Research

My central research interest lies in the interconnections between philosophy (Critical Theory and continental philosophy) and theatre, drama and performance. Other research interests include contemporary British and Irish Drama, Modern European Theatre, Gender and Sexuality. I co-organised a symposium on ‘Theatrical Aesthetics of Eroticism and Death’ at Aberystwyth University in 2004 and, with Prof David Ian Rabey, the first international conference on ‘Howard Barker's Art of Theatre' in July 2009.

Teaching

TP10120 – Studying Theatre 1
TP10220 – Studying Theatre 2
TP20420 - Theatre and Society
TP20320 – Modern European Drama
TP21020 – Contemporary European Theatre
TP30220 – Key Theatre Practices
TP30120 – Analysing Performance
TP20820 – British and Irish Drama 1980 – 2010
TP33120 – Theatre, Gender and Sexuality
TPM0130 –Theoretical Practices (MA module)

Publications

Edited books and journals:

• ‘On Philosophy and Participation’, edited by Laura Cull and Karoline Gritzner, Performance Research, Vol. 16, No. 4 (December 2011)
• Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance, edited by Karoline Gritzner (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010)
• ‘On Dramaturgy’, edited by Karoline Gritzner, Heike Roms and Patrick Primavesi, Performance Research, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sept. 2009)
• Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker, edited by Karoline Gritzner and David Ian Rabey ( London: Oberon Press, 2006)

Articles in books and journals, print and online:

• ‘Form and Formlessness: Participation at the Limit’ in Performance Research, Vol. 16, No. 4 (December 2011), pp. 109-116.
• ‘On Participation in Art: A Conversation with Alexander García Düttmann’ in Performance Research, Vol. 16, No. 4 (December 2011), pp. 136-140.
• ‘Crisis is the essential condition for art forms’ (with David Ian Rabey and Karoline Gritzner), Howard Barker Interviews 1980-2010: Conversations in Catastrophe, edited by Mark Brown (Intellect, 2011), pp. 123-130.
• ‘Spirit to Ashes, Performance to Dust: Derrida, Complicite, and the Question of a “Holy Theatre”’, Performance and Spirituality, Volume 2, Issue 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 85-110.
• ‘Red Sun and the Promise of Myth’ in David Rudkin, Red Sun and Merlin Unchained (Intellect, 2011), pp. 55-69.
• ‘Introduction: Some Notes Towards Autonomy in Howard Barker’s Art of Theatre’, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Volume 4, Issue 2 (Spring 2010), online journal www.nietzschecircle.com)
• ‘Introduction’ in Karoline Gritzner (ed.) Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010), pp. 1-11.
• ‘Desire and Destruction in the Drama of Georg Büchner’ in Karoline Gritzner (ed.) Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010), pp. 46-63.
• ‘(Post)Modern Subjectivity and the New-Expressionism: Howard Barker, Sarah Kane and Forced Entertainment’, Contemporary Theatre Review (special issue on ‘Beyond Postmodernism’ edited by Baz Kershaw and Graham Ley), Volume 18, No. 3 (2008).
• ‘Letter to Adorno: On the Question of Performatics’, Performance Research (On Performatics), Volume 13, No. 1 (2008)
• ‘Adorno on Tragedy: Reading Catastrophe in Late Capitalist Culture’, Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory (UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies), Issue 2 (2007), pp. 25-52.
• ‘Afterword: The Lurking Truths of the Self’ in David Ian Rabey, Lovefuries (Intellect Press: Bristol and Chicago, 2007), pp. 89-94.
• ‘Towards an Aesthetic of the Sublime in Howard Barker’s Theatre’ in Karoline Gritzner and David Ian Rabey (eds), Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker (London: Oberon Press, 2006), pp. 83-94.
• ‘Howard Barker in Conversation with David Ian Rabey and Karoline Gritzner’ in Karoline Gritzner and David Ian Rabey (eds), Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker (London: Oberon Press, 2006), pp. 30-37.
• ‘Catastrophic Sexualities in Howard Barker’s Theatre of Transgression’ in Margaret Sönser Breen and Fiona Peters (eds), Genealogies of Identity: Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality (Rodopi, 2005), pp. 95-106.
• ‘The Fading of the Subject in Sarah Kane’s Later Work’ in Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (ed.), Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005), pp. 249-257.

Additional Interests

External Examining

External Examiner (BA English and Drama) at Cardiff Metropolitan University (from 2009 to the present)

Editorial Board Membership:

Critical Engagements: A Journal of Theory and Criticism (UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies)

Consciousness, Literature and the Arts