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Principal Lecturer

Telephone : +44 020 8392 3334
Email : S.Greenhalgh@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Drama, Theatre and Performance
Office location : Jubilee 221

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About

Susanne Greenhalgh is currently Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. She took her undergraduate degree in English at Oxford, where she was Bertha Johnson Scholar at St.Anne's College and won the University's Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize. She studied for a Master's degree at McGill University, Montreal as a Draper's Company Commonwealth Scholar, before returning to Oxford to undertake doctoral research on ritual and ceremony in Shakespeare. She holds a PGCE in Drama from the Institute of Education, London University.

Her current research interests centre on reception studies and the relationship between theatre and screen media, especially in relation to Shakespeare's circulation, adaptation and citation in different periods and settings, including the home, theatre and mass media. She also has particular interests in the representation of terror and terrorism (including the Holocaust), the cultural performance of death and mourning, and the staging of childhood in the theatre and in society.

She is Director of the University Research Centre in Renaissance Studies, and a member of the Centres for Performance and Creative Exchange, and Film and Audio-Visual Cultures.In 2002 she curated a staged reading of Anne Carson's Decreation at Roehampton; the British premiere of this work it featured Carson herself as one of the readers. More recently she has organized international conferences on Shakespeare's Children/Children's Shakespeare(October 2003) and Renaissance Lives (October 2005), and a postgraduate study day on Hamlet after Arden 3(June 2009.

In 2009 she received a British Academy grant for research on radio Shakespeare in North America, and in 2006 she was recipient of the Stephen James Award of the Society for Theatre Research in support of her work on British theatre and television Shakespeare, and an AHRC Research Leave award for a project on the domestic experience and reception of Shakespeare.

Research Projects Undertaken

Susanne welcomes enquiries from prospective students interested in researching any aspect of the following:
Shakespeare reception studies, including media adaptations, and Shakespeare in childhood and domestic cultures; theatre, war and terrorism;
Holocaust drama; women's writing and performance; classical, medieval and renaissance theatres in original and subsequent performance; children and childhood in performance; public mourning and memorialization; the relations between theatre and media; the performance culture of the home.

She has supervised dissertations on 'Ibsen's Metatheatre'; 'Women's Performance Art in Britain'; and 'Marlowe's Plays in Performance' and is currently Director of Studies for projects on the performativity of the Greenham Women's Peace Camp and the representatiuon of Sparta in contemporary culture.

Teaching Interests

Susanne teaches courses in both Drama and Film Studies at Roehampton.These include classical Greek and Roman theatre (including contemporary performance history), medieval and renaissance drama, feminist theory and women's writing and performance, theatre in and about war, children's theatre and the performance of childhood, adaptation for the theatre and Shakespeare on stage and screen.

She has also contributed to the MAs in Performance Studies, Women, Gender and Writing, and Children's Literature. She is currently Programme Convenor of the MA in Early Modern Literature and Culture, on which she offers two options, 'Media Shakespeare' and 'Restaging the Renaissance'.

Her administrative roles currently include membership of the School of Arts Board. She has recently finished a four year appointment as External Examiner for the Theatre Arts degree programme, Goldsmths College, University of London and is currently External Examiner for the MA Drama, De Montfort University

Publications

With Professor Kate Chedgzoy) 'Shakespeare and the Cultures of Childhood', special issue of Shakespeare to mark the 200th anniversary of the Lambs' Tales from Shakespear in 2007.2.2.(Winter 2006)
Shakespeare and ChildhoodCambridge University Press 2007 (with Professor Kate Chedgzoy and Professor Robert Shaughnessy)
Drama' in Janet Maybin and Nicola J.Watson eds. Children's Literature: Approaches and Territories Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
(with Professor Robert Shaughnessy) 'Our Shakespeares: British Television and the Strains of Multiculturalism', Screening Shakespeare in the 21st Century eds. Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
'The Eye of Childhood: Shakespeare, Performance and the Child Subject' in Turning the Page: Children's Literature in Performance, Bern and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006.
'True to You in My Fashion: Shakespeare on British Broadcast Television' in Shakespeares After Shakespeare ed. Richard Burt, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
'Stages of Memory: Imagining Identities in the Holocaust Drama of Deborah Levy, Julia Pascal and Diane Samuels'in Out in the Open: Jewish Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain ed Claire Tylee, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006.
'Drama' The Routledge International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature ed. Peter Hunt, London: Routledge, 2004.
"'A Space for Me': Jewishness, Memory, and Identity in Julia Pascal's Holocaust Trilogy", in Jewish Women's Writing of the 1990s and Beyond in Great Britain and the United States eds. Ulrike Behlau and Bernhard Reitz, Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004
'"Alas poor country!": Documenting the Politics of Performance in Two British Television Macbeths since the 1980s,' in Remaking Shakespeare: Performance across Media, Genres and Cultures. eds. P.Aesbischer, E.Esche and N. Wheale, London: Palgrave 2003.

Susanne's most recent conference presentation was at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference in Washington, April 2010. In 2011 she will co-chair the 'Shakespeare and Children's Literature' seminar, International Shakespeare Congress, Prague. Previously she co-convened with Professor Katherine Schiel (Minnesota) a seminar on 'Shakespeare in the Home'at the Shakespeare Association Conference in Dallas, March 2008.

She also chaired a panel on 'Showcasing Shakespeare' for the British Shakespeare Association Conference, Warwick, September 2007, and presented a paper at the Comparative Drama Conference, Los Angeles, April 2007.

She was an invited participant in the panel on 'Shakespeare and 21st Century Film' at the second British Shakespeare Association Conference, Newcastle, September 2005. With Robert Shaughnessy (Kent) she was awarded a British Academy grant to participate in the 'TV Shakespeare' seminar convened by Peter Holland, at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference in Philadelphia, April 2006.

In October 2006 she delivered a plenary lecture on Radio Shakespeare at Queen's University Belfast, and was an invited speaker at the first symposium of the AHRC-funded Research Network 'Filming and Performing the Renaissance', Queen's University, Belfast, April 2008.

'The Fall of the City: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Appropriations of Greek Drama', 'Dressing Up for War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourses and Literature of War Conference, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, March 1999.0
'Waiting to Begin', Talk for the 'Fourth Wall' Season, Royal National Theatre and Public Art Development Trust, Royal National Theatre, May 1999.
'Our Lady of Flowers: the ambiguous politics of Diana's floral revolution', 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference on
Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, Bowling Green Center for Popular Culture Studies and the Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, May 1999 [Keynote Speaker]
'The Faces of War', Keynote Speech, The Br/leeding Ground, Magdalena International Project on War, Chapter, Cardiff, October 1999 [Keynote Speaker]
'"Alas, poor country!": Documenting the Politics of Performance in Two British Television Macbeths since the 1980s', paper presented at Scaena3: 2nd International Conference on Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance, St John's College, Cambridge, August 2001
'Stages of Memory: Jewishness and Identity in the work of Levy, Pascal and Samuels', (paper given at Jewish Women Writers and Twentieth Century British Culture
Conference, Brunel University, July 2002.
''Children Will See': Performing the Child's Gaze in Film Versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream'' the Annual Conference of the International Board of Books for the Young (IBBY) British Section, Roehampton University, November 2002. (summary forthcoming in IBBYLink , May 2003)
'A space for me': Jewishness, Memory and Identity in Julia Pascal's Holocaust Trilogy' paper given at Jewish Women's Writing of the 1990s and Beyond in Great Britain and the United States Conference. 30 January to 2 February 2003, Mainz 0
Forthcoming essays include 'A Stage of the Mind: Hamlet and Post-war British Radio',Shakespeare Survey, 'Shakespeare and Radio' Shakespeare and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), and entries on 'Television', 'Radio', 'Shakespeare and Childhood/Shakespeare for Children and Young People' and 'Domestic Shakespeare' for the Shakespeare Encyclopedia ed. Patricia Parker, Westport, CT. Greenwood Press, 2010.
Listening to Shakespeare' in Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio: The Researcher's Guide' eds. Olwen Terris, Eve-Marie Oesterlen and Luke McKernan BUFVC 2009
'Shakespeare Overheard: Performances, Adaptations and Citations on Radio', in Robert Shaughnessy ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
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