Professor Nadine Holdsworth

Nadine is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, where she has worked for nearly twenty-five years. Her research addresses questions of representation, participation, citizenship, political change and cultural value. She has published English Theatre and Social Abjection: A Divided Nation (2020); Joan Littlewood’s Theatre (2011), Theatre & Nation (2010) and Joan Littlewood (2006, second edition 2017) and co-authored The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre (2018). She is a currently the co-editor of the journal Contemporary Theatre Review and working on a new body of research on arts, creativity and homelessness, including a monograph for Routledge called Becoming Visible: arts, creativity and homelessness (see https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/artscreativityhomelessness/).