Author Glenn D'Cruz

Glenn D'Cruz

Glenn D’Cruz teaches drama and cultural studies at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of Midnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians in Post/Colonial Literature (Peter Lang, 2006), the editor of Class Act: Melbourne Workers Theatre 1987-2007 (Vulgar Press, 2007) and Contemporary Publics: Shifting Boundaries in New Media, Technology and Culture (Palgrave, 2016) — with Katja Lee, David Marshall, and Sharyn Macdonald. His latest books, Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis (Routledge) and Teaching Postdramatic Theatre (Palgrave) will appear in 2018.

Uncanny Suburbia, Hauntology and Post-Traumatic Poetics: Conversations with Dirk de Bruyn’s Conversations With My Mother (1990).

Glenn D'Cruz

November 2017

Screening Melbourne

This reflective essay stages a conversation with Dirk de Bruyn’s autobiographical film, Conversations with my Mother’ (1990) in order to foreground the importance of Melbourne’s working class western suburbs in...