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Professor Katya Johanson

Associate Dean (Creative Humanities)

Staff Member Details
Email: k.johanson@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7332-4645

Katya is Associate Dean, Creative Humanities, in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Background

Katya has held this position since January 2023. Previously, she was Professor of Audience Research at Deakin University (Victoria, Australia), where she worked for 20 years and held a range of leadership positions, including Associate Dean (International and Engagement) and Higher Degree by Research Coordinator.

A major focus of her career has been on improving opportunities that university students and researchers have to connect and engage with creative industries and communities through their study and research.

Research areas and interests:

  • Audiences for arts and creative industries
  • Cultural policy and the creative economy
  • Readers and the publishing industry
  • Young adults’ cultural consumption

Qualifications

  • Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, Deakin University, 2006.
  • Doctor of Philosophy - Arts, The University of Melbourne, 2001.
  • Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publiching, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1998.
  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Melbourne, 1994.

Research Outputs

2024

Book Chapters

  • Molan, D., Johanson, K., Potter, E. (2024). Repurposing Agricultural Infrastructure to Build Cultures of Democracy in Rural Communities: A Case Study from North-West Victoria. Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life (26–37). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003475996.

Journal Articles

  • Johanson, K., Reddan, B., Matheson, D., Rutherford, L. (2024). Capital, labour and currency: book love in the economy of young adult publishing. Continuum, 2024(Article in press), pp. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2396435.
  • Potter, E., Johanson, K., D'arcy, M. (2024). Activating rural infrastructures in regional communities: Cultural funding, silo art works and the challenge of local benefit. Journal of Rural Studies, 106(2024), article number 103239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103239.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Vincent, C., Johanson, K., Coate, B. (2023). Risky business: policy legacy and gender inequality in Australian opera production. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2023(Article in press), -. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2023.2239266.
  • Johanson, K., Glow, H., Taylor, M. (2023). Collecting And Classifying Data On Audience Identity: The Cultural Background Of Festival Audiences. Cultural Trends, 2023(Article in Press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2023.2212636.

2022

Book Chapters

  • Johanson, K., Glow, H. (2022). Ethics in audience research: By the book or on the hop?. Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts (374-390). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003033226-28.

Journal Articles

  • Rutherford, L., Johanson, K., Reddan, B. (2022). #Ownvoices, Disruptive Platforms, and Reader Reception in Young Adult Publishing. Publishing Research Quarterly, 38(3), 573-585. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-022-09901-5.
  • Johanson, K., Coate, B., Vincent, C., Glow, H. (2022). Is there a ‘Venice Effect’? Participation in the Venice Biennale and the implications for artists’ careers. Poetics, 92(2022), article number 101619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101619.
  • Johanson, K., Rutherford, L., Reddan, B. (2022). Beyond the “good story” and sales history: where is the reader in the publishing process?. Cultural Trends, 2022(Article in Press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2022.2045864.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Vincent, C., Glow, H., Johanson, K., Coate, B. (2021). Who Did You Meet at the Venice Biennale? Education-to-Work Transition Enhancers for Aspiring Arts Professionals in Australia. Work, Employment and Society, 2022(Article in Press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211004239.

2020

Book Chapters

  • Glow, H., Johanson, K. (2020). Gaming the data: The evaluation of arts activities and the tensions for public policy. The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions (183-194). Taylor & Francis.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Glow, H., Johanson, K. (2019). ‘The problem with permanence is that you’re stuck with it’: the public arts centre building in the twenty-first century. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25(3), 298-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1290610.
  • Johanson, K., Coles, A., Glow, H., Vincent, C. (2019). Controversy, uncertainty and the diverse public in cultural diplomacy: Australia–China relations. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 73(4), 397-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2019.1632259.
  • Johanson, K., Glow, H. (2019). Reinstating the artist’s voice: Artists’ perspectives on participatory projects. Journal of Sociology, 55(3), 411-425. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783318798922.

2017

Book Chapters

  • Johanson, K., Glow, H. (2017). Wrestling with Beauty: Putting the Aesthetic into Arts Evaluation. Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art (95 - 108). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474283861.0015.

Journal Articles

  • Rutherford, L., Waller, L., Merga, M., McRae, M., Bullen, E., Johanson, K. (2017). The Contours of Teenagers’ Reading in the Digital Era: Scoping the Research. The New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 23(1), 27-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2017.1280351.
  • Gilmore, A., Glow, H., Johanson, K. (2017). Accounting for quality: arts evaluation, public value and the case of “Culture counts”. Cultural Trends, 26(4), 282-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2017.1382761.
  • Vincent, C., Vincent, J., Vincs, K., Johanson, K. (2017). The intersection of live and digital: new technical classifications for digital scenography in opera. Theatre and Performance Design, 3(3), 155-171. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2017.1400764.

Research Projects

  • Advancing Digital Innovation in the Australian Live Performance Sector, Australian Research Council, Linkage Round 1 (LP24 R1), 2025 ‑ 2027.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Digital scenography in opera in the twenty-first century
  • The complete fool: Insights and trajectories from an ancient path
  • Looking and aesthetics: Beyond literary representations of voyeurism

Co-principal Supervisor

  • How Australian presenters program contemporary dance in performing arts centres

Associate Supervisor

  • Pragmatic Dramaturgy: The creative management of limits in performance making processes
  • Making sacred: Diasporic objects and places in contemporary arts practice
  • Homebirds: Reconceptualising music in young adult LGBTIQ fiction
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