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Deputy Head Arts and Media, University of Central Lancashire

Theresa Saxon is Deputy Head in the School of Arts and media at UCLan, with research interests in theatre history, race, gender and performance. Her book, American Theatre: History, Context, Form, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2011 and she has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on popular theatre of the nineteenth century, in the transatlantic and beyond. Her work on Ira Aldridge includes, “Ira Aldridge in the North of England: Provincial Theatre and the Politics of Abolition” Britain's Black Past, ed. Gretchen H. Gerzina, (Liverpool: Liverpool University press), pp. 275–294.

Theresa obtained her first degree and her PhD (2003) at Manchester Metropolitan University and has been teaching at UCLan since 2005.

Theresa is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has been a visiting fellow at the British Library's Eccles centre, and a long-time member of the British Assocation for American Studies, and UCLan's Institute for Black Atlantic Research.

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Central Lancashire