Personal statement

Katherine is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Bath Spa. She currently teaches on both of the first year core modules 'Building the ensemble' and 'Investigating theatre and performance' and also supervises third year dissertations. Katherine was nominated for 'Lecturer of the Year' in the Vice Chancellors Awards in the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years.

Katherine supervises PhDs in theatre and performance studies, and is the co-Research Lead for Performing Arts at Bath Spa and sits on the Research Committee for the School of Music and Performing Arts. Katherine is also on the Board of Trustees for the British Shakespeare Association.

Katherine's research is in the field of performance studies (and Shakespearean performance studies) and the main focus of her research is corporeal feminist understandings of the female body in performance, specifically in contemporary productions of early modern plays.

She is particularly interested in the precise and focused analysis of whole bodies, and parts of bodies, in theatrical and televisual performance. Her work also looks at the intersections of race and gender, and works to deconstruct racist ideologies within the performance of Shakespeare.

She is currently developing a book project about reading hair in contemporary performance of Shakespeare as a site of cultural, theatrical, and feminist analysis.

In addition to this she is interested in the relationship between bodies and cameras in performance, and how emerging technologies can impact ideas of framing bodies. She has also recently been working within puppetry and material performance.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD, ‘“My body shall pay recompense”: the embodiment of Margaret in selected staged and televised cycles of the first tetralogy’, Bath Spa University, 2021
  • MA, Performing Shakespeare, Bath Spa University, Distinction, 2015
  • BA, Drama and English Literature, Bath Spa University, 2:1, 2014
  • PGCert, PGCHE, Bath Spa University, Merit, 2024.

Professional memberships

  • Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association

Other external roles

  • Teacher in the Department of Theatre, University of Bristol

Teaching specialism

  • Shakespeare
  • Feminist theory and theatre practices
  • Performance studies
  • Semiotics
  • Performance histories
  • Archival research methods
  • Ensemble theatre making
  • Physical theatre
  • Dance theatre
  • Staging text.