Helen Gilbert
Fellow
Helen Gilbert is Professor of Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she directs the Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research and co-convenes the College’s interdisciplinary Postcolonial Research Group. Educated in Australia and Canada, she has published widely on theatre and performance in various parts of the world as well as teaching across a range of subjects in postcolonial fields. Her books include Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia (co-written with Jacqueline Lo, Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology, Sightlines: Race, Gender and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre, and Postcolonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics (co-author Joanne Tompkins). She is currently finishing a collaborative book on the fascinating cultural history of orangutans and leading an interdisciplinary and multinational project on Indigeneity and performance, funded until 2014 by the European Research Council.
Helen Gilbert is Professor of Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she directs the Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research and co-convenes the College’s interdisciplinary Postcolonial Research Group. Educated in Australia and Canada, she has published widely on theatre and performance in various parts of the world as well as teaching across a range of subjects in postcolonial fields. Her books include Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia (co-written with Jacqueline Lo, Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology, Sightlines: Race, Gender and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre, and Postcolonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics (co-author Joanne Tompkins). She is currently finishing a collaborative book on the fascinating cultural history of orangutans and leading an interdisciplinary and multinational project on Indigeneity and performance, funded until 2014 by the European Research Council.
