BA, MA, PhD

Principal Lecturer, Drama; Programme Leader, Performing Arts

Room: Hel 156

Email: gianna.bouchard@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2016
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2016

Gianna Bouchard's research activity page

Gianna teaches both theoretical and practical modules on the undergraduate Drama and Performing Arts pathways and supervises undergraduate dissertations on contemporary theatre. She also teaches interdisciplinary modules across the pathways in the Department of Music and Performing Arts. She runs a module on the MA Contemporary Theatre called New Practices. In 2009 Gianna received a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Student Experience at Anglia Ruskin University.

She is co-organiser of the Representation, Identity and the Body research unit (RIB), within the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences.

Gianna's research focuses on the medicalised body in contemporary performance, exploring the interface between medical practice and discourse and performance practice. This has included interrogations of Renaissance anatomical dissection and current exhibitions such as Bodyworlds. Her work is now extending into new avenues of enquiry, such as bio-art, disability and low art performance forms, whilst also addressing urgent cultural and social concerns around the body, its surgical aestheticisation and reconstruction. Her wider research interests include contemporary theatre and performance, experimental theatre, live art, interdisciplinary arts practice and critical theory.

She is keen to supervise research in the areas of:

• Contemporary theatre practice & critical theory
• Live art
• Performance and interdisciplinary arts practice
• Medical discourse and performance

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