Professor Trish Reid
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Head of School of Arts and Communication Design
- Head of the School of Arts & Communication Design
- Professor of Theatre and Performance
Areas of interest
I am a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have a history of leading projects in Learning and Teaching. I’m particularly interested in inclusive and anti-racist pedagogies, and in supporting students who come to higher education via non-traditional routes.
My research focuses on the ways identity politics — gender, ethnicity, nationality and class — intersect with politics more generally on contemporary stages. I have published widely on contemporary British theatre and on aspects of the history and practice of theatre in Scotland, in particular. I am the author of theatre & scotland (Palgrave, 2013) and The Theatre of Anthony Neilson (Bloomsbury, 2017).
With Professor Liz Tomlin (Glasgow), I am co-editor of the new Cambridge University Press series, Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political. I am also co-editing the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century British Theatre (2023). Both projects aim to challenge dominant narratives of theatre history by including diverse and previously marginalised voices.
Postgraduate supervision
My research focuses on the many and varied ways, identity politics intersect on contemporary stages with politics more broadly. I therefore welcome enquires from PhD students who would like to work on any aspect of the grammar and practice of contemporary political performance, including performances of:
- Gender and sexuality
- National and regional identity
- Social class: exclusion and inclusion
- Ethnic and intersectional identities
I am currently supervising theses on Trans-Testimonial Performance and Barriers to Working-Class Inclusion in the Theatre Industry.
Teaching
FT1ATP - Analysing Theatre and Performance
FT2IPC - Identity, Performance and Culture
FT3DISS - Dissertation
Academic qualifications
- Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
- Certified Change Management Practitioner (Prosci)
Professional bodies/affiliations
- General editor (with Liz Tomlin) of Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political, Cambridge University Press
- Member of the Editorial Board of Theatre Research International
- Co-convenor, Political Performances Working Group, International Federation of Theatre Research
- Member of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
- Member of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA)