Dr Fiona Wilkie

 

Job Title: Senior Lecturer Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3818 Email Address: F.Wilkie@roehampton.ac.uk

Fiona Wilkie (BA English, University of Southampton; MA Performance Studies, Central School of Speech and Drama; PhD, University of Surrey) is a senior lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. Her teaching and research focus on issues of space and place in contemporary performance.

Fiona has published and presented on various aspects of British site-specific performance. Her current research project is concerned with relationships between performance, transport and mobility.

Teaching

Fiona convenes the BA DTPS programme's modules in Theatre and Landscape (HE3) and Community Drama and Theatre (HE2).

Other teaching includes Site-Specific Theatre Production and Approaches to Drama.

Recent and forthcoming publications

'"What's there to be scared of in a train?: travel and transport in Greig's Europe' in Clare Wallace & Anja Muller, eds, Transnational Identities in David Greig's Plays (forthcoming).

‘Moving Sites’, Contemporary Theatre Review, special issue on site-specific theatre, Anna Birch & Joanne Tompkins, eds (forthcoming).

'The Production of 'Site': Site-Specific theatre' in Nadine Holdsworth & Mary Luckhurst, eds (2007) Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama, Blackwell, pp. 87-106.

'"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards": performance, site and remembering', About Performance no. 7, 2007, pp. 25-43.

'Kinds of Place at Bore Place: Site-Specific Performance and the Rules of Spatial Behaviour'. New Theatre Quarterly. Vol. 18. No. 71. August 2002, pp 243-260.

'Mapping the Terrain: A Survey of Site-Specific Performance in Britain'. New Theatre Quarterly. Vol. 18. No. 70. May 2002, pp 140-160.

'Documenting Live and Mediated Performance: the Blast Theory Case Study' in Goodman, L. & Milton, K. (eds). A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation (Performing Arts Data Service Guides to Good Practice), Oxbow Books.

'The Tourist Encounter'. Total Theatre Magazine. Vol. 14. Issue 1. Spring 2002.

'Feminist Theatre'. Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2002 (update of Lizbeth Goodman's original article).

Recent and forthcoming conference/seminar presentations

‘‘Public’ transport, ‘private’ space’, Performance Studies International conference, Toronto, June 2010.

'In transit: performance, mobility and train travel', research seminar at University of Surrey, October 2009.

'Nothing is moving: train travel and performance', Living Landscapes conference, University of Aberystwyth, June 2009.

'En route: performance, transport and mobility', Sites of Performance conference, Nottingham University, April 2009.

Panel on London as a space of performance, London Theatre Seminar, January 2008.

'"Nothing is moving": performance, mobility and train travel', Centre for Theatre Research in Europe seminar, Roehampton University, October 2007.

'A Place of One's Own', Performance Studies International conference, London, June 2006.

'Whose work is it anyway? performance, authorship and the spaces of analysis', IFTR conference, Maryland, June/July 2005 (performance analysis working group).

'Out of place: negotiating site-specificity', public lecture at the Oerol Festival, Netherlands, June 2005.

'Hybrid Identities? space and spectatorship', Anywhere But the Stage symposium, Woking Dance Festival/University of Surrey, March 2005.

'Off Site: responsive and resistant spaces', Site/Sight - Source/Resource symposium, University of Exeter, September 2004.

'Shifting sites: in between places', University of Exeter Site/Sight series, October 2003.

'Hybrid Identities: The Spectator and the Space'. Research Seminar, University of Kent at Canterbury. March 2003.

'Beating Time: the Rhythms of Site-Specific Performance'. International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies, Finland. July 2002.

'Archaeologies of Memory: Mike Pearson's Bubbling Tom'. International Federation for Theatre Research. Amsterdam. July 2002. [Winner of the IFTR New Scholar's Prize 2002]

'Archaeologies of Memory: Mike Pearson's Bubbling Tom'. International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies, Finland. August 2001.

'Archaeologies of Memory: Mike Pearson's Bubbling Tom'. The Performance of Place, University of Birmingham. May 2001.

'Site-Specific Performance and the Rules of Spatial Behaviour - or how to move about (Bore) Place'. International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies, Finland. August 2000.

Research supervision

Fiona is currently involved in supervising PhD work on encountering built and artist-created spaces, on pedagogies of performance studies, and on the performance of self. Areas of potential research supervision include: performance mobility and dislocation; travel and performance; site-specific theatre and installation; the role of the spectator.

Examining Experience

External examiner for PhD candidate, Dartington College of Arts (Apr 09).

Internal examiner for two PhD candidates, Roehampton University (Sep 07 & Jul 08).

External examiner for MPhil/PhD upgrade at University of Winchester (Jul 07).

External examiner for practice-based MRes, University of Warwick (Jan 10)

Consultancies Undertaken

Moderator of the Foundation Degree in Small-Scale Theatre Practice, Guildford College (University of Surrey), 2007-2009.

Book manuscript reviewer for University Press of Florida (Site Dance, eds. Kloetzel & Pavlik).