Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

Kirsten Shepherd-Barr is a University Lecturer in Modern Drama and a Tutorial Fellow in English.  She is the author of Ibsen and Early Modernist Theatre, 1890–1900 (1997) and Science on Stage:  From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (2006) as well as articles in Theatre Research International, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, American Scientist, Modernist Cultures and other scholarly journals.  Her current research investigates the interaction between theatre and evolutionary theory and is supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2011-12.

Her main areas of research are in modernism, theatre history and performance since the 1880s, and the interaction between theatre and science.