Dr Claire Warden

Senior Lecturer in Drama School of Performing Arts LPAC University of Lincoln Brayford Pool Lincoln LN6 7TS Email: cwarden@lincoln.ac.uk Website: www.clairewarden.net Twitter: @cs_warden

Faculty Positions
University of Lincoln May 2013 Senior Lecturer in Drama Module coordinator: Dissertation (designed), Modern European Drama (co-designed), The Musical Lecturer/Tutor: Study Skills (designed), Documentary Theatre (designed) College of Arts Board Member HEA fellowship mentor University of Lincoln Jan 2010 May 2013

Lecturer in Drama Module coordinator: Study Skills (designed), Dissertation (designed), Modern European Drama (co-designed), Documentary Theatre (designed) Lecturer/Tutor: Reading Performance, The Musical Responsibility for departmental response to plagiarism Research mentor PhD supervisor External MPhil examiner Co-curator of the Lincoln School of Performing Arts Critical Encounters research event series The University of Edinburgh Sep 2009 Dec 2009 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Tutor: Introduction to English Literature, Introduction to Drama, Canadian Literature Visiting Lecturer: Research Methods (designed), European Theatre (designed) http://www.theatrestudies.llc.ed.ac.uk/workshops.html Queen Margaret University Jan 2007 Jun 2008 Visiting Lecturer Lecturer/Tutor: Twentieth-Century Performance (designed), Critical Theory (designed),

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Analysing Performance (designed). Scottish Universities International Summer School Tutor Tutor: British and Irish Modernism The University of Edinburgh Guest Lecturer Theatre History Seminar Leader: Politics of Performance The University of Edinburgh Tutor in English Literature Tutor: Introduction to English Literature Teaching Assistant Representative Jul 2006, 2007, 2008

Feb 2006 May 2008

Sep 2005 Jun 2008

Education
Higher Education Academy Fellow of the HEA (standard descriptor 2) Nov 2011

University of Edinburgh Sep 2004 Aug 2007 PhD in Drama, English Literature and Politics University of Edinburgh Funded Scholarship Thesis: Tradition, Innovation and Politics: the stage work of Ewan MacColl and Theatre Workshop Supervisors: Dr Olga Taxidou, Dr Roger Savage Examiners: Prof Terry Eagleton, Dr Simon Malpas University of Edinburgh MSc in Writing and Cultural Politics Aberystwyth University BA (Hons) English Literature (first class) 2002 Undergraduate Departmental Prize. Sep 2003 Sep 2004 Sep 1999 Jun 2002

Research Profile
Books Migrating Modernists: British theatrical travels through Russia. Palgrave MacMillan, 2015 [forthcoming] Modernist and Avant-Garde Performance: an introduction. Edinburgh University Press, 2014 [forthcoming].

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British Avant-Garde Theatre. Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Chapters in Books Modernism and theatre/drama in Europe in Allana Lindgren and Stephen Ross (eds.) The Modernist World. London: Routledge, 2014 [forthcoming]. The Poetic Materiality of Fascism on the British Stage in Sascha Bru, David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson and Anne Reverseau (eds.) The Aesthetics of Matter: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2013 [forthcoming]. Dirty Old Town: the ambivalent Northern city in Ewan MacColls Landscape with Chimneys in Katharine Cockin (ed.) The Literary North. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Articles in Refereed Journals The democratic stage? The relationship between the actor and the audience in professional wrestling. Revue de Recherche en Civilisation Amricaine (Spring 2014) [forthcoming] We are here to Salute the Red Army: Basil Dean and his Russian adventures. Theatre Survey 54:3 (September 2013): 347-366. Ugliness and Beauty: the politics of landscape in Walter Greenwoods Love on the Dole. New Theatre Quarterly 29:1 (February 2013): 35-47. Hassan: Iraq on the British Stage. Theatre Notebook 66:3 (December 2012): 160-180. Ewan MacColl, the brilliant young Scots dramatist: Regional myth-making and Theatre Workshop. International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen 4:1 (September 2011). Online: http://erc.qmu.ac.uk/OJS/index.php/IJOSTS. Reappropriating the Pace-Egging tradition: Ewan MacColls St George and the Dragon. Modern Drama 53:2 (Summer 2010): 232-243. The shadows fly before the rush of light: Expressionist experimentation and political efficacy in Ewan MacColls The Other Animals. New Theatre Quarterly (February 2008): 317-325. Research Notes Mass Performance and Dance. Routledge Encyclopaedia of Modernism (2013) [forthcoming] Politics, War and Adaptation: Ewan MacColls Operation Olive Branch. Comparative

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Drama 44/45 (Spring 2011): 536-538. Performance Reviews Review of Othello, Early Modern Studies Journal 16.1 (Spring 2012). Online: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/16-1/revothe.htm. Review of Troilus and Cressida. Shakespeare Bulletin (Spring 2007): 121-123. Conferences The Stage and the Street Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Sussex, August 2013 [Panel convener and presenting panel paper] Panel comprises three papers from Dr Claire Warden (University of Lincoln), Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr/Dr Sos Eltis (University of Oxford) and Dr Kara Reilly (University of Exeter). Modern Life through the Actors Distorting Mirror: Basil Deans impressions of Russia. British Comparative Literature, University of Essex, July 2013 [panel paper]. Salute to the Red Army: the British pageant and wartime politics. Alternative Modernisms. University of Cardiff, May 2013 [panel paper]. The Democratic Stage? The relationship between actor and audience in professional wrestling. Le Cache et/Professional Wrestling and University of Bordeaux, January 2013 [panel paper]. Performing poetry: Stephen Spenders Trial of a Judge. Modernist Studies Association. Las Vegas, October 2012 [seminar paper]. 'SMASH THE BARS': incarceration and emancipation in the theatrical cages of the modernist avant-garde. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Network: Material Meanings. University of Kent, September 2012 [panel paper]. The caged and the free: the working body in the modernist avant-garde Performance Studies International 18: performance: culture: industry. Leeds, UK, June 2012 [panel paper]. Escape, Romance and Politics: the dialogue between the country and the city in British 1930s theatre ASTR/CORD: Embodying Power: Work Over Time. Seattle, Washington, November 2010 [seminar paper]. Ewan MacColl, the brilliant young Scots dramatist: Regional myth-making and Theatre Workshop.

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Regional Spaces, National Stages: Performances beyond London, 1945-2010. University of Reading, September 2010 [panel paper]. Not a minutes silence but a lifetime of struggle: Edinburgh Theatre Workshops political carnivalesque. What Happens Now? 21st Century Writing in English. University of Lincoln, July 2010 [panel paper]. The human body which we shape and mould like a potter his clay: Rudolf Labans influence on the aesthetic project of Theatre Workshop. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Network: Europa! Europa? University of Ghent, Belgium, May 2008 [panel paper]. The Divided Self: fragmentation of the psyche in Ewan MacColls The Other Animals Second International Conference on Consciousness. Theatre, Literature and the Arts, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, May 2007 [panel paper]. Dirty Old Town: the presentation of Salford in the theatre of Ewan MacColl. The Literary North, University of Hull, May 2006 [panel paper]. Invited Lectures Performing the British Avant-Garde. University of Strathclyde, November 2013. Saluting the Red Army. Northern Modernism Seminar, University of Birmingham, March 2013. Performing the British Avant-Garde. Edge Hill University, November 2012. Performing the British Avant-Garde. University of Dundee, October 2012. Unperformable Plays? British Avant-Garde Theatre. Lincoln Academy, Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, September 2012. Media Article for The Lincolnshire Echo. http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Claire-exploringgap-theatre-history/story-16892662-detail/story.html#axzz2Yp36WDEr (September 2012) Regular contributor to academic publishing blog, www.phd2published.com Regular contributor to Times Higher Eds What Are They Reading? column. Invited panellist: Academic best practice: how to manage the research process http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/aug/22/managingacademic-research-process (August 2012)

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Invited panellist What does good teaching look like in Higher Education? http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/apr/11/teacher-trainingfor-academics (April 2012) External Grants/Fellowships/Consultancy Scouloudi Historical Award July 2013 350 To fund website development for Modernist and Avant-Garde Performance: an introduction. AHRC/BBC Collaborative Workshop on Scottish Identity Apr 2013 New Broadcasting House http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/News/Pages/Scottish-Identity-Results.aspx Amiel and Melburn Trust Grant Apr 2012 210 To fund a trip to the Basil Dean Archive, John Rylands Library (Manchester) to research the 1943 Salute to the Red Army in preparation for a journal article. Further Research Experience Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellow British Avant-Garde Theatre Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Dialogues of Enlightenment University of Edinburgh Involved in the organisation team for this conference Theatre Workshop Archivist, Researcher and Dramaturg Archive accepted by the National Library of Scotland Consultant for website http://www.theatre-workshop.com/ Programme Notes for Marat/Sade (Nov 2008) Jun 2009 Aug 2009

Jun 2009

Aug 2008 Oct 2008

Co-founder and Editor Autumn 2006 Spring 2007 Forum: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts http://forum.llc.ed.ac.uk

Performance Experience
Grade 7 Singing Grade 5 Music Theory First Soprano with Rudsambee Company of Singers http://www.rudsambee.org.uk/ (2005-10) Dr Claire Warden CV Page 6