Meet Helena Grehan Senior Lecturer, English and Creative Arts "I am passionate about the potential the arts provide for assisting students to develop detailed and nuanced understandings of key social, political and cultural issues. By combining a diverse range of artistic works with relevant theoretical and critical frames, I aim to stimulate, challenge and at times provoke students to reflect on their responses, and on the significance of these beyond the works in question."

Education

• PhD Murdoch University

Award

• Murdoch University 2008 Vice Chancellor’s award for excellence in teaching.

Publication

Editor

• I am co-editor with Peter Eckersall and Ed Scheer of the journal Performance Paradigm.

Visit the Performance Paradigm website

Research

• I teach undergraduate students in the areas of creative arts, drama, performance and literary studies. I supervise several Ph.D students working on topics that include theories of place and performance, colonial theatre, film, questions of embodiment and space, representation and social anxiety, and issues of race, gender and representation.
  
  My specific areas of research interest include Performance Theory, ethics and spectatorship, race and representation, interculturalism, and art and globalisation. Aside from my two books my research has been published in a range of national and international refereed journals.
  
  My research plays a key role in my teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As a Murdoch graduate I enjoy the opportunities my job affords me to give back to the university and to the wonderful students I meet each year.