Prof. Carole-Anne Upton

General

After studying French and Russian at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, Carole-Anne changed course, to pursue her real passion and study drama within an academic environment. She graduated with first class honours in French and Drama from the University of London (the then Westfield College with Central School of Speech and Drama) and went on to practise as a freelance actor and director for a short time, before taking up a lectureship in Drama at the University of Hull in 1993.

She was one of a handful of UK academics to win an Erasmus Teaching Fellowship during her time at Hull. In  2001 she was appointed Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in Hull, also serving on Senate and Council and numerous other committees of the University. She also worked quite extensively to support the arts in the region, contributing to the regeneration agency, Hull CityVision, the steering group of the annual Literature Festival, and serving as a member of the Board of Directors of Hull Truck Theatre Company.

She took up the Chair in Drama at the University of Ulster in January 2005. She has been Chair of the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments, the UK Subject Association for Drama, since 2003, having been elected as vice-Chair from 1999. She currently chairs the Advisory Group of PALATINE, the Higher Education Academy subject centre for Drama, Dance and Music, which is based at Lancaster University. She is an external examiner for undergraduate Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds and for MA provision at the University of Manchester. She is currently involved in two national working groups for the Arts and Humanities Research Council.  At UU she is the research Unit of Assessment Coordinator and is particularly responsible for research and postgraduate activity.

Research

Research Areas

Irish theatre, post-colonial drama, francophone theatre, directing, theatre translation, Samuel Beckett.

Sample Publications

Book (edited and introduced)

2000 Moving Target: Theatre Translation and Cultural Relocation, Manchester, St. Jerome, ISBN 1-900650-27-4.

Chapters and essays

1998 ‘The French-speaking Caribbean: Journeying from the Native Land’ in Richard Boon and Jane Plastow (eds.), Theatre Matters - Performance and Culture on the World Stage Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521-63054-1, pp.97-125.

2001 ‘Marina Carr’ and ‘Ann Devlin’ in John Bull (ed.), British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II, Third Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 245, Detroit, London, San Francisco, Boston, Wodbridge, Gale ISBN 0-7876-4662-8, pp. 75-80 and 121-128.

2003 Being Perceived: Playing Clov. A workshop presentation given with Brian Parsons and actor Craig Edwards at ‘Page and Stage: 50 Years of Performing Beckett’ conference, University of Leeds.

2005 Myth and Gender in Irish Drama. Conference paper, with Tom Maguire, presented at Irish Studies Conference, University of Sunderland.

Teaching

Irish theatre

Directing

French theatre, particularly of the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.

Post-colonial drama

Samuel Beckett

Administration

Research UoA coordinator

Contact

E-Mail: ca.upton@ulster.ac.uk

Tel: +44 28 71 375 142

Fax: +44 28 71 375 473

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