Deirdre Heddon

Deirdre Heddon (born 1969), is Professor of Contemporary Performance at the University of Glasgow (UK). She is a practice-based researcher and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as academic monographs and book-chapters. She is well known for her interest in autobiographical performance, site-specific performance and walking art.

Career

Heddon is the author of multiple books, book chapters and journal articles. She authored ''Autobiography and Performance'', and co-author of ''Devising Performance: A Critical History'' (both published by Palgrave Macmillan). Her edited collection, ''Histories and Practices of Live Art'', co-edited with Jennie Klein, was published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Heddon has written a number of texts about walking and performance, and is connected with the Walking Artists Network. She contributed a chapter to ''Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts,'' ''and'' has written a number of articles about walking and performance, including, ''‘Walking and Friendship’'' (2012); ''Walking Women: Interviews with Artists on the Move;'' ''Women Walking: Shifting the Tales and Scales of Mobility'' (2012), with Cathy Turner; and T''he Horizon of Sound: Soliciting the Earwitness'' (2010). She also co-edited a themed edition of RIDE: A Journal of Applied Drama, which focused on applied theatre and environmentalism (2012). Heddon is co-editing a newly launched series for Palgrave Macmillan, ''Performing Landscapes'', for which she is writing ''Performing Landscapes: Forests''.

Practice-based Research

Heddon undertakes practice-based research, much of it in relation to walking. Her project, ''Walking Interconnections'', extends her interest in walking and environmentalism to questions around disability as well. With Misha Myers she created
The Walking Library
' (2012-ongoing), an artwork and research project that 'brings libraries into the landscape through site-specific walks.'^:287 In recognition of her fortieth birthday she devised ''40 Walks,'' for which she organised forty walks with forty different people.

Selected publications

Articles:
*Heddon, D. (2016) Engaging arts, impacting PaR. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 36(1), pp. 79–87. (doi:10.1080/14682761.2015.1111016)
*Heddon, D. (2015) Going for a walk: a verbatim play. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 35(3), pp. 177–188. 10.1080/14. (doi:10.1080/14682761.2015.1067387)
*Heddon, D., and Myers, M. (2014) Stories from the walking library. Cultural Geographies, 21(4), pp. 639–655. (doi:10.1177/1474474014521361)
*Heddon, D., and Myers, M. (2013) The Walking Library. log
*Heddon, D., and Mackey, S. (2012) Environmentalism, performance and applications: uncertainties and emancipations. Research in Drama Education, 17(2), pp. 163–192. (doi:10.1080/13569783.2012.670421)
*Heddon, D. (2012) Turning 40: 40 turns. Walking & friendship. Performance Research, 17(2), pp. 67–75. (doi:10.1080/13528165.2012.671075)
*Heddon, D., Iball, H., and Zerihan, R. (2012) Come closer: confessions of intimate spectators in one to one performance. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22(1), pp. 120–133. (doi:10.1080/10486801.2011.645233)
*Heddon, D., and Turner, C. (2012) Walking women: shifting the tales and scales of mobility. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22(2), pp. 224–236. (doi:10.1080/10486801.2012.666741)
*Heddon, D., and Howells, A. (2011) From talking to silence: a confessional journey. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 33(1), pp. 1–12. (doi:10.1162/PAJJ_a_00018)
*Heddon, D. (2010) The horizon of sound: soliciting the earwitness. Performance Research, 15(3), pp. 36–42. (doi:10.1080/13528165.2010.527200)
*Heddon, D., and Kelly, A. (2010) Distance dramaturgy. Performance Research, 20(2), pp. 214–220. (doi:10.1080/10486801003682427)
*Heddon, D., and Turner, C. (2010) Walking women: interviews with artists on the move. Performance Research, 15(4), pp. 14–22. (doi:10.1080/13528165.2010.539873)
*Heddon, D. (2009) 40 Walks Blog. log
*Heddon, D. (2007) Ac/counting the I's. Research in Drama Education, 12(2), pp. 207–222. (doi:10.1080/13569780701321203)
*Heddon, D. (2007) One square foot: thousands of routes. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 29(2), pp. 40–50. (doi:10.1162/pajj.2007.29.2.40)
*Heddon, D. (2003) Glory box: Tim Miller's autobiography of the future. New Theatre Quarterly, 19(3), pp. 243–256. (doi:/10.1017/S0266464X03000149)
*Heddon, D. (2002) Following in the footsteps... Performance Research, 7(4),
* Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the archive: following in the footsteps. Performance Research, 7(4), pp. 64–77.
* Heddon, D. (2002) Autotopography: graffiti, landscapes and selves. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2(3),
* Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the self. M/C Journal, 5(5),
* Heddon, D. (1998) What's in a name? Studies in Theatre Production, 18, pp. 49–59.

Books:
* Heddon, D., and Milling, J. (2015) Devising Performance: A Critical History, 2nd Edition. Series: Theatre and performance practices. Palgrave Macmillan: London.
* Heddon, D., Lavery, C., and Smith, P. (2009) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol.
* Heddon, D.E. (2007) Autobiography and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan.
* Heddon, D., and Milling, J. (2005) Devising Performance: A Critical History. Palgrave.

Book sections:
* Heddon, D. (2016) Con-versing: listening, speaking, turning. In: Bastian, M., Jones, O., Moore, N. and Roe, E. (eds.) More-Than-Human Participatory Research. Series: Routledge studies in human geography. Routledge: London. (Accepted for Publication)
* Heddon, D. (2015) Hand in Hand. In: Campbell, A. and Farrier, S. (eds.) Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer. Palgrave Macmillan: London.
* Heddon, D. (2015) The cultivation of entangled listening: an ensemble of more-than-human participants. In: Nicholson, H. and Harpin, A. (eds.) Performance and Participation: Practices, Audiences, Politics. Palgrave Macmillan:
* Heddon, D. (2015) Making it up. In: Carter, P. and Laing, S. (eds.) Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Oberon Books Ltd.: London.
* Heddon, D. (2015) Correspondences. In: MacDonald, C. (ed.) Utopia: Three Plays for a Postdramatic Theatre. Series: Playtext. Intellect: Bristol.
* Heddon, D. (2015) Taking a seat at the table. In: Harvie, J. and Weaver, L. (eds.) The Only Way Home is Through the Show. Series: Intellect Live. LADA/Intellect: London.
* Heddon, D. (2012) The politics of live art. In: Heddon, D. and Klein, J. (eds.) Histories and Practice of Live Art. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK.
* Heddon, D. (2011) Walk this way. In: Tuukkanen, J., Whelan, G., Jaakkola, M. and Tervo, L. (eds.) ANTIVERSARY. ANTI Festival: Kuopio, Finland, pp. 123–133.
* Heddon, D. (2009) One square foot: thousands of roots. In: Mock, R. (ed.) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol, UK, pp. 153–177.
* Heddon, D. (2009) To absent friends: ethics in the field of auto/biography. In: Haedicke, S.C., Heddon, D., Oz, A. and Westlake, E.J. (eds.) Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Series: Themes in theatre (4). Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 111–136.
* Heddon, D. (2009) Tree: a studio performance. In: Mock, R. (ed.) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol, UK, pp. 143–152.
* Heddon, D. (2008) What's in a name? In: It's Not Hard: Reflections on Live Art. Tramway, pp. 32–37.
* Heddon, D. (2007) A visitor's guide to Glasgay. In: Godiwala, D. (ed.) Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatres in Post-War Britain. Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge, pp. 339–361.
* Heddon, D. (2006) Beyond the self: autobiography as dialogue. In: Wallace, C. (ed.) Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity. Litteraria Pragensia: Prague, pp. 157–184.
* Heddon, D. (2006) Performing the confessional. In: Mathé, S. and Teulié, G. (eds.) Cultures de la Confession: Formes de l'Aveu dans le Monde Anglophone. Series: Mondes anglophones. Publications de l'Université de Provence: Aix-en-Provence, France.
* Heddon, D. (2006) Personal performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker. In: Gill, J. (ed.) Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. Routledge: Oxon, pp. 137–153.
* Heddon, D. (2006) The politics of the personal: autobiography in performance. In: Aston, E. and Harris, G. (eds.) Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory. Series: Performance interventions. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK.
* Heddon, D. (2004) Performing lesbians: constructing the self, constructing the community. In: Gale, M. (ed.) Autobiography and Identity: Women, Theatre and Performance. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 217–238.

Edited books:
* Heddon, D. and Johnson, D., (Eds.) (2016) It's All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells. Series: Intellect Live. Intellect.
* Heddon, D. and Klein, J., (Eds.) (2012) Histories and Practices of Live Art. Palgrave Macmillan: London.
* Heddon, D., Klein, J. and Milican, N., (Eds.) (2010) The National Review of Live Art 1979-2010: A Personal History (Essays, Anecdotes, Drawings and Images). New Moves International: Glasgow, UK.
* Haedicke, S.C., Heddon, D., Oz, A. and Westlake, E.J., (Eds.) (2009) Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Series: Themes in theatre. Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Audio:
* Heddon, D. (2014) Going for a Walk: A Verbatim Audio Walk. udio

References

External links

Profile at University of Glasgow - School of Culture and Creative Arts
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