Dr Bernadette Cochrane
Faculty Fellow Sem. 2, 2019.
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
+61 7 334 69493
Researcher biography
Dr Bernadette Cochrane is a Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts. Her research is in the fields of theatre and dramaturgy. She is working on a monograph from her “Screened Live: A New Paradigm for Theatrical Performance” project. ‘Live screening’ has created new opportunities for innovation in creative economies. The complex of live performance, cinematic screenings of the live performance, and digital innovation is having a profound effect on performing arts companies, affecting notions of business models, accessibility, aesthetics, and attitudes to liveness.
During her fellowship, Bernadette will working on her monograph and an ARC Linkage proposal with colleagues from QUT and industry partners.
Publications
Book Chapters
Lennox, Gabrielle and Cochrane, Bernadette (2021). Playing the field: an interdisciplinary approach to immersive theatre. Undergraduate research in theatre: a guide for students. (pp. 177-180) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003023807-15
Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). The opportunities of reduced distance. Doing arts research in a pandemic: a crowd-sourced document responding to the challenges arising from COVID-19. (pp. 50-52) edited by Vida L. Midgelow. London, United Kingdom: The Culture Capital Exchange.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance. The Routledge companion to adaptation. (pp. 340-348) Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315690254
Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance. The Routledge companion to adaptation. (pp. 340-348) edited by Dennis Cutchins, Katja Krebs and Eckart Voigts. Abingdon, Oxon, United States: Routledge.
Trencsényi, Katalin and Cochrane, Bernadette (2014). Foreword. New Dramaturgy: international perspectives on theory and practice. (pp. xi-xx) edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
Trencsényi, Katalin and Cochrane, Bernadette (2014). Afterword: in lieu of a conclusion. New dramaturgy: international perspectives on theory and practice. (pp. 243-244) edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
Journal Articles
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2022). Adjacent to the live: paratextual augmentation of performance during the pandemic. Body, Space and Technology, 21 (1). doi: 10.16995/bst.8005
Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). Screened Live: Technologically Reconfiguring Notions of the Author.. Body, Space & Technology, 19 (1), 174-192. doi: 10.16995/BST.338
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2014). Screening from the Met, the NT, or the House: what changes with the live relay. Adaptation, 7 (2), 121-133. doi: 10.1093/adaptation/apu015
Cochrane, Bernadette (2012). Ours as we play it: Australia plays Shakespeare. Theatre Research International, 37 (2), 191-192. doi: 10.1017/S0307883312000132
Conference Papers
Cochrane, Bernadette (2022). Dramaturgical adjacencies: paratextual augmentation of performance. International Federation of Theatre Research, Reykjavik, Iceland, 20-24 June 2022.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2021). Capitalising on the back catalogue: streaming theatre in the age of COVID. Post-Covid-19 Art Worlds: Viral Theatre, Precarity and Medical Humanities, Hannover, Germany, 12-23 July 2021.
Cochrane, Bernadette and Liedke, Heidi (2020). The Digital and Live: Three in one? On NT Live audiences and communality. Australasian Drama Studies Association, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2-5 December 2020.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2019). Live Screening: a dramaturgical nexus of popularity, populism, and urbanization. International Federation of Theatre Research, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, 8-12 July 2109.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Ethics, Agency, and the ‘Other’: plays resisting translation. Theatre and Migration: Theatre, Nation and Identity: Between Migration and Stasis, Belgrade, Serbia, 9-13 July 2018.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Aesthetics Squared: twenty-first century theatrical convergences and the ‘live relay'. Actors and Acting in the Twenty-First Century. In: Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Melbourne, Australia, 26-29 June 2018.
Cochrane, Bernadette and Ackhurst, Graham (2018). The Secret River: plays resisting translation. Translating for the Stage: Translating on the Stage, Oxford, United Kingdom, 12-14 January 2018.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2016). Remaindering the remains: the digital, the live, and the archive. International Federation of Theatre Research - Presenting the Theatrical Past: Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices, Stockholm University, 13-17 June 2016.
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2014). Slip sliding away: what changes with the live relay. From Theatre to Screen and Back Again, Leicester, United Kingdom, 19 February 2014.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2014). Wires, Strings, and Pipes: Automatous Perceptions of Hermione.. Shakespearean Perceptions. In Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia, 2-4 October 2014.
Trencsényi, Katalin and Cochrane, Bernadette (2014). New Dramaturgy. Theatre and Stratification. In Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group at the annual conference of the International Federation of Theatre Research, Warwick, United Kingdom, 28 July-1 August 1 2014.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2013). Dramaturgically modelling structure. Re-routing Performance. In International Federation of Theatre Research, Barcelona, Spain, 21-26 July 2013.
Cochrane, Bernadette and Lawrence, Alan (2012). Picture This: NT Live or Not. Mediating Performance. In International Federation of Theatre Research, Santiago, Chile, 22-28 July 2012.
Generic Document
Cochrane, Bernadette (2023). Portfolio of entries for the The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors and Directing. Cambridge University Press.
Thesis
Cochrane, Mary (2013). Dramaturgy, playtext and structure. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland.
Seminar Papers
Musca, Szabolcs, Cochrane, Bernadette, Krebs, Katja, Marschall, Anika, McFadden, Becka, Parmiani, Lara and Lia, Emmanuela (2021). Things I am not: knowledge cafe. Things I Am Not.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2017). (Re)mediating remains of authorship. Theatre Workings. Central School of Speech and Drama Research Series, Central School of Speech and Drama.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2016). Mediating authorship: the live relay and postdramatic mediaturgies. Postdramatic mediaturgies - literature and media innovation: the question of genre transformations. Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings.
Creative Works
Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). "Liminality" in Invisible Diaries. London, United Kingdom: Dramaturg's Network.
Trenscényi, Katalin, Cochrane, Bernadette, Carleton, Stephen and Kelly, Kathryn (2019). New dramaturgy: a roundtable. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.
Bernadette Cochrane, Trencsényi, Katalin, Campbell, Alyson and Dorney, Marcel (2019). New dramaturgy: a roundtable. Melbourne, Australia: Victorian College of the Arts.
Cochrane, Bernadette, Trenscényi, Katalin, Campbell, Alyson, Carleton, Stephen, Dorney, Marcel and Kelly, Kathryn (2019). New Dramaturgies. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.
Musca, Szabolcs, Parmiani, Lara, McFadden, Becka, Cochrane, Bernadette, Angelaki, Vicky, Jeffers, Alison, Correa, Graca and Paire, Roxanne (2019). Migrations: Harbour Europe. London, United Kingdom: Migrant Dramaturgies Network.