Dr Adele Chynoweth FHEA OAM
Areas of expertise
- Curatorial And Related Studies 2102
- Museum Studies 210204
- Access To Justice 180102
- Drama, Theatre And Performance Studies 190404
- Social Change 160805
Biography
Dr Adele Chynoweth is a Lecturer at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts and the recipient of the 2018 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Public Policy and Outreach. In 2020 Adele also received the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to public history and was admitted as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Adele trained as a theatre director at the Flinders University Drama Centre and her PhD concerns contemporary Australian drama. Her directing credits include State Theatre SA, Vitalstatistix – National Women’s Theatre, the 3rdInternational Women’s Playwrights Conference and the Adelaide College of the Arts. In 2016, Adele was commissioned by the Street Theatre to develop and direct a new work, Under Sedation: Canberra Verse Remixed.
Adele was employed as part of a team of theatre practitioners to create the Memory Museum for the official celebration of the Centenary of Federation in South Australia. Adele furthered her museum work, curating exhibitions for the National Museum of Australia and the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at the University of South Australia. Adele has been a consultant for Welfare Stories: from the Edge of Society, a social history and justice project undertaken in Denmark, in collaboration between the Welfare Museum, Svendborg, the Prison Museum, Horsens, and the Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark.
Adele's current research interests include analysis of how museums:
- engage with vulnerable people
- represent narratives of trauma
- respond to Australian working and under class cultures.
Adele is a member of the Federation of International Human Rights Museums and has published articles and book chapters concerning social justice practice in museums and for survivors of Australia’s institutionalised ‘care’ system for children. She has also compiled a series of oral histories of a group of women, who as children, were incarcerated in Wolston Park Hospital, an adult psychiatric facility.
Publications
- Chynoweth, A 2020, Goodna Girls: A History of Children in a Queensland Mental Asylum, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Chynoweth, A 2020, 'A call to justice at the National Museum of Australia', in Adele Chynoweth, Bernadette Lynch, Klaus Petersen, Sarah Smed (ed.), Museums and Social Change: Challenging the Unhelpful Museum, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 173-185.
- Chynoweth, A, Lynch, B, Petersen, K et al., eds, 2020, Museums and Social Change: Challenging the Unhelpful Museum, Routledge, London and New York.
- Chynoweth, A 2017, 'Rocking the Boat: The Hay Gaol Museum and the Disruptive Narratives of Forgotten Australians', in Jacqueline Z. Wilson; Sarah Hodgkinson; Justin Piche; Kevin Walby (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, pp. 295 - 318pp.
- Chynoweth, A 2015, 'Constructing a Pedigree', in Dee Michell; Jacqueline Z. Wilson and Verity Archer (ed.), Bread and Roses Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class, Sense Publishers, Netherlands, pp. 129-138pp.
- Chynoweth, A 2014, 'Forgotten or Ignored Australians? The Australian Museum Sector’s Marginalisation of Inside - Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions', The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, vol. 6, no. 2, pp.172-182.
- Chynoweth, A 2014, 'Forgotten or Ignored Australians? The Case for an Inclusive Museum Practice in Australia', in Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson (ed.), Silent system : forgotten Australians and the institutionalisation of women and children, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, pp. 1-224pp.
- Chynoweth, A 2014, 'Women Crucified for the Sins of the Fathers: Censorship and the Crucifixion Motif in the Art of Rachael Romero', Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 167-184pp.
- Chynoweth, A 2014, 'Your Rhonda is downstairs : the need for a whole of museum approach to survivors of trauma', Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, vol. 02, pp. 152-155.
- Chynoweth, A 2012, 'Let our histories be visible', reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 15.
- Chynoweth, A 2009, 'Am Dram and Art Galleries: The Marginalisation of Professional Theatre in Australia's National Capital', Australasian Drama Studies, vol. 54, pp. 159-177.
- Chynoweth, A 2001, 'Post-feminist Physical Theatre: the Abject and the Split Subject in My Vicious Angel by Christine Evans', Australasian Drama Studies, no. 38, pp. pp.44-57.
- Chynoweth, A 1999, ''Give Me the Map There': A Review of the Magdalena Aotearoa International Festival of Women's Performance, 21-29 March 1999, Wellington, New Zealand', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 14, no. 30, pp. pp.425-426.
