Speaker's biography
Mary is a Lecturer in Drama and Literature at the University of Essex. Before joining Essex in 2016, Mary was a Lecturer in Theatre Theory and Contemporary Practice at Goldsmiths in the Theatre and Performance Department (2015-2016). In 2012-2014, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University - Singapore in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. For several years, she has been a Research Associate at Soas, University of London where she lectured in Chinese Theatre and Cinema.
In addition to theatre, she has a strong expertise in Literature (World, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature and Women’s writing). Her monograph Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre, published with Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, has attracted excellent reviews. As a playwright, her plays have been widely staged in both UK (Southwark Playhouse, Old Red Lion etc.) and China.
Post-seminar reception
The seminar will be followed by drinks in the Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies Common Room (5NW.6.1) from 18:30.