Refereed Articles

Gallagher, K., Allen, A. and Balt, C. (2024). Harnessing speculative fiction to reimagine and rewrite our relationships to the climate crisis and the future of our local environments. Research in Drama Education: the journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. Special Issue. 29 (2): 314-329. DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2024.2312193


Gallagher, K. and T. Gokyilmaz (2023). Trans/Queer Representation and Drama: engendering new forms of empathy and relationality. Research in Drama Education: the journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. 28 (3): 442-459. DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2023.2205014


Gallgher, K., Cardwell, N., and Tripathi, M. (2022) Losing and Finding Community in Drama: A Methodology-in-Motion for Pandemic Times. LEARNing Landscapes Journal. 15 (1): 159-173. Special Issue in Arts-based Performances, Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Pedagogy. DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1069


Gallagher, K., Balt, C., Cardwell, N., & Valve, L. (2022). Arts-led, youth-driven methodology and social impact: “making what we need” in times of crisis. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education,  (ahead-of-print), 1–16. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2022.2098404


Gallagher, K, N. Cardwell, D. Denichaud, and L. Valve (2022). The Ecology of Global, Collaborative Ethnography: Metho-pedagogical Moves in Research on Climate Change with Youth in Pandemic Times. Ethnography and Education. DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2022.2025879


Gallagher, K, L. Valve and D. Rodricks (2021). Census-Taking and Theatre-Making: Real and Imagined Perceptions and Experiences of School and Neighbourhood Safety for White and Racialized Youth. Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1080/10714413.2021.2009728


Gallagher, K, L. Valve and C. Balt (2021). Building new publics: Using agile, community-engaged, and applied theatre methodologies as social intervention in audience research. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2021.1876557


Gallagher, K., C. Balt and L. Valve (2021). Vulnerability, care and hope in audience research: theatre as a site of struggle for an intergenerational politics. Studies in Theatre and Performance, DOI: 10.1080/14682761.2020.1862998


Gallagher, K. and A. Kushnir (2020). The Aesthetics of Towards Youth: Making Relations in and through Theatre. Theatre Research in Canada, 41 (2): 204-220. DOI: 10.3138/tric.41.2.a01


Gallagher, K, C. Balt, N. Cardwell & B. Charlebois (2020) Response to COVID-19 – losing and finding one another in drama: personal geographies, digital spaces and new intimacies, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2020.1816817


Gallagher, K. & Sahni, U. (2019). Performing care: Re-imagining gender, personhood, and educational justice. Gender and Education. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2019.1609652


Rodricks, D.J., Gallagher, K., Fusco, C., De Lissio, A., Di Carlo, D., Haag, J., Wortley, S., & McCready, L. (2018). A Review of Urban Youth Policy 1960s-2010s. Research Paper Series, 243, 1-77.


Gallagher, K., Jacobson, K., & Mealey, S. (2018).  Accuracy and ethics, feelings and failures: Youth experimenting with documentary practices of performing reality. Theatre Research in Canada. 39(1): 58-76. DOI: 10.7202/1055468ar


Gallagher, K. (2018). A reconsideration of social innovation: Drama pedagogies and youth perspectives on creative and social relations in Canadian schooling. Canadian Journal of Education, 41(1), 1-23.


Gallagher, K., & Jacobson, K. (2017). Beyond mimesis to an assemblage of reals in the drama classroom: which reals? Which representational aesthetics? What theatre-building practices? Whose truths? RiDE: Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Online, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2017.1396209


Gallagher, K., & Rodricks, D. J. (2017). Hope despite hopelessness: Race, gender, and the pedagogies of drama/applied theatre as a relational ethic in neoliberal times. Youth Theatre Journal, 31(2), 114-128. DOI: 10.1080/08929092.2017.1370625


Gallagher, K. (2017). The gendered labor of social innovation: Theatre, pedagogy, and the girl-child in India. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/10714413.2017.1372974


Gallagher, K. Rhoades, R. Bie, S and Cardwell, N. (2017). Drama in education and applied theatre, from morality and socialization to play and post-colonialism. In G. Noblit (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.34


Gallagher, K. and Rodricks, D. (2017). Performing to Understand: Cultural Wealth, Precarity, and Shelter-dwelling Youth. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. Special Issue. DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2016.1263556


Gallagher, K., Starkman, R., & Rhoades, R. (2017). Performing counter-narratives and mining creative resilience: using applied theatre to theorize notions of youth resilience. Journal of Youth Studies, 20(2), 216-233. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2016.1206864


Gallagher, K. (2016). Can a classroom be a family? Race, space, and the labour of care in urban teaching. Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l’éducation, 39(2), 1-36.


Gallagher, K. (2016). The social habitus of drama: the Ontario drama curriculum in theory and practice. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21(1), 20-36. DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2015.1126172


Gallagher, K. (2015). Beckoning hope and care. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. 20 (3): 422-425. Special Issue: 20th Anniversary Issue: Looking Back and Looking Forward. DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2015.1059261


Gallagher, K. (2015). Theatres of affect. Edited by Erin Hurley. New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Vol. IV. Toronto, ON: Playwrights Canada Press, 2014. Theatre Research International, 40(2): 206-207.


Gallagher, K. (2014). All gender is a performance, all performance gendered. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 1-3. DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2014.895615


Gallagher, K. and Wessels, A. and Yaman Ntelioglou, B. (2013). “Listening to the Affective Life of Injustice”: Drama pedagogy, race, identity and learning. Youth Theatre Journal, 27: 7-19. DOI: 10.1080/08929092.2013.779349


Gallagher, K. and Wessels, A. (2013). Between the frames: Youth spectatorship and theatre as curated, ‘unruly’ pedagogical space. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 18(1): 25-43. DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2012.756167


Gallagher, K. and Wessels, A. and Yaman Ntelioglou, B. (2013). Becoming a networked public: Digital ethnography, youth, and global research collectives. Ethnography and Education. Special Issue: Investigating Ethnography, Netography, On-line sites and communities, 8(2): 177-193. DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2013.792507


Gallagher, K. and Wessels, A. and Yaman Ntelioglou, B. (2012). Verbatim Theatre and Social Research: Turning towards the stories of others. Theatre Research in Canada, 33(1): 24-43.


Gallagher, K. and Freeman, B. (2011). Multi-site ethnography, hypermedia, and the productive hazards of digital methods: a struggle for liveness. Ethnography and Education, 6(3): 357-373. DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2011.610586


Gallagher, K. (2011). Roma Refugee Youth and Applied Theatre: Imagining a future vernacular. NJ (National Journal of Drama Australia), 35: 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/14452294.2011.11649542


Gallagher, K. and Wessels, A. (2011). Emergent Pedagogy and Affect in Collaborative Research: A metho-pedagogical paradigm. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 19(2): 239-258. DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2011.582260


Gallagher, K. and Yaman Ntelioglou, B. (2011). Which new literacies?: Dialogue and performance in youth writing. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 54(5): 322-330.


Gallagher, K. (2011). In Search of a theoretical basis for storytelling in education research: Story as method. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 33(1): 49-61. DOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2011.552308


Gallagher, K. (2010). Off the Beaten Track: A reflection on intention and unpredictability in arts education research. Encounters on Education, 11: 35-43.


Gallagher, K. and Service, I. (2010). Applied theatre at the heart of educational reform: An impact and sustainability analysis. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 15(2): 235-253. DOI: 10.1080/13569781003700144


Gallagher, K. and Freeman, B. and Wessels, A. (2009). “It could have been so much better”: The aesthetic and social work of theatre. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 15(1): 5-27. (Routledge Class of 2011. Most downloaded article in category Literacy, Languages and Performing Arts). DOI: 10.1080/13569780903480971


Gallagher, K. (2008). Theatre Pedagogy and Performed Research: Respectful forgeries and faithful betrayals. Theatre Research in Canada, 28(2): 105-119.


Gallagher, K. and Riviere, D. (2007). When Drama Praxis Rocks the Boat: Struggles of subjectivity, audience and performance. Research in Drama Education, 12(3): 319-330. DOI: 10.1080/13569780701560412


Gallagher, K. and Kim, I. (2007). Contesting Space and Power through Digital Drama Research: Colonial histories, postcolonial interrogations. Caribbean Quarterly, 53(1&2): 115-126.


Gallagher, K and Fusco, C. (2006). I.D.ology and the Technologies of Public (School) Space: An ethnographic inquiry into the neo-liberal tactics of social (re)production. Ethnography and Education, 1(3): 301-318. DOI: 10.1080/17457820600836939


Gallagher, K. (2006). Sexual Fundamentalism and Performances of Masculinity:  An ethnographic scene study. International Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education, 4(1): 47-76.


Gallagher, K. (2005). The Aesthetics of Representation: Dramatic texts and dramatic engagement. Journal of Aesthetic Education, 39(4), 83-95.


Gallagher, K. and Lortie, P. (2005). “How does knowin’ my business make you any safer?”: Critical pedagogy in dangerous times. The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 27(2): 141-158. DOI: 10.1080/10714410590963848


Gallagher, K. (2004). The Art and Politics of Qualitative Research in Drama Education: Creating culture, representing ‘reality’. Drama Research, 4(1): 3-18.


Gallagher, K. and Riviere, D. (2004). Pink…with Shades of Grey: Mediating moments of diversity in urban secondary classrooms. Westminster Studies in Education (now called International Journal of Research Method in Education) Special Issue: Interactive and Inclusive Pedagogy, 27 (2): 127-141. DOI: 10.1080/0140672040270204


Gallagher, K. (2003). Theories of the Stage, Social Projects, and Drama’s Pedagogies. International Drama in Education/Applied Theatre Researcher Journal, 4.


Gallagher, K. (2002). Dramatic Arenas for Ethical Stories. Resources in Feminist Research (RFR), 29(3&4): 167-176.


Gallagher, K. (2001). The Staging of Qualitative Research: Authorship, ownership and artistic expression in social science inquiry. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (JCT), 17(3): 145-156.


Gallagher, K. (2001). Being in the World with Drama: Interrogated identification. Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies University of Toronto, 6: 1-22.


Gallagher, K. and Blaney, J. (2001). Action Research in the Intermediate Classroom: Learning history through drama. Drama Research, 2: 49-69.


Gallagher, K. (2001). Tabula Rasa: Starting afresh with classroom drama. Applied Theatre Researcher, 2.


Gallagher, K. (2000). The Everyday Classroom as Problematic: A feminist pedagogy. Curriculum Inquiry, 30(1): 71-81. DOI: 10.1111/0362-6784.00154


Gallagher, K. (2000). Interrupting “Truths,” Engaging Perspectives, and Enlarging the Concept of “Human” in Classroom Drama. Youth Theatre Journal. (University of Arizona), 14(1): 13-25. DOI: 10.1080/08929092.2000.10012514


Gallagher, K. (1999). The Influence of Drama Education on the Action of Curriculum. Curriculum and Teaching: International Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 14(1): 21-29.


Gallagher, K. (1997). Essentially Different: Creative drama and the politics of experience in girls’ education. National Journal of Drama in Education (NJ), 21(2): 17-31.Bal