Description:
Eight lectures turn the medium of theatre inside out to explore how the tools of theatre and performance studies can be redirected to reflect upon and build transformative life practices.
Brief description: Kathleen M. Gough is Associate Professor of English and an affiliated faculty member in the Theatre and Dance program at the University of Vermont, US. She was previously Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at UVM (2014-22), US and a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow (2006-2014), UK. Gough is the author of Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic (2013) and the recipient of the 2014 Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). She also received the 2017 Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize from ASTR and the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Texas-Austin for "The Art of the Loop: Analogy, Aurality, History, Performance" (TDR 2016).