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Gillian Arrighi
Gillian Arrighi is a senior lecturer in creative and performing arts in the School of Creative Industries, University of Newcastle. Her research focuses on popular entertainments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, circus studies, child actors, and actor training. She has published over twenty refereed journal articles and book chapters in scholarly publications, including the Theatre Journal, Australasian Drama Studies, the New Theatre Quarterly, the Journal of Early Visual Popular Culture, Theatre Research International, Theatre Dance and Performance Training, and in edited collections on topics such as early twentieth-century amusement parks, the social construction of archives, performing animals and the rediscovery of masks in the twentieth century. She is editor of the scholarly e-journal, Popular Entertainment Studies, co-editor of the book Entertaining Children: The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and author of the monograph The FitzGerald Brothers’ Circus: Spectacle, Identity and Nationhood at the Australian Circus (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2015). Her current book project concerns professional child actors performing on trans-national popular stages.