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Dr Bryoni Trezise

Dr Bryoni Trezise

Senior Lecturer

BA (Hons Class 1) UNSW; PhD UNSW

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media

Bryoni Trezise is the author of two monographs, a and numerous articles, all of which use the disciplinary lens of performance to ask questions about contemporary culture. Her research spans the through analysis of archives, museums and memorials and, more recently, the in digital media. Bryoni was awarded a for her research into migrant oral histories and has won the and the prizes for her interdisciplinary scholarship in theatrical, literary and media histories. A leading member of UNSW’s Arts and Health Research Group, the Intermedial Composition Network and Children’s and Youth Research Network, Bryoni’s current research maps ecologies of creative thinking and creative care – creative literacies – forthcoming in a co-authored book and podcast series How to Play in Slow Time (2025). Bryoni is also highly invested in championing creative pedagogies for wide-ranging careers: she has been awarded teaching prizes for this work and is currently conducting an impact study with Shopfront Youth Arts on models of creative leadership for young people. This builds on the impact work she previously conducted for involving data sets on arts participation and regional economies, including the ABS. Bryoni has published over 40 reviews for , and and has been interviewed by ABC Radio. Most recently, Bryoni was awarded the and aÌý for development of her YA and middle grade novels.

Phone
+61 2 9385 4513
Location
117, Level 1 Robert Webster
  • Books | 2023
    Trezise B, 2023, Performing Contemporary Childhoods, Routledge,
    Books | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave, Houndmillls, Basingstoke,
    Books | 2013
    Trezise B; Wake C, 2013, Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma, Trezise B; Wake C, (ed.), In Between States, Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen,
  • Book Chapters | 2021
    Trezise B, 2021, 'Spectacular Return: Re-performance Inexhausted in ‘White Bear’s’ Exhibitionary Complex', in The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror, Springer International Publishing, pp. 79 - 98,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Trezise B, 2021, 'Spectacular Return: Re-performance Inexhausted in ‘White Bear’s’ Exhibitionary Complex', in The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror, Springer Nature, pp. 79 - 98,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Trezise B, 2019, 'Acting on Behalf of Themselves: The Theatrical Politics of Child's Play', in The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, Routledge, pp. 272 - 274,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Affecting Indifference: Traumatic A-materiality in Second Life', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 107 - 135,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Affect’s Spill: Theatrical ‘Sensationship’ in Cultures of Memory', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 136 - 157,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Becoming Other-wise: Remembering Intercorporeal Indigeneity Down Under', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 56 - 78,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Feeling Remediated: The Emotional Afterlife of Psychic Trauma TV', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 79 - 106,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Introduction: Feeling the Return of Memory', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 1 - 27,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Sensing the Holocaust Affect: Memorials in Repeat, Revision and Return', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 28 - 55,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise BA, 2014, 'Choreographing With Light', in Brannigan E; Baxter V (ed.), Bodies of Thought. 12 Australian Choreographers., edn. 1st, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 64 - 71,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Trezise B; Wake C, 2013, 'Disabling Spectacle: Curiosity, Contempt and Collapse in Performance Theatre', in Eckersall P; Grehan H (ed.), ‘We're People Who Do Shows’: Back to Back Theatre - Performance Politics Visibility, Performance Research Books, Aberystwyth, pp. 118 - 131
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Trezise B, 2013, 'Grave Dancing: Divergent Recollection Along the Tourist Traumascape', in Wake C; Trezise B (ed.), Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma, edn. In Between States, Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, pp. 176 - 198,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Wake C; Trezise B, 2013, 'From Sight to Site: Performance in Memory and Trauma Studies', in Trezise B; Wake C (ed.), Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma, Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, pp. 11 - 28,
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Trezise BA, 2009, 'Belated Spaces: Embodying Embodiment in Holocaust Tourism', in Counsell C; Mock R (ed.), Performance Embodiment and Cultural Memory, edn. 1st, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 80 - 96
    Book Chapters |
    'Affecting Indifference', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Book Chapters |
    'Affect’s Spill', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Book Chapters |
    'Becoming Other-wise', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Book Chapters |
    'Feeling Remediated', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Book Chapters |
    'Introduction', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Book Chapters |
    'Sensing the Holocaust Affect', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Trezise B; Tálamo A; White M, 2023, 'How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments', Convergence, 29, pp. 61 - 80,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Trezise B; Vengurlekar N; Whittaker M, 2023, 'Shared uncertainties: mapping digital teaching artistry in youth performing arts during COVID-19', Research in Drama Education, pp. 1 - 14,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Bishop K; Corkery L; Afshar N; Aminpour F; Brussoni M; Carroll P; Derr V; Dimoulias K; Edwards C; Herrington S; Johnson J; Kreutz A; Loebach J; Owens PE; Tresize B; Witten K, 2022, 'The Impacts of COVID-19 Responses on Children, Youth and Their Environments in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia', Children, Youth and Environments, 32, pp. 173 - 195,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Trezise B, 2022, 'Creativity as care during COVID19: The domestic pedagogies of learning from home', Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 10,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Trezise B, 2020, 'MINOR REPRESENTATIONS: FROM ANNE FRANK TO BANA ALABED - THE RADICALLY PERFORMATIVE LITERACIES OF A VIRAL CHILD', FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES, 56, pp. 115 - 134,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Trezise B, 2020, 'Performative pedagogies: feeling the experience of being (the) social in twenty-first century learning', Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 25, pp. 465 - 479,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Trezise B, 2019, 'Breathtaking performance: 'A room with no air's' exhaustive aesthetics of holocaust memory', Australasian Drama Studies, 74, pp. 129 - 160,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Trezise B, 2019, 'Performing at the interval: Perambulations of the maternal child in an Australian youth-based arts practice', Youth Theatre Journal, 33, pp. 119 - 128,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Trezise B, 2019, 'Stealth Pedagogies: The Radical Value of Thinking with Performance', Theatre Topics, 29, pp. 141 - 151,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Trezise B, 2018, 'Troubling the Image-Work of Children in the Age of the Viral Child: Re-Working the Figure of the Child', Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 10, pp. 22 - 40,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Trezise BA, 2018, 'Do Algorithms Dance? Viral Kids and Contagious Scripts', Performance Research, 23, pp. 76 - 84,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Trezise BA, 2018, 'Future Visions: A Pre-Performative History of Infant Theatricality', Theatre Journal, 70, pp. 1 - 21,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Trezise BA, 2018, 'Troubling the Image-Work of Children in the Age of the Viral Child: Re-Working the Figure of the Child', Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 10, pp. 22 - 40,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Trezise BA, 2017, 'The Mother of All Wombs: Tracing the labour of maternal effacement in visual and theatrical cultures of motherhood', Performance Research, 22, pp. 113 - 122,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Trezise BA, 2017, 'What Does the Baby Selfie Say? Seeing Ways of ‘Self-Seeing’ in Infant Digital Cultures', M/C Journal, 20,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Images that Sense Us', Performance Research, 19, pp. 37 - 45,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Trezise BA, 2012, 'Spectatorship that Hurts: Socíetas Raffaello Sanzio as Meta-affective Theatre of Memory', Theatre Research International, 37, pp. 205 - 220,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Trezise BA, 2011, 'Discursive Belonging: Surviving Narrative in Migrant Oral History', Cultural Studies Review, 17,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Trezise BA, 2011, 'Touching Virtual Trauma: Performative Empathics in Second Life', Memory Studies, 5, pp. 392 - 409,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Trezise BA; Wake C, 2009, 'On the Ethics of Non-Disclosure: a Roundtable with Urban Theatre Projects and Collaborators', Performance Paradigm, 5, pp. n/a - n/a,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Trezise BA, 2009, 'After Effects: Performing the Ends of Memory, an Introduction to Volume II', Performance Paradigm, 5,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Trezise BA, 2009, 'Ambivalent Bereavement: Embodying Loss in the Twenty-First Century', Performance Paradigm, 5
    Journal articles | 2009
    Wake C; Trezise BA, 2009, 'Introduction to After Effects: Performing the Ends of Memory', Performance Paradigm, 5,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Trezise BA, 2008, 'Ambivalent Apparitions: The Pop-Psychic Art of TV Medium John Edward', Performance Research, 13, pp. 100 - 110
    Journal articles | 2008
    Trezise BA, 2008, 'Recovering Memories: Versions of a Misreremembered Australian Body', Australian Feminist Law Journal, 29, pp. 155 - 175
    Journal articles | 2008
    Trezise BA, 2008, 'The Red Velvet Seat: Women`s Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema', Amateur Filmmaking. The Home, The Archive, The Web., 49, pp. 507 - 510
  • Other | 2016
    Trezise BA, 2016, 'Entertaining Children: The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry' [Book review], Theatre Research International 41.3 (October 2016), pp. 277-278, Cambridge University Press (CUP): HSS Journals - No Cambridge Open, ,
    Other | 2010
    Trezise BA, 2010, Book review. Theatre & series, edited by Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato,
    Other | 2008
    Trezise BA, 2008, Book review. Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance,
    Other | 2008
    Trezise BA, 2008, Book review. The Red Velvet Seat: Women`s Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema,
    Other | 2008
    Trezise BA, 2008, The Theatre of Societas Raffaello Sanzio [Book Review], ,

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My Research Supervision

Mary-Anne Gifford (PhD, Creative Practice) Australian Vaudeville: The Last Theatre of the Working Class

Maria White (PhD) The Rhetoric of Democracy: The Politics and Aesthetics of the 'Demos' in Contemporary Performance Practices

Nathan Jackson (PhD) Choreographies of Transfer: Reperforming Postmemory in Contemporary Australian Performance

Alex Talamo (PhD, Creative Practice) Performative Personas in Video Game Livestreaming: An Ethnographic Study of Twitch

My Teaching

The courses I am currently responsible for teaching are:

ARTS3123 Solo Performance https://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2020/ARTS3123

HUMS1006 Communication and Presentation Skills https://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2020/HUMS1006

ARTS1121 The Life of Performance https://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2020/ARTS1121

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