School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr Deirdre Heddon

Dr Dee Heddon
  • Dean of Graduate Studies (Arts College Senior Management)
  • Reader (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

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


Research Interests

Contemporary Performance Practices, including: auto/biographical performance; site-based performance; queer and feminist performance; devising and collaborative forms of creation; environmentalism and performance.

Biography

After completing my PhD at the University of Glasgow I worked at the University of Exeter for a number of years, returning to Glasgow in 2005.

Alongside being a lecturer in Theatre Studies, I am currently serving as the Dean of Graduate Studies for the College of Arts.  

Research Projects

I am engaged in two primary research projects at present: “Women Walking” and “Performing Forests”.

“Women Walking” has been supported by a small grant from the BA and is being undertaken in collaboration with Dr. Cathy Turner (University of Exeter). Our research explores the use of walking as primary material – process and/or output – in the work of women artists. (See “Walking Women: Interviews with artists on the move”, with Cathy Turner, Performance Research, 15.4, 2010).
“Performing Forests” explores the ways in which forests perform (as cultural, mythical, psychological sites), alongside the ways in which performances have been sites for various types of performances.

 

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2012

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 (In Press)

Heddon, D. (2012) Turning 40: 40 turns. Walking & friendship. Performance Research, 17 (2). ISSN 1352-8165 (In Press)

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

Heddon, D. and Klein, J., (Eds.) (2012) Histories and Practices of Live Art. Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK. (In Press)

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. (In Press)

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) (In Press)

Heddon, D., and Turner, C. (2012) Walking women: shifting the tales and scales of mobility. Contemporary Theatre Review . ISSN 1048-6801 (In Press)

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)

2010

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 (4). 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

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.) Auto/biography 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

This list was generated on Fri May 25 22:55:35 2012 BST.
  • 2008: British Academy Small Grants
  • 2006: Lead, AHRC Creative Fellowship
  • 2005: AHRC Research Leave Scheme
  • 2004: AHRB Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts
  • 2001: AHRB Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts

I welcome PhD applications from students in the areas of contemporary performance practice, including practice-based or practice-led research.

Current students:

  • Cara Berger:  'Exploring Post-Lacanian Feminist Theory in Relation to Postdramatic Performance Practice'
  • Minna Ella Aaltonen:  'Touch, Taste and Devour. Phenomenology of film and the film experiencer in 'cinema of sensations'.'
  • 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'
  • 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'
  • Laura Bissell:  'The Posthuman Body in Peformance'
  • 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)

Administration

  • Dean of Graduate Studies, College of Arts
  • Convenor of MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy
  • Convenor of Postgraduate Research in Theatre Studies

External Responsibilities

  • External Examiner Queen’s University Belfast (Masters)
  • Board Member Arches Theatre
  • Editorial Board Member of RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (Routledge); Studies in Theatre & Performance (Intellect) and Performing Ethos (Intellect).
  • Member of AHRC Peer Review Panel

Forthcoming Publications

  • Histories and Practices of Live Art in the UK, co-edited with Jennie Klein (Palgrave Macmillan).