Currently at the University of Brighton. Final year creative writing, creative practice thesis – “Re(-)collecting cabaret. A queer haunted autoethnography of real, researched and imagined stories of cabaret past and present.’
Interests include:
The undocumented history of dancers working in the cabaret nightclubs of Europe in the 1970s, 1980s, from a lived experience perspective.
The history of the modern cabaret in fin-de-siècle Paris (1881- 1900), and how the different forms of entertainment and people became cabaret as we know it in the twenty-first century.
Areas of study: autoethnography, hauntology, the queering of linearity and time in creative writing, magical realism and cabaret.
Articles/links:
‘Disremembered Cabaret Histories’, in Socially Engaged Creative Practice, Contemporary Case Studies (Performance & Communities), Jess Moriarty & Kate Aughterson eds, (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2024), pp. 69-81.
Digital Storytelling for the University of Brighton. Ghostcards from the Meggs.
https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/digitalstorytelling/projects/digital-storytelling-for-phd-students/ or
PhD Place. From Dancer to Writer. An unconventional Path into Academia.
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