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Professor Benjamin Poore
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Biography
I graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London with a PhD in Drama and Theatre, having also taken my Master’s degree there. Since taking up a lectureship in the School of Arts and Creative technologies at York I have taught on a wide range of texts and performance contexts, from Victorian comedy to contemporary new writing. I’ve contributed to curriculum development, new programme design and approval, and coordinated department-level changes in my roles as Chair of the Board of Studies, BA Programme Leader, MA Programme Leader and Director of Learning and Teaching. I’ve served as a member of the University’s Learning and Teaching Forum, editing Forum magazine, and I’ve also led on two research projects on dialogic pedagogy.
As a researcher, I write on the contemporary history play and the relationship between new writing and the representation of the past. I’m also interested in the adaptation of texts between page, stage and screen, and on the cultural afterlives of Victorian fictional characters, authors, and other historical figures. I have published on, among others, adaptations and appropriations of Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters, Sweeney Todd, Dracula, Queen Victoria, Sherlock Holmes, Oscar Wilde, and Joseph Carey Merrick.
My books include Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre: Staging the Victorians (Palgrave, 2012), Theatre & Empire (Palgrave, 2016), Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage: Post-Millennial Adaptations in British Theatre (Palgrave, 2017) and the edited collection Neo-Victorian Villains (Brill, 2017). My new monograph, The Contemporary History Play, is due to be published by Methuen Drama in 2024.
School Roles
I am currently part of the admissions team for the BA Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance.
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