Updated May 2021
We are still trying to deliver the very best learning experience for my students through these tricky times.
Research-wise, I'm in the latter stages of two book chapters two: one on Ernst Toller, a fascinating German playwright for our forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre (we - Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson, Naomi Paxton and I - recently signed the contract with Edinburgh UP for this massive volume), and one on circus, wrestling and the avant-garde (for a fabulous new Routledge book entitled Circus and the Avant-Gardes edited by Anne-Sophie Jurgens and Mirjam Hildbrand). I am also writing an article on bodybuilding and performativity with Conor Heffernan. We have watched a lot of of terrible WBF shows and promos in preparation for this. It has been a joy, of course.
We (me, Dominic Malcolm, Anthony Papathomas, and Sam West) are excitedly working on our British Academy-funded project 'Health and Wellbeing in Professional Wrestling'. We have come to the end of the interview phase and now look forward to working our way through the mounds of data as we create a website and write three journal articles. We'll be extending the conversation with a Wrestling Resurgence event in November (back at Attenborough Arts Centre, all being well).
As I continue to work with our students, fulfil a number of leadership roles within our School, and just try to be a supportive colleague, I am inspired by Maya Angelou's advice: "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud". May we be rainbows in people's clouds this year...
We are still trying to deliver the very best learning experience for my students through these tricky times.
Research-wise, I'm in the latter stages of two book chapters two: one on Ernst Toller, a fascinating German playwright for our forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre (we - Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson, Naomi Paxton and I - recently signed the contract with Edinburgh UP for this massive volume), and one on circus, wrestling and the avant-garde (for a fabulous new Routledge book entitled Circus and the Avant-Gardes edited by Anne-Sophie Jurgens and Mirjam Hildbrand). I am also writing an article on bodybuilding and performativity with Conor Heffernan. We have watched a lot of of terrible WBF shows and promos in preparation for this. It has been a joy, of course.
We (me, Dominic Malcolm, Anthony Papathomas, and Sam West) are excitedly working on our British Academy-funded project 'Health and Wellbeing in Professional Wrestling'. We have come to the end of the interview phase and now look forward to working our way through the mounds of data as we create a website and write three journal articles. We'll be extending the conversation with a Wrestling Resurgence event in November (back at Attenborough Arts Centre, all being well).
As I continue to work with our students, fulfil a number of leadership roles within our School, and just try to be a supportive colleague, I am inspired by Maya Angelou's advice: "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud". May we be rainbows in people's clouds this year...
