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Senior Lecturer

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3330
Email : J.Abrams@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Drama, Theatre and Performance
Office location : Jubilee 208

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Qualifications

PhD: Theatre, CUNY 2008
MA: Theatre Studies, Brown University 1999
BA: Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995
BA: Management Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995

About

I research and teach in the areas of Contemporary Performance, Experimental Theatre, American Theatre History, Philosophy and Performance, Ethics and Performance, Identity and Performance, Theatre and Religion, Jewish Performance, Queer Performance, Performance and HipHop.

I am an Assistant Editor for PAJ: A Journal of Arts and Performance as well as Contributing Editor of Western European Stages. I am Vice President in charge of Conference 2011 for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, a 1,600+ member organisation. I was previously the Member-at-Large for Finance on the Governing Council as well as past Focus Group Representative for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education's Performance Studies Focus Group.

My publications have been seen in Audience Participation: Essays on Inclusion in Performance, Theatre Journal, TDR,Slavic and East European Performance, Theatre Survey, Western European Stages, and PAJ: A Journal of Art and Performance, as well as other journals, encyclopedias, and publications.

Research Interests

Contemporary Performance
Experimental Performance
Philosophy of/and Performance
American Theatre
Theatre History
Scenic Design
History of Directing
Identity and Performance
Solo Performance
Theatre and Religion
Performing Jewishness
Queer Performance

Research Project Undertaken

PhD: Performing Alterity: The Ethics of Difference(s) in Contemporary American Performance

Teaching Interests

I hold a Roehampton Teaching Fellowship, exploring the use of electronic ink technologies in the classroom. As well, I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and hold a PGCHE as well as a Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education from the Sheridan Center at Brown University. I teach widely across both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Publications

“Ethics of the Witness: The Participatory Dances of Cie Felix Ruckert” Chapter in Audience Participation: Crossing Time andGenre. Edited by Susan Kattwinkel (Greenwood Press, 2003)
“Big Questions on London Stages”, WES September 2010
“This Scepter’d Isle: State of the Nation in Recent British Theatre” PAJ 95 (May 2010)
“The Contemporary Moment of Dance: Restaging Recent Classics,” PAJ 90 (September 2008)
“Purely Theatre: Deborah Warner and the Struggle for Communication,”Western European Stages 19:1
(Winter 2007)
“London Calling,” Introduction Special Section “On London” Co-Authored with Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, PAJ
81 (September 2005)
“Politics and the Classics,” Co-Authored with Jennifer Parker-Starbuck PAJ 85, (January 2007)
“London Stages: Winter 2004,” Co-Authored with Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Western European Stages 16:2
(Spring 2004)
“Downtown Directors and the Play of Time,”Theatre Journal 55:1 (March
2003)
“Affective Presents/Effective Presence: Intensity, Futurity, and the Theatrical Politics of the Child” Commissioned for Performance After Identity (Palgrave Press)
“The Ubiquitous Orange Jumpsuit: Performance, Protest and the Public Sphere”Patriotic Dissent (Routledge, forthcoming)
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