Theresa Saxon

Theresa Saxon is Deputy Head in the School of Arts and media at UCLan, with research interests in theatre history, race, gender and performance. Her book, American Theatre: History, Context, Form, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2011 and she has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on popular theatre of the nineteenth century, in the transatlantic and beyond. Her work on Ira Aldridge includes, “Ira Aldridge in the North of England: Provincial Theatre and the Politics of Abolition” Britain's Black Past, ed. Gretchen H. Gerzina, (Liverpool: Liverpool University press), pp. 275–294.

Theresa obtained her first degree and her PhD (2003) at Manchester Metropolitan University and has been teaching at UCLan since 2005.

Theresa is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has been a visiting fellow at the British Library's Eccles centre, and a long-time member of the British Assocation for American Studies, and UCLan's Institute for Black Atlantic Research.