Teaching

I’m Professor of Creative Practice in the Department of Theatre at University College Cork, Ireland. I’m proud to teach theatre and movement practices at UCC as well as critical thinking / writing about dance, theatre and performance. I love teaching, and I’m really curious about how different arts and broadcast disciplines make their meanings. I’m interested in what is particular about dance and theatre; how it is an intelligence and a mode of enquiry. I trained originally in theatre and dance at Lancaster University and the University of Colorado Boulder in the US, and then developed an interest in interdisciplinary arts practice and scholarship. I have a particular interest in politically and socially engaged creative practices, work with communities, and science + art collaborations and this is reflected in my teaching.  

I teach dance and theatre composition / devising, improvisation, African American / Black British Women Playwrights, Performance & Gender Studies, Feminist Approaches to Performance. I regularly contribute to graduate programmes in Theatre and also teach Food and Creative Practice as part of UCC’s Postgraduate Diploma in Irish Food Culture.