School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr Victoria Price

Vicky
  • Lecturer (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

telephone: 01413304061
email: Victoria.Price@glasgow.ac.uk


Office hours: Tuesday 2-4pm

Research Interests

Vicky’s research interests include: prostitution and theatre in early modern England; Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre and drama; the seventeenth-century masque (and especially the female masquer); women’s performance and cultural production.

Research Projects

Vicky is currently working on a monograph entitled 'Prostitution and Theatre, 1558-1642'.

Jump to: 2011 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006
Number of items: 7.

2011

Price, V.E. (2011) "Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave": Three short essays (Gender in "Oroonoko"; Heroism in "Oroonoko"; Race in "Oroonoko"). In: McClinton-Temple, J. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature. Facts on File, New York, pp. 202-206. ISBN 9780816071616

2009

Price, V.E. (2009) Peter Benchley. In: Hamilton, G. and Jones, B. (eds.) Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Series: Facts on file library of American literature: literary movements . Facts on File, New York, USA. ISBN 9780816071579

2008

Price, Victoria E. (2008) 'Shops of Incontinence': Brothels and Hierarchies in Early Modern London. The Drouth, 29 . pp. 64-68. ISSN 1474-6190

Price, V.E. (2008) From wielding the female pen to troping prostitution. Drouth, 27 . pp. 70-74. ISSN 1474-6190

Price, V.E. (2008) 'Made to write "whore" upon': Othello and the cultural projection of whoredom. Genre, 28 . pp. 69-82.

2007

Price, V.E. (2007) Troping prostitution: Jonson and 'The court pucell'. Nebula, 4 (2). pp. 208-222. ISSN 1449-7751

2006

Price, V.E. (2006) Holland's leaguer. In: Ditmore, M.H. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work. Greenwood Press, Westport, USA, pp. 211-212. ISBN 9780313329685

This list was generated on Fri May 25 22:45:10 2012 BST.
  • 2011 Carnegie Trust small research grant
  • 2011 Erasmus Teaching mobility grant, Univeristy of Turku

Vicky would welcome applications from PhD and MPhil students wishing to undertake research in early modern theatre and drama, and Shakespearean Adaptations. Her current and recent supervision topics include: early modern anatomical performances; representations of dreams and dreaming in seventeenth-century English and Spanish drama; appropriating Shakespearean tragedy: bringing the bard's works closer to modern audiences; the gendered status of the posthuman body in performance.

Current students:

  • Eilidh Kane:  'Collaboration and Canonicity: Thomas Middleton and the Construction of an Author' (co-supervisor)
  • Harry Wilson: 'The Role of the Director in Contemporary Collaborative and Devised Theatre' (co-supervisor)


    Recently completed PhD students

    • Laura Bissell, ' The female body, technology and performance: performing a feminist praxis'  (co-supervisor)
    • Emanuela Ponti, 'Performing Dreams in England and Spain, 1570-1670'  (1st supervisor)


    Recently completed MPhil students

    • Markee Rambo-Hood, 'The use of music in Brecht's work' (2nd supervisor)
  • Reading the Stage (Level 1)
  • Theatre and Society (Level 1)
  • Classical to Modern (Level 2)
  • Shakespearean Adaptations (Honours option)
  • Dissertations (Honours)
  • Reading and Interpreting Performance (MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy)
  • Research Methods (MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy)
  • PGT/PGR Convenor Theatre Studies


    In 2010/11 Vicky was nominated by her students for an award in Prizes for Excellent Teaching (PETs), the student-led teaching excellence award scheme

Administration

  • Convenor of MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy programme
  • Convenor of Postgraduate Research in Theatre Studies

    Previous administrative roles include:

    • Head of Theatre Studies (September 2007- August 2011)
    • Advisor of Studies (September 2008-August 2011)
    • Senior Honours convenor (September 2006-August 2011)