Dr Katerina Paramana
Senior Lecturer in Theatre
- Theatre
- Theatre, Music and Film/TV
Teaching
Katerina's research and twenty years' professional industry experience inform her programme and module design and delivery, and her teaching of theory and practice. She has fifteen years' HE experience designing courses and teaching practical workshops, seminars, and lectures across theatre, performance, live art, dance, critical theory, and philosophy on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (see below for more details). She has also supervised to completion BA, MA, and PhD dissertations, examined PhD projects in the UK and Europe, and delivered seminars and workshops for the . Prior to her appointment at Ã÷ÐÇ°ËØÔ in 2016, Katerina taught and supervised UGs, PGTs, and PGRs at Birkbeck, University of London, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Coventry University, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and University of Roehampton, London. She has been part of programme design and (re)validation committees internationally, and is Fellow of the Higher Education Adacemy (). Many of Katerina's students are now successful artists and academics.
Teaching Areas:
Katerina has fifteen years' experience designing courses and teaching theory and practice across contemporary theatre, performance, live art, and dance at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, for example:
a) Practical/Workshop Teaching Experience:
- Performance Making / Devising / Theatre Making / Experimental Performance Practices
- Live Art / Performance Art
- Performance Laboratory
- Site Specific / Solo / Autobiographical / Socially Engaged Performance
- Performing in Experimental Theatre and Performance
- Acting
- Practice-as-Research
- Directing
- Physical Theatre
- Choreography
b) Lecture-Seminar Teaching Experience:
- Theories and Histories: Theatre, Performance, Acting, Dance
- Performance Studies
- Critical and Cultural Theory
- Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality and Performance
- Research Methods
- Performance Analysis
- Performance Philosophy / Continental Philosophy
- Performance and Political Economy
- Performance and Ethics
- Performance and Social Justice
- Performance and Political/Social Engagement
c) UG, PGT, and PGR Project Supervision Experience:
- Undergraduate Written and Practical projects to completion
- MA Practice-Based and Fully-Written Projects to Completion
- PhD Practice-Based and Fully-Written Projects to Completion
- Successfully Developed with PhD applicants their AHRC Techne Funding Proposal
- Delivered AHRC Techne Seminars for Cross-University PGRs