Key areas of research:

• Performer training
• Clown and Bouffon
• Contemporary comedy practice

• The medicalised body in performance
• Anatomical dissection and bodily display as performance
• Medical humanities
• Politics of identity and performance
• Contemporary theatre practice and critical theory
• Live art Performance and interdisciplinary practice

Key areas of research:

• Immersive, interactive & participatory performance practices
• One-on-one performance
• Practice as research methodologies
• Performance documentation
• Performing heritage & legacy
• Gamification & play in performance

Key areas of research:

• Contemporary British/European theatre: new writing, devised work, delegated performance
• Theatre in its socio-political context of production/reception
• Theatre and political/ethical philosophy
• Theatre, gender and sexuality

Key areas of research:

• Contemporary British and European playwriting
• The Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe
• Theatre History and Historiography
• Shakespeare in performance

Key areas of research:

• Food and performance
• Multisensory and immersive performance
• Performance Philosophy
• Live Art
• Practice-as-Research and performance documentation

Key areas of research:

• Shakespeare on screen
• Representations of the theatre in film and in other media
• 19th century British Theatre

Key areas of research:

• Performance practice, especially acting/performer and directing methodologies
• Devising
• The Odin Teatret
• Performance and the environment (especially climate change)
• Practice as research

• Staging Shakespeare
• Intermediality and digital media in performance
• Contemporary European theatre
• Theory and practice of adaptation
• Theatre and public sphere theatre and globalization

Key areas of research:

• Beckett on stage in Ireland and the UK
• Literary tourism and the festival
• Haptics in literature and performance
• Theatre movements of the twentieth century
• Gender studies and performance

Currently, I convene one module and I’m a personal academic tutor.

Key areas of research:

• Victorian theatre
• Performance practice (contemporary and historical)
• Popular theatre and performance
• All areas of theatre and music
• Technologies and performance

I joined the department in September 2016, after teaching English Literature and Drama at the University of Heidelberg since 2007. From April 2015 to April 2016 I conducted research at the Drama department of the University of Royal Holloway, London. I studied at the University of Heidelberg as an undergraduate and as the equivalent of a Master’s student (joint honours English & German, ...

Key areas of research:

• Harold Pinter
• British alternative or fringe theatre
• Contemporary Shakespeare
• Arts Council
• Samuel Beckett

Key areas of research:

• Russian actor training, particularly Stanislavsky, Michael Chekhov, Meyerhold
• The history of Russian theatre of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• The plays of Anton Chekhov
• Actor-training and Alexander Technique