<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p2" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:8.5pt;font-family:verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:16px">Forwarding on behalf of Helen Gilbert. -Barry Freeman</span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p2" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:8.5pt;font-family:verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:16px">--</span></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p2" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:8.5pt;font-family:verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1" style="font-size:16px"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p2" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:8.5pt;font-family:verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1" style="font-size:16px"><b>Professor and Chair post available in leading London university</b></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p2" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:8.5pt;font-family:verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1" style="font-size:16px"> </span><font size="3"><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p2" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:14px;font-family:verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri">Royal Holloway, University of London, is seeking to appoint a new Professor and Head of the Drama, Theatre and Dance Department, with effect from 1</span></span><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s3">^{<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri"> </span>}</span><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri">September 2017 or as soon as possible afterwards. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p1" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,166,158)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p4" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">The department is one of the most innovative and rigorous in the world, boasting over 20 permanent academic staff and links with major national and international arts and cultural institutions, including the National Theatre, the Shanghai Theatre Academy and the Tate Modern. Our students work with leading scholars and theatre-makers in first-class learning and performance spaces, including three dedicated theatres. Staff offer an exceptionally broad perspective in teaching and research, providing courses and supervision on a full geographical and historical range of performance practices. We also have specific strengths in contemporary British and European theatre; transnational theatre and performance; heritage, museums and historiography; socially engaged and participatory arts; practice-as-research; and world dance.</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p4" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p1" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,166,158)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Applications are invited from candidates working in any field of theatre, drama, dance and performance studies. The successful candidate will be educated to PhD level or equivalent and have sound organisational and communication skills as well as appropriate administrative and leadership experience within an academic context.</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p4" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p4" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">For further details see </span></span><a href="https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=0517-178" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri">https://jobs.<wbr>royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.<wbr>aspx?ref=0517-178</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453p4" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span class="gmail-m_1586888722368691453s1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Closing Date:<b>  <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">7 June 2017</span></span>. </b></span></span></p></div>