Professor Mike Pearson
Professor of Performance StudiesB.A. (Archaeology, Wales); M.A. (Education, Wales); PhD (Wales)
Contact
Email: mip@aber.ac.uk
Office: F.F.5, Parry-Williams Building
Phone: 01970 621506
Fax: 01970 622831
Responsibilities
Director of Research (Postgraduate)Teaching Areas
B.A. Performance Studies; M.A. Practising PerformanceAdditional Interests
On departmental research leave semester 1 2008-9; on AHRC funded research leave semester 2 2008-9. Completing work on a monograph Site-specific Performance (Palgrave), and a substantial contribution to a volume on the history of the Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam.Research
Performance and landscape; performance and archaeology; biography, personal narrative and memory in performance; folklore and traditional performance practices; the archaeology of Antarctic exploration; devising performance.Biography
- 1968-71 undergraduate studies (archaeology), University College, Cardiff
- 1971-73 postgraduate studies (education), University College Cardiff
- 1971-72 member Transitions Trust community arts project, Cardiff
- 1972-73 member RAT Theatre
- 1973-80 co-director Cardiff Laboratory Theatre
- 1981-97 co-director Brith Gof Theatre Company
- 1997-99 lecturer Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University College Aberystwyth
- 1997-present co-director, Pearson/Brookes group
- 1999-present Professor of Performance Studies, Aberystwyth University
- 2006 PhD (by publication)
Staff Links
Carrlands (AHRC Landscape and Environment programme smaller research grants award, 2006-7)Living Landscapes (AHRC Landscape and Environment programme annual conference 2009, Aberystwyth University, 18-21 June 2009
Staff Publications
Single Authored Books
- Pearson, M. 2006 In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 213pp.
Co-authored Books
- Pearson, M. & Shanks, M. 2001 Theatre/Archaeology London & New York, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 215pp.
Chapters in Edited Books
- Pearson, M. 2006 Marshfield Mummers: The Old Time Paper Boys. In Kelleher, J. & Ridout, N. Contemporary Theatre in Europe (Eds.) London & New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 136-148.
- Pearson, M. 2006 P-p-p-pick up a penguin: men and animals in Antarctic exploration. In Giannachi, G. and Stewart, N. (Eds.) Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts, Bern, Peter Lang, 119-32.
- Pearson, M. 2006 Marking Time. In Gough, R., Christie, J. and Watts, D (Eds.) A Cosmology of Performance, London & New York: Routledge/CPR, 120-123.
- Pearson, M. 2007 Performing the Past. In Farquhar, A. (Ed) Half Life, Glagow: NVA, 49-51
- Pearson, M. 2008 forthcoming ‘Professor Gregory’s Villa’ and piles of pony poop: early expeditionary remains in Antarctica. In Contemporary Archaeologies: Excavating Now, eds. A. Piccini & C. Holtorf, Bern, Peter Lang.
Co-authored Chapters in Edited Books
- McLucas, C. & Pearson, M. 2007 On Brith Gof. In Keefe, J. and Murray, S. Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader, London/New York, Routledge
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
- Pearson, M. 2005 Way out west! Performance studies in Aberystwyth. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 25, 3, 253-262.
- Pearson, M. 2005 Beth yw Astudiaethau Perfformio? Ymateb 5. Cyfrwng: Cyfnodolyn Cyfryngau Cymru, Cyfrol 2, Caerdydd, Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 94-5.
- Pearson, M. 2007 ‘It came apart in my hands: Reflections on Polis by Pearson/Brookes’, About Performance, 7, University of Sydney