19 March 2025 - 19 March 2025
3:00PM - 5:30PM
Durham’s Teaching and Learning Centre TLC 116 and/or ONLINE via Teams
FREE - Please register via the link at the top right of this page
A Research Showcase – on Theatre and Performance in the Long Nineteenth Century, followed by the Book Launch for Stock Pieces: British Repertory Theatre, 1760–1830, with Bennett Zon (Professor of Music and Director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Durham) in conversation with Susan Valladares
Join Us for this wonderful event starting at 3pm, either in person or on-line via Teams. You are welcome to attend the whole event or either part.
Dr Patricia Smyth: University of Exeter
Patricia Smyth is a postdoctoral research fellow on the WomenTheatreNet project, which seeks to put women’s work at the centre of nineteenth-century western theatre history. She has published in art history and theatre history journals and edited collections, and has research interests in nineteenth-century art, theatre, transmediality, popular spectatorship, and affective response. Patricia was the Association for Art History/ Ampersand Foundation Art Historian in Residence for 2022–3.
Dr Kate Newey, Professor of Theatre History, University of Exeter
Kate Newey is Professor of Theatre History at the University of Exeter. Her work focuses on women’s writing and nineteenth century British popular theatre. Her books include Politics, Performance and Popular Culture (2016), Women’s Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain (2005), and John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre co-authored with cultural historian, Jeffrey Richards of Lancaster University (2010).
Professor Catherine Hindson, University of Bristol
Catherine Hindson is Professor of Theatre History at the University of Bristol and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her research focuses on how theatre can help us to understand the past, and has included writings on theatre and celebrity, heritage, ghosts, and well-being.
Dr Caroline Radcliffe, Reader in Drama and Performance, University of Birmingham:
Caroline Radcliffe is a Reader in Drama and Performance in the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Caroline’s research focuses on theatre and performance in the nineteenth century. She has edited first editions of Wilkie Collins’s The Lighthouse and The Red Vial. Her two-volume monograph on Wilkie Collins and the Drama is contracted to Routledge.
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