Dr Josh Abrams

Job Title: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: PhD (CUNY), MA(Brown), BA (MIT) Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3330 Email Address: J.Abrams@roehampton.ac.uk

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

I am an Assistant Editor for PAJ: A Journal of Arts and Performance as well as Contributing Editor of Western European Stages. I am the Member-at-Large for Finance on the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Governing Council. I am the immediate 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, 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.

Recent Publications:

• “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)

• “Politics and the Classics,” Co-Authored with Jennifer Parker-Starbuck PAJ 85, (January 2007)

• “London Calling,” Introduction Special Section “On London” Co-Authored with Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, PAJ 81 (September 2005)

• “London Stages: Winter 2004,” Co-Authored with Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Western European Stages 16:2 (Spring 2004)

• “Ethics of the Witness: The Participatory Dances of Cie Felix Ruckert” Chapter in Audience Participation: Crossing Time and Genre. Edited by Susan Kattwinkel (Greenwood Press, 2003)

• “Downtown Directors and the Play of Time,” Theatre Journal 55:1 (March 2003)

Publications

Research Projects Undertaken

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

Membership of professional bodies

Association of Theatre in Higher Education, American Society of Theatre Research, Performance Studies international, Modern Language Association, Society of Dance History Scholars, Theatre and Performance Research Association

Qualification Details

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

Research Expertise

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

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies