Dr Jonathan Marshall
Dr Jonathan Marshall
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Image: Jacques Kuyper, electrical demonstration at the Society of Merit (Felix Meritis), Amsterdam, 2 July 1791. Painted 1801. Photograph courtesy of The Bakken (see below).
Dr Jonathan Marshall Biography:
Jonathan studied at the University of Melbourne, where he majored in history & performance. He was awarded the Felix Raab Prize in European History (1991) & the Alma Hansen Scholarship (2000). He undertook both his Masters & his PhD at the Department of History, University of Melbourne: Civilisation & its Discontent Hamlets: Renaissance melancholy, Modernist neurosis & Shakespeare’s prince (1998), & Performing Neurology: The dramaturgy of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot (2003), respectively. During this time he also commenced his career as a critic of performance & the arts, publishing in popular, specialist & journalistic outlets, as well as academic publications such as Australasian Drama Studies. He is currently a contributing editor for RealTime Australia http://www.realtimearts.net/
Dr Marshall’s research is on the relationship between the histories of performance & those of medicine, focusing particularly on 19th century French neurophysiology—a medical discipline whose subject was the movement or performance of the living patient (the choreography of seizure, description of tremors, mechanics of gesture, etc). Jonathan is currently examining the teaching of anatomy at the Paris School of Fine Arts, 1862-1940. Marshall’s chosen field also touches upon the histories of photography, cinematography, dance, cabaret, theatre, para-science, hypnosis, hysteria, Brecht, Artaud, the avant-garde, sex & gender, & other topics in the cultural history of the body & its performative representation. Marshall has also published on contemporary Australian postmodern dance, butoh, & Australian music theatre.
Marshall’s publications & awards include:
“Nervous Dramaturgy: Pain, performance & excess in the work of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot, 1862-1893,†Art & Pain, special edn of Double Dialogues, 4 (Winter 2003), http://www.doubledialogues.com/issue_four/marshall.htm
“Performing Hysteria: Charcot & the problem of theatrical representation,†Proceedings of the Western Society of French History, 28 (2002), 19-26.
“Jonathan Marshall,†background to work conducted for 2005 Visiting Researcher Grant, The Bakken Library & Museum of Electricity in Life, Minneapolis (Sept 2005), http://www.thebakken.org/research/Jonathan-Marshall.htm
“Nervous Atmospheres: Parascientific theories of the mind & hypnosis during the Victorian Era,†E-newsletter of the Wunderkammer scientific antiques & curiosities suppliers (March 2004).
“Dancing the Elemental Body: Jonathan Marshall talks with Min Tanaka & Yumi Umiumare about the history of butoh & Body Weather today,†Japan After the 1960s: The ends of the avant-garde, special edition of Performance Paradigms, 2 (April 2006), http://www.performanceparadigm.net/
“Midori Yoshimoto, Into Performance: Japanese women artists in New York [book review],†Australasian Drama Studies, 47 (April 2006).
“Inciting Reflection: A Short Manifesto For & Introduction to the Discursive Reviewing of the Arts,†Review, special edition of Media-Culture Journal, 8.5 (2005), http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0510/08-marshall.php
“Operatic Tradition & Ambivalence in Chamber Made Opera’s Recital (Chesworth, Horton, Noonan),†in Keith Gallasch & Laura Ginters, eds, Music Theatre in Australia, special edition of Australasian Drama Studies, 45 (October 2004), 72-96.
“Documents in Australian Postmodern Dance: Two interviews with Lucy Guerin,†in Adrian Kiernander, ed., Dance & Physical Theatre, special edition of Australasian Drama Studies, 41 (October 2002), 102-133.
“The Dialectics of Inter-Cultural Performance: Towards a historiographic cross-cultural praxis,†in Gay McAuley, Glenn D’Cruz & Alison Richards, eds, Performance Studies in Australia, special edition of Australasian Drama Studies, 39 (October 2001), 92-103.
“Bodies Across the Pacific: The Japanese national body in the performance technique of Suzuki & butoh,†Antithesis, 7.2 (1995), 50-65, reproduced on http://www.bodyweather.net/j.marshall.pdf
“Vertigo: Between the word & the act,†Independent Performance Forums, published in
RealTime Australia, 35 (2000), 10.
“Meditations on the Dancing Body From an Outsider/Insider,†in Sally Gardner, ed., Dancehouse Occasional Papers #1 (Melbourne: Dancehouse Centre For the Moving Arts, 2000), part 3, pp. 6-7.
Jonathan Marshall, PhD, MA,
Research Fellow,
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts,
Edith Cowan University,
2 Bradford Street,
Mt Lawley, WA 6050
PH: +618 9370 6796
FAX: +618 9370 6665
http://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/about/staff_view.php?rec_id=0000000096
contributing editor,
“RealTime Australia”
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