Mary Luckhurst

Mary Luckhurst is Associate Director of Research and Professor of Artistic Research at the University of Melbourne. She was appointed in 2014 for her international expertise on theatre and the arts and was one of 40 professors appointed to Melbourne’s prestigious research accelerator scheme at the top of their disciplines. She is a director, writer, theatre historian and an authority on dramaturgy and wrote the first cultural history of literary management in modern Europe. She is the author/editor of 11 books on drama, acting and directing and is a pioneer in the use of interview as an aspect of primary research. Her fields of research also include: theatre and human rights; political theatres; theatre and celebrity; theatre, the spectral and the contemporary gothic; theatre, stigma and disability. Her latest monograph on Caryl Churchill is considered by theatre critic, Michael Billington, to be ‘brilliant’. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Polish and German.

Luckhurst completed her BA (French and German) and Ph.D at the University of Cambridge, has an M.Sc from the London School of Economics and an MA Performing Arts from Middlesex University. After a number of years working in theatre in London and Cambridge, she was appointed as the University of York’s first Lecturer in Drama in the Department of English and Related Literature in 1998 and rose to Professor of Modern Drama and Theatre within a short time. She co-founded the celebrated Writing for Performance/English BA and MA degrees with Michael Cordner. In 2007 she co-founded the innovative research and industry-led Department of Theatre, Film and TV at York, working with Greg Dyke and Baroness McIntosh amongst others. In 2008 Luckhurst was awarded a National Fellowship by the UK Higher Education Academy and named one of the 50 best academic teachers in the UK. In 2012 the HEA made her an International Scholar in recognition of her outstanding international contribution to theatre research and practice. Luckhurst has served as distinguished visiting Professor at the Universities of Sydney, La Trobe, Cape Town, and CUNY. She is the TORCH 2017 Visiting Professor in the Humanities at the University of Oxford.

Selected Works

  • Caryl Churchill. (Routledge, 2015)
  • Theatre and Human Rights: Things Unspeakable. Edited with Emilie Morin (Palgrave, 2015)
  • Theatre and Ghosts: Materiality, Performance and Modernity. Edited with Emilie Morin (Palgrave, 2014)
  • Playing for Real: Actors on Playing Real People. Co-editor with Tom Cantrell. (Palgrave, 2010)
  • The Creative Writing Handbook. Co-editor with John Singleton. (Palgrave, 1996; 2nd edition, 1999) ISBN 0-333-79226-2
  • On Directing: Interviews with Directors. Co-editor with Gabriella Giannachi. (Faber & St Martin's Griffin, 1999) ISBN 0-312-22483-4
  • On Acting: Interviews with Actors. Co-editor with Chloe Veltman. (Faber, 2001) ISBN 0-571-20656-5
  • The Drama Handbook : A Guide to Reading Plays. With John Lennard. (OUP, 2002) ISBN 0-19-870070-9
  • Theatre and Celebrity, 1660–2000. Co-editor with Jane Moody. (Palgrave, 2005)
  • Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (CUP, 2005) ISBN 0-521-84963-2
  • A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama 1880–2005. Editor. (Blackwell, 2006) ISBN 1-4051-2228-5
  • A Concise Companion to Contemporary Drama in Britain and Ireland. Co-editor with Nadine Holdsworth. (Blackwell, 2007).
  • 'Julia Pascal's Theresa: Guernsey, the Holocaust, and Theatre Censorship in the 1990s' in Edward Batley & David Bradby, eds, Morality and Justice: the Challenge of European Theatre (Rodopi, 2001)
  • 'Political Point-scoring: Martin Crimp's Attempts on her Life' in Contemporary Theatre Review 13.1 (2003)
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