Dr Kathy Smith BEd Hons, MA, PhD, FRSA Senior Lecturer, Theatre Studies Email: dr.k.l.smith@gmail.com

TEACHING Analysing Performance Contemporary British Theatres Cultural Identities/Theatrical Practices Introduction to Theatre and Drama Modern European Drama Practice:Theory Texts and Contexts Text and Performance Twentieth Century Theatre Practices   RESEARCH INTERESTS           Theories of identity, representation and spectatorship,           in the context of modern and contemporary theatre/           performance practices           The body/culture/representation relation, with particular           reference to thresholds, liminal moments and cultural            'rupture'           The theatres of Samuel Beckett and Rona Munro   CONFERENCE PAPERS         '(There is Nothing) Outside of the Text? Towards a          Psychoanalytic Model of the Transcultural Spectator',         CDE Staging Interculturality Conference,         University of Vienna, Austria, June 2009                 'A House Built On Mud: Stages of Translation and         the Theatre of Rona Munro', CDE Adaptations and         Translations Conference, University of Siegen, Attendorn,         Germany, May 2008         'Abject Bodies: Beckett, Orlan, Stelarc and the Politics         of Contemporary Performance', Beckett and Company:          Centenary Conference on Beckett and the Arts,         Birkbeck (University of London), Tate Modern and         Goldsmiths (University of London) 2006         'Reframing Fantasy: September 11 and the         Global Audience', Spectacle of the Real, University         of Brunel 2003         'Speaking the Secret: The Theatre of Samuel Beckett',          Beckett International Foundation, University         of Reading 1999, and Beckett Against the Grain,         University of York 1999    SEMINARS        University of Bristol, November 2009        '[There is Nothing] Outside of the Text?'        Research Seminar. Invited Speaker.                University of North London,  March-July 2002        ReVisions 2: Scene and Obscene             Seminar Programme. Convenor.               University of North London, March-July 2001        ReVisions 1: Reframing the Late Twentieth Century               Seminar Programme. Convenor.

PUBLICATIONS       '(There is Nothing) Outside of the Text? Towards a       Psychoanalytic Model of the Transcultural Spectator'       CDE vol 17: Staging Interculturality, eds.Werner Huber,       Margarete Rubik & Julia Novak (Germany: WVT 2010)       69-85             'The Things That Scorch Us: Fantasies of Origin, the       Transcultural Spectator, and the Theatre        of Rona Munro' Studies in Theatre and Performance,        vol. 29:3, ed. Peter Thomson (Exeter: Intellect 2009)        253-274         'A House Built on Mud: Stages of Translation and the        Theatre of Rona Munro' CDE vol.16: Adaptations ,             eds. Monika Pietrzak-Franger & Eckart Voigts-Virchow       (Germany: WVT 2009) 239-252       'Beyond the Black Box',        Studies in Theatre and Performance, vol. 27:2,        ed. Peter Thomson (Exeter:Intellect 2007) 185-193       'Abject Bodies: Beckett, Orlan, Stelarc and the Politics       of Contemporary Performance', Performance Research,       vol. 12:1, ed. Catherine Laws (London: Routledge        2007) 66-76       'Burning Alive: Memory, Disturbance and the Theatre of       Rona Munro', Studies in Theatre and Performance,        vol.26:3, ed. Peter Thomson (Exeter: Intellect 2006)        243-262       'Unruly Bodies: Death, Discourse and the Limits       of Representation', Critical Quarterly, vol.48:3 ed. Colin       MacCabe (Oxford/USA: Blackwell Publishing 2006) 63-80       'The Body in Pain: Beckett, Orlan and the Politics of       Performance', Studies in Theatre and Performance       vol. 25:1,ed. Peter Thomson (Exeter: Intellect 2005)       33-46       'Reframing Fantasy: September 11 and the Global       Audience', The Spectacle of the Real, ed. Geoff King       (Exeter: Intellect 2005) 59-70       'The Emptiness of Zero: Representations of Loss,        Absence, Anxiety and Desire in the Late Twentieth        Century', Critical Quarterly, vol. 46:1, ed. Colin        MacCabe (Oxford/USA: Blackwell Publishing 2004)        40-59        'Academic Supervision and the Dysfunctional        Family:The Problem of Critical Distance',         Research in Education, vol.64, ed. Ivan Reid,        (Manchester: MUP 2000)  12-19      REVIEWS          Sierz, A., Rewriting The Nation: British Theatre Today, reviewed for         Studies in Theatre and Performance vol 32:1, ed. Peter Thomson         (Exeter: Intellect 2012)         Wyllie, A., Sex on Stage: Gender and Sexuality in Post-War         British Theatre, reviewed for         Studies in Theatre and Performance  vol. 30:2, ed. Peter Thomson          (Exeter: Intellect 2010).    MISCELLANEOUS       'Square Pegs and Round Holes',        Studies in Theatre and Performance, vol. 25:1,        ed. Peter Thomson (Exeter: Intellect 2005) 83-84        'Bridges to Bodies', THE June 2003

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