Ramsay Burt

Department of Performance & Digital Arts

Professor of Dance History

Contact Details:
Room: CL 2.08
Telephone: 0116 207 8391
Email: rburt@dmu.ac.uk

Although my post is a research one, I contribute to both undergraduate and MA level courses in dance. My research
interests include the performance of gender and identity intwentieth and twenty first century dance theatre. With Professor Susan Foster of UCLA I am founder editor of the journal Discourses in Dance.

Responsibilities

• Course Leader, MA Dance
• PhD supervision

Teaching Experience

• Undergraduate – Dance history and theory
• Postgraduate – Dance history and theory
• External examiner at undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD levels

Education

• BA in Fine Art, Leeds University, 1976
• PhD University of Southampton, 1994

Research and publications