School of Culture and Creative Arts

Prof Deirdre Heddon

Dr Dee Heddon
  • Professor of Contemporary Performance (Theatre, Film and Television Studies)
  • Dean of Graduate Studies (Arts College Senior Management)

telephone: 01413306286
email: Deirdre.Heddon@glasgow.ac.uk


Office hours: Tuesday 12-1pm

‌Research Interests

Book 1Following my doctoral study on Feminism and Live Art, I have continued to focus on contemporary performance practices, broadly conceived (Devising Performance: A Critical History, Palgrave Macmillan 2005). For a number of years, my primary interest was on the use of autobiography in performance (Autobiography and Performance, Palgrave Macmillan 2008). Through exploring performances which brought together site and autobiography, I have increasingly turned my attention to relationships between performance and site, and have more recently written about the use of walking in performance practice, specifically in women’s art. However, my interest in live art as a form continues (with the recent publication of a co-edited collection, Histories and Practices of Live Art, Palgrave Macmillan 2012).
My research emerges through a variety of media, from monograph publications, to journal articles, to exhibition catalogues (The National Review of Live Art 1979 - 2010: A Personal History - essays, anecdotes, drawings and images, 2010) and practice (Nature Walks and Talks) and 40 Walks.

‌Research Projects

Book 2I am currently engaged in two areas of research: Walking and Performance, and Performance and Forests.
The first extends from my research into women artists and walking, as well as 40 Walks and The Walking Library.  I am a co-investigator on an AHRC project, Walking interconnections: Performing conversations of sustainability, part of the AHRC’s Connected Communities scheme. I am also on the Steering Group of the AHRC network, Footwork - The Walking Artists Network as Mobile Community.
The second – Performance and Forests – links back in some ways to autobiography (my father was a forester), but also to my membership of an AHRC network, Reflecting on Environmental Change through Site-Based Performance and work undertaken for a special themed edition on ‘Environmentalism’ in applied drama, for Research in Drama Education (17.2, 2012). I am a research participant in the AHRC project, In conversation with...:co-designing with more-than-human communities,  one strand of which will focus on trees. My own project explores what sort of site the forest is for performance and what performance does in and to the forest, working towards completing a monograph (Performing the Forest). Many walks take place in forests, of course, which brings me (too neatly perhaps) full circle.

 

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Number of items: 33.

2012

Heddon, D. (2012) The politics of live art. In: Heddon, D. and Klein, J. (eds.) Histories and Practice of Live Art. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230229730

Heddon, D., and Mackey, S. (2012) Environmentalism, performance and applications: uncertainties and emancipations. Research in Drama Education, 17 (2). pp. 163-192. ISSN 1356-9783 (doi:10.1080/13569783.2012.670421)

Heddon, D. (2012) Turning 40: 40 turns. Walking & friendship. Performance Research, 17 (2). pp. 67-75. ISSN 1352-8165 (doi:10.1080/13528165.2012.671075)

Heddon, D. and Klein, J., (Eds.) (2012) Histories and Practices of Live Art. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK. ISBN 9780230229730

Heddon, D., Iball, H., and Zerihan, R. (2012) Come closer: confessions of intimate spectators in one to one performance. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22 (1). pp. 120-133. ISSN 1048-6801 (doi:10.1080/10486801.2011.645233)

Heddon, D., and Turner, C. (2012) Walking women: shifting the tales and scales of mobility. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22 (2). pp. 224-236. ISSN 1048-6801 (doi:10.1080/10486801.2012.666741)

2011

Heddon, D., and Howells, A. (2011) From talking to silence: a confessional journey. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 33 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1520-281X (doi:10.1162/PAJJ_a_00018)

Heddon, D. (2011) Walk this way. In: Tuukkanen, J., Whelan, G., Jaakkola, M. and Tervo, L. (eds.) ANTIVERSARY. ANTI Festival, Kuopio, Finland, pp. 123-133. ISBN 9789525870534

2010

Heddon, D., Klein, J. and Milican, N., (Eds.) (2010) The National Review of Live Art 1979-2010: A Personal History (Essays, Anecdotes, Drawings and Images). New Moves International, Glasgow, UK.

Heddon, D. (2010) The horizon of sound: soliciting the earwitness. Performance Research, 15 (3). pp. 36-42. ISSN 1352-8165 (doi:10.1080/13528165.2010.527200 )

Heddon, D., and Kelly, A. (2010) Distance dramaturgy. Performance Research, 20 (2). pp. 214-220. ISSN 1352-8165 (doi:10.1080/10486801003682427)

Heddon, D., and Turner , C. (2010) Walking women: interviews with artists on the move. Performance Research, 15 (4). pp. 14-22. ISSN 1352-8165 (doi:10.1080/13528165.2010.539873)

2009

Haedicke, S.C., Heddon, D., Oz, A. and Westlake, E.J., (Eds.) (2009) Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Series: Themes in theatre. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9789042026063

Heddon, D. (2009) One square foot: thousands of roots. In: Mock, R. (ed.) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books, Bristol, UK, pp. 153-177. ISBN 9781841501550

Heddon, D. (2009) To absent friends: ethics in the field of auto/biography. In: Haedicke, S.C., Heddon, D., Oz, A. and Westlake, E.J. (eds.) Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Series: Themes in theatre (4). Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 111-136. ISBN 9789042026063

Heddon, D. (2009) Tree: a studio performance. In: Mock, R. (ed.) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books, Bristol, UK, pp. 143-152. ISBN 9781841501550

2008

Heddon, D. (2008) What's in a name? In: It's Not Hard: Reflections on Live Art. Tramway, pp. 32-37. ISBN 9781899551439

2007

Heddon, D. (2007) Ac/counting the I's. Research in Drama Education, 12 (2). pp. 207-222. ISSN 1356-9783 (doi:10.1080/13569780701321203 )

Heddon, D. (2007) One square foot: thousands of routes. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 29 (2). pp. 40-50. ISSN 1520-281X (doi:10.1162/pajj.2007.29.2.40)

Heddon, D. (2007) A visitor's guide to Glasgay. In: Godiwala, D. (ed.) Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatres in Post-War Britain. Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, pp. 339-361. ISBN 9781847183064

Heddon, D.E. (2007) Autobiography and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230537538

2006

Heddon, D. (2006) Beyond the self: autobiography as dialogue. In: Wallace, C. (ed.) Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity. Litteraria Pragensia, Prague, pp. 157-184. ISBN 8073081229

Heddon, D. (2006) Performing the confessional. In: Mathé, S. and Teulié, G. (eds.) Cultures de la Confession: Formes de l'Aveu dans le Monde Anglophone. Series: Mondes anglophones . Publications de l'Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France. ISBN 9782853996471

Heddon, D. (2006) Personal performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker. In: Gill, J. (ed.) Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature . Routledge, Oxon, pp. 137-153. ISBN 9780415339698

Heddon, D. (2006) The politics of the personal: autobiography in performance. In: Aston, E. and Harris, G. (eds.) Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory. Series: Performance interventions . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781403945327

2005

Heddon, D., and Milling, J. (2005) Devising Performance: A Critical History. Palgrave. ISBN 1403906637

2004

Heddon, D. (2004) Performing lesbians: constructing the self, constructing the community. In: Gale, M. (ed.) Autobiography and Identity: Women, Theatre and Performance. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 217-238. ISBN 9780719063336

2003

Heddon, D. (2003) Glory box: Tim Miller's autobiography of the future. New Theatre Quarterly, 19 (3). pp. 243-256. ISSN 0266-464X (doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X03000149)

2002

Heddon, D. (2002) Following in the footsteps... Performance Research, 7 (4). ISSN 1352-8165

Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the archive: following in the footsteps. Performance Research, 7 (4). pp. 64-77. ISSN 1352-8165

Heddon, D. (2002) Autotopography: graffiti, landscapes and selves. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2 (3).

Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the self. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 5 (5).

1998

Heddon, D. (1998) What's in a name? Studies in Theatre Production, 18 . pp. 49-59. ISSN 1357-5341

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Book 3External Awards

  • 2013: CI, AHRC Walking interconnections: Performing conversations of sustainability £31,744
  • 2013: PI, AHRC Skills Development £40,000
  • 2012: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award     £54,504
  • 2012: AHRC Skills Development     £59,200
  • 2012: Carnegie     £1620
  • 2008-09: British Academy Small Grants     £2474
  • 2007-10: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award     £50,000
  • 2006-09: AHRC Creative Fellowship (Adrian Howells)     £170,266
  • 2005/6: AHRC Research Leave Scheme     £14,000
  • 2004: AHRB Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts     £2,000
  • 2001: AHRB Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts     £836
  • 1992: SAAS PhD Scholarship

I welcome PhD and Masters by Research applications from students in the areas of contemporary performance practice, including practice-based or practice-led research. I have particular interests in site-responsive work, environmental performance/performance and ecology, perambulatory forms, feminist and queer performance, live art, and collaborative practice.

Book 4Current students:

  • Cara Berger:  'Exploring Post-Lacanian Feminist Theory in Relation to Postdramatic Performance Practice'
  • Sarah Hopfinger, 'Sustaining the imagination: theatre and learning for sustainability'
  • Leila Riszko, ‘How do body politics and notions of liveness and embodiment affect the production and reception of ‘abject’ performance practice?’
  • Lee Mingyu, ‘Diary Film: the Past, Present, and the Future/Narration in Diary Film’
  • Lucy Amsden, ‘The Teacher and the Clown – the Pedagogy of Philippe Gaulier’

 

Graduated PhD students:

  • Clare Louise Duffy: 'Practice as Research: Writing a Queer Aesthetic'
  • David Overend: 'Underneath the Arches: Developing a relational performance aesthetic in response to a specific cultural site'
  • Laura Bissell: 'The Posthuman Body in Performance’


Graduated Masters by Research students:

  • Minna Ella Aaltonen: 'Touch, Taste and Devour. Phenomenology of film and the film experiencer in 'cinema of sensations'.'
  • Victoria Payton: 'The rules and structures of participation'
  • Laura Cameron-Lewis: 'The Sublimation of Space -What methodologies might be created for exploration of the (socially-networked) identity in performance, examining the discourse between 'virtual-site' and 'real-site'.'
  • Harry Wilson: 'The role of the Director in contemporary collaborative and devised theatre'
  • Maria Gill: ‘Intimacy and Autobiography in Performance’
  • Ella Finer: ‘Shadow, Light, and Gender in Performance’
  • Reading the Stage (Level 1)
  • Theatre and Society (Level 1)
  • Autobiography and Performance (Honours)
  • Documentary Drama (Honours)
  • Dissertations (Honours)
  • Research Methods (MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy)

Book 5Administration

  • Dean of Graduate Studies, College of Arts
  • Chair, Graduate School Board
  • Chair, Higher Degrees Board of Studies
  • Chair, Deans of Graduate Studies Committee
  • College of Arts Management Group
  • University Senate

External Responsibilities

  • Member of AHRC Peer Review Panel
  • External Examiner Queen Mary's, University of London (Masters)
  • External Examiner University of Manchester (Masters)
  • Editorial Board Member of RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (Routledge); Studies in Theatre & Performance (Intellect) and Performing Ethos (Intellect)
  • Advisory Board Member, Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge)
  • Arches Theatre Company, Board of Directors
  • conFAB, Board of Directors
  • Steering Group, Footwork - The Walking Artists Network as Mobile Community (AHRC network)
  • Research Member, Porous Dramaturgy: "Togetherness" and Community in the Structure of the Artwork (AHRC network)