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Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate Teaching AssistantshipsPerforming ArtsThe Department of Performing Arts subscribes to an expansive concept of performance, is committed to interdisciplinary scholarship, and to underpinning taught provision with appropriate research and scholarship. Taught postgraduate provision centres on the M.A. in Making Performance, and other programmes are in development. The Department has two PhD graduates from the GTA scheme, has five current Graduate Teaching Assistantships and invites applications from exceptional candidates for this recruitment round. Edge Hill is already associated with several distinctive areas of research in performance, and critical performance studies that fall under two broad themes:Arts for WellbeingPerformance and Civic FuturesSpecifically, within these broad areas we seek applications for the following research topics:Music (contemporary composition; musicology; interactive music; soundscape composition; sound ecology)Dance (contemporary dance; dance practice; postmodern dance; performance and the body; somatic practice)Theatre (theatre and postcoloniality; twentieth century modernism and performance; Irish theatre; South African theatre; clowning; contemporary Commedia Dell’Arte practice; documentary theatre)Critical Performance (activist performance; experimental and hybrid performance narrative strategies; feminist performance; radical clowning; queer performance; autobiographical performance; immersive performance)Digital performance (digital humanities and virtual archaeology; digital performance; arts and technology; performative photography)Writing for performance (playwriting; writing for the community; site-specific, site-responsive scriptwriting and performance; visual writing; writing for music/al theatre; experimental stage writing)Arts and health (applied performance; applied arts; performance and health; performance and psychology/mental health)Arts psychotherapies (music therapy; dramatherapy; art psychotherapy; dance movement psychotherapy)Informal enquiries for Arts and Well Being projects may be addressed to Professor Vicky Karkou, Director of Postgraduate Affairs, Karkouv@edgehill.ac.uk Informal enquiries for Performance and Civil Futures projects may be addressed to Professor Victor Merriman, Director of Research, victor.merriman@edgehill.ac.uk ................
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