Graham D.^^Saunders

Professor Graham Saunders PhD
Department of Drama and Theatre Arts
Allardyce Nicoll Chair in Drama, University of Birmingham.

Joined the Drama and Theatre Arts department in January 2016, after teaching at the University of Reading since 2005 in the department of Film, Theatre and Television. Also has taught at the universities of Coventry, Lancaster and the University of the West of England (UWE).

Co-ordinates research in the department in relation to the College of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies (EDAC).

Research in a number of areas:
Best known for work on the playwright Sarah Kane, but now more generally in British drama since 1945. This has included work on the history of the Arts Council of Great Britain; fringe and touring companies from 1968-1994, as well as the work of dramatists including Edward Bond, Howard Barker, Patrick Marber and David Eldridge.

Also published on the work of Samuel Beckett and has a long standing interest in the relationship between contemporary British dramatists and their appropriation of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.