Dr Andrew Burton
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Email
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Location
5NW.6.8, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Tuesdays during term time 14:00 - 16:00
Profile
Biography
I teach a range of Drama and Creative Writing modules. My research interests centre around theatre and the environment.
Qualifications
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PhD University of Essex, (2023)
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BA Joint Hons University of Hull, (1983)
Appointments
University of Essex
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Fixed-term teacher, Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (9/9/2024 - 31/7/2025)
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Writing and Making Audio Drama (LT146)
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Dramatic Structure (LT913)
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Theatre Making: Autobiography (TH142)
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Tragedy and Theatre Writing (TH243)
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Naturalism and After (TH341)
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Independent Practical Theatre Project (TH831)
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Performance Project (TH984)
Publications
Journal articles (5)
Burton, A., Ecological apocalypticism in Ella Hickson's Oil, Lucy Kirkwood's The Children and Duncan Macmillan's Lungs. Brief Encounters. 1 (5)
Burton, A., A Flat Place. Green Letters, 1-3
Burton, A., A Flat Place by Noreen Masud, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2023, 240 pp., £16.99 (hardback), ISBN 9780241544051. Green Letters
Burton, A., (2024). Towards an Ecocritical Theatre: Playing the Anthropocene. Green Letters. 28 (1-2), 123-126
Burton, A., (2021). Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility. Green Letters. 25 (2), 192-195
Contact
Academic support hours:
Tuesdays during term time 14:00 - 16:00