• University Teacher (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 3857
email: Laura.Bissell@glasgow.ac.uk

Office hours: Monday 11-12.30pm

Laura Bissell teaches Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow and delivers the Critical and Contextual Studies strand of the Contemporary Performance Practice BA Honours course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly the RSAMD). Laura studied at the University of Glasgow and at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and recently returned to Australia to present her research at the Somatechnics conference at Macquarie University.

Research Interests

Laura’s research interests include: contemporary performance practices; technology and performance; cyborg performance; live art; body art; feminist performance; film and video in performance.

Laura’s research explores the relationship between the female body and technology in contemporary performance. Laura is currently revising her doctoral research for publication.

• Reading the Stage (Level 1)
• Theatre and Society (Level 1)
• Modernism to Postmodernism (Level 2)
• Performance Theory and Analysis (Honours)
• Single Honours Group Project (Honours)
• Dissertations (Honours)
• Level Three Project
• Research Methods (MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy)

Administration

• Level Two convenor
• Level Three convenor

External Responsibilities

• Board Member, A Moment’s Peace theatre company

Conference Papers/Publications

• Contribution to Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal Lexicon of Training Terms (March 2011, Routledge).
• Article currently under peer-review for “Gender and Resistance” issue of The European Journal of English Studies for publication in 2012.
• Body Space Technology E-Journal article (September 2010).
• Paper on “Amorphous Bodies: The Technological Uncanny in Performance” (re)Performing the Posthuman Conference, University of Sussex 21st and 22nd May 2010.
• Paper on “Digital Doubling: The Uncanny in Performance” Somatechnics Conference, MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia, 20th and 21st November 2009.
• Peer-reviewer for the Technology and Humanity issue of e-Sharp 2008.
• Body Space Technology E-Journal Vol 07 No.01 Review of CREW’s U_Raging_Standstill July 2007.
• Paper on “The Posthuman Body in Performance” Revolutions Conference, University of Glasgow, October 2006.