Dr Grant Peterson
Associate Dean - Student Experience/Senior Lecturer in Theatre

Research supervision

Dr. Peterson maintains diverse research interests, including alternative theatre histories, musical theatre studies, gender and sexuality studies, theatre historiography, and the student experience in educational settings.

He is currently the first supervisor to three PhD students, and supervises research in areas such as gender and sexuality, historiography, musical theatre, actor training, and street performance practices. Notably, he supervised Ariel Whitfield Sobel, whose thesis, ‘The Actor, The Audience, and The Spy: Tracing Actor Training Methodologies within Twentieth-Century Espionage Practice and Performance,’ received the Vice Chancellor's Prize for Excellent Research.  I welcome doctoral research proposals in the following areas:

• Historiography and theatre practices
• Outdoor and/or street performance practices, politics and histories
• Gender, sexuality, LGBTQ+ and masculinity studies
• Musical theatre research and practice
• Alternative theatre histories and experimental practices in the US and UK