Dr Victoria Price
- Senior Lecturer (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
telephone:
01413304061
email:
Victoria.Price@glasgow.ac.uk
R306 Level 3, TFTV Studies, Gilmorehill Halls, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Research interests
Office hours: Wednesday 12-1pm
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; Shakespearean adaptations; dramaturgies of adaptation; Scottish theatre and drama.
Research Projects
Vicky is currently working on a monograph on Scottish Adaptations of Shakespeare.
Grants
- 2019 Collaborations and Cultural Activities Award: £500 for Scotland’s Dramaturgies symposium (with Graham Eatough, Simon Murray and Stephen Greer)
- 2019 Knowledge Exchange Fund: £1,572 for Scotland’s Dramaturgies symposium. (With Simon Murray, Graham Eatough and Stephen Greer)
- 2017 Chancellors Fund: £5000 for Last Futures: a programme of events at the Tramway to mark the 50th anniversary of 1968 Cross-institutional project with Glasgow School of Art, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- 2015 Chancellors Fund: £5000 for Shakespeare 400: a programme of events to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death
- 2015 Creative Practices Fund: £300 to facilitate a workshop on Exploring Socially Engaged Arts Practice
- 2014 L&T Fund: £18,116 to lead a project on Work-Based Learning and a Review and Development of PGT Placement Provision
- 2014 LTDF Fund: £13,196 for a project on Framing the Student Journey: Using LinkedIn to Increase Student Engagement with the Development of Graduate Attributes. (With Dorothy Aidulis, Dickon Copsey and Gordon Curry, Glasgow University)
- 2011 Carnegie Trust small research grant
- 2011 Erasmus Teaching mobility grant, University of Turku
- 2011 Chancellors Fund: £5000 for the creation of a Creative Practices Fund in School of CCA to support the practice work of students and to foster cross-school collaborative projects
Supervision
Vicky would welcome applications from PhD and MPhil students wishing to undertake research in early modern theatre and drama; Shakespearean Adaptations; and, Scottish theatre and drama. 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.
Recently completed PhD students
- Gillian Dyson-Moss, ‘A Contemporary Feminist Uncanny? An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Object and Performer in Solo Performance Art’ (co-supervisor)
- Molly Ziegler, ‘Staging Madness: Representations of Madness on the Early Modern Stage’ (lead supervisor)
- Laura Bissell, ' The female body, technology and performance: performing a feminist praxis' (co-supervisor)
- Andrew Henry, ‘Documenting Landscape Performance: Strategies, Complexities and Potentials’ (co-supervisor)
- Eilidh Kane: 'Collaboration and Canonicity: Thomas Middleton and the Construction of an Author' (co-supervisor)
- Emanuela Ponti, 'Performing Dreams in England and Spain, 1570-1670' (1st supervisor)
- Ann-Christine Simke, ‘Berlinische Dramaturgien: Dramaturgical Practices in the German Metropolis’ (co-supervisor)
Recently completed MPhil students
- Markee Rambo-Hood, 'The use of music in Brecht's work' (2nd supervisor)
- Harry Wilson: 'The Role of the Director in Contemporary Collaborative and Devised Theatre' (co-supervisor)
Current PhD students
- Arvaniti, Maria
Otherworlds on Stage: Interweaving Dramaturgies in Fairy Fantasies - Gates, Samuel
Robert Johnson, William Shakespeare and the Ariel Songs from The Tempest: a nexus of change for song on the Shakespearean stage.
Teaching
- Reading the Stage (Level 1)
- Theatre and Society (Level 1)
- Classical to Modern (Level 2)
- Shakespearean Adaptations (Honours option)
- Shaping Futures: Theatre and Cultural Policy (Honours option)
- Setting the Scene (Interdisciplinary honours option, delivered across History of Art and Theatre Studies)
- Women and Drama in the English Renaissance Period (Honours option)
- Arts Criticism (Honours option)
- Dissertations (Honours)
- Reading and Interpreting Performance (MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy)
- Research Methods (MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy)
- Dramaturgy Placement (PGT)
- Theatre Archive Placement (MLitt Theatre Studies)
- Independent Research Project (MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy; MLitt Theatre History)
In 2014/15, Vicky was nominated by her students for and went onto win the award for Best Feedback at the SRC Student Teaching Awards.
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
Additional information
Administration
- Dean of Postgraduate Teaching, College of Arts
- Coordinator of CoA Learning, Teaching & Scholarship (LTS) Forum
- CoA Lead for SFC Upskilling Project and Member of Upskilling Project Oversight Group
- Member of University Learning & Teaching Committee
- Member of Senate Student Conduct Committee
Previous administrative roles include:
- Deputy Dean of Learning & Teaching, College of Arts (Jan 2019 – Dec 2020)
- Convenor of Level One Theatre Studies (2018-2021)
- Convenor of Graduate Studies for the School of Culture and Creative Arts (2014-2015, and 2017-2019)
- Convenor of MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy programme (2011-2018)
- Convenor of MLitt Theatre Studies programme (2011-2018)
- Convenor of Postgraduate Taught for Theatre Studies (2011-2018)
- Convenor of MLitt Theatre History programme (2012-2016)
- College of Arts Graduate Attributes Champion (October 2012 – August 2015)
- Member of Graduate Attributes Implementation Group (October 2012-August 2015)
- Convenor of Postgraduate Research in Theatre Studies (September 2011- August 2014)
- Head of Theatre Studies (September 2007- August 2011)
- Advisor of Studies (September 2008-August 2011)
- Senior Honours convenor (September 2006-August 2011)
External responsibilities
- Member of SCUDD Postgraduate Subcommittee (2018-date)
- External Examiner for the BA (Hons) Drama at the University of Wolverhampton (2017-2021)
- External Examiner for the MA Drama by Research at the University of Wolverhampton (2017-2021)
- External Examiner for the BA (Hons) Drama and Performance at University of the Highlands and Islands (2017-2021)
- External Examiner for the MA Arts (Drama) at De Montfort University (2014-2017)
- External Examiner for the BA Drama Studies at De Montfort University (2013-2017)
- Board member of A Moment's Peace Theatre Company (2013-2017)
- Academic Consultant for BBC iwonder theatre guide (2015)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy