Current and Completed Projects
Current Projects
| Name | Project Title | Funding | Supervisor(s) |
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| Adebayo, Mojisola | Afri-Queer Theatre: Challenging Homophobia, Re/presenting Black Lesbians and Creating Performance Spaces for Black Queer Togetherness | QMUL | Silverstone, Catherine |
| Bartley, Sarah | Art Works: Participatory Practice and (Anti)Work Politics | Queen Mary Principal’s Strategic Studentship supporting the Contemporary Theatre Review journal | Harvie, Jen and McAvinchy, Caoimhe |
| Bond, Imogen | What is the function of the theatre curtain call for British audiences, and how does it relate to changing ideas of theatre patronage? | Monks, Aoife | |
| Borsuk, Amy | Wanting to be Radical: Contemporary ‘Radical’ Shakespeare Theatre Practice | Bridget Escolme | |
| Gomme, Rachel | 'Being Here Now': Presence, Present, Presentness in a Live Art Practice | AHRC | Welton, Martin |
| Hubbard, Wendy | Reading Collaboration: Labour, Community and the Politics of Authorship in Contemporary Theatre | AHRC | |
| Simari, Alessanro | Shakespeare's Globes: A History of Shakespearean Theatres from Globe to Globe | QMUL | |
| McCarthy, Lynne | The Performance of Waste: Dismantling Spaces of Neoliberalism in Site Specific Art Practices | AHRC | |
| Smith, Kirstin | Attention-Seeking Activities: Stunt Performances in Public Life | AHRC | |
| Twite, Christine | Cultures of Spectatorship: The Relationship between Dramaturgy, Site, Outreach and Audience in the work of Actors' Touring Company | AHRC | |
| Walters, Ben | Duckie in the Community: Performance, Audience and Social Engagement | AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with Duckie | and Simon Casson and Dicky Eaton from Duckie |
| Wiskowski, Andrew | Moods, Modes, and Modality: Presence and its Derivatives in Choral and Collective Performance | ||
| Barnes, Sarah | The Edge of Music: Exploring the boundaries of sound, space and the body in twenty-first century classical music performance | ||
| Gush, Helen | The World Theatre Season: Internationalisation and British performance culture | AHRC CDA | McAvinchey, Caoimhe and Dorney, Kate (V & A) |
| Hunka, Emily | Poor Players: the role of theatre troupe artistry in treating adolescent mental distress | and Warfa, Nasir | |
| Young, Martin | The Discipline in the British Theatre Industry 1550-2015 | QMUL | |
| Young, Charlotte | Interpreting Performance Practices: Signification and Political Efficacy in Performance Scholarship | QMUL | Michael McKinnie and Shane Boyle |
| Hamadah, Faisal | Between the Social and the Political: The History of Kuwaiti Theatre | ||
| Vranou, Sofia | Glamorous Freakiness: Subculture, Sadomasochism and Trans-Queer Embodiment in the Live Art of Leigh Bowery (1983-1994) | Dominic Johnson | |
| Gardini, Genna | MS Independent: Writing Womanhood and Multiple Sclerosis | Aoife Monks | |
| Harper, Sarah | Inclusion, exclusion and self-censorship : the politics and aesthetics of identity and belonging in applied performance projects in suburbs of Paris and London | Caoimhe McAvinchey | |
| Kijaniza, Tatjana | WT: Empty Actions – Unoccupied Centers. Eastern European Underground Performance Art in the Late Socialist Period | Dominic Johnson and Shane Boyle | |
| Macauley, Vanessa | Public Property: Spectacle, (in)Visibility and the Black Female Body |
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| Weller, Jeremy | Doubting Thomas: Redemption, Rehabilitation and Self-Documentation in a Contemporary Performance Trilogy |
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Completed Projects
| Name | Project Title | Year of Award | Funding | Supervisor(s) |
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| Anderson, Joel | Theatre and Performance Photography: Documentation and the "Unlive" | 2008 | AHRC | Delgado, Maria |
| Curtis, Harriet | Performing Cultural Identities in California: High Performance and the Performance of Paul McCarthy | 2014 | QMUL | Johnson, Dominic |
| Hancox, Simone | Global Art in an Age of Global Performance: Complicity and Critique | 2013 | AHRC | Escolme, Bridget |
| Bauer, Una | Post 1990s Dance Theatre and (the Idea of) the Neutral | 2011 | London | Delgado, Maria |
| Twitchin, Mischa | The Theatre of Death: The Uncanny in Mimesis | 2013 | Ridout, Nicholas | |
| Breden, Simon | Beyond the Playwright: The Creative Process of Els Joglars & Teatro de la Abadia | 2009 | Delgado, Maria | |
| Brodie, Geraldine | Plays in Translation on the London Stage: Visibility, Celebrity, Agency and Collaboration | 2012 | Delgado, Maria and Hermans, Theo | |
| Linsley, Johanna | I Know Something You Don’t Know: Contemporary Performance and the Politics of Expertise | 2013 | QMUL and ORSAS | |
| Castelyn, Sarahleigh | South African Dance Theatre: The Body as a Site of Struggle | 2009 | AHRC | |
| Ceraolo, Francesco | The Aesthetics of the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk from Appia to Postdramatic Theatre | 2012 | ||
| Easton, Léonore | Livegraphy Performance Art, Language and the Multiplicity of Sense | 2010 | AHRC | |
| Eaton, Kate | False Alarms and Fake Excursions: Translating Virgilio Piñero for Performance | 2011 | AHRC | Delgado, Maria |
| Grochala, Sarah | Seriousness, Structure and the Dramaturgy of Social Life | 2012 | QMUL | McKinnie, Michael |
| Harradine, David | Chronographies: Performance, Death and the Writing of Time | 2005 | Heritage, Paul | |
| Home-Cook, George | Stretching Ourselves: The Phenomenology of Sound and Listening in Contemporary Theatre | 2013 | QMUL | Welton, Martin |
| Kartsaki, Eirini | Repeat Repeat: Returns of Performance | 2010 | ||
| Walsh, Helena | Live Art and Femininity in Post-Conflict Ireland: Between Negation and Reproduction, Rebellion and Conformity | 2014 | AHRC | and McAvinchey, Caoimhe |
| Laera, Margherita | Appropriating Greek Tragedy: Community, Democracy and other Mythologies | 2010 | AHRC | Delgado, Maria |
| Lobel, Brian | Playing the Cancer Card: Illness, Performance and Spectatorship | 2012 | QMUL and Wellcome Trust | Silverstone, Catherine and Weaver, Lois |
| Marini, Charikleia | Re-defining Urban Space Through Performance | 2013 | ||
| McNamara, Catherine | The Constitution of Transgender Masculinities through Performance: A Study of Theatre and the Everyday | 2009 | ||
| Mitas, Jen | Work, Emotion and the American Method | 2009 | QMUL | and |
| Owen, Louise | Performing "Risk": Neoliberalization and Contemporary Performance | 2010 | AHRC | and |
| Wozniak, Jan | Emancipating Shakespeare?: Jacques Ranciere and the Politics of Performing Shakespeare for Young People | 2014 | QMUL | Escolme, Bridget |
| Quirós Alpera, Gabriel | Historia de la Dirección Escénica en España: José Luis Alonso | 2010 | Delgado, Maria and Huerta Calvo, Javier | |
| Reynolds, James | Evaluating Performance/Re-evaluating Process: An Investigation into and Reassessment of Robert Lepage's Devised Theatre Practice | 2010 | ||
| Schmidt, Theron | The Politics of Theatricality: Community and Representation in Contemporary Art and Performance | 2011 | AHRC | |
| Watt-Smith, Tiffany | Flinching: Self-Experimentation and Theatricality, 1872 - 1918 | 2011 | AHRC | |
| Manninen, Saini | Duration Materialised: Investigating Contemporary Performance as a Temporal Medium | 2014 | AHRC | and |
| Whitfield, Sarah | Kurt Weill: The "Composer as Dramatist" in American Musical Theatre Production | 2010 | ||
| Willson, Suzy | Performing Medicine | 2011 | ||
| Woods, Penelope | Globe Audiences: Spectatorship and Reconstruction at Shakespeare's Globe | 2011 | AHRC | |
| Sosa, Cecilia | Performance, Kinship and Archives: Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's 1976-1983 Dictatorship | 2012 | ORSAS and QMUL | Delgado, Maria and |
| Possible Fictions: The Testimony of Applied Performance with Women in Prisons in England and Brazil | 2006 | AHRC | and Delgado, Maria | |
| Macdonald, Megan | Performance Art, Liturgy and the Performance of Belief | 2012 | AHRC | and |
| Edkins, Timothy | Feeling Productive | 2013 | AHRC | |
| Zechner, Manuela | The World we Desire is one we can Create and Care for Together | 2014 | QMUL | , and Bove, Arianna (School of Business and Management) |
| Smith, Anne | The Possibilities and Limitations of using Drama to Facilitate a Sense of Belonging for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in East London | 2013 | ||
| Allwood, Charlie | The Gran Teatre del Liceu and Catalan Culture: History, Representation and Myth | 2013 | AHRC | Delgado, Maria |
| Leighton-Kelly, Sophie | The Barbican: Performance, the City and Transnationalism | 2014 | AHRC | |
| Livergant, Elyssa | Workshop: The Dramaturgy of Theatrical Labour | 2014 | University of London | |
| Wilson, Anna | Argentine Theatre in Twenty-first Century Barcelona: Cultural Exchange and (Trans)national Identities | 2014 | AHRC | Delgado, Maria |
| Baker, Sylvan | Training UK Cultural Warriors: Youth Leadership Through the Arts | 2015 | AHRC | |
| Bell, Charlotte | Social Housing Performed: Community arts interventions in East London | 2015 | QMUL | |
| Diestro-Dópido, Mar | Film Festivals: Cinema and Cultural Exchange | 2015 | AHRC | Delgado, Maria |
| Graziano, Valeria | Formats of Conviviality: The Organisation of Collective Agency in a Time of Impasse | 2015 | QMUL | |
| Hilevaara, Katja | Memory and Contemporary Performance: Remembering is the New Live | 2015 | QMUL | |
| Oliver, Daniel | The Social Turn: Engagement and Efficacy in Contemporary Performance | 2016 | QMUL | |
| Fallow, Catriona | Past and Present Plays: New Work at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe | 2016 | QMUL | Catherine Silverstone |
| Thomasson, Sarah | Festival Cities: Edinburgh and Adelaide | 2015 | QMUL | |
| Holstein, Lauren | The Agency of the Displayed Female Body: The Political Potential of Negative Affects in Contemporary Feminism and Performance | 2016 | QMUL | Dominic Johnson |
| Mullan, Sarah | Lesbian Performance in London 1995-2015: Identity, Representation and Queer Epistemologies | 2017 | Catherine Silverstone | |
| Roberts, Eleanor | Third Area: A Feminist Reading of Performance at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1970s | 2016 | Dominic Johnson | |
| Mader McGuinness, Caoimhe | Challenging Liberal Conceptions of the Theatrical Sphere in London, 2009-2015 | 2017 | Catherine Silverstone and Nicholas Ridout | |
| Massie, Eleanor | Amateurs and Professionals: A Circum-Atlantic Genealogy of Performer Identity | 2017 | Nicholas Ridout | |
| Bennett, Emma | Just Joking: Speech, Performance and Ethics | 2017 | ||
| Birksted-Breen, Noah | Alternative Voices in an Acquiescent Society: The New Wave of Russian Playwrights | 2017 | AHRC CDA | Delgado, Maria, and Andreas Schönle |
| Church, Lewis | Hating Discipline: The Polymath and the Academy | 2017 | QMUL | |
| Jones, Bret | A Question of Taste: Theatrical and Cultural Continuity in Seventeenth Century England | AHRC | ||
| Nicholson-Sanz, Michelle | On Ports and Stages: Destabilising Cultural Identities through a Lingua Franca Theatre in Latin America | QMUL | Delgado, Maria | |
| Oxley, Rachel | Taking Turns: The Structuring of ‘Togetherness’ | QMUL | ||
| Watkinson, Philip | Making Space for Affect: Affective Materialism and Contemporary Performance | AHRC |