School of Culture and Creative Arts

Prof Adrienne Scullion

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  • Dean of Research (Arts College Senior Management)
  • James Arnott Chair in Drama (Theatre Film and Television Studies)
  • Senate Assessor (Senate Office)

telephone: 01413304677
email: Adrienne.Scullion@glasgow.ac.uk


Office hours: Monday 9-11am

Research Interests

Adrienne has particular research interests in Scottish theatre and drama from the eighteenth century to the present; theatre and drama for children and young people; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women playwrights; and, cultural policy, in particular in relation to Scotland and to cultural and national identity. 

Biography

Adrienne holds the James Arnott Chair of Drama.  She is the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Arts and a Senate Asessor.  Previously she was senior lecturer and lecturer at the University of Glasgow, having begun her career as British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow and as a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin.  In 2000 she was awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s prestigious BP Prize Lectureship in the Humanities and in 2007 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Research Projects

Adrienne led the major AHRC-funded research project entitled Pantomime in Scotland: "Your other national theatre"

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2010

Scullion, A. (2010) Various entries. In: Kennedy, D. (ed.) The Oxford Companion of Theatre and Performance. Oxford Unviersity Press, Oxford. ISBN 978019974193

Scullion, A. (2010) Welsh and the theatre. In: Schoene, B. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 77-88. ISBN 9780748639175

2009

Scullion, A. (2009) Pantomime in Scotland: a Celebration of Scottish Pantomime on Film. [Audio]

Scullion, A. (2009) JM Barrie: let loose upon the world. Pitlochry Festival Theatre: Season 2009 . pp. 16-17.

Scullion, A. (2009) Political theatre or heritage culture? Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis in production. In: Gribben, C. and Mullan, D.G. (eds.) Literature and the Scottish Reformation. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History . Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 213-232. ISBN 9780754667155

Scullion, Adrienne (2009) Gamblers and speculators: the National Theatre of Scotland stakes a claim. Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 2 (2). pp. 95-108. ISSN 1753-2396

2008

Scullion, A. (2008) Pantomime in Scotland: your other national theatre. [Exhibition]

Scullion, A. (2008) Playing the citizen: the citizenship debate and theatre for children and young people in contemporary Scotland. New Theatre Quarterly, 24 (4). pp. 379-393. ISSN 0266-464X (doi:10.1017/S0266464X08000511)

Scullion, A. (2008) Theatre work in Scotland. In: Mulhern, M.A., Beech, J. and Thompson, E. (eds.) Working Life of the Scots. Series: Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Enthology, 7 . John Donald, Edinburgh, pp. 369-384. ISBN 9781904607854

Scullion, Adrienne (2008) From scenes like these: new writing at Glasgow Unity Theatre. Drouth, 29 . pp. 19-23. ISSN 1474-6190

2006

Galloway, S., Bell, D., Hamilton, C., and Scullion, A.C. (2006) Well-Being and Quality of Life: Measuring the Benefits of Culture and Sport - A Literature Review and Thinkpiece. Series: Education (Scotland. Social Research) . Scottish Government, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780755929078

2005

Scullion, A.C. (2005) 'And so this is what happened': war stories in new plays for children. New Theatre Quarterly, 21 (4). pp. 317-330. ISSN 0266-464X (doi:10.1017/S0266464X05000199)

Scullion, A.C. (2005) Glasgow Unity Theatre: the necessary contradictions of Scottish political theatre. Twentieth Century British History, 13 (3). pp. 215-252. ISSN 0955-2359 (doi:10.1093/tcbh/13.3.215)

2004

Scullion, A.C., and Hamilton, C. (2004) The same, but different. Rural arts touring in Scotland: the case of theatre. Comedia. ISBN 1873667876

2002

Cameron, A., Scullion, A.C. , and Carruthers, G. (2002) James Bridie and the Scottish theatre. In: Gifford, D., Dunnigan, S. and MacGillivray, A. (eds.) Scottish Literature in English and Scots. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 619-654. ISBN 9780748608256

2001

Scullion, A.C. (2001) Self and nation: issues of identity in modern Scottish drama by women. New Theatre Quarterly, 17 (4). pp. 373-390. ISSN 0266-464X

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Adrienne has successfully supervised students working towards various postgraduate degrees, and welcomes applications from Master’s and Doctoral students with research interests complementary to her own.  Prospective students might like to know that amongst the PhD research she is currently supervising are projects on:

  • Building theatres/theatre buildings: reinventing Mull Theatre;
  • European cultural policy and the construction of European identity;
  • Flagship Festival: the changing role of the Edinburgh International Festival; and,
  • Writing cultural value: creating text in non-professional theatre making.

Current students:

  • Cassandra Rutherford:  'Building theatres/theatre buildings: reinventing Mull Theatre'
  • Cara Berger:  'Exploring Post-Lacanian Feminist Theory in Relation to Postdramatic Performance Practice' (2nd supervisor)
  • Stephen Collins:  'Playwriting and Policy in Post-Independence Ghana' (2nd supervisor)
  • Jennifer Attala:  'The Edinburgh International Festivals: organisation and policy' (2nd supervisor)

Administration


  • James Arnott Chair of Drama
  • Associate Dean for Research for the College of Arts
  • Senate Assessor