Dr. Kathryn Roberts Parker
2014
Australian Cultural (Tim Fairfax AC and Australia Council of the Arts) John Monash Scholar
Masters
Shakespeare
Kings College, London
United Kingdom
Arts and Humanities
Kathryn is an interdisciplinary researcher with a professional practice in historical folk music and theatre. She is currently working on Associate Professor Stephen Mould’s ARC project 'Re-igniting 'artistic vibrancy' in the Australian opera ecosystem’ and teaching folk music at Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Kathryn has recently completed a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at Newcastle University in the UK, funded by the European Union, researching 'A Performance History of Morris Dancing'. This research has followed on from a PhD at the University of Sydney funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 'Music and Festival Culture in Shakespearean Comedy', which she completed in 2020. Kathryn composes and performs live music with Matriark Theatre, a company she co-founded in 2014. She is also the founder and producer of Talon, a folk dance group in the UK. Kathryn was awarded the Australian Cultural (Tim Fairfax AC and Australia Council of the Arts) John Monash Scholarship to study a Masters of Arts in Shakespeare Studies at King’s College, London.