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Dr Elizabeth Bennett

Positions held:
  • Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
  • Programme Director, Theatre BA; School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Dr Elizabeth Bennett (she/her) is a Lecturer in Theatre. Her teaching at Birkbeck includes Theatremaking, Performing Theatre Histories, Theatre in London Now: Histories, Theories, and Student-Led, and the Independent Research Project.

    Her main areas of interest are contemporary performance in relation to space, place, and landscape, participatory performance practices, community arts, performative writing, and voice. Her monograph 'Performing Folk Songs: Affect, Landscape and Repertoire' is published by Bloomsbury in Jan 2024.

    Prior to her appointment at Birkbeck, she held a lectureship in theatre at the University of Essex teaching a range of topic including theatre and human rights, theatre and gender, voice and movement, lyric writing and psychogeography.

    She has previously worked as a postdoctoral performance researcher, at UEA, Surrey, and Royal Holloway, researching street music, arts pedagogy and autoethnography, research with communities, and the Public Acts programme at The National Theatre, London

    Elizabeth has held visiting lecturer posts at Royal Holloway University of London and the University of Winchester, designing courses that explore theatre, geography, performance, and mobility.

    Highlights

    • 2022 University of Essex Excellence in Education Award, awarded for Student Engagement and Inclusion 

    Administrative responsibilities

    • Admission Tutor
    • Prrogramme Director

    Professional activities

    External Panelist, Queen Margaret University 

    Honours and awards

    • Fellow , HEA, May 2021
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • The Arts: Perspectives and Possibilities (ARAR008S3)
    • Creative Arts, Culture and Communication Postgraduate Research (AREN060Z8)
    • Performing Theatre Histories (Critical Practice I) (AREN096S4)
    • Adaptations: Theories and Practices in Contemporary Performance (AREN199S5)
    • Theatremaking (AREN290Z4)
    • Theatre in London Now: Histories (ENHU001S4)
    • Theatre in London Now: Student Led Project: level 6, 30 credits (ENHU001S6)
    • Theatre in London Now: Theories (ENHU001Z5)
    • Independent Research Project in Theatre and Performance (ENHU103S6)