Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London

Previous position(s):

Research Fellow, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London

Research interests:

Performance studies and its overlaps with the anthropology of religion

Publications:

Performing Religion in Public (Palgrave, 2013);

‘Clerical Betrayal and Christian Affirmation’ Performance Research 19.2 (2014);

‘‘The Debbie Friedman Problem: Performing Tradition, Memory and Modernity in Today’s Progressive Jewish Liturgy’ Liturgy 28.1 (2013)

Other roles:

Founding co-convenor, Performance and Religion Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research

Contact:

joshua.edelman@cssd.ac.uk & j.edelman@bbk.ac.uk