Dr Caoimhe Mader McGuinness

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Caoimhe Mader McGuinness
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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 institutions 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)

Teaching and learning

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

One strand of my research considers performances which present either ambivalent or resistant relationships to sociality in theatre and more broadly. Through this I attend to the basis on which claims for theatre's sociality are framed within a British liberal democratic framework and how this relates to gender, sexuality, disability, race, and imperialism. 

Further to this I also work on framing contemporary British feminist performance through social reproduction and conceptions of debility, with a specific focus on activist practices, read through a performative lens. 

Research student supervision

Main supervision

Other supervision

Publications

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Number of items: 12.

Article

(2022) Performance Research, 27(3-4), pp. 98-104. ISSN (print) 1352-8165

[Reviewer] (2021) Theatre Research International, 46(3), pp. 407-410. ISSN (print) 0307-8833

Blackwell-Pal, Jaswinder, Boyle, Michael Shane, Dilks, Ash, , Mckeon, Olive, Moravec, Lisa, Simari, Alessandro, Unger, Clio and Young, Martin (2021) Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 36(1), pp. 25-53. ISSN (print) 0888-3203

(2019) Nordic Theatre Studies, 31(2), pp. 132-134. ISSN (print) 0904-6380

(2018) Performance Matters, 4(3), pp. 158-159. ISSN (online) 2369-2537

(2018) Contemporary Theatre Review, 28(3), pp. 367-377. ISSN (print) 1048-6801

[Reviewer] (2017) Contemporary Theatre Review, 27(4), pp. 529-530. ISSN (print) 1048-6801

(2016) Contemporary Theatre Review, 26(2), pp. 211-226. ISSN (print) 1048-6801

[Reviewer] (2014) Theatre Survey, 55(3), pp. 420-422. ISSN (print) 0040-5574

(2012) Contemporary Theatre Review, 22(2), pp. 274-275. ISSN (print) 1048-6801

Book Section

(2021) In: Fryer, Nic and Conroy, Colette, (eds.) Ranci猫re and performance. London, U.K. : Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 217-235. (Performance Philosophy) ISBN 9781538146576

Conference or Workshop Item

Altman, Dennis [Interviewee] and [Interviewer] (2016) In: In Conversation; 24 May 2016, London, U.K..

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