Dr Caoimhe Mader McGuinness
Contact
- Email: c.madermcguinness@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Arts
- Department: Department of Performing Arts
About
I am a senior lecturer in drama at Kingston and also teach on the English Literature MA at Kingston. My research and publications look at the politics of spectatorship, criticism and institutional of contemporary culture, theatre and live art through a Marxist, feminist, queer and post-colonial lens. I broadly focus on the specific histories of Western imperialism and its liberal afterlives as these apply to cultural production and reception in contemporary Britain and France. Further interests are protest, social reproduction in feminist performance, the 1951 Festival of Britain and Marxist approaches to theatre and performance. I am currently writing a book comparing the 1951 Festival of Britain and 2022's Unboxed Festival and how these speak to similarities and differences in conceptions of the British state, empire and identity.
Course Leader Drama
London Theatre Seminar organising committee
Senior Book Review Editor/Europe and Africa Book Review Editor for Theatre Research International. More info here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-research-international/information/book-review-information
Academic responsibilities
Senior Lecturer in Drama
Qualifications
- PhD in Drama, Queen Mary University of London 2017
- MA in Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary University of London 2010
- BA in Drama and Theatre Arts, Goldsmiths College University of London 2009
- Baccalauréat , Lycée Expérimental de St Nazaire 2000
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
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