Loughborough University

Faculty Member, English & Drama

Senior Lecturer in English and Drama

About

My research interests include philosophical and literary influences on theatre and performance in the Twentieth century, particularly the work of Tadeusz Kantor. My other research work is focused on the literary/theatrical fantastic, literary/performance ethics, fragmentary writing, death in performance and culture, and the nature of the puppet, or abject object, in performance.

I am co-investigator on an AHRC Network project, ‘Foundations for Object Theatre’, with Sean Myatt at NTU. Two meetings of international object theatre practitioners and researchers are scheduled for December 2011 and March 2012. I am also involved in a joint research project, Theatres of Memory, with artists and institutes in Wroclaw, Krakow and Warsaw.

Current publication projects include a book, The Consciousness of Objects, with Rodopi Press; and two edited collections, Final Stages: Death, Performance and Culture (with Robert John Brocklehurst), and Marginal Things: Puppet Phenomena from Print to Performance (with Dr Nick Freeman).

My previously published work includes Fragmentary Futures: Blanchot, Beckett, Coetzee; three co-edited books, A Performance Cosmology, Theatres of Thought and Ethical Encounters; two co-edited issues of Performance Research: On Objects and Memento Mori; book chapters on Death and Language, Gilles Deleuze, Tadeusz Kantor and Bruno Schulz, Samuel Beckett, Edmond Jabès, Jacques Derrida, Puppets, Glossolalia, and Levinas and Theatre; journal articles have been published in Polish Theatre Perspectives, Performance Research, RIDE, Journal for Cultural Research and Wormwood. I am associate editor of Performing Ethos Journal.

My creative research includes writing plays, poetry and fiction. My fiction has appeared in Sein und Werden and with Megazanthus Press, Side Real Press and Ex Occidente Press, including a collection of short stories, An Emporium of Automata, in June 2010. The second edition of my previous collection, Pieces for Puppets and Other Cadavers, was published in August 2010. Further information about my fiction is available at The Interlude House http://www.theinterludehouse.webs.com/

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