Rate My Professor Alyson Campbell

Campbell's academic interests center on queer performance and queer dramaturgies, affect theory and performance, HIV and AIDS in performance, Practice as Research methodologies, fat-queer subversive fun, feminist theatre research, queer pedagogies, and feral pedagogies. She co-leads the Feral Queer Camp, facilitating queer performance networks and utopian curricula beyond traditional academia, with events in Belfast and Melbourne. Her influence extends through editorial and creative contributions. Key publications include co-editing Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and authoring Viral Dramaturgies: HIV and AIDS in Performance in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Recent works feature 'Up and Down: The Queer and Affective Potential of (the) Transition' (2023), 'Embracing Feral Pedagogies: Queer Feminist Education through Queer Performance' (2022), 'Baking Cake Daddy: transforming fat-phobia to fat-positivity with a slice of fat-queer subversive fun' (2022), and 'On Care-fulness: Critical Creative Expressions of Care in a Feminist Theatre Research Project' (2021). Through teaching, activism, and practice, she disrupts institutional normativities, advocating feral and queer approaches to theatre.