Drama, Theatre and Performance Research
The Drama Research Group, based within Æß²ÊÖ±²¥’s Institute of Dance, Drama and Performance Studies, brings together researchers from across the Drama and Performing Art teams, with a strong emphasis on developing the next generation of researchers. Our research encompasses Scholarly, practice-based and impact-focused investigations across live art, contemporary performance and theatre, interdisciplinary performance, applied performance, and theatre history. These investigations are further fuelled by international collaboration and interaction, social engagement and industry connections.
The Drama Research Group at Æß²ÊÖ±²¥ invites applications to the Midlands 4 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Members of the group and their research interests are listed below.
Professor Siobhan Keenan – skeenan@dmu.ac.uk
Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, Deputy Director of the Institute of Dance, Drama and Performance Studies
Shakespeare and Early Modern drama, theatre history
Dr Alissa Clarke – a.clarke@dmu.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Drama
Feminist and gender theory and performance practice, contemporary performance practice, psychophysical performance and performer training, the performer’s body, documentation of performance, performance on screen, classical Hollywood cinema, women and the counterculture
Dr Louise Peacock – louise.peacock@dmu.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Drama
Clowning, commedia dell’arte, stand-up comedy, popular performance, radio comedy
Dr Lyndsey Bakewell – lyndsey.bakewell@dmu.ac.uk
Applied theatre and storytelling, theatre for social change, social justice and mental health, verbatim theatre, digital theatre, Restoration stage practice, comedy and humour in Early Modern theatre
Kate Chapman – kate.chapman@dmu.ac.uk
Contemporary theatre writing, contemporary radio drama, applied theatre, directing
Dr Mark Crossley – mcrossley@dmu.ac.uk
Associate Professor International (HPA)
Contemporary British performance, intermedial performance, site-specific performance, physical theatre, devised performance
Dr Harriet Curtis – harriet.curtis@dmu.ac.uk
Performance art, live art, and visual culture (US and UK post-1960), interdisciplinary art and performance practices, performance documentation and archives, feminist and activist performance practices, the body in performance
Dr Kelly Jordan – kjordan@dmu.ac.uk
Live Art, Performance Art, Immersive Theatre, Interactive and Participatory Practices and Contemporary Performance Practices
Dr Elinor Parsons – eparsons@dmu.ac.uk
Renaissance drama in performance; musical and danced adaptations of Shakespeare, contemporary text-based drama, screen adaptations of contemporary plays, space and place within performance
Dr Allan Taylor – allan.taylor@dmu.ac.uk
Media and performance, photography and performance, social media and performance, queer performativity, queerness in visual culture, drag, performativity and new media, mediatisation and liveness, media and performance practice-as-research
Find out how to apply.