Rate My Professor Catherine Campbell

Catherine Campbell (she/they) is a Lecturer in the Elder Conservatorium of Music and School of Performing Arts within the College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. A teaching academic who previously taught at the University of South Australia since 2002, Campbell holds a BA with First Class Honours from Flinders University, has completed half of a PhD in English Literature supported by an ARC scholarship, an Acting Diploma from AC Arts (formerly CPA), and a Graduate Diploma of Arts Management from UniSA City West. She studied at Yale University in the USA as the recipient of a scholarship. Previously, she taught and developed courses in Arts Management at the Flinders Street School of Music for the BA Music program.

Campbell coordinates courses such as PERF 3004 Live Performance Production, PERF 2001 Cabaret: Context and Practice, MUSI 1037 Music Performance, CREA 2006 Creativity and the Adelaide Festival, and HOSP 3001 Introduction to Festivals. She has also coordinated PERF 3007 World Music Theatre, PERF 1011 Stage Performance, COMM 2103 Freelance and Enterprise for the Creative Industries, ARCH 2027 Match Studio Projects, and PERF 1001 Effective Communication. Her teaching strengths include singing, voice production and acting, live performance skills, enhancing communication confidence, fostering effective group work, and creative approaches. She has chaired the UniSA National Reconciliation Week Magill Campus Working Group from 2022 to 2025 and promotes an inclusive, investigative learning culture. As a singer, actor, director, and educator, she has been a member of the State Opera of South Australia Chorus since 1997, performed roles including 'Mrs Mullin' in Carousel, appeared in various State Opera SA productions, and presented solo shows at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Her contributions include the conference paper 'Group Work Dramas? Using drama teaching techniques to facilitate inclusion, success and safety in group work settings outside the performing arts' at the UniSA Teaching and Learning Symposium 2025, and internet publications such as reviews of Australian theatre works including 'New play Housework is a future Australian classic - a Don's Party for our time' (2025), 'A new stage adaptation of Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs is a delightful homage to theatrical storytelling' (2024), and 'Play School meets Ikea: new Australian play Welcome to Your New Life hilariously captures new motherhood' (2023) for The Conversation.