Professor Janelle Reinelt
BA, MA (University of the Pacific), PhD (Stanford)
Biography
Professor Reinelt is one of the most internationally respected academics in the discipline, recently receiving the Distinguished Scholar Award for lifetime achievement from the American Society for Theatre Research (2010). She has served a four-year term as the President of the International Federation for Theatre Research, the leading international academic organisation for theatre and performance studies. She is co-editor of the series Studies in International Performance for Palgrave Macmillan and an ex-editor of Theatre Journal. Her major area of interest is contemporary performance with an emphasis on contemporary British theatre, and international performance research and pedagogy.
Her books include After Brecht: British Epic Theatre (1994), Critical Theory and Performance (1992, co-edited with Joseph Roach; new and revised edition 2007), The Performance of Power: Theatrical Discourse and Politics (1991, co-edited with Sue-Ellen Case), The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights (2000, with Elaine Aston), Crucibles of Change: Social Change and Performance (2000) and Gender in Cultural Performances (2005).
In July 2011, her latest book, co-authored with her partner, political philosopher Gerald Hewitt, was published by Cambridge University Press: The Political Theatre of David Edgar: Negotiation and Retrieval.
She was the international member of the review team for Theatre and Performance Studies for the Research Assessment Exercise while teaching at University of California Irvine, and she is currently a member of the Peer Review College for AHRC.
Research Interests
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Politics and Performance
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International Performance and Culture
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Contemporary British Theatre
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Public Events as Performance
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Performance Theory, especially Feminist and materialist performance
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Documentary Performances
Current Projects:
Leader in overseeing the collaboration between the School and the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi India.
Board of Directors, British Theatre Consortium, a not-for-profit cooperative dedicated to fostering dialogue between the profession and the academy.
IAS Incubation Award with Shirin Rai in PAIS: Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration on Politics and Performance
Forthcoming Publications:
“David Edgar and the Seventies Zeitgeist,” Modern British Playwriting - The Seventies, Chris Megson (Ed.), Methuen, forthcoming 2012, 30 pp.
"David Edgar Interview," Contemporary Theatre Review, commissioned for 2012, 30 pp.
"State of the Profession: Arts and the Academy in the UK," Theatre Survey, forthcoming 2001, 15 pp.
Selected Recent Publications (2007-2010):
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“Creative Ambivalence and Precarious Futures: Women in British Theatre,” Theatre Journal, 62.4 (2010): 553-557.
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“In Defense of Political Correctness,” Theatre Research International, 36.2 (2011): 134-147.
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“Rethinking the Public Sphere for a Global Age,” Performance Research, 16.2 (2011), 16-27.
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“The Epistemology of First-Person Narrative,” Contemporary Drama in English 18, (Proceedings of The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English), eds.Merle Tönnies and Christina Flotmann, (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011): 107-120
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“Towards a Poetics of Theatre and Public Events: The Case of Stephen Lawrence,” Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage, ed. Carol Martin, Palgrave, 2010.
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“Jan Lauwers: Performance Realities—Memory, History, Death,” Contemporary European Theatre Directors, eds. Maria Delgado and Dan Rebellato, Routledge, 2010.
Prof Sue-ellen Case presents Janelle with the Distinguished Scholar Award at the American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference in November 2010
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