Dr Cristina Delgado-Garcia

  • Lecturer in Theatre and Performance (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

Biography

I joined the Theatre Studies team at Glasgow in 2018, having previously worked at the University of Birmingham, the University of Leeds and Manchester Metropolitan University. I hold a PhD in Theatre Studies (Aberystwyth) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Birmingham), and I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Originally from Barcelona, Spain, I arrived to theatre scholarship enjoying the scenic route. I completed a BA in Journalism and a BA in English Philology (both at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and an MA in Post-1900s Literatures, Theories and Cultures (Manchester). My first professional experiences were in supporting the organisation and delivery of international music festivals and, later, in the radio as a DJ, arts magazine programme host and broadcast journalist (news editor, presenter and producer). This academic and professional background was crucial in the development of my research interests in dramatic histories and new developments, contemporary experimental theatre in dialogue with other visual and performing arts, and the relationship of both to current affairs. These continue to be at the heart of my research. 

Research interests

My research specialism is in contemporary British/European theatre since 1990 and its relationship to political and philosophical questions pertinent to our socio-historical conjuncture. Much of my research has focused on politically-motivated theatres, but I am also keen to find the political elsewhere in theatre-making. My recent publications and conference presentations have explored the ways in which theatre articulates and anticipates forms of resistance to – or indeed compliance with – hegemonic ideology. I have written on contemporary theatre and queer identities, collective agency, dissident understandings of time, the dramaturgical uses of consensus and consent, ecology, and theatrical visions of democracy. 

Following the publication of my first monograph, Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity (2015), I co-edited the collection Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage (2021) with Prof Mireia Aragay (Barcelona) and Prof Martin Middeke (Augsburg/Johannesburg). This was the first output of an international research project entitled "British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community", led by Prof Aragay and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund. My next research project focuses on British theatre-maker Tim Crouch, on which I am preparing a monograph for Manchester University Press.

Publications

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2024

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2024) A Citizens' Assembly. [Website]

2021

Aragay, Mireia, Delgado-García, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 and Middeke, Martin (Eds.) (2021) Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783030584856

Aragay, Mireia, Delgado-García, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 and Middeke, Martin (2021) Introduction: thinking-feeling our way. In: Aragay, Mireia, Delgado-García, Cristina and Middeke, Martin (eds.) Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9783030584856 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58486-3_1)

Delgado-García, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2021) Contemporary British theatre, democracy and affect: states of feeling. In: Aragay, Mireia, Delgado-García, Cristina and Middeke, Martin (eds.) Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 149-170. ISBN 9783030584856 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58486-3_8)

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2021) Introduction. In: X [by Alistair McDowall]. Series: Modern classics. Bloomsbury Meuthen Drama. ISBN 9781350088443

2019

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) An interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea, part five. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) An interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea, part four. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) An interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea, part one. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) An interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea, part three. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) An interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea, part two. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) A programme note from Summer. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

2017

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2017) “We’re All in This Together”: reality, vulnerability and democratic representation in Tim Crouch’s The Author. In: Aragay, Mireia and Middeke, Martin (eds.) Of Precariousness: vulnerabilities, responsibilities, communities in 21st-century British drama and theatre. Series: CDE studies (28). Walter de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110546743 (doi: 10.1515/9783110548716-007)

2016

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2016) “Who Is the Performer and Who Is the Spectator?”. Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea in conversation with Cristina Delgado-Garcia. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 4(1), pp. 212-226. (doi: 10.1515/jcde-2016-0016)

2015

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2015) Making time: the prefigurative politics of Quarantine's Entitled. In: Zaroulia, Marilena and Hager, Philip (eds.) Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137379368 (doi: 10.1057/9781137379375)

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2015) Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity. Series: CDE studies, 26. de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110403909

Delgado-García, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2015) Invisible spaces for the "impossible" state: national identity and the production of space in Joe Sacco's Palestine. ImageTexT, 8(1),

2014

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2014) Dematerialised political and theatrical legacies: rethinking the roots and influences of Tim Crouch’s work. Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts, 8(1), pp. 69-85.

2012

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2012) Review of: Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice, Megan Alrutz, Julia Listengarten, M. Van Duyn Wood (eds) (2012). Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre and Performance, 3(1), pp. 77-79. (doi: 10.1386/peet.3.1.77_5)[Book Review]

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2012) Subversion, refusal, and contingency: the transgression of liberal-humanist subjectivity and characterization in Sarah Kane’s Cleansed, Crave, and 4.48 Psychosis. Modern Drama, 55(2), pp. 230-250. (doi: 10.3138/md.55.2.230)

2010

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2010) Decentring discourse, self-centred politics: radicalism and the self in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 31(1), pp. 15-28.

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Articles

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2016) “Who Is the Performer and Who Is the Spectator?”. Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea in conversation with Cristina Delgado-Garcia. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 4(1), pp. 212-226. (doi: 10.1515/jcde-2016-0016)

Delgado-García, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2015) Invisible spaces for the "impossible" state: national identity and the production of space in Joe Sacco's Palestine. ImageTexT, 8(1),

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2014) Dematerialised political and theatrical legacies: rethinking the roots and influences of Tim Crouch’s work. Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts, 8(1), pp. 69-85.

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2012) Subversion, refusal, and contingency: the transgression of liberal-humanist subjectivity and characterization in Sarah Kane’s Cleansed, Crave, and 4.48 Psychosis. Modern Drama, 55(2), pp. 230-250. (doi: 10.3138/md.55.2.230)

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2010) Decentring discourse, self-centred politics: radicalism and the self in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 31(1), pp. 15-28.

Books

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2015) Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity. Series: CDE studies, 26. de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110403909

Book Sections

Aragay, Mireia, Delgado-García, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 and Middeke, Martin (2021) Introduction: thinking-feeling our way. In: Aragay, Mireia, Delgado-García, Cristina and Middeke, Martin (eds.) Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9783030584856 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58486-3_1)

Delgado-García, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2021) Contemporary British theatre, democracy and affect: states of feeling. In: Aragay, Mireia, Delgado-García, Cristina and Middeke, Martin (eds.) Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 149-170. ISBN 9783030584856 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58486-3_8)

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2021) Introduction. In: X [by Alistair McDowall]. Series: Modern classics. Bloomsbury Meuthen Drama. ISBN 9781350088443

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) An interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea, part five. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) An interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea, part four. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) An interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea, part one. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) An interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea, part three. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) An interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea, part two. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2019) A programme note from Summer. In: Banham, Simon, Hunter, Sarah, Brady, Michael and O'Shea, Renny (eds.) Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Staging Life and Death By Quarantine. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526143471

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2017) “We’re All in This Together”: reality, vulnerability and democratic representation in Tim Crouch’s The Author. In: Aragay, Mireia and Middeke, Martin (eds.) Of Precariousness: vulnerabilities, responsibilities, communities in 21st-century British drama and theatre. Series: CDE studies (28). Walter de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110546743 (doi: 10.1515/9783110548716-007)

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2015) Making time: the prefigurative politics of Quarantine's Entitled. In: Zaroulia, Marilena and Hager, Philip (eds.) Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137379368 (doi: 10.1057/9781137379375)

Book Reviews

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2012) Review of: Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice, Megan Alrutz, Julia Listengarten, M. Van Duyn Wood (eds) (2012). Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre and Performance, 3(1), pp. 77-79. (doi: 10.1386/peet.3.1.77_5)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Aragay, Mireia, Delgado-García, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 and Middeke, Martin (Eds.) (2021) Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783030584856

Website

Delgado-Garcia, Cristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-6774 (2024) A Citizens' Assembly. [Website]

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Grants

  • 2017-2020: “British theatre in the twenty-first century: crisis, affect, community”. Role: Co-investigator. Principal Investigator: Prof Mireia Aragay (Barcelona). Funding bodies: Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad; European Regional Development Fund. Funds: €50,000.

  • 2014: “Representations of precariousness in contemporary British theatre”. Role: Co-investigator. Principal Investigator: Prof Martin Middeke (Augsburg). Funding body: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Funds: €6,690.

  • 2013-2016: “Ethical issues in contemporary British theatre since 1989: globalisation, theatricality, spectatorship”. Role: Co-investigator. Principal Investigator: Prof Mireia Aragay (Barcelona). Funding body: Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Funds: €62,000.

Supervision

I very much welcome enquiries from potential PhD students interested in pursuing their project at the University of Glasgow focusing on any of these fields:

  • Contemporary playwriting, theatre and performance in Britain.
  • Contemporary European theatre and performance.
  • Political theatres, socially-engaged theatre practice and delegated performance.
  • Theatre and political/cultural theory.

You can email me to discuss your project at Cristina.DelgadoGarcia@glasgow.ac.uk.

I am currently co-supervising three PhD projects.

The first examines engagement, participation and social impact in (post)pandemic Scottish theatre and is a Collaborative Doctoral Award in partnership with the National Theatre of Scotland. This is undertaken by Nic Green.

The second is a practice-research project exploring new approaches to studying, creating and publishing performance work that straddles and exceeds the traditions of dramatic playwriting and live art. This is undertaken by Alan McKendrick.

The third is a project considering the politics and poetics of multilingualism in contemporary Scottish theatre. This is undertaken by Léa Moniotte.

  • Green, Nic
    Theatre Without Walls: Rethinking Engagement, Participation and Social Impact in (Post)Pandemic Scottish Theatre

I have supervised one PhD project to completion on documentary strategies in contemporary theatre and performance (University of Birmingham).

I also supervised supervised several visiting doctoral researchers: Elisabeth Massana on queerness, terror and contemporary British theatre (Universitat de Barcelona, 2019); Claudia Maya on contemporary British theatre and affect (Universitat de Barcelona, 2014) and Qinhan Zhou on the theatre of David Greig (Shanghai Theatre Academy, 2024-25).

In addition to this, I have examined five PhDs, nationally and internationally (University of Glasgow; Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; Birmingham City University; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; University of Western Australia)

Teaching

In the academic year 2024-25, I teach in and/or convene the following courses:

Additional information

Roles at the University of Glasgow, 2024-25

  • PGR convenor for the School of Culture and Creative Arts
  • MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy convenor

 

Current and recent external roles

 

Conference co-organisation & facilitation

  • Co-convenorship and curation of the Political Performances Working Group sessions for the annual IFTR congress, with Prof Trish Reid and Dr Julia Boll: 
    • Shifting Centres (In the Middle of Nowhere) (Reykjavík, July 2022)
    • Theatre Ecologies: Environments, Sustainability, and Politics (Galway, July 2021)
    • Theatre, Performance and Urbanism (Shanghai Theatre Academy, July 2019)
    • Theatre and Migration (Belgrade, July 2018).
  • Co-facilitator of two workshops on theatre and democracy, with Lucy Ellinson, Dr Aneta Mancewicz and Chris Thorpe. Radical Mischief: A Conference Inviting Experiment in Theatre, Thought and Politics. The Other Place, RSC. Stratford-Upon-Avon. July 2018.
  • Co-organiser of the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD), with Dr Caroline Radcliffe and Dr Paul Geary. University of Birmingham. June 2018.
  • Co-organiser of the 24th annual conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), with Prof Mireia Aragay and Dr Enric Monforte. Theatre and Spectatorship. University of Barcelona. June 2015.

 

Keynotes and invited research seminars

  • Inaugural lecture. 'The centre cannot hold: research in the arts and humanities towards a sustaining future'. Cultural Identities PGR symposium. Universitat de Barcelona, Nov 2023.
  • Invited talk. 'Approaching theatrical character against anthropocentric cultural orientations'. Cambridge Graduate Drama and Performance Seminar. University of Cambridge, March 2023.
  • Keynote presentation. '"Birth me in reverse": Returning to character otherwise'.  Resisting Theatre: Plays, Politics and the Academy. Royal Holloway University of London and University of York, June 2021.
  • Invited research seminars. 'Labours Lost: Delegated Performance and the Work of Erasure'. University of Lincoln, December 2017; University of Reading, November 2017.
  • Keynote presentation. 'The Work of Others: Delegated Performance, the Workers and Their Double'. Theatre, Performance & Employment symposium. Queen Mary, University of London. February 2017.

 

Conversations and public engagement

  • Invited speaker. Different Stages research showcase event, part of 'Different Stages: Exploring public engagement for Drama and Theatre early career academics', a British Academy-funded project run by Dr Naomi Paxton. Glasgow Women’s Library, January 2020.

Dr Cristina Delgado Garcia