Dr. Nesreen Hussein

2013 – 2024: Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Theatre, Theory and Practice. Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, Middlesex University, London.

2024 – present: Associate Editor of Performance Research journal.

2021 – 2024: Assistant Editor of Theatre Research International journal.

2020 – present: Co-Editor of Global Performance Studies journal.

2022 – 2024: Executive Committee Member, Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) (Co-Conference Officer).

2022 – 2026: External Examiner for BA Drama, Theatre and Acting. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.

2020 – 2023: External Examiner for BA (Hons) and MA Drama and Theatre. University of Kent, Canterbury.

2011 – 2013: Lecturer in Drama and Theatre. The School of Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury.

2010 – 2011: Research Assistant. The Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research (‘Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Politics, Performance, Belonging,’ ERC-funded research project led by Professor Helen Gilbert). Royal Holloway, University of London. Surrey.

2007 – 2011: Graduate Visiting Lecturer. Dept of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London.

2011: PhD in Drama and Theatre. Dept of Drama and Theatre. Royal Holloway, University of London.

2010: PGCHE in Skills in Teaching to Inspire Learning (inSTIL). Royal Holloway, University of London.

2006: MRes in Drama and Theatre. Dept of Drama and Theatre. Royal Holloway, University of London.

• Performance, politics, and activism
• Identity, migration, and border epistemologies
• Epistemologies and histories of the “Global South”
• Post-colonial and decolonial praxes
• Contemporary performance practices and visual cultures in Southwest Asia and North Africa
• Contemporary performance practices and visual cultures in Egypt since January 2011 revolution

Performance and Activism: Memory, Identity, Belonging (forthcoming).

Hussein, Nesreen, Vanessa Damilola Macaulay, Tia-Monique Uzor, Marilena Zaroulia, Diana Damian Martin and Louise Owen, eds.; 2025; ‘After Assembly: the hum, the shutter, the earthworm’; Global Performance Studies.

Hussein, Nesreen, ed.; 2022; ‘Decolonisation and Performance Studies’; special double issue of Global Performance Studies; 5.1-2. https://gps.psi-web.org/issue/view/9

Hussein, Nesreen; 2022; ‘Decolonisation and Performance Studies: Questions from the Border’; Global Performance Studies; 5.1-2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv5n1-2a114

Hussein, Nesreen N.; 2018; ‘What has the City Trained in You?’; Theatre, Dance and Performance Training; 9.1; 116-119; ISSN: 1944-3927

Hussein, Nesreen N.; Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre: Translation, Performance, Politics (Routledge, 2016); eds. Sirkku Aaltonen and Areeg Ibrahim; review published in Theatre Research International; 2017; 42.3; 353-355; DOI S0307883317000669

Hussein, Nesreen and Iain MacKenzie, eds; 2017; ‘Creative Practices / Resistant Acts: Cultural Production and Emerging Democracies in Revolutionary Nations’; a special issue of Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest; 5.1; Berghahn Journals; ISSN 2572-7184

Hussein, Nesreen and Iain MacKenzie; 2017; ‘Introduction: Creative Practices / Resistant Acts’; Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest; 5.1; 1-13; ISSN 2572-7184

Hussein, Nesreen Nabil and Vanio Papadelli; 2017; ‘Training and... Borders’; Theatre, Dance and Performance Training; 8.1; 109-110; DOI 10.1080/19443927.2017.1275208

Hussein, Nesreen; 2015; ‘Gestures of Resistance between the Street and the Theatre: Documentary Theatre in Egypt and Laila Soliman’s No Time for Art’; special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review; 25.3; 357-370; ISSN 1048-6801

Hussein, Nesreen; 2013; ‘Cairo: My City, My Revolution’; chapter in Performance and the Global City; ed. D.J. Hopkins and Kim Solga; Palgrave; Basingstoke and New York; 223-244; eBook ISBN 978-1-137-36785-3

Hussein, Nesreen; 2008; ‘Seeing through the Wall: Objectification between Resistance and Acceptance’; Platform: Objects of Engagement; 3.2; 62-78

Sánchez-Camus, Roberto, Nesreen Hussein and Grant Tyler Peterson; 2008; ‘Objects of Engagement: Conference Response’; Platform: Objects of Engagement; 3.2; 9-15