Updated May 2020
As far as possible in this odd COVID-19 period, projects and plans continue apace. We - Adrian Curtin, Nick Johnson, Naomi Paxton and I - recently submitted our edited collection proposal entitled Edinburgh Companion to Modernism on the Contemporary Stage. It'll now enter the review phase. I am working on a number of new grant bids in collaboration with colleagues from the world-leading School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences here at Loughborough University to propose interventions into the health and wellbeing of professional wrestlers. I continue to work on a new book project, provisionally entitled Muscular Modernisms. It is a very eclectic study, examining everything from office penmanship to trapeze artists, wood cut prints to ju-jitsu suffragettes (and everything in between). I am also writing a new article this summer on wrestling and exhibitionism, an piece that comes out of some talks I gave last year and early this year at the Tate Modern and Guildhall.
The Wrestling Resurgence project continues into 2020. Do check out the instagram site if you are interested in attending a show or want to catch up with the best of arthouse wrestling via pay-per-view. We hope to be back running live shows as soon as we can.
As far as possible in this odd COVID-19 period, projects and plans continue apace. We - Adrian Curtin, Nick Johnson, Naomi Paxton and I - recently submitted our edited collection proposal entitled Edinburgh Companion to Modernism on the Contemporary Stage. It'll now enter the review phase. I am working on a number of new grant bids in collaboration with colleagues from the world-leading School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences here at Loughborough University to propose interventions into the health and wellbeing of professional wrestlers. I continue to work on a new book project, provisionally entitled Muscular Modernisms. It is a very eclectic study, examining everything from office penmanship to trapeze artists, wood cut prints to ju-jitsu suffragettes (and everything in between). I am also writing a new article this summer on wrestling and exhibitionism, an piece that comes out of some talks I gave last year and early this year at the Tate Modern and Guildhall.
The Wrestling Resurgence project continues into 2020. Do check out the instagram site if you are interested in attending a show or want to catch up with the best of arthouse wrestling via pay-per-view. We hope to be back running live shows as soon as we can.
