Research Staff

Jim Davis	Professor of Theatre and Performance	Nineteenth-century British theatre; nineteenth-century London theatre audiences; nineteenth-century Australian theatre; theatre iconography; history and theory of acting; melodrama and pantomime; comic performance; Dickens and theatre.
Nicolas Drofiak	Leverhulme Early Career Fellow	Indigenous identities, languages, memories and material culture in post-Soviet North Asia (Siberia); translation studies; cultural landscapes; linguistic anthropology (language loss, creole languages, language ideologies, exophony, ethnopoetics, ethnolinguistics); practice-based research and fieldwork; sound studies; ecopoetics; environmental racism; human-fish relations.
Milija Gluhovic	Associate Professor (Reader) of Theatre and Performance	Contemporary European theatre and performance; memory studies and psychoanalysis; discourses of European identity, migrations and human rights; religion, secularity, and politics; contemporary North American and North African theatre and performance and international performance research and pedagogy.
Susan Haedicke	Associate Professor (Reader) of Theatre and Performance	Performance and agriculture; street arts and other performance in public spaces; dramaturgy; applied theatre (community-based theatre); contemporary experimental performance; collaborative performance and democracy.
Stuart Hampton-Reeves	Professor of Theatre and Performance	Creative practitioners (actors, artists, directors, musicians) who engage creatively with Shakespeare; 20th century Shakespeare performance with an emphasis on history plays and articulations of national culture; undergraduate research as a pedagogic practice and an international movement.
Anna Harpin	Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance	Cultural histories of madness and trauma; post-war British and American theatre and film; graphic medicine; live art practices; critical medical humanities; critical psychiatry; pain and illness narratives; class politics; fat studies.
Nadine Holdsworth	Professor of Theatre and Performance	Post-war British theatre; politics and theatre; theatre and marginalized communities; arts and homelessness; popular theatre practitioners; theatre and national identities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; amateur theatre.
Yvette Hutchison	Associate Professor (Reader) of Theatre and Performance	African theatre and performance, and its relationship to history, myth, and memory; African womanisms/ feminisms; memory and transitional justice; Post-colonial theatre; contemporary South African Theatre; Intercultural Theatre and contemporary identity construction in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Silvija Jestrovic	Professor of Theatre and Performance	Exilic theatre and performance; citizenship, gender and labour migration; contemporary urban and political performances; Cultures of the Left; Avant-garde theatre and performance; performance, theatre, and culture of the Balkans; performance analysis; writing for performance
Andy Lavender	Professor of Theatre and Performance	Contemporary theatre and performance; digital culture; intermediality and multimodality; new forms of spectator engagement and relations between dramaturgy, production, space and location.
Julia Peetz	Leverhulme Early Career Fellow	Performance and democracy; political and theatrical representation; populism; performativity and theatricality; political speech; interdisciplinary research practice.
Bobby Smith	Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance	Applied and socially engaged performance; theatre for development; transnational partnerships; theatre and conflict.
Pat Smyth	Senior Research Fellow	Theatrical spectacle; nineteenth-century visual culture, including panoramas, dioramas and other optical entertainments; the representation of landscape and urban environments on stage; spectatorship; the expression of emotion through attitude and gesture.
Nicolas Whybrow	Professor of Urban Performance Studies	Site-specific practices; urban studies; visual and live art; performance and cities.