Welcome, Dr. Leslie Hill
Incoming Chair and Artistic Director of the Theatre & Dance Department
Professor of Theatre
Read a profile of Leslie here!
Leslie Hill was most recently a Professor of Theatre and Performance Making at the University of Roehampton, London. She is interested in the intersections of theatre and Live Art with politics, activism and social justice movements. Her most recent book, Devising Theatre and Performance: Curious Methods (2021) is published by The University of Chicago Press and Intellect. Sex, Suffrage and the Stage: First Wave Feminism in British Theatre was published by Palgrave for the UK suffrage centenary in 2018.
Previously, Hill was Associate Professor and Artistic Director of Stanford’s Department of Theatre & Performance Studies (2011–2017); she also served as convenor of the interdisciplinary arts Practice-Based PhD programme at the University of East London (2006–2010).
Originally from New Mexico, Hill holds a double BA in English and Philosophy from the University of New Mexico, an MA in Text & Performance from the University of Birmingham (UK) and a PhD in Theatre from the University of Glasgow. Hill was awarded a NESTA (National Endowment for Science Education and the Arts) fellowship in 2003 and has been Visiting Professor at institutions such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 2022 Hill is Professeure invitée, at Performance Lab, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
