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Dr Stuart Grant

PhD (University of Sydney), BA, Hons/University Medal (University of Sydney), PGCertTESOL (University of California/Gyeongsang University), .BA (University of Technology, Sydney).

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Stuart Grant curriculum vitae [ 101 kb]

Biography

My specialty is philosophy of performance with an emphasis on site-specific work and phenomenology. I also teach Contemporary Performance, Musical Theatre and Comedy. I am a singer.

Research interests

Philosophy of performance

Time and Performance. Place and Performance. Truth in Performance. Ethics of Performance. Language as Performance. Ontology of Performance. Music in Performance

Phenomenology of Performance

Intersubjectivity and intentionality in performance. Group phenomenology. Phenomenology of Laughter. Phenomenology of Audience.

Phenomenology of speaking

Embodiment, performativity and affectivity in speaking. Phenomenology of the use of drama in language learning.

Selected publications

Book

Gathering to Witness: Transcendental Intersubjective Audience. (In review).

Book Chapters

"Speaking Bodies". Putonghua and English Language Arts. C. De Coursey, (ed). Oxford Scholars, (forthcoming)
"Outline for a Phenomenology of Rhythm". Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music. P. Murphy & E. De La Fuente (eds). Leiden: Brill, 2010.

"Morphological Essence: Measurement Inexact, Yet Not Imprecise". Halfway Houses: Poetics of Australian Space. Jennifer Rutherford (ed.). Perth: UWA Press, 2010.

"How to Stand in Australia". Unstable Ground: Performance and the Politics of Place. Gay McAuley (ed.). Brussels: Peter Lang, 2007.

Edited Book

Time, Transcendence, Performance. Springer (In review).

Journal Articles

"Affectivity of Speaking", Parrhesia 11, (Special issue on affect), 2011. (forthcoming).
"The Uncertain Musical. An Exercise in Performance as Research as Pedagogy", Australasian Drama Studies, (Special Issue on Theatre Pedagogy), 2010.
"Fifteen Theses on Transcendental Intersubjective Audience", About Performance 10. 2010.
"The Saying of Saying Sorry", About Performance 9, 2009.
"Abysmal Laughter". Phaenex 3(2) 2008.
"Immanent Description and Writing From…,", Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy 18, 2007.
"Practical Intersubjectivity", Janus Head 8(2): 560-580. http://www.janushead.org/8-2/Grant.pdf, 2005.
"Phenomenology and the use of Drama in the EFL Classroom" The Study of Language 3, 2005, SOLEIP. South Korea.