Melissa Merchant
Biographic Data
| ID | 384133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Merchant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Merchant |
| SIGNATURE | MERCHANT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0923-1561 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The everyday experiences of female electric vehicle owners: Insights from Western Australia
Hope, Performative Diversity and re-production: Hamiltonand Covid-era Politics
During the COVID-19 pandemic, theatres around the world closed and performances moved online. Consequently, when the musical Hamilton opened in March 2021 in Australia, it was the only version of the show being performed live on stage anywhere in the world and was marketed as a ‘beacon of hope’ for the performing arts industry [Crompton, S. 2017, Francis, L., and Ky, J. 2021, Millar, L. 2021]. Hamilton’s story is based on White American grand nar…
Viral Stagings Across the Globe: Performing Identity in the Era of Covid-19
This special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies is titled ‘Performing Identity in the Era of COVID-19’, and co-mingles our current critical inquiries into the pandemic meaning of ‘performance’’ with our earlier research in global diasporas. While invoking our previous historical context of ‘the era of COVID-19’, we shift focus from migratory liminality to the many ways that we can re-think the notions of performance, performing, and pe…
Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora: The case of AMC's The Walking Dead
American Movie Classics' (AMC) popular television series The Walking Dead (2010–present) transports viewers into an apocalyptic zombie dystopia where the lines between safety and precarity, being governed and governing, or being alive and/or dead slip and change. Utilizing Achille Mbembe's term "necropolitics", the article explores The Walking Dead's representation of governance and power in terms of individual and group security. While the zombi…
The woman newly come, called Pegg”: An historiographical examination of Margaret Hughes as the Vere Street Desdemona
It has been traditionally accepted that the first professional performance by an English actress occurred on December 8th, 1660 in a production of Othello staged at the Vere Street Theatre in London. The name of the actress who played the role of Desdemona in this production is not known, however many theatre historians have claimed that it was Margaret Hughes. Using archival research, this article explores the history of women on the Restoration…
Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora: The case of AMC's The Walking Dead
American Movie Classics' (AMC) popular television series The Walking Dead (2010–present) transports viewers into an apocalyptic zombie dystopia where the lines between safety and precarity, being governed and governing, or being alive and/or dead slip and change. Utilizing Achille Mbembe's term "necropolitics", the article explores The Walking Dead's representation of governance and power in terms of individual and group security. While the zombi…
The woman newly come, called Pegg”: An historiographical examination of Margaret Hughes as the Vere Street Desdemona
It has been traditionally accepted that the first professional performance by an English actress occurred on December 8th, 1660 in a production of Othello staged at the Vere Street Theatre in London. The name of the actress who played the role of Desdemona in this production is not known, however many theatre historians have claimed that it was Margaret Hughes. Using archival research, this article explores the history of women on the Restoration…
Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora: The case of AMC's The Walking Dead
American Movie Classics' (AMC) popular television series The Walking Dead (2010–present) transports viewers into an apocalyptic zombie dystopia where the lines between safety and precarity, being governed and governing, or being alive and/or dead slip and change. Utilizing Achille Mbembe's term "necropolitics", the article explores The Walking Dead's representation of governance and power in terms of individual and group security. While the zombi…
Hope, Performative Diversity and re-production: Hamiltonand Covid-era Politics
During the COVID-19 pandemic, theatres around the world closed and performances moved online. Consequently, when the musical Hamilton opened in March 2021 in Australia, it was the only version of the show being performed live on stage anywhere in the world and was marketed as a ‘beacon of hope’ for the performing arts industry [Crompton, S. 2017, Francis, L., and Ky, J. 2021, Millar, L. 2021]. Hamilton’s story is based on White American grand nar…
Viral Stagings Across the Globe: Performing Identity in the Era of Covid-19
This special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies is titled ‘Performing Identity in the Era of COVID-19’, and co-mingles our current critical inquiries into the pandemic meaning of ‘performance’’ with our earlier research in global diasporas. While invoking our previous historical context of ‘the era of COVID-19’, we shift focus from migratory liminality to the many ways that we can re-think the notions of performance, performing, and pe…
The everyday experiences of female electric vehicle owners: Insights from Western Australia
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works)