Alexandra Carter

Emeritus Professor in Dance Studies

Department: Dance

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Qualifications

  • MA Dance Studies, PhD.

Research Interests

  • Dance history: historiography: dance analysis: gender and performance.

Teaching Interests

  • History: critical studies: research methodologies.

Biography

Selected publications

Authored books: Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall, Ashgate, 2005

Edited books: The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, Routledge, 1998,.

-do- 2nd edition, (eds.) A. Carter & J.O'Shea, 2010 Rethinking Dance History, Routledge, 2004

Articles and chapters in edited books: 'Betraying history:' in Lansdale, (ed) Decentring Dancing Texts, Palgrave 2008:

Refereed articles: 'Dance history matters in British Higher Education:', Research in Dance Education, 2: 2, 2007 'London, 1908: a synchronic view of history:', Dance Research, 23/1, 2005

Conferences: Too many to name!

Professional memberships

Society of Dance History Scholars: Congress on Research in Dance, Society for Dance Research

Links with partner/business organisations

Commissioning Panel and mentor, cross-Research Council programme 'New Dynamics of Ageing'

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