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Professor David Barnett FBA

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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2026
Honours
FBA
Subjects
Media, performance and communications
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830 , Culture, Media and Performance

Summary

Theory and practice of political theatre, particularly Bertolt Brecht’s; directing political theatre; theatre history (intersections of institutions, productions and practices); postdramatic theatre; theatricality; Heiner Müller; Fassbinder’s theatre,

Current post

University of York Professor of Theatre

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