Collaborative Doctoral Award Title: Theatrical communities and collaborations: artistic networks, professional partnerships, and shared visions, 1880-1947
Supervisors: Professor Rebecca Beasley, Professor Sos Eltis
Research interests: Theatre history; literary communities; modernist literature, Victorian fiction and drama; women's writing; feminist theory; cultural heritage
Doctoral research: My Collaborative Doctoral Award is a partnership with the UK’s National Trust and the University of Oxford. My research has been generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)'s Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership scholarship and the Clarendon Fund at the University of Oxford. I will be supervised by Professor Sos Eltis and Professor Rebecca Beasley at the University of Oxford, and by Susannah Mayor and Rowena Willard-Wright at the National Trust.
Broadly, I will be exploring the lives of the female communities and networks who resided at and visited National Trust's Smallhythe Place between 1880-1947; specifically, I'll be examining how political thought and activism informed their collaborative theatre-making practices.
Prior to starting my doctoral studies, I worked as a Researcher at an arts and culture audience research agency, collaborating with clients such as the National Trust, Brooklyn Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) to help them better engage and understand their audiences.