Dr. Nesreen Hussein

Assoziierte Forschende

Departement für Sozialanthropologie und Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien

Postadresse
Universität Bern
Departement für Sozialanthropologie und Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien
Fachbereich Mittlerer Osten und muslimische Gesellschaften
Lerchenweg 36
3012 Bern
Schweiz

Akademischer Werdegang

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.

Forschungsinteressen und -schwerpunkte

  • 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

Publikationen

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