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Head of Drama, Theatre and Performance

Telephone : +44 020 8392 3708
Email : J.Kelleher@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Drama, Theatre and Performance
Office location : Jubilee 217

About

Joe is Professor of Theatre and Performance. He is also Head of Department for Drama, Theatre and Performance. His research interests are largely in contemporary theatre and performance. A central concern of his work has been with structures of theatrical persuasion, both within and beyond the professional theatre. Much of his research over the past years has been on European performance, with a special attachment to work being produced in northern Italy. Joe Is currently working on a book, provisionally titled The Illuminated Theatre. Essays on the Suffering of Images.

Research Project Undertaken

Joe is an experienced supervisor of both theory based and practice as research doctorates. He has directed PhD work, for example, on civic performance art and the architecture of emergency; phenomenologies of laughter; performing the anatomised body; Pina Bausch and the mitreisender spectator; the performance of built environments; and choreographic practice and the 'possibilising' of contemporary dance. He is currently directing PhD projects on the 1980s Italian post-avantgarde; acoustic ecologies and site-contingent performance; and performances of public pedagogy, amongst others.

Publications

Theatre & Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, with Nicholas Ridout and the core members of SRS: Chiara Guidi, Claudia Castellucci, and director Romeo Castellucci. Routledge, 2007.
Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion co-edited with Nicholas Ridout, Routledge, 2006.
Romeo Castellucci. To Carthage Then I Came. Exhibition, by Claudia Castellucci, Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout, Arles: Actes Sud, 2002.
Idioma Clima Crono is a large format journal, the ten volumes of which have been gathered as a box set, of essays written alongside the Socíetas Raffaello Sanzio’s three-year international theatre project Tragedia Endogonidia. 2002-2005.
Tony Harrison. (Writers and Their Work series). Plymouth: Northcote House, 1996, i-xii, 1-84.
‘Sui teatri autorimembranti’ (‘Self-remembering theatres’). B.Motion: Spazio di riflessione fuori e dentro le arti performative, eds. Viviana Gravano, Enrico Pitozzi, Annalisa sacchi, Milan: Costa & Nolan, 2008, 47-62.
‘A Man in the Audience Stands Up’.Kinkaleri 2001-2008, La Scena Esausta, ed. Kinkaleri, Milan: Ubulibri
(with Snejanka Mihaylova) ‘Love is Colder than Death’.Kinkaleri 2001-2008, La Scena Esausta, ed. Kinkaleri, Milan: Ubulibri
‘Legwork: Thinking, Showing, Doing’.A Performance Cosmology, eds. Richard Gough, Judie Christie, Daniel Watt, London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
‘Human Stuff’.Contemporary Theatres in Europe, eds. Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout, London and New York: Routledge, 2006, 21-33.
‘”Our Radius of Trust”: Community, War, and the Scene of Rhetoric’.Blairism and the War of Persuasion: Labour’s Passive Revolution, ed. Richard Johnson and Deborah Lynn Steinberg, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2004, 173-85.
‘The Suffering of Images’.Live: Art, Performance and the Contemporary, ed. Adrian Heathfield, London: Tate Books, 2004, 190-5.
‘Delinquency and Dreams: Redeeming the Sea of Stories’.Childhood Remembered, ed. Kimberley Reynolds, Lichfield: Pied Piper, 2003, 101-7. Originally in NCRCL Papers 3: Childhood Remembered: Proceedings from the 4th Annual IBBY/MA Children’s Literature Conference at Roehampton Institute London, National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, 1998.
'The Writer’s Block: Performance, Play and the Responsibilities of Analysis’. Psychoanalysis and Performance, ed. Patrick Campbell and Adrian Kear, London and New York: Routledge, 2001, 132-46.
‘Rhetoric, Nation and the People’s Property’.Mourning Diana: Nation, Culture and the Performance of Grief, ed. Adrian Kear and Deborah Lynn Steinberg, London and New York: Routledge, 1999, 77-98.
‘Face to Face with Terror: Childhood in Film’.Children in Culture: Approaches to Childhood, ed. Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin’s Press, 1998, 29-55. Invited contributor.
‘How to Act, How to Spectate (Laughing Matter)’,Performance Research, Vol 13(4), 2009, 56-63.
‘Con le mani pieni di fantasmi’ (Their Hands Full of Ghosts’), Art’O, 27, 2009, 4-12.
‘Falling out of the world: in Rome with Freud, a friend, Moses and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’,Performance Research, Vol 12(2), 2007, 35-41.
‘“It’s so beautiful here. Come, you come too”. At the postdramatic threshold with Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’, Theater (Yale), Vol 13(3), 2007, 16-25.
‘A Romance of Ashes: the 2005 Venice Biennale International Theatre Festival’, edited article. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol 16(4), 2006, 502-9, CPR Documents.
'Che succede? Sulla scena di Bock & Vincenzi’.Art’O, spring 2006.
‘Sentimental Education at the National Theatre’.Performance Art Journal, (PAJ 81), 27(3), September 2005, 45-54.
‘Last Night, Tonight’.Frakcija, 32, Special issue on Goat Island’s When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy, spring 2005.
‘Beyond Repair: Celebrating 20 Years with Forced Entertainment’.Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 15(1), 2005, 168-71, CPR Backpages.
‘Ethics of Voice: Claudia Castellucci and Chiara Guidi in conversation with Joe Kelleher’.Performance Research, 9.4 (On Civility, ed. Alan Read), forthcoming 2005.
‘Theatre PUR on Ice’.Performance Research 6.1 (On Maps and Mapping, ed. Richard Gough), 2001, 79-87.
‘The Wolf-Man’.Performance Research 5.2 (On Animals, ed. Alan Read). Performance text and short article. With accompanying text by Adrian Kear. 2000, 89-92.