Sharing

I have collaborated in the organisation of various research events, presented my own work in different formats, and contribute to nurturing the research of others in the field. A selection of activities related to research dissemination is listed below. Most papers delivered have been adapted and subsequently published. Others are en route to publication.

Current activities

I am a member of the Editorial Board for the new book series Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations, published by Liverpool University Press.

I am also a member of the advisory board for the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English.

Citizenship

Reviews Editor of the journal Performing Ethos (2018-2022).

Co-convenor of the Political Performances Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (2018-2022). In this time, I co-curated and co-convened the Working Group meeting programme at the following annual IFTR conferences: Shifting Centres: In the Middle of Nowhere (Reykjavík, 2022), Theatre Ecologies: Environments, Sustainability, and Politics (Galway, 2020-21), Theatre, Performance, and Urbanism (Shanghai, 2019) and Theatre and Migration: Theatre, Nation and Identity – Between Migration and Stasis (Belgrade, 2018).

Conference co-organisation & facilitation

Convenor of the Glasgow Theatre Seminar research series at the University Glasgow (2018-2021).

Co-facilitator of two participatory workshops on theatre and democracy. Radical Mischief: A Conference Inviting Experiment in Theatre, Thought and Politics. The Other Place, RSC. Stratford-Upon-Avon, July 2018.

Co-organiser of the annual Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD). University of Birmingham. June 2018.

Co-organiser of the 24th annual conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE). Theatre and Spectatorship. University of Barcelona. June 2015.

Keynotes and invited research seminars

Keynote presentation. ‘“Birth Me in Reverse”: Returning to Character Otherwise’. Resisting Theatre: Plays, Politics and the Academy conference. Centre for Contemporary British Theatre (Royal Holloway University of London) and University of York. June 2021.

Invited speaker. Different Stages public event and research showcase, part of ‘Different Stages: Exploring public engagement for Drama and Theatre early career academics’, a British Academy-funded project run by Dr Naomi Paxton. Glasgow Women’s Library, January 2020.

Invited research seminars. ‘Labours Lost: Delegated Performance and the Work of Erasure’. University of Lincoln, December 2017; University of Reading, November 2017.

Keynote presentation. ‘The Work of Others: Delegated Performance, the Workers and Their Double’. Theatre, Performance & Employment symposium. Queen Mary University of London. February 2017.

Invited delegate. Inside/Outside Europe: Identities and Ruptures. Study day. University of Winchester. Nov 2013.

Conference presentations

With Andy Smith. ‘Politics and Poetics: Dealing with Representation in Contemporary Theatre’. What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English conference. Conservative Politics/Radical Poetics. University of Lincoln. June 2016.

‘Spectacular Ambivalence: Tim Crouch’s The Author in its Theatrical and Political Context’. International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) conference. Presenting the Theatrical Past: Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices. University of Stockholm. June 2016.

‘“For Something Worthwhile to Happen It’s Simply Not Enough to Wish the Situation Otherwise”: Pessimism, Meta-Theatricality and Spectatorship in Tim Crouch and Andy Smith’s what happens to the hope at the end of the evening and Chris Thorpe’s There Has Possibly Been an Incident’. What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English conference. University of Lincoln. July 2014.

‘Conceptual Art, Theatre, and “the Return of the Repressed”: Rethinking Tim Crouch’s Dramaturgy and Its Politics’. IFTR conference. Re-Routing Performance / Re-Caminant l’Escena. Institut del Teatre, Barcelona. July 2013.

‘Making Time, Undoing Habitus: Equality and Emancipation in Quarantine’s Entitled’. 22nd annual conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE). Theatre and Politics: Theatre as Cultural Intervention. Prague. May–June 2013.

‘“Look at Us. All This Is Art”: Capitalism, Aesthetics and the Invisible Politics of Consent in Tim Crouch’s ENGLAND’. The Viewing of Politics and the Politics of Viewing: Theatre Challenges in the Age of Globalised Communities. Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. April 2013.

Conversations

With Richard Gregory and Renny O’Shea (Quarantine), 24th annual conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE). Theatre and Spectatorship. University of Barcelona. June 2015.