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Dr Bryoni Trezise

Dr Bryoni Trezise

Senior Lecturer

BA (Hons Class 1) ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ; PhD ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media

Bryoni Trezise is the author of two monographs, a and numerous articles, all of which use the disciplinary lens of performance to ask questions about contemporary culture. Her research spans the through analysis of archives, museums and memorials and, more recently, the in digital media. Bryoni was awarded a for her research into migrant oral histories and has won the and the prizes for her interdisciplinary scholarship in theatrical, literary and media histories. A leading member of ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ’s Arts and Health Research Group, the Intermedial Composition Network and Children’s and Youth Research Network, Bryoni’s current research maps ecologies of creative thinking and creative care – creative literacies – forthcoming in a co-authored book and podcast series How to Play in Slow Time (2025). Bryoni is also highly invested in championing creative pedagogies for wide-ranging careers: she has been awarded teaching prizes for this work and is currently conducting an impact study with Shopfront Youth Arts on models of creative leadership for young people. This builds on the impact work she previously conducted for involving data sets on arts participation and regional economies, including the ABS. Bryoni has published over 40 reviews for , and and has been interviewed by ABC Radio. Most recently, Bryoni was awarded the and aÌý for development of her YA and middle grade novels.

Phone
+61 2 9385 4513
Location
117, Level 1 Robert Webster
  • Books | 2025
    Trezise B; Farrell C; Talamo A; White M, 2025, How to Play in Slow Time, BRILL,
    Books | 2023
    Trezise B, 2023, Performing Contemporary Childhoods, Routledge,
    Books | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave, Houndmillls, Basingstoke,
    Books | 2013
    Trezise B; Wake C, 2013, Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma, Trezise B; Wake C, (ed.), Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen,
  • Book Chapters | 2021
    Trezise B, 2021, 'Spectacular Return: Re-performance Inexhausted in ‘White Bear’s’ Exhibitionary Complex', in The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror, Springer International Publishing, pp. 79 - 98,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Trezise B, 2021, 'Spectacular Return: Re-performance Inexhausted in ‘White Bear’s’ Exhibitionary Complex', in The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror, Springer Nature, pp. 79 - 98,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Trezise B, 2019, 'Acting on Behalf of Themselves: The Theatrical Politics of Child's Play', in The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, Routledge, pp. 272 - 274,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Affecting Indifference: Traumatic A-materiality in Second Life', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 107 - 135,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Affect’s Spill: Theatrical ‘Sensationship’ in Cultures of Memory', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 136 - 157,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Becoming Other-wise: Remembering Intercorporeal Indigeneity Down Under', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 56 - 78,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Feeling Remediated: The Emotional Afterlife of Psychic Trauma TV', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 79 - 106,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Introduction: Feeling the Return of Memory', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 1 - 27,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise B, 2014, 'Sensing the Holocaust Affect: Memorials in Repeat, Revision and Return', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 28 - 55,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Trezise BA, 2014, 'Choreographing With Light', in Brannigan E; Baxter V (ed.), Bodies of Thought. 12 Australian Choreographers., Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 64 - 71,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Trezise B; Wake C, 2013, 'Disabling Spectacle: Curiosity, Contempt and Collapse in Performance Theatre', in Eckersall P; Grehan H (ed.), ‘We're People Who Do Shows’: Back to Back Theatre - Performance Politics Visibility, Performance Research Books, Aberystwyth, pp. 118 - 131
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Trezise B, 2013, 'Grave Dancing: Divergent Recollection Along the Tourist Traumascape', in Wake C; Trezise B (ed.), Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma, Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, pp. 176 - 198,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Wake C; Trezise B, 2013, 'From Sight to Site: Performance in Memory and Trauma Studies', in Trezise B; Wake C (ed.), Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma, Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, pp. 11 - 28,
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Trezise BA, 2009, 'Belated Spaces: Embodying Embodiment in Holocaust Tourism', in Counsell C; Mock R (ed.), Performance Embodiment and Cultural Memory, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 80 - 96
    Book Chapters |
    , 'Affecting Indifference', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Book Chapters |
    , 'Affect’s Spill', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Book Chapters |
    , 'Becoming Other-wise', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Book Chapters |
    , 'Feeling Remediated', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Book Chapters |
    , 'Introduction', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Book Chapters |
    , 'Sensing the Holocaust Affect', in Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory, Palgrave Macmillan,
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Derr V; Johnson J; Trezise B; Edwards C; Witten K; Hackett C; McEwan V; Osnes B, 2025, 'Youth arts pedagogy for climate justice: radical relationality and interspecies poiesis in a yet-to-be-known world', Children S Geographies, 23, pp. 141 - 156,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Trezise B; Vengurlekar N; Whittaker M, 2024, 'Shared uncertainties: mapping digital teaching artistry in youth performing arts during COVID-19', Research in Drama Education, 29, pp. 43 - 56,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Trezise B; Tálamo A; White M, 2023, 'How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments', Convergence, 29, pp. 61 - 80,
    Journal articles | 2022
    , 2022, 'Creativity as care during COVID19: The domestic pedagogies of learning from home', Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 10,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Bishop K; Corkery L; Afshar N; Aminpour F; Brussoni M; Carroll P; Derr V; Dimoulias K; Edwards C; Herrington S; Johnson J; Kreutz A; Loebach J; Owens PE; Tresize B; Witten K, 2022, 'The Impacts of COVID-19 Responses on Children, Youth and Their Environments in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Au