideration with Cambridge University Press)
Arrighi, Gillian 2015, The FitzGerald Brothers’ Circus: Spectacle, Identity, and Nationhood at the Australian Circus, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne
Arrighi, Gillian 2010, The Neutral Mask: Its Origins and Its Applications to the Creative Processes of the Actor, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Saarbrucken, Germany
Edited Books
Arrighi, Gillian & Davis, Jim, 2021, The Cambridge Companion to the Circus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK doi: https:// doi.org/10.1017/9781108750127
Arrighi, Gillian & Emeljanow, Victor 2014, Entertaining Children: the participation of youth in the entertainment industry, Palgrave Macmillan, New York doi:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305466
Arrighi, Gillian & Emejjanow, Victor 2010, A World of Popular Entertainments: An Edited Volume of Critical Essays, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne
Book Chapters
Arrighi, Gillian 2021, ‘Child Actors on Early Twentieth-century Australasian TOuring Circuits,’ in Bush-Bailey, Gilli & Flaherty, Kate (eds.) Making Tracks: touring performance and global exchange 1850-1950, Routledge, London
Arrighi, Gillian, 2021, ‘Circus, Colonialism and Empire: the circus in Australasia and Asia’ in Arrighi, Gillian & Davis, Jim (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Circus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 48-62
Arrighi, Gillian and Davis, Jim 2021, ‘The Circus: reflecting and mediating the world,’ Cambridge Companion to the Circus, Cambridge, UK, pp. 1-15
Arrighi, Gillian 2021, ‘’The Circus as an Agent of Transculturation’ in Fuchs, Margarete, Jürgens, Anna-Sophie & Schuster, Jörg (eds.), Manegenkünste: Zirkus als ästhetisches Modell, Transcript, Bielefeld (Germany), pp. 7-24
Arrighi, Gillian 2020, ‘Circus and Electricity: Staging Connections between Science and Popular Entertainments’ in Jürgens, Anna-Sophie (ed.), Circus, Science & Technology: Dramatising Innovation, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 81-100 doi:https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-030-43298-0
Arrighi, Gillian 2019, ‘Claiming Childhood: theatre business and the [new] political rights of the child’ in Shulman, Max & Westgate, Chris (eds.), Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Urbanism, and Nationalism on Stage, 1890-1920, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, pp. 159-178
Arrighi, Gillian 2016, ‘The Circus and Modernity: A Commitment to ‘the Newer’ and ‘the Newest,’ ’ in Tait, Peta & Lavers, Katie (eds.), The Routledge Circus Studies Reader , Routledge, Milton Park, Oxon, UK, pp. 386-402
Arrighi, Gillian 2016, ‘The Rediscovery of the Mask’ in Evans, Mark (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq, Routledge, Milton Park, Oxon, UK, pp. 27-34
Arrighi, Gillian & Emeljanow, Victor 2014, ‘Children and Youth of the Empire: tales of transgression and accommodation,’ in Arrighi, Gillian & Emeljanow, Victor (eds.), Entertaining Children: the participation of youth in the entertainment industry, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 51-71
Arrighi, Gillian & Emeljanow, Victor 2014, ‘Setting the Scene: An Introduction’ in Arrighi, Gillian & Emeljanow, Victor (eds.), Entertaining Children: the participation of youth in the entertainment industry, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 1-11
Arrighi, Gillian 2012, ‘From the traditional travelling circus to the global zoo: the persistence of ‘performing’ animal shows in the 21st century’ in Arrighi, Gillian & Emeljanow, Victor (eds.), A World of Popular Entertainments: An Edited Volume of Critical Essays, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 103-117
Arrighi, Gillian & Watt, David 2011, ‘(Re) Constructing the archive: A regional perspective on performance histories’ in McGillivray, Glen (ed.), Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: Hidden Archives of Performance, Peter Lang, Bern, Switzerland, pp. 67-82
Arrighi, Gillian 2008, ‘The circus and the amusement park: A site of contestation near Princes Bridge, Melbourne’ in Dixon, Robert & Kelly, Veronica (eds.), Impact of the Modern: Vernacular Modernities in Australia, 1870s-1960s, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 264-277
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
Arrighi, Gillian, Challendes, Carine, Irvine, Clare, & Joyce, Brian, 2022, “What do you mean we aren’t performing Shakespeare?: a contemporary, devised performance curriculum at a regional Australian university,” Australasian Drama Studies 80 (April 2022) (in review).
Arrighi, Gillian, Siang, Zi See, Jones, Donovan, 2021, “Victoria Theatre Virtual Reality: A digital heritage case study and user experience design,” Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 21.
Arrighi, Gillian 2019, ‘‘Synthesising circus aesthetics and science: Australian circus and variety theatre at the turn of the twentieth century,’’ Early Popular Visual Culture , vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 235-253, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2019.1569843
Arrighi, Gillian, Haracz, Kirsti, Irvine, Clare & Joyce, Brian 2018, “Reimagining ‘role’ and ‘character’: an approach to acting training for role-play simulation in the tertiary education setting,’’ Applied Theatre Research, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 89- 106, doi:https://doi.org/10.1386/atr.6.2.89\_1
Arrighi, Gillian 2018, ‘‘Harry Lyons is “Here, There and Everywhere”: Australia’s Late-19th-Century Global Entertainment Broker’ ’, Australasian Drama Studies , vol. 72, pp. 1-29
Arrighi, Gillian 2017, “The Controversial ‘case of the opera children in the East’: Political Conflict Between Popular Demand for Child Actors and Modernising Cultural Policy on the Child,” Theatre Journal , vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 153-173, doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2017.0022
Arrighi, Gillian 2016, “Healthy bodies and young minds: late-nineteenth-century performer training in Australia,” Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 17-31, doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2016.1146794
Haracz, Kirsti, Arrighi, Gillian & Joyce, Brian 2015, “Simulated patients in a mental health occupational therapy course: A pilot study,” British Journal of Occupational Therapy, vol. 78, no. 12, pp. 757-766, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022614562792
Arrighi, Gillian 2015, “Circus studies: Where to next?,” Popular Entertainment Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 62-65
Arrighi, Gillian 2014, “Towards a cultural history of community circus in Australia,” Australasian Drama Studies, vol. 64, pp. 199-222
Arrighi, Gillian 2012, “Circus and Sumo: Tradition, innovation and opportunism at the Australian circus,” Theatre Research International, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 265-282, doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883312000910
Arrighi, Gillian & Emeljanow, Victor 2012, “Entertaining children: An exploration of the business and politics of childhood,” New Th- atre Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-55, doi:~https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X12000048
Arrighi, Gillian 2012, ‘The circus and modernity: A commitment to ‘the newer and the newest’,” Early Popular Visual Cul- ture, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 169-185, doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2012.664747
Arrighi, Gillian 2012, ‘The ‘D’Oyly Carte Pantomimes’: Complementarity and innovation’, Popular Entertainment Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 31-44
Arrighi, Gillian 2010, “Devising place and social history: A regional perspective on teaching devised performance in the tertiary sector.,” Australasian Drama Studies, vol. 57, pp. 173-187
Arrighi, Gillian 2009, ‘Negotiating national identity at the circus: The FitzGerald Brothers’ circus in Melbourne, 1892,” Australasian Drama Studies, vol. 54, pp. 68-86
Arrighi, Gillian 2008, ‘Political animals: Engagements with imperial and gender discourses in late-colonial Australian circuses’, Theatre Journal, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 609-629, doi:10.1353/tj.0.0117
Arrighi, Gillian 2006, ‘The FitzGerald Brothers’ Circus: Considering Circus Entertainments in Late Colonial New Zealand,’ The Turnbull Library Record, vol. 39, pp. 47-60
Other research outputs
Arrighi, G. and Irvine, C. (2021). ‘Friday Essay: a world of pain – Australian theatre in crisis.’ The Conversation.
Arrighi, Gillian & Bollen, Jonathan 2020, ‘Editorial,” Popular Entertainment Studies, 11:1-2
Arrighi, Gillian & Bollen, Jonathan 2019, ‘Editorial,’ Popular Entertainment Studies 10:1-2
Arrighi, Gillian 2019, ‘Australian Circus at the Hub of Global Entertainment: Histories and Consequences’ Cir cus Talk, https://circustalk.com/news/australian-circus-at-the-hub-of-global-entertainment-histories-and-consequences
Arrighi, Gillian 2018, ‘From Child Stars to Lost Theatres: capturing our ephemeral history of live performance’ The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/from-child-stars-to-lost-theatres-capturing-our-ephemeral-history-of-live-performance-97675
Arrighi, Gillian 2018, ‘Fighting Nature: travelling menageries, animal acts and war shows’ [Book Review]. Australasian Drama Studies 73 (Oct 2018), 315-321
Arrighi, Gillian and Stephanie Holm 2018, ‘Visualising the Victoria,’ digital visualisation project of Newcastle’s heritage- listed Victoria Theatre as it looked when it opened in 1891. Six-minute video with narration (rendered in After Effects and Photo- shop), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv41uwKRIkM&feature=youtu.be
Arrighi, Gillian, Gaute Rasmussen, Vendela Pento and Stephanie Holm 2018, Visualising the Victoria,’ immersive Virtual Reality experience of the Victoria Theatre, circa 1891, 1-minute video ‘flythrough’ of the VR is avail- able at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npyfXepVcHg&feature=youtu.be
Arrighi, Gillian 2017, Circus, special focus issue, Early Popular Visual Culture (G. Arrighi commissioning editor)’, vol. 17, no. 3
Arrighi, Gillian 2017, ‘Child Stars of the Stage,’ Unbound: the National Library of Australia Magazine, https://www.nla.gov.au/unbound/september-2017
Arrighi, Gillian 2015, ‘Circus and politics: a very Australian mix.’ The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/circus-and-politics-a- very-australian-mix-48320
Arrighi, Gillian 2014, ‘Circus training instead of school sports: now there’s an idea.’ The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/circus-training-instead-of-school-sports-now-theres-an-idea-31979
Arrighi, Gillian 2014, ‘The big top’s evolution: Cirkopolis by Cirque Eloize’. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/the-big- tops-evolution-cirkopolis-by-cirque-eloize-31977
Arrighi, Gillian 2014, ‘Foreword: Youth Circus in Australia, a manifesto for the development of the Australian Youth Circus sec- tor.’ Melbourne: Australian Circus and Physical Theatre Association (ACAPTA)
Croft, H., Nesbitt, K. V., Rasiah, R., Cooper, J., Arrighi, G., Joyce, B., & McGuire, B. 2013, ‘Communication Scenario: Over the Counter Dispensing of the Emergency Contraceptive Pill’ (Video and Animation – in 3 parts) [Digital Film]. Newcas tle, NSW, Australia: University of Newcastle.
Arrighi, Gillian 2010, To watch theatre: Essays on genre and corporeality [Book Review]. Australasian Drama Studies, (56), 240-242.
Arrighi, Gillian 2010, Autobiography and performance. A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, 24(1), 151-154.
Arrighi, Gillian 2009, Make it Australian: The Australian performing group, the Pram Factory and New Wave Theatre. Theatre Re- search International, 34(1), 91-92.
Arrighi, Gillian 2006, ‘Roll Up To The Circus!’ National Library of Australia News, Volume XVI (Number 7), 11-14.
Arrighi, Gillian 2004, ‘Randai moves, eclectic beats’ RealTime Arts, 63, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue63/7607
List correct at January 2022.
Associate Professor Gillian Arrighi 