Nesreen Hussein

Lecturer in Contemporary Theatre Theory and Practice, Middlesex University London (UK)

Dr Nesreen Hussein is a lecturer, scholar, and artist. Her current research focuses on performance, politics, and activism, in relation to issues of agency, identity and belonging. She has published widely on this topic, (in Performance and the Global City, eds. D.J. Hopkins and Kim Solga, Palgrave; Contemporary Theatre Review; Theatre Research International; Theatre, Dance and Performance Training; Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest) in addition to delivering a number of conference papers and invited talks internationally. In 2011, she was awarded the Helsinki Essay Prize and the New Scholars’ Prize from the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) for her essay Patagonia: Rearticulating an Experience as a Site of Estrangement. Nesreen joined the Department of Performing Arts at Middlesex University in July 2013 as a Lecturer in Contemporary Theatre Theory and Practice. Previously, she was a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent where she joined a few months after completing her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London. Prior to that, she worked as a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, a Research Assistant at the Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research, led by Professor Helen Gilbert at Royal Holloway, and a Senior Teaching Assistant at Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, where she obtained her BFA degree in Scenography and Interior Architecture (with class rank: 1st). She is currently the BA Theatre Arts Admissions Tutor (2014 – present). Nesreen has worked internationally with a number of theatre companies, directors and design studios as a performer, designer, and puppet maker. She currently creates and devises performance with particular interest in exploring identity, mobility, belonging, and the city.