STR Research: Student Members

Student Members

Catherine BADHAM
cathbooth2003@yahoo.com

University of Sheffield PhD
The plays of Philip Ridley, their productions and critical responses
Likely year of completion 2013

The plays of Philip Ridley - if you've been involved with a production of one of his plays either as a performer, creative, or member of production staff, I'd love to hear from you.

Also interested in history of stage management as this was my profession previous to starting my research degree.

David CHRISTOPHER
654 Ralph Street
Victoria
BC V8Z 1Z5
CANADA

University of Victoria, Canada; PhD expected to complete 2015

shakes2@uvic.ca

Canadian Horror Films

David COATES
Cryfield 2 Sub-Warden Flat
Cryfield Residences
University of Warwick
CV4 7ES

d.j.coates@hotmail.co.uk or d.j.coates@warwick.ac.uk

PhD at University of Warwick:
Private and Amateur Theatricals in Country Houses 1820-1914
Likely year of completion: 2013

The Elizabethan and Jacobean court masques and private theatrical performances.
Travelling players and their various performance spaces.
Private and amateur theatre under the ban until 1660.
The private theatres of London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Country House Theatricals.
Garrison Theatricals.
Theatricals in education, such as universities and schools, including OUDS and the Cambridge ADC.
The emergence of an organised amateur theatre movement in the twentieth century.

Currently researching different forms of private and amateur theatricals in Britain and Europe through the ages, and specifically theatrical undertakings in country houses. PhD grew from MRes research into performances at Chatsworth.

Bernadette COCHRANE
bernadettecochrane@uqconnect.net

Contemporary British Theatre
Adaptation Studies
Textual Dramaturgy
Production Dramaturgy
Modernism

PhD at University of Queensland, estimated completion 2012
Dramaturgy and Shakespeare

Veronica ISAAC
vtisaac@yahoo.co.uk

PhD student at
University of Brighton in conjunction with V&A and National Trust
Fashioning an Artistic Identity: The Personal and Theatrical Dress of Ellen Terry (1841-1928)
expected completion 2014

Michael LEE
I Knocknagow
Greenville Road
Blackrock
Co Dublin

mlee17@qub.ac.uk

PhD in Opera Studies at Queen's University, Belfast Completion likely in 2012

Early Opera

Performance Practice

Literary Adaptation

Cultural Studies

HollyGale MILLETTE
HollyGale@yahoo.com

Royal Holloway, University of London
PhD, Transatlantic Cultural History, 1850 - 1910
Expected completion 2010

Richard PARR
richardparr@abingdonroad.freeserve.co.uk

MA in Shakespeare and the Theatre
The Shakespeare Institute
Expected year of completion 2010

Grant Tyler PETERSON
Grant.Peterson.2007@live.rhul.ac.uk

1a Walnut Walk
Keynsham
Bristol BS31 2RW
0117 986 2015

Royal Holloway, University fof London
PhD in 'Partly Political' Street Performance: British Alternative Theatre History and the Natural Theatre Company
Expected completion 2011

Elizabeth ROBERTSON
e.robertson@qmul.ac.uk

PhD Queen Mary, University of London, Likely completion 2012
on Stephen Poliakoff

Stephen Poliakoff
British Theatre since 1970
theatre and the archive
theatre and 20thC history

Simon SLADEN
s.sladen@live.co.uk

MPhil/PhD - University of Winchester: The Role of Celebrity in the British Pantomime Industry 1980-2010.

I would be particularly interested to hear from members who were involved in any aspect of pantomime during this period, as well as those with programme and memorabilia collections.

Modern British Pantomime
Victorian Pantomime
Cultural Materialism
Popular Culture
Celebrity Studies

Mrs Chris STAM (now Dr Chris Stam)
See: Full Members - Stam

Jenny STERNLING
jennyatbsu@aol.com

MA Interdisciplinary Studies; Boise University, Idaho, USA
19thC Dog Dramas

The evolution of theatrical melodrama as a specific genre; particularly interested in Dog Dramas and the performers (human and canine) who specialised in this genre.

Kristen TETENS
tetenskr@msu.edu

PhD, University of Leicester (expected 2013): Representations of Islam in Victorian drama

The life and career of the English actor-manager Henry Irving (1838-1905) and his circle; the life and career of the novelist and playwright Hall Caine (1853-1931), the Irish theatrical entrepreneur Thomas Monck Mason (1803-1889); Italian, French, and German opera in nineteenth-century London;
Representations of India and the "East" on the Victorian stage; theatrical practice in British India; theatrical practice in the Ottoman Empire, especially court theatre in Constantinople c.1875-1900;
Islam and Muslim agency in Victorian Britain and British India; dramatic censorship; digital humanities.

Helen Margaret WALTER
helen.walter@network.rca.ac.uk

PhD in History of Design at the RCA/Victoria and Albert

Project title: Boundaries of the Self: The Actor, the Dandy and Dress in fin-de-siecle London. Specifically considering the costume and everyday dress of Henry Irving and Max Beerbohm, and how dress was used by these two men to frame and propose particular selves and personae for public consumption.

Ms Hilary WILSON
h.j.wilson@sheffield.ac.uk

19thC theatre and performance, especially in Yorkshire. I am also interested in the history of popular & "alternative" theatres, and particularly the history of women in theatre (mainly 19th, 20th and 21st centuries).

University of Sheffield
PhD research into Victorian Theatre in Sheffield. Expected completion 2010

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7th December 2011