Updated November 2019
We are continuing to work on the new edited collection proposal on modernist theatre in a contemporary context. It has, as so often happens, turned into a much bigger project! I am looking forward to writing my chapter about Ernst Toller, a figure I have admired since my PhD-days. Having recently secured a Modernist Studies Association Travel Grant, I headed out to the Toller archives at Yale University in January 2019, and am currently working my way through the notes I made.
I had positive feedback from the potential publisher for my new monograph, tentatively titled Muscular Modernisms. I now have to write the Introduction and Chapter 2 for review. I am applying for a bunch of grants to fund this project and am currently enjoying reading about disability and modernism, the YMCA and gyms. I have two other large-scale projects on the go at present. The first allows me to play around with VR for the first time. The second is entitled Health and Wellbeing in Professional Wrestling; we have just secured seed-funding for the first meet-up for this project. It is exciting to work with colleagues from the world-leading School of Sports, Exercise and Health Science here at Loughborough University.
I am giving a couple of in-house talks over the next few months, expanding on the ideas I tentatively presented at the Tate Modern in summer on exhibitionism and wrestling. I'll be sharing the new version of this talk at Guildhall on 24th March 2020 if you fancy hearing more about this. I haven't quite finalised the conference schedule for next year: so many great conferences in 2020!
The Wrestling Resurgence project continues into 2019 and 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 are continuing to work on the new edited collection proposal on modernist theatre in a contemporary context. It has, as so often happens, turned into a much bigger project! I am looking forward to writing my chapter about Ernst Toller, a figure I have admired since my PhD-days. Having recently secured a Modernist Studies Association Travel Grant, I headed out to the Toller archives at Yale University in January 2019, and am currently working my way through the notes I made.
I had positive feedback from the potential publisher for my new monograph, tentatively titled Muscular Modernisms. I now have to write the Introduction and Chapter 2 for review. I am applying for a bunch of grants to fund this project and am currently enjoying reading about disability and modernism, the YMCA and gyms. I have two other large-scale projects on the go at present. The first allows me to play around with VR for the first time. The second is entitled Health and Wellbeing in Professional Wrestling; we have just secured seed-funding for the first meet-up for this project. It is exciting to work with colleagues from the world-leading School of Sports, Exercise and Health Science here at Loughborough University.
I am giving a couple of in-house talks over the next few months, expanding on the ideas I tentatively presented at the Tate Modern in summer on exhibitionism and wrestling. I'll be sharing the new version of this talk at Guildhall on 24th March 2020 if you fancy hearing more about this. I haven't quite finalised the conference schedule for next year: so many great conferences in 2020!
The Wrestling Resurgence project continues into 2019 and 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.
