Dr Darryl Chalk

NameDr Darryl Chalk
Email Addressdarryl.chalk@unisq.edu.au
Job TitleSenior Lecturer (Theatre) and Program Coordinator
QualificationsBA(Hons) USQ, PhD USQ
DepartmentSchool of Creative Arts
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5814-4678
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BA(Hons)
USQ
1995
PhD
USQ
2002

Current Supervisions

Research TitleSupervisor TypeLevel of StudyCommenced
The Embodied Creative: The application of Shamanism in the Creative ProcessPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2025
Rhythmising Shakespeare: Speech, Verse, and Song in Plays and PoetryAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2025
Shakespeare, Rhetoric and The Voice: Essential Skills for the Contemporary Australian ActorPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2025
The Paradox of Enchantment: Syncretising Humoralism, Demonology and Meteorology on the Early Modern English StageAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2022
The process of adaptation in collaboration: How creating a libretto (adapted from a children's story with fairy tale elements) in collaboration with a composer informs and changes the writing process and the creative outcomePrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2020
Between the Mundane and the Miraculous: Preternatural Phenomena in Shakespearean DramaPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2019

Completed Supervisions

Research TitleSupervisor TypeLevel of StudyCompleted
'The Vices Male and Female': Rethinking the Vice on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stagePrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2020
Living History: Myth, representation and dramatising Catherine the greatPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2017

Telling Tales [Curatorial Work]

Batorowicz, Beata, Chalk, Darryl and Clark, Linda. 2025. Telling Tales [Curatorial Work]. Toowoomba, Australia 31 Aug - 21 Dec 2025

'You May Look Pale': Whiteness and Love Melancholia in Love's Labour's Lost

Chalk, Darryl. 2024. "'You May Look Pale': Whiteness and Love Melancholia in Love's Labour's Lost." Espinosa, Ruben (ed.) Shakespeare / Skin: Contemporary Readings in Skin Studies and Theoretical Discourse. United Kingdom. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 69-96

"If all the world could have seen't": Imagination and the Unseen in The Winter's Tale

Chalk, Darryl. 2024. ""If all the world could have seen't": Imagination and the Unseen in The Winter's Tale ." Kaethler, Mark and Williams, Grant (ed.) Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern Egnlish Literature. Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 45-65

Eros and Etiology in Love's Labour's Lost

Chalk, Darryl. 2022. "Eros and Etiology in Love's Labour's Lost." Humanities. 11 (6), pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/h11060152

Like Furnace: Sighing on the Shakespearean Stage

Chalk, Darryl. 2021. "Like Furnace: Sighing on the Shakespearean Stage." Kenny, Amy and Peterson, Kaara L. (ed.) Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance. Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 31-50

Simular proof and senseless feeling: Synaesthetic overload in Cymbeline

Chalk, Darryl. 2020. "Simular proof and senseless feeling: Synaesthetic overload in Cymbeline." Smith, Simon (ed.) Shakespeare / Sense: Contemporary Readings in Sensory Culture. London, United Kingdom. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 245-268

Introduction: Beyond the Plague

Chalk, Darryl and Floyd-Wilson, Mary. 2019. "Introduction: Beyond the Plague." Chalk, Darryl and Floyd-Wilson, Mary (ed.) Contagion and the Shakespearean stage. Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-21

Contagion and the Shakespearean stage

Chalk, Darryl and Floyd-Wilson, Mary. 2019. Contagion and the Shakespearean stage. Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan.

Here's a strange alteration: contagion and the mutable mind in Coriolanus

Chalk, Darryl. 2014. "Here's a strange alteration: contagion and the mutable mind in Coriolanus." Prochazka, Martin, Dobson, Michael, Hofele, Andreas and Scolnicov, Hanna (ed.) Shakespeare's Renaissance/Renaissance Shakespeares: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress. Newark, United States. University of Delaware Press. pp. 68-76

Make me not sighted like the Basilisk: vision and contagion in The Winter's Tale

Chalk, Darryl. 2014. "Make me not sighted like the Basilisk: vision and contagion in The Winter's Tale." Johnson, Laurie, Sutton, John and Tribble, Evelyn (ed.) Embodied cognition and Shakespeare's theatre: the early modern body-mind. Abingdon, OX. United Kingdom. Routledge. pp. 111-132

O, let me view his visage, being dead: decapitation and the legitimating of power in early modern England

Harmes, Marcus. 2011. "O, let me view his visage, being dead: decapitation and the legitimating of power in early modern England." Johnson, Laurie and Chalk, Darryl (ed.) 1st Shakespearean Reverie Symposium 2011. Toowoomba, Australia 06 - 08 Oct 2011 Toowoomba, Australia.

Rapt in secret studies and emergence in Shakespeare studies [Introduction]

Chalk, Darryl and Johnson, Laurie. 2010. "Rapt in secret studies and emergence in Shakespeare studies [Introduction]." Chalk, Darryl and Johnson, Laurie (ed.) Rapt in secret studies: emerging Shakespeares. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 1-8

Rapt in secret studies: emerging Shakespeares

Chalk, Darryl and Johnson, Laurie (ed.) 2010. Rapt in secret studies: emerging Shakespeares. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Contagious emulation: antitheatricality and theatre as plague in 'Troilus and Cressida'

Chalk, Darryl. 2010. "Contagious emulation: antitheatricality and theatre as plague in 'Troilus and Cressida'." Hirsch, Brett D. and Wortham, Christopher (ed.) This earthly stage: world and stage in late medieval and early modern England. Turnhout, Belgium. Brepols Publishers. pp. 75-101

To creep in at mine eyes: theatre and secret contagion in Twelfth Night

Chalk, Darryl. 2010. "To creep in at mine eyes: theatre and secret contagion in Twelfth Night." Chalk, Darryl and Johnson, Laurie (ed.) Rapt in secret studies: emerging Shakespeares. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 171-193

A nature but infected: plague and embodied transformation in Timon of Athens

Chalk, Darryl. 2009. "A nature but infected: plague and embodied transformation in Timon of Athens." Early Modern Literary Studies: a journal of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature.