Dr Claire Warden (nee Altree)

School of Performing Arts LPAC University of Lincoln Brayford Pool Lincoln LN6 7TS Email: cwarden@lincoln.ac.uk Website: www.clairewarden.net

Education
The University of Edinburgh Sept 2004-Aug 2007 PhD in Drama, English Literature and Politics University of Edinburgh Scholarship Thesis: Tradition, Innovation and Politics: the stage work of Ewan MacColl and Theatre Workshop Supervisors: Dr Olga Taxidou, Dr Roger Savage Examiners: Prof Terry Eagleton, Dr Simon Malpas The University of Edinburgh MSc in Writing and Cultural Politics The University of Wales, Aberystwyth. BA (Hons) English Literature (first class) 2002 Undergraduate departmental prize. Sept 2003-Sep 2004 Sept 1999-June 2002

Faculty Positions
University of Lincoln Jan 2010Lecturer in Drama Module coordinator: Study Skills (designed), Dissertation (designed), Modern European Drama (co-designed), Documentary Theatre (designed) Lecturer/Tutor: Reading Performance, The Musical Responsibility for departmental response to plagiarism Research mentor for junior colleagues MPhil co-supervisor External MPhil examiner The University of Edinburgh Sept 2009-Dec 2009 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Tutor: Introduction to English Literature, Introduction to Drama, Canadian Literature Visiting Lecturer: Research Methods (designed), European Theatre (designed)

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http://www.theatrestudies.llc.ed.ac.uk/workshops.html Queen Margaret University Jan 2007-June 2008 Visiting Lecturer Lecturer/Tutor: Twentieth-Century Performance (designed), Critical Theory (designed), Analysing Performance (designed). Scottish Universities International Summer School Tutor Tutor: British and Irish Modernism The University of Edinburgh Guest Lecturer Theatre History Seminar Leader: Politics of Performance The University of Edinburgh Tutor in English Literature Tutor: Introduction to English Literature July 2006, 2007, 2008

Feb 2006-2008

Sept 2005-June 2008

Further Teaching/Administrative Experience

Teaching Professional Standards Framework University of Lincoln Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (standard descriptor 2) Nov 2011

Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes 11-13 June 2009 Dialogues of Enlightenment University of Edinburgh Involved in the organisation team for this conference Teaching Assistant (TA) Representative Department of English Literature University of Edinburgh Jan-June 2008

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Publishing Record Books

British Avant-Garde Theatre. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012 [forthcoming].

Chapters in Books
Dirty Old Town: the ambivalent Northern city in Ewan MacColls Landscape with Chimneys in Katharine Cockin (ed.) The Literary North. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012 [forthcoming].

Articles in Refereed Journals

Hassan: Iraq on the British Stage. Theatre Notebook (2012) [forthcoming] Ewan MacColl, the brilliant young Scots dramatist: Regional myth-making and Theatre Workshop. International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen 4:1 (September 2011). Online: http://erc.qmu.ac.uk/OJS/index.php/IJOSTS. Reappropriating the Pace-Egging tradition: Ewan MacColls St George and the Dragon. Modern Drama 53:2 (Summer 2010): 232-243. The shadows fly before the rush of light: Expressionist experimentation and political efficacy in Ewan MacColls The Other Animals. New Theatre Quarterly (February 2008): 317-325.

Research Notes
Mass Performance and Dance. Routledge Encyclopaedia of Modernism (2012) [forthcoming] Politics, War and Adaptation: Ewan MacColls Operation Olive Branch. Comparative Drama 44/45 (Spring 2011): 536-538.

Book/Performance Reviews
Review of Othello, Early Modern Studies Journal 16.1 (Spring 2012) [forthcoming] Contributor to the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. London: Routledge [ongoing] Review of Troilus and Cressida. Shakespeare Bulletin (Spring 2007): 121-123.

Conferences
'SMASH THE BARS': incarceration and emancipation in the theatrical cages of the modernist avant-garde. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Network: Material Meanings. University of Kent, Dr Claire Warden CV Page 3

September 2012 [panel paper] The caged and the free: the working body in the modernist avant-garde Performance Studies International 18: performance: culture: industry. Leeds, UK, June 2012 [panel paper] Escape, Romance and Politics: the dialogue between the country and the city in British 1930s theatre ASTR/CORD: Embodying Power: Work Over Time. Seattle, Washington, November 2010 [seminar paper]. Ewan MacColl, the brilliant young Scots dramatist: Regional myth-making and Theatre Workshop. Regional Spaces, National Stages: Performances beyond London, 1945-2010. University of Reading, September 2010 [panel paper]. Not a minutes silence but a lifetime of struggle: Edinburgh Theatre Workshops political carnivalesque. What Happens Now? 21st Century Writing in English. University of Lincoln, July 2010 [panel paper]. The human body which we shape and mould like a potter his clay: Rudolf Labans influence on the aesthetic project of Theatre Workshop. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Network: Europa! Europa? University of Ghent, Belgium, May 2008 [panel paper]. The Divided Self: fragmentation of the psyche in Ewan MacColls The Other Animals Second International Conference on Consciousness. Theatre, Literature and the Arts, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, May 2007 [panel paper]. Dirty Old Town: the presentation of Salford in the theatre of Ewan MacColl. The Literary North, University of Hull, May 2006 [panel paper].

Media
Regular contributor to academic publishing blog, www.phd2published.com Invited panellist What does good teaching look like in Higher Education? http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/apr/11/teacher-trainingfor-academics (April 2012)

Grants
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Amiel and Melburn Trust 210 Trips to the Basil Dean Archive, John Rylands Library (Manchester) to research the 1943 Salute to the Red Army in preparation for a forthcoming journal article.

Further Research Experience

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities June 2009-Aug 2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow British Avant-Garde Theatre Theatre Workshop Archivist and Researcher Archive accepted by the National Library of Scotland Consultant for website http://www.theatre-workshop.com/ Programme Notes for Marat/Sade (Nov 2008) Aug 2008-Oct 2008

Co-founder and Editor Autumn 2006-Spring 2007 Forum: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts http://forum.llc.ed.ac.uk

Performance Experience
Grade 7 Singing Grade 5 Music Theory First Soprano with Rudsambee Company of Singers http://www.rudsambee.org.uk/ (200510)

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