果冻传媒

Associate Professor

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FAB5.13
Faculty of Arts Building, University Road
果冻传媒
Coventry CV4 7AL

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About

I'm Associate Professor of English and Theatre Studies, and teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. I joined the department in 2017.

Research interests

Victorian, modern, and contemporary theatre, along with book history, media studies, and the digital humanities. My book (UPenn, 2020; shortlisted for Theatre Book Prize) situates late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century theatre subscription within a wider phenomenon of civic subscription, or collective funding. I'm currently working on two related projects: a study of theatre and welfare-state messaging since 1939, and a cultural history of the Central Office of Information (1946-2011). With Nicholas Holden and Philippa Burt, I co-convene the Theatre and Performance Research Association's working group.

Teaching and supervision

I teach on the joint-honours degrees QW34 English and Theatre Studies and QW26 Film and Literature. I have supervised dissertations on modern and contemporary theatre and media, and welcome dissertation and thesis proposals in my fields of interest.

Selected publications

• "Consumer Economies," in The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre, ed. Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson, and Trish Reid (London: Routledge, 2024), 262-275.
• Subscription Theater: Democracy and Drama in Britain and Ireland, 1880-1939 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).
• 鈥淔rom Public Library Prankster to Playwright: Joe Orton and Postwar Britain鈥檚 Nanny State.鈥� Book History 20 (2017): 394-423.
• 鈥淟aboratory, Library, Database: London鈥檚 Avant-Garde Drama Societies and Ephemeral Repertoire.鈥� Modernism/modernity 24:3 (September 2017): 549-574.
• 鈥淪choolchildren, or Citizen Shareholders?: Provincial Repertory Audiences, Letters to the Editor, and Public Subscription.鈥� Theatre Survey 58:2 (May 2017): 186-208.

Qualifications

• BA (Columbia)
• PhD (Harvard)