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Bernadette Cochrane is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Queensland (UQ), School of Communication and Arts. She holds affiliations with the Centre for Critical and Creative Writing and the Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing. Her academic career began in 2014 after completing a dramaturgical PhD at UQ in 2013. She specializes in teaching European theatre of the 20th century, directing, dramaturgy, and Early Modern performance practice.
Research interests include dramaturgy, liveness in performance, theatre and digital humanities, and contemporary representations of Otherness. She co-edited New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice (2014) and contributes to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors and Directing. As Board Member of the Migrant Dramaturgies Network, she explores theatrical responses to global migration.
Award-winning educator, she received the 2018 UQ Award for Programs that Enhance Learning and a 2016 Teaching Excellence Commendation. Her research bridges live performance, cinema, and cultural production, with recent works addressing pandemic impacts on theatre and paratextual augmentation.
Supervision focuses on directing, digital humanities applications in theatre, and liveness studies. Active in international networks, she has presented at conferences including the International Federation of Theatre Research and the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.
