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English and Drama

Dr Michael Shane Boyle, BA (Duke), PhD (UC Berkeley), FHEA

Michael Shane

Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Email: m.s.boyle@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

I began working in the Drama Department in 2014, after completing my PhD in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley and my BA in English at Duke University. Before moving to London, I held postdoctoral appointments at Stanford University and Harvard University.

My research focuses on the political economy of performance from a Marxist and communist perspective. I am particularly interested in postdramatic theatre, live art and activist performance, mostly in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

I support the research of colleagues in various ways. Currently I am on the editorial board of Theatre Survey and regularly peer review manuscripts for journals and presses including Verso, Palgrave Macmillan, Theater Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review, Lateral, among others.

Recently I co-convened CAPITAL FORMS, a postgraduate training programme in the Economic Humanities, funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership.

I'm on Twitter @brechtfast.

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