Rate My Professor Suzanne Little

Her research specializations encompass framing and critical theory, witnessing in performance, care ethics, refugee representation in theatre, ethics of trauma and violence in performance, actor training, repetition and mobilities, Practice as Research, reflective practice, performance analysis, documentary and verbatim theatre, political performance, and the witness turn. Publications in journals such as Performance Research and Theatre Research International include 'Confessions of a Cannibal: In extremis performance and Theatre of the Real' (2024), 'Unconventional Carers: Children caring in and through performance' (2022), and 'Repeating Repetition: Trauma and Performance' (2015). Key books and chapters feature the co-edited Performance, Resistance and Refugees (Routledge, 2023), 'Refugees, Visual Culture and Theatre: Reinscriptions and Contestations' therein (2023), and 'The Witness Turn in the Performance of Violence, Trauma, and the Real' (2019). Her directorial credits include Shakespeare productions such as As You Like It, King John, Twelfth Night, and works like Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom and Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol and La Ronde. Little's contributions advance theatre studies through interdisciplinary scholarship and practice.