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We are delighted to Welcome Dr Julia Peetz to the department who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.

Bio

Dr Julia Peetz completed a PhD on the US presidency, political representation, and performance at the University of Surrey in January 2019, as part of which she interviewed presidential speechwriters spanning administrations and campaigns from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama. She has lectured at Goldsmiths, University of London, the University of Surrey, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her work is published in Contemporary Theatre Review, Performance Research, and in development as a monograph. She is a past editor (2017-2019) of the peer-reviewed early-career journal Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts, published out of Royal Holloway, University of London, and a recipient of the James Thomas Memorial Prize (Political Studies Association).

Abstract

Through a focus on political oratory, 'Performing Anglo-American Relations: Exceptionalism, Myth, Identity鈥� offers the first major study of the performative dimension of Anglo-American relations. Examining how key events in US-UK relations—from the American Revolutionary War to the Suez Crisis and beyond—have been staged in political oratory, the project seeks to capture how performance has helped construct a political imaginary of Western exceptionalism that has shaped the order of the modern world. This research introduces an interdisciplinary methodology that combines archival research and performance analysis, thereby opening up a new approach and an international relations perspective for the emerging field of politics and performance research.