Dr Cassandre Balosso-Bardin (2018-pres.)
Cassandre Balosso-bardin is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the College of Arts. She specialises in Ethnomusicology, more specifically Mediterranean Music and bagpipes, both of which are informed through fieldwork based research and performance. She completed her PhD in ethnomusicology at SOAS, University of London in 2015, focusing on the anthropology of the Mallorca bagpipes (the xeremies). She is the founder and director of the International Bagpipe Organisation since 2012. Postdoctoral work led her to work with the Geste-Acoustique-Musique programme (Sorbonne-Universités). With an interdisciplinary team of acousticians, musicians and engineers, she focussed on researching wind instruments and the relationship between the musician and the manufacturing process. Cassandre is also a prolific performer. After many years of performing early music including with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, she then dedicated herself to the World Music scene, performing with bands from different cultural traditions including Italy, the UK, France, Sweden, Anatolia and more recently North-West Africa. She has performed at many international festivals and venues including the Proms, Womad, Cambridge Folk Festival, the Sage, Musicport, Aan Korb BBC festival, Bloomsbury festival, Urkult, Stockholm Culture Festival and Stockholm Folk Festival.
Dr Robert Dean (2019-pres.)
Dr. Robert Dean is a Principal Lecturer in the College of Arts. He has published work that explores and identifies the parallels between nineteenth century theatrical practice and contemporary dramatic conventions. This includes the representation of archetypal characters, the role of musical accompaniment, and the function of sound effects. His research into musical dramaturgy and the history of sound production has resulted in publications that reconsider the role of sonic material in the works of Ibsen, Chekhov, Boucicault, and Shaw. Other publications focusing on popular culture include a consideration of ethics and catechism in the horror series ‘The Walking Dead’, a close analysis of Chris Morris’s radio comedy ‘Blue Jam’, and an exploration of how representations of Batman have developed within gaming culture. Recent practical research explores the potentiality of digital Foley within live performance.
Dr Steve Klee (2018-pres.)
Steve Klee is a Lecturer in Fine Art in College of Arts. He specialises in contemporary art, aesthetics & philosophy (espcially new realist and materialist approaches)
Dr Sreenath Nair (2019-pres.)
Dr Sreenath Nair studied Cultural and Critical Theories and Performance studies at several Indian and British Universities: University of Calicut in 1992; Rabindra Bharathi University in 1995; Mahatma Gandhi University in 1997 and University of East Anglia, Norwich in 2002. He completed his PhD in 2005 at the University of Aberystwyth, Wales and in the same year he joined in the College of Arts at the University of Lincoln as a Lecturer. He was awarded the Leverhulme International Fellowship in 2011. He accepted the Scholar-in Residence appointment at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2012. During his visit in the United States of America, he has lectured and conducted workshops at Columbia University and New York University on Restoration of Breath, a pioneering research combining the body, culture, ethnography and performance theory. He holds the honorary position of the Research Advisor of Doctoral Studies at the Dance Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand since 2013. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Indian Theatre Journal published by Intellect and Fellow of the Higher Education academy, UK. His publications include: Restoration of Breath: Consciousness & Performance (Rodopi, 2007); The Natyasastra and the Body in Performance (McFarland, 2015); Manikin Plays (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013); Evocative Body: Technique as Knowledge in Indian Performance (Co-authored with Ralph Yarrow) Routledge (forthcoming).
Dr Siobhan O’Gorman (2019-pres.)
Siobhán O’Gorman is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at the School of Fine & Performing Arts. She also has taught and researched drama, theatre and performance at the National University of Ireland Galway, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Derby. Siobhán welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in archival research and theatre history, as well as 20th and 21st century theatre and performance, particularly from the perspectives of feminism, gender studies, performance studies, theatre and performance design, stage adaptation, dramaturgy and collective creation.
Previous curators:
Dr Jacqueline Bolton (2017-2019) – Senior Lecturer of Theatre and Drama
Andrew Bracey (2017-2019) – Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Prof. Dominic Symonds (2016-2018) – Professor of Musical Theatre
Pavlos Kountouriotis (2010-12)