Staff Profiles

Subject Co-Ordinator for Undergraduate Drama

 

Modules taught

Undergraduate Teaching

• Theatre, Madness and the Mind
• Approaches to Performance
• Modern British Theatre in Performance
• British Theatre 1950 to the Present
• Critical Theory in Action
• Theatre and Theory: Modern and Postmodern
• Final Production (Drama)

Carina's research interests are reflected in her interdisciplinary background: she completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford and, subsequently, moved to the University of Exeter where she studied for a PhD in Drama. Her research interests fall within the area of modern and contemporary theatre and drama. She is the List Owner for the Modern British Fiction JISC email list and reviews for Theatre Research International (TRI).

Research Dissemination

On-line:

• Major contributor to the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) bibliography on Sarah Daniels. Available here.

Journal articles

• Bartleet C, 'In Memoriam: Louise Page (1955-2020)'
  Contemporary Theatre Review 31 (3) (2021) pp.373-376
  ISSN: 1048-6801 eISSN: 1477-2264
  Website 
• Carina Eva Bartleet, 'KIRSTEN SHEPHERD-BARR. Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett. Review of English Studies.'
  Review of English Studies 67 (278) (2015) pp.195-196
  ISSN: 0034-6551 eISSN: 1471-6968
  Website 
• Bartleet C E, Shepherd-Barr K, 'Guest Editorial: New Directions in theatre and science'
  Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 39 (3) (2014) pp.203-203
  ISSN: 0308-0188 eISSN: 1743-2790
  Website 
• Bartleet CE, 'Performing Science (Not Ethics) in Analogue’s 2401 Objects'
  Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (2013)
  ISSN: 0308-0188 eISSN: 1743-2790
  Website 
• Bartleet C, 'Sarah Daniels: feminist Enque(e)ry within the mainstream'
  New Theatre Quarterly 26 (2) (2010) pp.145-160
  ISSN: 0266-464X
  Abstract Sarah Daniels is a playwright who has been closely identified with feminist theatre throughout her career. In this article, Carina Bartleet examines Daniels" s plays from the early work of the 1980s through to her more recent output by exploring lesbian representation. Emphasis is placed on lesbian/queer representations through renegotiation with feminist theatre and gendered spectatorship. The work argues that Daniels" s oftcriticized reluctance to stage lesbian desire can be viewed as a continuation of her feminist intervention into the gendered construction of the gaze in mainstream theatre. Carina Bartleet is a Lecturer in Drama at Oxford Brookes University. She read Biological Sciences at Oxford University, taking her PhD in Drama at Exeter on the intertextual dimension of the plays of Sarah Daniels. Her interests are science, gender, and performance in contemporary theatre. She is currently working on a book on theatre and science, and has published articles in Modern Drama and Studies in Theatre and Performance.Website 

Book chapters

• Bartleet C, 'Introduction to 'Neaptide'' in Neaptide, Bloomsbury (2021)
  ISBN: 9781350184893
  Website 
• Bartleet C, 'The Experimental/Experiential Stage: Extreme States of Being and Knowing in the Theatre' in Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science, Cambridge UP (2020)
  ISBN: 9781108476522 eISBN: 9781108676533
  Abstract

  Chapter 3: This chapter charts the intersections between theatre and science and explores how experience and experiment are interlinked in each domain. Looking at three key scientific ideas and theatrical moments, the chapter draws out contextual aspects of the science that reflect the scientific concerns of their moments. Exploring first a play from the early years of the recent resurgence in the interest in theatre and science, the chapter investigates how the biological and medical sciences with their obvious link to genetic testing and human experience are represented, and moves on to consider how science, gender, and life become crystal clear in early twenty-first century theatre. It concludes by looking at how theatre is shaped by the experience of climate change and its science in the 2010s through two very different plays, one a staged lecture and the other a production whose deliberate excess results in an expansive ‘epic’ theatrical form that appears to take precedence over the science. -- Supplied by publisher.
  

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• Bartleet C E, 'Through a Glass Darkly: Mirroring, Mimesis, Hybridity and the Performance of Cloning in Orphan Black' in Rushing, R. R. and Goulet, A. (ed.), Orphan Black, Intellect (2018)
  
• Bartleet C E, 'Theater and Performance' in Iris van der Tuin (ed.), Gender: Nature, Macmillan Reference USA (2016)
  ISBN: 9780028663296
  

Reviews

• Carina Eva Bartleet, review of Review. Theatre & Mind. By Bruce McConachie, in Theatre Research International (2015) ISSN: 0307-8833 eISSN: 1474-0672
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• Bartleet C, review of Science: Dramatic. Science Plays in America and Great Britain, 1990-2007, in Modern Drama 53 (2011) pp.597-599ISSN: 0026-7694 eISSN: 1712-5286
  
• Bartleet C, review of Performing Science and the Virtual, in Theatre Research International 34 (2009) pp.99-100ISSN: 0307-8833 eISSN: 1474-0672
  Website 

Areas of expertise

Theatre & Science, gender and performance (feminist and LGBTQ theatre), contemporary theatre writing.

Membership of professional bodies

Member of the British Society of Literature & Science

Conferences

Carina was the organiser of the 2018 British Society of Literature and Science (BSLS) Annual Conference, Oxford Brookes University.

Selected Conference Papers

• 'The Final Frontier: Scottish Nationalism, Theatre and the space race', TaPRA, University of Exeter, September 2019;
• 'The Physics of the Possible: An Electro-dynamics of Theatrical Bodies: Q.E.D  and DV8's The Cost of Living, ' BSLS, 2015.
• On the Origin of the Speeches: Evolution as Trope'.Paper presented to the British Society for Literature & Science Conference, University of Reading, March 2009.
• ‘Better Out than In: Representations of Women’s Experiences of Mental Health Systems in Contemporary British Drama.’ Paper presented to the 14th Annual conference of Gender, Health & Medicine, University of Exeter, 5-6 July 2008.

• ‘Two Cultures/Two Genders? Feminist Responses to Science in the Theatre as (Re)creation.’ Paper presented to the Feminism in the Arts in Contemporary Britain conference held at York St John College in July 2005.
• ‘(R)evolution in Dramatic Language: Generational Intertextuality, Meme Theory and the Case of Sarah Daniels’. Paper presented to the International ‘Theatres of Science: Crossovers and Confluences’ held at the University of Glamorgan, 8 – 11 September 2004.

Carina Bartleet works on modern and contemporary theatre and drama in The UK and the rest of Europe. She has particular research interests in the following areas: women writing for the theatre; theatre, science and medicine; gender and performance; drama, theatre and intertextuality. Carina has worked with students on a wide range of productions ranging from Kane’s 4: 48 Psychosis to Ibsen and adaptations of Pinter, Ionesco and Angela Carter as well as on devised pieces. Before coming to Oxford Brookes, Carina worked at the University of Reading where she taught a wide range of theatre and drama courses from renaissance drama to contemporary British theatre. She is excited by the prospect of working on a range of Brookes’ drama and performance modules that mix theory, text and practical elements of theatre.