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Associate Professor Jonathan W Marshall

Associate Professor

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6129
Mobile: 61402015523
Email: jonathan.marshall@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML3.298  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5296-6075

Jonathan W. Marshall is the coordinator of postgraduate research at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and is the first port of call for postgraduate inquiries. Jonathan also teaches graduate and undergraduate performance history.

Current teaching

  • MAP5115: Arts Issues
  • MAP5116: Performing Arts Research Preparation
  • MUS4213: Research Preparation
  • MUS4116: Research Project
  • BPA4001: Performing Arts Research
  • BPA4003: Research Project

Background

Associate Professor Jonathan W. Marshall is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in history. Jonathan was the first Postdoctoral Fellow at WAAPA, 2004 – 2008, before working as senior lecturer and coordinator of research in the School of Music and Theatre Studies at the University of Otago, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Since 2016, Jonathan has been back at WAAPA, where he is a senior lecturer and Coordinator of Research Higher Degrees. Jonathan is your first port of call for inquiries about WAAPA’s Master of Arts (Performing Arts) and PhD programs.

Marshall has written extensively on late 19th century neuropathology, the hysteria diagnosis, and their relationships to performance, and has published a 2016 monograph on the subject: Performing Neurology: The Dramaturgy of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot (Palgrave MacMillan 2016). Marshall is an internationally recognised scholar of the avant-garde Japanese dance form known as butoh. Marshall’s work on the topic has appeared in TDR: The Drama Review (2013), Performance Paradigm (2006), The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance (2019), and elsewhere. Marshall’s survey of Australian butoh and Body Weather is due in 2024. Marshall has an ongoing interest in landscape and performance, the non-human and performance, First Nations performance, history and performance, sound art, avant-garde music and digital/electronic musics, and the visual arts as they relate to performance. Much of his work has been inspired by French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman.

In addition to his academic profile, Marshall has been publishing on dance, theatre, sound, and performance, for over 20 years, contributing to street press, newspapers, specialist online magazines, radio and other media. He was a contributing editor for RealTime Australia (1998-2017). As of 2023, Marshall was regularly working for Limelight magazine, The Conversation, Seesaw magazine, and other outlets.

Professional associations

  • 2006 - present: Australasian Drama and Performance Studies Association, ADSA (Member)
  • 2014 - present: Performance Studies International, PSi (Member)
  • 2009 - 2015: Board of Trustees of the Blue Oyster Project Arts Space, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand (Chair & Board Member)
  • 2016: Decibel New Music Management Committee (Member)

Awards and recognition

University and National Teaching Awards

  • 2008: Faculty of Education and Arts award for “building bridges” between schools and staff, Edith Cowan University

National and International Research Positions

  • 2014: Runner up, Marlis Thiersch prize for excellence in theatre research, Australasian Drama Studies Association

Research areas and interests

Jonathan is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in history, performance and art criticism. He has published extensively in diverse areas ranging from butoh dance to contemporary photomedia, sound art to Brechtian theatre, cultural modernism, hip hop, Noongar performance, and relations between neuroscience and art. See also background and articles at Academia.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - Arts, The University of Melbourne, 2003.
  • Master of Arts in History, The University of Melbourne, 1999.
  • Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History, The University of Melbourne, 1995.
  • Bachelor of Arts: History, The University of Melbourne, 1995.

Research Outputs

2024

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Marshall, JW. (2024). Pummeling, high definition cubes & beats flying beyond Dionysian Dread: A response to ATOTAL Tura Presented ATOTAL by Franck Vigroux & Antoine Schmitt. [critical scholarly review of international digital arts]. Tura New Music website. Tura New Music.

2023

Book Chapters

  • Marshall, JW. (2023). Brecht. The Didi-Huberman Dictionary (42-45). Edinburgh University Press.
  • Marshall, JW. (2023). Photography. The Didi-Huberman Dictionary (178-181). Edinburgh University Press.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Marshall, JW. (2023). Tony Yap and Diasporic Post-Butoh in Australia. [website gallery with critical referenced essay, characterising the oeuvre of a significant artist]. AusStage Gallery.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2022). Outside-in or inside–out? The conflicted discourse of Stanislavsky in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: part one. Stanislavski Studies, 10(1), 9-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2021.2011080.
  • Bracknell, C., Horwitz, P., Ryan, T., Marshall, JW. (2022). Performing kayepa dordok living waters in Noongar boodjar, South-Western Australia. River Research and Applications: an international journal devoted to river research and management, 38(3), 404-411. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3868.
  • Marshall, JW. (2022). Ragpickers & radical Naturalism:the conflicted discourse of Stanislavsky in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, part two. Stanislavski Studies, 10(2), 139-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2022.2081768.

2021

Book Chapters

  • Marshall, JW. (2021). Hysterical Aesthetics in Contemporary Performance: Theatre, Dance, Voice. Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts: Rising in Revolt (271-95). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66360-5_12.
  • Marshall, JW. (2021). Critical Mimicry & the Deadman Dance: Marrugeku’s "Burrbgaja Yalirra". Marrugeku: Telling That Story (281-291). Centre for Performance Research. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/10787.

2020

Book Chapters

  • Marshall, JW. (2020). Traumatic Dances of the "Non-Self": Bodily Incoherence and the Hysterical Archive. Performing Hysteria: Contemporary Images and Imaginations of Hysteria (61-83). Leuven University Press. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/9782.

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2020). Disciplined Subjects and Social Performance: Entertainments at the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, 1873-1906. Australasian Drama Studies, 76(2020), 123-157. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/8918.
  • Marshall, JW. (2020). Dancing the Ghosts of the Asian Diaspora: an Interview with Michael Sakamoto. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 6(1-2), 111-129. https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00601007.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2019). From the Phenomenal Sublime to Critical Play: Sonic Approaches to Engagement at the 13th Totally Huge New Music Festival. Sound Scripts, 6(1), 1-10.

2018

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW., Hope, C. (2018). Toad Media: Listening to the Cane Toad in Cat Hope’s Sound of Decay (2013; 2016). Antennae: the journal of nature in visual culture, 46(2018), 38-50. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/5669.
  • Marshall, JW., Duncan, E. (2018). Landscapes as Graveyards: Spectral Return and Performativity in the Contested Landscape. Australasian Drama Studies, 72(April 2018), 65-98. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/4516.

2017

Book Chapters

  • Marshall, JW. (2017). A Dramaturgy of Montage and Dislocation: Brecht, Warburg, Didi-Huberman & the Pathosformel. Ethical Exchanges in Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy (187-209). Rodopi.

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2017). “Absence, Presence, Indexicality: The Mise en Scène of ‘the Heart of Neolithic Orkney’”. Theatre Research International, 42(1), 72-90. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883317000074.
  • Marshall, JW. (2017). Trophies Remain: The history of New Zealand resource extraction and the Meat Fence photo-project. Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts, 22(8), 86-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2017.1433384.

2016

Books

2015

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2015). Staging Critical History Within the Space of the Beat or What Cultural Historians Can Learn From Public Enemy, NTM, MC Solaar & George Clinton. New Zealand Journal of Media Studies, 15(1), 134-153. https://doi.org/10.11157/medianz-vol15iss1id9.

2014

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Spiers, J., Marshall, JW. (2014). Meat Fence. Perth Centre for Photography.

2013

Journal Articles

2012

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2012). Ausdruckstanz, faith and the anthropological impulseinEurope and the Asia-Pacific: A critical analysis of the career of Shona Dunlop MacTavish. Brolga: an Australian journal about dance, 37(December 2012), 31-41.

2011

Book Chapters

  • Marshall, JW. (2011). Kleist’s Übermarionette and Schrenck-Notzing’s Traumtänzerin: Nervous Mechanics and Hypnotic Performance Under Modernism. Heinrich von Kleist and Modernity (257-277). Camden House.

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2011). Theatre, Exchange and the Sine Wave: Reciprocal Relations in the World of Busting or Booming Performance. Double Dialogues, 14(2011), online.
  • Marshall, JW. (2011). Corporeal Spectacle and Sublime Annihilation Post World War Two US Art and the Theatrical Operations of Edward Burtynsky's Environmental Photography. Double Dialogues, 14(2011), online.

Conference Publications

  • Marshall, JW. (2011). Sonic Pleasure, Absence and the History of the Self: An Alternative Approach to the Criticism of Sound Art. Sound scripts : proceedings of the 2009 Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference (6-25). Totally Huge New Music Festival.

2010

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2010). Derrida's Cat, the Infanta's Mastiff, and the Performative mise en scène of Pet Photo Booth. Journal of Composition Theory, 30(3-4), 619-643.

2009

Book Chapters

  • Marshall, JW. (2009). Hypnotic Performance and the Falsity of Appearances: The Aesthetics of Medical Spectatorship and Axel Munthe's Critique of Jean-Martin Charcot. Elective Affinities (221-242). Rodopi.

Conference Publications

  • Marshall, JW. (2009). The Archaeology of the Abstract Body: Parascientific Discourse and the Legacy of Dr J.-M. Charcot, 1876-1969. Papers from the 16th George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation (92-111). H-France.
  • Marshall, JW. (2009). Freezing the Music and Fetishising the Subject: The Audiovisual Dramaturgy of Michel van der Aa. Sound Scripts: Proceedings of the 2007 Totally Huge New Music Festival. Vol. 2 (16-25). Australian Music Centre.

2008

Book Chapters

  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Beyond the Theater of Desire: Hysterical Performativity and Perverse Choreography in the Writings of the Salpetriere School, 1862-93. Sexuality at the Fin de Siecle - The Makings of a Central Problem (42-60). University of Delaware Press.

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Dynamic Medicine and Theatrical Form at the fin de siècle: A Formal Analysis of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot’s Pedagogy, 1862-1893. Modernism/Modernity, 15(1), 131-153. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2008.0002.
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Pathos, Pathology and the Still-Mobile Image: A Warburgian Reading of Held by Garry Stewart and Lois Greenfield. About Performance, 2008(8), 181-206.

Conference Publications

  • Marshall, JW. (2008). The theatre of the athletic nude: The teaching and study of anatomy at the Ecole Des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1873-1940. Being There: After-Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (18p.).

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Is It All Just Stuff?: Genres, tension and language in contemporary Australian sound arts. New sounds: defying definitions, Resonate magazine, Journal issue #3. Australian Music Centre.
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Murderous Ambivalences. RealTime Magazine, Issue 87, October-November 2008 pg.14. Open City Inc.
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Dark Illuminations. . Real Time.
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Body Traps. Strut Dances' Prime Cut.
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Puppets at play with form and history. RealTime Arts Magazine, Issue #85, June-July 2008, pg. 16. Open City Inc.
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Your gaze strikes the side of my cell: Alex Bradley's abject views. 0=2: The Mirror and The Knife. ECU.
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Reading the Land Seeing the Light. RealTime Arts Magazine, Issue #84, April-May 2008 pg. 34. Open City Inc.
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Deep Inside The Box. RealTime Arts Magazine, Issue #87 October-November 2008 pg. 8. Open City Inc.
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Violence by degrees. Violence by degrees. Real Time.
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Room for Change. RealTime Magazine, Issue 87, October-November 2008 pg. 18. Open City Inc..
  • Marshall, JW. (2008). Furnishings for the mind. Visual arts: Jonathan Marshall looks at installation art in Perth.

2007

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2007). The Priestesses of Apollo and the Heirs of Aesculapius: Medical art-historical approaches to ancient choreography after Charcot. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 43(4), 410-426.
  • Marshall, JW. (2007). Embodied Modernism, Visual Arts, and the Aesthetics of Roger Kemp and Rudolph Steiner. Art Bulletin of Victoria, 47(2007), 24-35.

2006

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2006). Dancing the Elemental Body: Butoh and Body Weather: Interviews with Tanaka Min and Yumi Umiumare. Performance Paradigm, 2(March), 54-73.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Marshall, JW. (2006). Midori Yoshimoto, Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York. Australasian Drama Studies. Highbeam.

2005

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2005). Inciting reflection: A short manifesto for and introduction to the discursive reviewing of the arts. M/C Journal, 8(5), Online.

2004

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2004). Operatic tradition and ambivalence in chamber made opera's recital. Australasian Drama Studies, 45(n/a), 72-96.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Marshall, JW. (2004). From the Everyday to Pure Affect..

2003

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2003). Nervous Dramaturgy: Pain, Performance and Excess in the Work of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot, 1862-1893. Double Dialogues, 4(Winter), online.

2002

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2002). Documents in Australian Postmodern Dance: Two Interviews With Lucy Guerin. Australasian Drama Studies, 41(October 2002), 102-133.

2001

Journal Articles

  • Marshall, JW. (2001). The Dialectics of inter-cultural performance: Towards a historiographic cross-cultural praxis. Australasian Drama Studies, 39(October 2001), 92-103.

Conference Publications

  • Marshall, JW. (2001). Performing Hysteria: Charcot and the Problem of Theatrical Representation. Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the 2000 Annual Meeting (19-26). University Press of Colorado.

Research Projects

  • AusStage 7: The international breakthrough , Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Infrastructure), 2021 ‑ 2022, $22,000.
  • Curating the Performing Arts: Improvisation as a mechanism to engage diverse and local communities in arts programs., Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Ltd, Scholarships to Support Industry Engagement PhD Projects, 2017 ‑ 2021, $9,000.
  • AusStage Phase 6 Visualising Venues in Australian Live Performance Research, Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Infrastructure), 2017 ‑ 2018, $46,000.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Eliza or 'that woman'
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Curvetting the Catalpa
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), The Music of the British Settlers in the Swan River Colony. 1829-1839.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Using music as an acting source-text for the actor-singer in musical theatre
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), A Divine Comedy: Individuation and Performance Practice at Midlife
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Woman writes woman

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Atomistic Sounds: mapping Techno through the lens of Minimal Music
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Beneath the Nightmare: the role of sound and music in Little Nightmares I & II, Bendy and the Ink Machine And Poppy Playtime
  • Doctor of Philosophy, (Radio) Musicking among Aboriginal women: Voice, empowerment and community in the West Kimberley region, Western Australia
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), An Exploration of Neoclassicism within Four of the Mediterranean-Inspired Guitar Sonatas by Angelo Gilardino (1941-2022)

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Giving voice to the extra-normal self with the extra-normal voice: Improvised exploration through the realms of shamanic chaos magick, insight meditation and gender performance
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Minimising the risks of 21st century violence: The balance of ethics and creativity in staging Simon Stephens' Motortown.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Writing as dancing: The dancer in your hands, a novella
  • Doctor of Philosophy, US Armenian Female Playwrights Writing the Catastrophe in the Post-Civil Rights Era
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Flow-state in Noongar Performance
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Voice of motion: Connecting voice, acting and movement in contemporary dance
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), The fifth sparrow: In memory of mollie skinner
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Where the desert meets the sea: A fusion and reimagining of venetian and ottoman soundscapes for the contemporary violin
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), 'It's all in the timing' - A research project that explores the complexities in the relationship of actor to audience, in musical theatre
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Keniny Kaadadijiny: Restoring and Developing Dance for Noongar Boondjar
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), My hall: Excavating, shaping and sharing the memory of Hale School's memorial hall through a site specific, staged performance
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Talking back: A new theatrical representation of Noongar women's experience

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Master by Research, In-Compass: An Exploration Into Devising Theatre Across Multiple Cultural Identities.
  • Doctor of Philosophy; Waipiata: A Practice-Led Exploration of Heterotopic Playwriting
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Female to male gender transition in Perth and WA: An exploration through documentary film production
  • Doctor of Philosopy, Un/Natural: Themes of nature in the work of contemporary New Zealand photographers

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Technique reframed body reimagined
  • Master by Research, Things Curt, Bass and Vile: Kurt Weill's Degenerate Music for Die Dreigroschenoper as Adorno's Social-Polemic Surrealist Music
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The Jekyll's Hide Project. Devising Jekyll's Hide: A critical analysis of the performative elements and working methods of Jerry Lewis and the butoh dancers Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Performing Britishness: Identity and Popular Music Tribute Shows in Perth, Western Australia
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Performer training evolutions: NSP the firstborn son of SMAT
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Choreography as landscape: Landscape discourse framing choreographic practice
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The Cartographies of Place: Approaches to Audio-visual Composition Incorporating Aspects of Place
  • Master of Arts (Creative Arts), Mallakhamb: An investigation into the Indian physical pratice of rope and pole mallakhamb
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Maloya dance and music: Reunionese Creole Togetherness
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Understanding stage management in the 21st century - A preliminary survey
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), An lmmersive Study of the Artistry of Gilbert Biberian-Guitarist, Composer, and Pedagogue-and Creative Responses from a Musical Apprenticeship
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Forgotten Fagotte? The role of the bassoon in the early symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1764-1774
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