My teaching encompasses devised political performance; archiving and performance documentation; (post)digital practices; and live art. My research specialisms concern the ‘staging’ of free speech culture war politics; the digital performativity of far-right movements; and XR technologies. I have published articles on these topics in world-leading academic journals including Studies in Theatre and Performance, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Contemporary Theatre Review, and Performance Research. I have also been published in several non-academic journals, including HowlRound Theatre Commons, Yorkshire Bylines, International Arts Manager, and Theatre Bubble. External sector engagement includes acting as a convener for the TaPRA working group Performance and New Technologies from 2024-2026 and longstanding commitments as an associate academic with Hydrocracker theatre company and the Berlin School of VR.
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Dr Joseph Dunne-Howrie
Co-Programme Director MA/MFA Performance
Publications / Research Outputs (selected)
Books:
- Staging Free Speech: British Culture Wars and the Battle for Representation (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan)
- Performance and Postdigital Extremism: Conspiracy, Influencers, and Gaming (forthcoming, Bloomsbury)
Articles:
- Internet Theatre and the Historical Consciousness of the COVID-19 Era (2021)
- Networked Audience Participation: The Futurity of Post-Brexit Democracy in One Day, Maybe and Operation Black Antler (2021)
- The Post Immersive Manifesto (co-authored with Jorge Lopes Ramos; Persis Jade Maravala; and Bart Simon)
Book Chapter:
- Hacking the Archives: The 2012 Olympic Legacy, Fun Palaces, and Game Theatre in Clive Barker and His Legacy (2023)
Education / Academic Qualifications
- Rose Bruford College. Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
- University of Lincoln. PhD in Drama, 2015
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2012
- University of Exeter. MA in Theatre Practice: Distinction, 2009
- University of Exeter. BA (Hons) in Drama: First, 2006
Additional
I am open to PhD Supervision Topics:
- Performance and extremist politics
- Culture wars
- Artistic censorship
- Immersive, interactive and participatory performance
- Digital practice – XR, VR, AR, and AI
- Archives and documentation
Events (selected)
- Convener. Aesthetics of Postdigital Extremism Symposium. University of East London, 13 May 2026
- Convener. TaPRA Performance and New Technologies Working Group: Postdigital and AI Dramaturgies: Gen Alpha and the Politics of Care in Online Performance. TaPRA Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 27-29 August 2025
- Convener. Futures After the Pandemic. Transmedial Stages and Posthuman Dramaturgies. TaPRA Interim Event: Performance and New Technologies Working Group, Rose Bruford College, 9 May 2025
Conference Papers (selected)
- Free Speech and National Identity: DV8’s Verbatim Turn in Can We Talk About This?
IFTR Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, 6-10 July 2026 - Staging Cultural Decline: The War on Woke at the Battle of Ideas
EASTAP Annual Conference: Decentre. Distribute. Democratise. Guildhall School, 3-6 September 2025 - Staging Cultural Decline: The War on Woke at the Battle of Ideas
Comparative Drama Conference. LAMDA, 9-11 July 2025 - Staging the War on Woke at the Battle of Ideas. Decadence and War: Crisis, Chaos, and Culture Wars
Goldsmiths, University of London, 27 June 2025