Professor Carl Lavery

Professor of Theatre and Performance (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

8 University Gardens

Biography

After spending a year in Paris at the University of Paris 8 as a recipient of the Entente Cordiale Scholarship Scheme, my first academic post was as lecturer in Drama at the University of East Anglia. I taught Theatre and Performance Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, Loughborough, Lancaster, and Aberystwyth before arriving at the University of Glasgow in 2013. I am an associate editor for the journal Performance Research.

Research interests

Research Interests

I have long been interested in the relationship between politics and aesthetics, with a special interest in theatre and revolution. Lately, I have attempted to find a way of expanding that interest out to include an engagement with nature and the earth. My recent work has been concerned to investigate not so much an ecological theatre – which doesn’t make a great deal of sense to me – but rather a theatrical way of doing ecology and also an ecological way of doing theatre. I have published articles, books and special editions on various topics, including ruins, animism, the Situationist International, walking and the Paris Commune. I have also made films, published performance writing and collaborated on theatre projects. I have written extensively on a wide number of practitioners, including Jean Genet, Guy Debord, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Lone Twin.

Publications

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Number of items: 82.

2025

Delgado, Maria M. and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2025) Chéreau, Patrice. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 140-141. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2025) Artaud, Antonin. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 45-46. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2025) Dullin, Charles. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 184. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2025) Jouvet, Louis. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 324-325. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2025) Mesguich, Daniel. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 446-447. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2025) Planchon, Roger. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 543. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2025) Quesne, Philippe. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 556. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2025) Vilar, Jean. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 713. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)

2024

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Hassall, Lee (2024) Scraps from the wreckage: remnants from Hashima Island. In: Gabrielsson, Catharina and Jobst, Marko (eds.) Instituting Worlds: Architecture and Islands. Routledge: London, pp. 216-237. ISBN 9781032498836 (doi: 10.4324/9781003395911-17)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Zandieh, Rezvan (2024) Performance and installation art: Re-turning to Artaud through Christian Boltanski. In: Finburgh Delijani, Clare and Biet, Christian (eds.) A New History of Theatre in France. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 276-293. ISBN 9781108842372 (doi: 10.1017/9781108908566.015)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2024) I came across the Tell Tale Rooms purely by chance. In: Kotting, Andrew (ed.) The Tell Tale Rooms. Badbloodandsibyl, pp. 248-251.

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2024) Gala Water Unbordered. [Website]

Buob, Baptiste, Demesmaeker, Jérémy, Maillot, Laurence, Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Rioux, Vincent (2024) Table ronde autour d’une performance dans un panier en osier. Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 54-55, (doi: 10.4000/12z0d)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2024) Bits and pieces: Fiona Robertson, the grotesque and the Dave Clark Five. In: Fiona Robertson: Tit-Bits. Glasgow School of Art: Glasgow. ISBN 9780993120817

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2024) Walking and ruination. In: Jeffreys, Tom (ed.) Walking: Documents of Contemporary Art. Whitechapel Gallery: London, pp. 116-120. ISBN 9780854883165

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Whitehead, Simon (2024) Folding one place within another: Re-thinking site-specificity in the Anthropocene via Simone Forti’s 5 Dance Constructions and Other Things. In: Hunter, Victoria and Turner, Cathy (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance. Series: Routledge companions. Routledge: London, pp. 301-318. ISBN 9781032254104 (doi: 10.4324/9781003283034-28)

2023

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2023) Un petit lexique théâtral pour Gerard Byrne, illustré de dix images de l’artiste et agrémenté de quelques notes de bas de page. Théâtre/Public, 249, pp. 28-44.

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2023) Avant-garde hygiene and contagion: Artaud's ecology in the chemical century. In: Hopkins, David and Persson, Disa (eds.) Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde. Series: Routledge research in art history. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 182-198. ISBN 9781032284996 (doi: 10.4324/9781003309000-12)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2023) Quelques réflexions sur le paysage, le re-enactment et la théâtralité : politique et écologie. In: Théâtre/ Paysage. Series: Alternatives théâtrales (149). Alternatives théâtrales. ISBN 9782874281310

2022

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2022) Bec(h)oming with Simon Whitehead: practising a logic of sensation. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 10(1), pp. 44-67. (doi: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0004)

2021

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2021) Text for Brian Sweeney’s photographic exhibition: G20, Trongate 103. [Performance]

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2021) Re-readings. Contemporary Theatre Review, 31(3), pp. 355-357. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2021.1946932)[Book Review]

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Whitehead, Simon (2021) Re-pair: Soft Matter: 3 Films. [Performance]

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Whybrow, Nicolas (2021) Special Issue: On Foot [Guest Editor]. Performance Research, 17(2),

2020

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) To sense the city. In: Whybrow, Nicolas (ed.) Urban Sensographies. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9780367808396 (doi: 10.4324/9780367808396)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) Covid Dreams. [Performance]

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) Ten months of THEN/NOW: An exercise in weathered thinking. In: Donald, Minty (ed.) THEN/NOW. University of Glasgow, pp. 281-298. ISBN 9780852619735

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) Theatricality and drifting in the Anthropocene: reading Asger Jorn and Guy Debord's Mémoires as ‘earth book’. Nordic Theatre Studies, 32(1), pp. 159-178. (doi: 10.7146/nts.v32i1.120414)

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) Drifting with Debord [Film]. [Performance]

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) Un-thinking The Rubbish Collection: from plastics to plasticity. In: Mock, Roberta and Paterson, Mary (eds.) Joshua Sofaer: Performance, Objects and Participation. Intellect Books. ISBN 9781789380910

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit. In: Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten E. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science. Series: Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance. Cambridge University Press, pp. 55-69. ISBN 9781108676533 (doi: 10.1017/9781108676533.005)

2019

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) Walking and theatricality: an experiment in weathered thinking (kairos). In: Borthwick, David, Marland, Pippa and Stenning, Anna (eds.) Walking, Landscape and Environment. Routledge. ISBN 9781138630109

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Murray, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0221-3774 (2019) Thinking like a ruin. In: Mitsi, E., Despotopoulou, A., Dimakopoulou, S. and Aretoulakis, E. (eds.) Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249-270. ISBN 9783030269043 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-26905-0_15)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) Comment penser l’image écologique dans le théâtre contemporain: l’image élémentaire dans Some Things Happen All At Once de Mike Brookes et Rosa Casado. thaêtre,

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) How does theatre think through ecology? In: Bleeker, Maaike, Kear, Adrian, Kelleher, Joe and Roms, Heike (eds.) Thinking Through Theatre and Performance. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472579638

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) From street to screen: Debord’s drifting cinema. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 109-119. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1558427)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) Rethinking the dérive: Drifting and theatricality in theatre and performance studies. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1557011)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) Animating tangible futures: Returning (again) to Battleship Island. Performance Research, 24(6), pp. 29-37. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2019.1686591)

Twitchin, Mischa and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) On animism: introduction. Performance Research, 24(6), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2019.1686590)

Twitchin, Mischa and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) Special Issue: On Animism [Guest Editors]. Performance Research, 24(6),

2018

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (Ed.) (2018) Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138554719

Bauer, Julia-Kristina and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2018) Assister au spectacle. Performance Research, 23(6), pp. 65-68. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1533761)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2018) Ecology in Beckett’s Theatre Garden: Or how to cultivate the Oikos. Contemporary Theatre Review, 28(1), pp. 10-26. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2017.1403912)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2018) From weather to climate: a note. Performance Research, 23(4-5), pp. 6-10. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1507348)

2017

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2017) Glasgow glam rock dialogues. Drouth, 57, pp. 65-77.

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2017) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 5-1967. [Performance]

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2017) The Radical as Syncope: An interruptive history of the Paris Commune in 14 1/2 beats. In: Dalmasso, Fred, Dalmasso, Véronique and Jamet, Stéphanie (eds.) La syncope dans la performance et les arts visuels. Le Manuscrit: Paris, France, pp. 213-217. ISBN 9782304046243

2016

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Introduction: performance and ecology: what can theatre do? Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 20(3), pp. 229-236. (doi: 10.1080/14688417.2016.1206695)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Theatre and time/ecology: deceleration in Stifters Dinge and L’Effet de Serge. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 20(3), pp. 304-323. (doi: 10.1080/14688417.2016.1191997)

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 1 - Work. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 2 - Luxury. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 3 - Commune. [Performance]

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Late modernism. In: Gale, Maggie B. and Deeney, John F. (eds.) The Routledge Drama Companion: Modernism to Contemporary Performance. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780415724173

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Participation, ecology, cosmos. In: Frieze, James (ed.) Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 303-315. ISBN 9781137366030 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_22)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) To perform Genet: Tranvseralite, Blessure, Pouvoir. In: Vannouvong, Agnes (ed.) Genet et les Arts. Presses du Reel, pp. 133-47. ISBN 9782840666837

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767, Dixon, Deborah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0846-6959, Hassall, Lee, Pendleton, Mark and Fearnley, Carina (2016) Return to Battleship Island. In: Shaw, Debara B. and Humm, Maggie (eds.) Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice. Series: Radical cultural studies. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, pp. 87-108. ISBN 9781783481514

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? [Guest Editor]. Taylor & Francis.

2015

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2015) Sacred Time/Ecological Time in Beckett's Waiting for Godot (with a little help from Maurice Blanchot). Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, V(1-2), pp. 216-234.

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2015) Ionesco's green lesson: toxic environments, ecologies of air. In: Lavery, Carl and Finburgh, Claire (eds.) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology and Environment, and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472506672

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Taylor Batty, Mark (2015) The secluded voice: the impossible call home in early Pinter. In: Lavery, Carl and Finburgh, Claire (eds.) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology and Environment, and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781472506672

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2015) Beckett. In: Gale, Maggie and Deeney, John F. (eds.) Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. Series: Routledge key guides. Routledge: London, pp. 27-32. ISBN 9780415630368

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2015) Action hero: a lexicon. In: Paintin, Gemma, Stenhouse, James and Lavery, Carl (eds.) Action Plans: Selected Performance Pieces by Action Hero. Oberon Books: London, vi-xxiv. ISBN 9781783195008

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2015) Introduction: Greening the absurd. In: Lavery, Carl and Finburgh, Claire (eds.) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology and Environment, and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury: London.

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2015) Walking and ruination. In: Qualmann, Claire and Hind, Claire (eds.) Ways to Wander. Triarchy Press: Axminster, pp. 9-14. ISBN 9781909470729

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Finburgh, Claire (2015) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, Environment and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781472506672

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Gough, Richard (2015) Performance Research [Editors] Special issue: On Ruins and Ruination. Performance Research, 20(3),

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Hassall, Lee (2015) A future for Hashima: pornography, representation and time. Performance Research, 20(3), pp. 112-125. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1049045)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Gough, Richard (2015) Introduction. Performance Research, 20(3), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1049031)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Gough, Richard (2015) On Ruins and Ruination [Guest Editors]. Performance Research, 20(3),

Paintin, Gemma, Stenhouse, James and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2015) Action Plans: Selected Performance Pieces by Action Hero. Oberon Books: London. ISBN 9781783195008

2014

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2014) Globalisation, glocal, third space theatre. In: Reynolds, Bryan (ed.) Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts, and Theories. Palgrave: London, pp. 193-200. ISBN 9780230247307

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2014) Performing Paris. In: Whybrow, Nicolas (ed.) Performing Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-79. ISBN 9781137032522 (doi: 10.1057/9781137455697.0009)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2014) Polar bears, climate change and the ethics of limitropy. Contemporary Theatre Review, 24(4), pp. 535-537. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2014.965415)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767, Dixon, Deborah P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0846-6959 and Hassall, Lee (2014) The future of ruins: the baroque melancholy of Hashima. Environment and Planning A, 46(11), pp. 2569-2584. (doi: 10.1068/a46179)

2013

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2013) The ecology of the image: the environmental politics of Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio. French Cultural Studies, 24(3), pp. 264-278. (doi: 10.1177/0957155813489095)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2013) Return to Battleship Island. [Performance]

2011

Finburgh, C. and Lavery, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (Eds.) (2011) Contemporary French Theatre and Performance. Series: Performance interventions. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230580510

Williams, D. and Lavery, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (Eds.) (2011) Good Luck Everybody: Lone Twin - Journeys, Performances, Conversations. Performance Research Books: Aberystwyth. ISBN 9781906499020

2010

Lavery, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2010) The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719090158

2009

Heddon, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9136-2151, Lavery, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Smith, P. (2009) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol. ISBN 9781841501550

2008

Chamberlain, Franc, Haney II, William S., Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767, Malekin, Peter and Yarrow, Ralph (2008) Sacred Theatre. Series: Theatre and Consciousness. Intellect Books. ISBN 9781841501536

2006

Finburgh, Clare, Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Shevtsova, Maria (Eds.) (2006) Jean Genet: Performance and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403994806

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Articles

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Whybrow, Nicolas (2021) Special Issue: On Foot [Guest Editor]. Performance Research, 17(2),

Twitchin, Mischa and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) On animism: introduction. Performance Research, 24(6), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2019.1686590)

Twitchin, Mischa and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) Special Issue: On Animism [Guest Editors]. Performance Research, 24(6),

Bauer, Julia-Kristina and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2018) Assister au spectacle. Performance Research, 23(6), pp. 65-68. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1533761)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2018) From weather to climate: a note. Performance Research, 23(4-5), pp. 6-10. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1507348)

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2017) Glasgow glam rock dialogues. Drouth, 57, pp. 65-77.

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Gough, Richard (2015) Performance Research [Editors] Special issue: On Ruins and Ruination. Performance Research, 20(3),

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Gough, Richard (2015) Introduction. Performance Research, 20(3), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1049031)

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Gough, Richard (2015) On Ruins and Ruination [Guest Editors]. Performance Research, 20(3),

Books

Lavery, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2010) The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719090158

Book Sections

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2024) I came across the Tell Tale Rooms purely by chance. In: Kotting, Andrew (ed.) The Tell Tale Rooms. Badbloodandsibyl, pp. 248-251.

Book Reviews

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2021) Re-readings. Contemporary Theatre Review, 31(3), pp. 355-357. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2021.1946932)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (Ed.) (2018) Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138554719

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? [Guest Editor]. Taylor & Francis.

Finburgh, Clare, Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Shevtsova, Maria (Eds.) (2006) Jean Genet: Performance and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403994806

Performance

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2021) Text for Brian Sweeney’s photographic exhibition: G20, Trongate 103. [Performance]

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 and Whitehead, Simon (2021) Re-pair: Soft Matter: 3 Films. [Performance]

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) Covid Dreams. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) Drifting with Debord [Film]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2017) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 5-1967. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 1 - Work. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 2 - Luxury. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 3 - Commune. [Performance]

Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2013) Return to Battleship Island. [Performance]

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Lavery, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2024) Gala Water Unbordered. [Website]

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Grants

2020-: Replaying Performance (LABEX) – CI
2016-17: Reviewing Spectacle: The Past, Presents and Futures of the Situationist International in Contemporary Performance (AHRC): CI
2013: The Future of Ruins: Reclaiming Abandonment and Toxicity on Hashima Island (AHRC: PI)
2013: Creative Resilience Through Community Imaginings (AHRC: CI)
2013: Homing in: Sensing, sense-making and sustainable place making (AHRC: CI)

Supervision

I invite PhD projects that look at:

Ecology and Environment
Politics and Revolution
Cities and Urban Experience
Affect and Sensation
Ruins and Atmosphere
Animism
Anthropocene
Theatre and Philosophy

Current students include:

Hao, Bopeng
Symbiosis in performances: The Vital Pulse of Eco-Scenography
Hassall, Lee
More Than a Passing Pleasure: Performing Transmatic Landscapes in Dorothy Wordsworth’s 1803 Tour Of Scotland.

I have supervised 18 PhDs to completions. These have included work on geochronology, walking, ecology, Absurdism, activism, philosophy, photography, translation, walking, multi-media performance, history and the allegorical image. site-specific performance, postdramatic theatre, participation, space and place, feminism and the abject body. Many of these have been through practice.

I have also examined over 30 PhDs nationally and internationally.

Teaching

I teach on a wide number of under-graduate and MLitt courses, including:

Performance Theory Analysis
Space, Place and Landscape
Making Theatre for Philosophers
Arts Criticism
Making Time
Reading the Stage
Theatre Dissertation
Research Methods
Debating Dramaturgy
Modernism to the Postdramatic

Additional information

I have given numerous keynote papers and invited lectures at Universities in the UK and elsewhere. Some of these have included: Paris Nanterre, University of Utrecht, University of Antwerp, University of Bucharest, University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, University of Athens, University of Bratislava, Finnish Theatre Academy Helsinki, University of Buenos Aires, University of Thessaloniki, and the Dance Centre in Madrid

I have been involved in numerous arts projects, including Future of Ruins, Return to Battleship Island, the Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues, Mourning Walk. The films Return to Battleship Island and Drifting with Debord have been shown in art galleries and films festival internationally. These were funded by the AHRC and LABEX. My collaboration with Simon Whitehead and Lee Hassall Covid Dreams was exhibited in Finland in December 2020

I am currently involved in a project with the choreographer Simon Whitehead on the topic of Re-pair. The project is funded by the Collaborations & Cultural Activities Committee of the School of Culture and Creative Art at the University of Glasgow.

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