Teaching Experience:

• Sessional Lecturer and Tutor at University of Queensland, 1991-1994.
• Sessional Lecturer and Tutor at University of Southern Queensland, 1994.
• Full-time Associate Lecturer (Level A) in Drama and Literature at ACU from January 1995-1997.
• Full-time Lecturer (Level B) in Drama and Literature at ACU from January 1998-2003.
• Full-time Senior Lecturer (Level C) in Drama and Literature at ACU from January 2004- .

Research Interests:

My research interests are primarily focussed on the history of Brisbane's theatre. Recently I have been researching the ways that Drama students learn through practical performance.

Awards/Grants:

• 2006 Carrick Citation from ACU’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences ($1,000).
• ACU Teaching Development Grant 2005 for the project entitled “Enhancing Oral Presentation Skills for Assessment Purposes” ($5000).
• ACU Teaching Development Grant 2005 for the project entitled “Learning to Learn in Drama” ($3,000)
• ACU Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003 ($2,000)
• ACU Large Grant for Research Project: Performing Anzac Day: Australian Culture, Tradition, and Ritual, 2003 ($1,835).
• Awarded $35,000 with Dr Simon Ryan from ACU in the 2002 round of Funds for Strategic Planning for the project entitled “The Creation of a Literature/Drama Web-Based Learning Environment”.
• Seconded to the Institute for the Advancement of Research, Semester I, 2002.
• ACU Large Grant for the project: Performing ANZAC Day: Australian Culture, Tradition and Ritual, 2002 ($5000).

 

Publications:

• ‘Parading Ourselves’ Journal of Australian Studies (ed) Maryrose Casey, Martin Crotty & Delyse Ryan 89 (2006).
• Ryan, Delyse. “Be-medalled and Be-ribboned: Soldiers and Civilians on Brisbane’s Streets in World War II” Journal of Australian Studies 89 (2006): 41-51 and 168-9.
• Casey, Maryrose, Martin Crotty & Delyse Ryan. “Colour, Movement and Jostling in Public.”  Journal of Australian Studies 89 (2006): 1-2.
• Ryan, Delyse. Rev. of Showing Off: Queensland at World Expositions, by Judith McKay. Queensland Review 12.1 (2005): 101-3.
• Ryan, Delyse and Simon Ryan, eds. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 3 (2004).
• Ryan, Delyse. “‘Does all Melbourne Smell Like This?’: The Colonial Metropolis in Marvellous Melbourne.” Australian Literary Studies (2003): 81-91.
• Ryan, Delyse. “Barbara Sisley.” Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2004.
• Ryan, Delyse. “The Magdalena Network: Travelling into the Future.” Magdalena Australia 03 16 April 2003: 4.
• Ryan, Delyse. “‘Two Hours Genuine Fun Without the Vulgarity’; As the Bishop Said to the Actress.” The Journal of Religion and Theatre (2002): 89-102 [Online journal] <httm://www.fa.mtu.edu/~dlbruch/rtjournal/vol_1/no_1/ryan.html>
• Ryan, Delyse. “Parades and Processions: Brisbane’s War-time Patriotism.” Queensland Review 8.1 (2001): 65-76.
• Ryan, Delyse. “Proscenium Arches and Fashion Columns: Brisbane Theatre and the Role of Women During the Wars.” Australasian Drama Studies 38 (2001): 83-97.
• Anthony, Delyse. “Ekka!: Performing a Queensland Tradition.” Interlogue 10.2 (1999): 23-32.

 

Recent Theatre Performances:

ROLE	PLAY	COMPANY	DATE
Co-Director	“Take Up Arms”	Co-production for Advanced Drama Students from ACU and Year 12 students from St. Joseph’s Gregory Terrace	September 2008
Director	“The Planets”	Advanced Drama Students, ACU	May 2007
Director	Laff Time	Advanced Drama Students, ACU	February 2006
Director	Shakespeare’s Hamlet	First Year Drama Students, ACU	April 2005
Director	Shakespeare’s Henry V	Advanced Drama Students, ACU	October 2005
Director	“An Australian Family Reunion”	Advanced Drama Students, ACU	August 2004
Director	“Brisbane’s Theatrical History”	Advanced Drama Students, ACU	July 2004
Director	A self-devised performance entitled RED	Advanced Drama Students, ACU	February 2004
Director/Curator	Performance Art Exhibition entitled What are We Doing Now?	Advanced Drama Students, ACU	September 2003
Director	dada Cabaret	Advanced Drama Students, ACU	August 2003
Director	Suzanne Spunner’s Running Up a Dress	Advanced Drama Students, ACU	May 2003
Director	Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing	First Year Drama Students, ACU	April 2003