Prof. Anna McMullan

BIOGRAPHY

Anna McMullan is Professor in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading. Her main research area is the drama of Samuel Beckett, on which she has published two monographs (Theatre on Trial: the later drama of Samuel Beckett and Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama), a co-edited volume (Reflections on Beckett), and many essays. She has also published widely on contemporary Irish theatre and performance, on gender and performance and on theatre and conflict.

Anna has taught at the Universities of Trinity College Dublin, and Queen's University Belfast. She was academic Chair of the Belfast-Sarajevo Initiative for the Creative and Performing Arts (2009-11), a student-led series of creative exchanges between artists of both cities and between students of Drama Studies at Queen's and students from the Academy of Performing Arts, University of Sarajevo.