Theatre and Ghosts ― Materiality, Performance and Modernity

Mary Luckhurst is Professor of Artistic Research and Creative Practice at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She co-founded the new Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York, UK, and is a pioneer in practice as research. She is a playwright, director and an authority on articulating the processes and practices of writing, acting and directing for theatre. She is the author and editor of many books including Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre, Theatre and Celebrity, 1660-2000, On Acting, On Directing, Playimg for Real and Caryl Churchill. The Higher Education Academy awarded her a National Teaching Fellowship and made her an International Scholar in 2013 in recognition of her outstanding international contribution to teaching and research in drama and performance.

Emilie Morin is Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary British and Irish literature, theatre history, and European modernism. Her monograph Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009.