Dr Kate Adams

Lecturer in English and Drama

• Crescent House 514
• T: 0161 295 5502
• E: k.r.adams@salford.ac.uk
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Kate Adams graduated with a PhD in contemporary theatre and the rise of the spectacle from the University of Hull in 2009. She has worked full time at the University of Salford for several years and now lectures part time, spending half the year working on writing and performance.

Kate convenes and teaches Contemporary Approaches to Writing and Performance and Performance and the Postdramatic, both core modules for students studying English and Drama and Drama and Creative writing. She also convenes Introduction to Drama the core first year module running across all programmes in the English subject group.

At postgraduate level, Kate has taught on Ballard and Burgess on the Literature Culture and Modernity MA.

Beginning from a concern with the politics of form, Kate is interested in how the theatre event functions as part of a society which places more and more emphasis on the experiential body. Her primary focus is on spectatorship, participation and transformation, but she is also interested in the construction of shifting experiences of time.

She is currently located in Athens for part of the year, where she is leading a practice based research project into performance and the transformative.

At PhD level, she is particularly interested in supervising applicants with interests in the transformative in performance, experiential and interactive theatre and spectatorship, time and performance, and more widely the politics of form.

PhD :  “From Narrative to Spectacle: An examination of Contemporary Theatre performance”, University of Hull, 2009.

PGCE:  Secondary English and Drama, Institute of Education, 2001

BA (Hons) English Studies, University of Nottingham, 1999

'Contemporary Theatre and the Experiential', International Journal for the Arts in Society, 5(4), 2010, pp.153-163.

‘Social Collaboration: Joining Forces on the Digital Frontier’, co-authored, Creative commons, Switzerland and UK, 2008. http://www.scribd.com/doc/8997505/Whitepaper-Social-Collaboration.

'The Threshold of the real: A Site for Participatory Resistance in Blast Theory's Uncle Roy All Around You ', Body, Space, Technology, 6(1), 2006