Professor Carl Lavery
- Professor of Theatre and Performance (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
email:
Carl.Lavery@glasgow.ac.uk
8 University Gardens
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767Biography
After spending a year in Paris at the University of Paris 8 as a recipient of the Entente Cordiale Scholarship Scheme, my first academic post was as lecturer in Drama at the University of East Anglia. I taught Theatre and Performance Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, Loughborough, Lancaster, and Aberystwyth before arriving at the University of Glasgow in 2013. I am an associate editor for the journal Performance Research.
Research interests
Research Interests
I have long been interested in the relationship between politics and aesthetics, with a special interest in theatre and revolution. Lately, I have attempted to find a way of expanding that interest out to include an engagement with nature and the earth. My recent work has been concerned to investigate not so much an ecological theatre – which doesn’t make a great deal of sense to me – but rather a theatrical way of doing ecology and also an ecological way of doing theatre. I have published articles, books and special editions on various topics, including ruins, animism, the Situationist International, walking and the Paris Commune. I have also made films, published performance writing and collaborated on theatre projects. I have written extensively on a wide number of practitioners, including Jean Genet, Guy Debord, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Lone Twin.
Publications
2025
Delgado, M. M. and Lavery, C. (2025) Chéreau, Patrice. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 140-141. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Artaud, Antonin. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 45-46. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Dullin, Charles. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 184. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Jouvet, Louis. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 324-325. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Mesguich, Daniel. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 446-447. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Planchon, Roger. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 543. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Quesne, Philippe. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 556. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Vilar, Jean. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 713. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
2024
Lavery, C. and Hassall, L. (2024) Scraps from the wreckage: remnants from Hashima Island. In: Gabrielsson, Catharina and Jobst, Marko (eds.) Instituting Worlds: Architecture and Islands. Routledge: London, pp. 216-237. ISBN 9781032498836 (doi: 10.4324/9781003395911-17)
Lavery, C. and Zandieh, R. (2024) Performance and installation art: Re-turning to Artaud through Christian Boltanski. In: Finburgh Delijani, Clare and Biet, Christian (eds.) A New History of Theatre in France. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 276-293. ISBN 9781108842372 (doi: 10.1017/9781108908566.015)
Lavery, C. (2024) I came across the Tell Tale Rooms purely by chance. In: Kotting, Andrew (ed.) The Tell Tale Rooms. Badbloodandsibyl, pp. 248-251.
Lavery, C. (2024) Gala Water Unbordered. [Website]
Buob, B., Demesmaeker, J., Maillot, L., Lavery, C. and Rioux, V. (2024) Table ronde autour d’une performance dans un panier en osier. Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 54-55, (doi: 10.4000/12z0d)
Lavery, C. (2024) Bits and pieces: Fiona Robertson, the grotesque and the Dave Clark Five. In: Fiona Robertson: Tit-Bits. Glasgow School of Art: Glasgow. ISBN 9780993120817
Lavery, C. (2024) Walking and ruination. In: Jeffreys, Tom (ed.) Walking: Documents of Contemporary Art. Whitechapel Gallery: London, pp. 116-120. ISBN 9780854883165
Lavery, C. and Whitehead, S. (2024) Folding one place within another: Re-thinking site-specificity in the Anthropocene via Simone Forti’s 5 Dance Constructions and Other Things. In: Hunter, Victoria and Turner, Cathy (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance. Series: Routledge companions. Routledge: London, pp. 301-318. ISBN 9781032254104 (doi: 10.4324/9781003283034-28)
2023
Lavery, C. (2023) Un petit lexique théâtral pour Gerard Byrne, illustré de dix images de l’artiste et agrémenté de quelques notes de bas de page. Théâtre/Public, 249, pp. 28-44.
Lavery, C. (2023) Avant-garde hygiene and contagion: Artaud's ecology in the chemical century. In: Hopkins, David and Persson, Disa (eds.) Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde. Series: Routledge research in art history. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 182-198. ISBN 9781032284996 (doi: 10.4324/9781003309000-12)
Lavery, C. (2023) Quelques réflexions sur le paysage, le re-enactment et la théâtralité : politique et écologie. In: Théâtre/ Paysage. Series: Alternatives théâtrales (149). Alternatives théâtrales. ISBN 9782874281310
2022
Lavery, C. (2022) Bec(h)oming with Simon Whitehead: practising a logic of sensation. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 10(1), pp. 44-67. (doi: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0004)
2021
Lavery, C. (2021) Text for Brian Sweeney’s photographic exhibition: G20, Trongate 103. [Performance]
Lavery, C. (2021) Re-readings. Contemporary Theatre Review, 31(3), pp. 355-357. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2021.1946932)[Book Review]
Lavery, C. and Whitehead, S. (2021) Re-pair: Soft Matter: 3 Films. [Performance]
Lavery, C. and Whybrow, N. (2021) Special Issue: On Foot [Guest Editor]. Performance Research, 17(2),
2020
Lavery, C. (2020) To sense the city. In: Whybrow, Nicolas (ed.) Urban Sensographies. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9780367808396 (doi: 10.4324/9780367808396)
Lavery, C. (2020) Covid Dreams. [Performance]
Lavery, C. (2020) Ten months of THEN/NOW: An exercise in weathered thinking. In: Donald, Minty (ed.) THEN/NOW. University of Glasgow, pp. 281-298. ISBN 9780852619735
Lavery, C. (2020) Theatricality and drifting in the Anthropocene: reading Asger Jorn and Guy Debord's Mémoires as ‘earth book’. Nordic Theatre Studies, 32(1), pp. 159-178. (doi: 10.7146/nts.v32i1.120414)
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2020) Drifting with Debord [Film]. [Performance]
Lavery, C. (2020) Un-thinking The Rubbish Collection: from plastics to plasticity. In: Mock, Roberta and Paterson, Mary (eds.) Joshua Sofaer: Performance, Objects and Participation. Intellect Books. ISBN 9781789380910
Lavery, C. (2020) A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit. In: Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten E. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science. Series: Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance. Cambridge University Press, pp. 55-69. ISBN 9781108676533 (doi: 10.1017/9781108676533.005)
2019
Lavery, C. (2019) Walking and theatricality: an experiment in weathered thinking (kairos). In: Borthwick, David, Marland, Pippa and Stenning, Anna (eds.) Walking, Landscape and Environment. Routledge. ISBN 9781138630109
Lavery, C. and Murray, S. (2019) Thinking like a ruin. In: Mitsi, E., Despotopoulou, A., Dimakopoulou, S. and Aretoulakis, E. (eds.) Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249-270. ISBN 9783030269043 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-26905-0_15)
Lavery, C. (2019) Comment penser l’image écologique dans le théâtre contemporain: l’image élémentaire dans Some Things Happen All At Once de Mike Brookes et Rosa Casado. thaêtre,
Lavery, C. (2019) How does theatre think through ecology? In: Bleeker, Maaike, Kear, Adrian, Kelleher, Joe and Roms, Heike (eds.) Thinking Through Theatre and Performance. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472579638
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2019) From street to screen: Debord’s drifting cinema. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 109-119. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1558427)
Lavery, C. (2019) Rethinking the dérive: Drifting and theatricality in theatre and performance studies. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1557011)
Lavery, C. (2019) Animating tangible futures: Returning (again) to Battleship Island. Performance Research, 24(6), pp. 29-37. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2019.1686591)
Twitchin, M. and Lavery, C. (2019) On animism: introduction. Performance Research, 24(6), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2019.1686590)
Twitchin, M. and Lavery, C. (2019) Special Issue: On Animism [Guest Editors]. Performance Research, 24(6),
2018
Lavery, C. (Ed.) (2018) Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138554719
Bauer, J.-K. and Lavery, C. (2018) Assister au spectacle. Performance Research, 23(6), pp. 65-68. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1533761)
Lavery, C. (2018) Ecology in Beckett’s Theatre Garden: Or how to cultivate the Oikos. Contemporary Theatre Review, 28(1), pp. 10-26. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2017.1403912)
Lavery, C. (2018) From weather to climate: a note. Performance Research, 23(4-5), pp. 6-10. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1507348)
2017
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2017) Glasgow glam rock dialogues. Drouth, 57, pp. 65-77.
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2017) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 5-1967. [Performance]
Lavery, C. (2017) The Radical as Syncope: An interruptive history of the Paris Commune in 14 1/2 beats. In: Dalmasso, Fred, Dalmasso, Véronique and Jamet, Stéphanie (eds.) La syncope dans la performance et les arts visuels. Le Manuscrit: Paris, France, pp. 213-217. ISBN 9782304046243
2016
Lavery, C. (2016) Introduction: performance and ecology: what can theatre do? Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 20(3), pp. 229-236. (doi: 10.1080/14688417.2016.1206695)
Lavery, C. (2016) Theatre and time/ecology: deceleration in Stifters Dinge and L’Effet de Serge. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 20(3), pp. 304-323. (doi: 10.1080/14688417.2016.1191997)
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 1 - Work. [Performance]
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 2 - Luxury. [Performance]
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 3 - Commune. [Performance]
Lavery, C. (2016) Late modernism. In: Gale, Maggie B. and Deeney, John F. (eds.) The Routledge Drama Companion: Modernism to Contemporary Performance. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780415724173
Lavery, C. (2016) Participation, ecology, cosmos. In: Frieze, James (ed.) Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 303-315. ISBN 9781137366030 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_22)
Lavery, C. (2016) Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? [Guest Editor]. Taylor & Francis.
Lavery, C. (2016) To perform Genet: Tranvseralite, Blessure, Pouvoir. In: Vannouvong, Agnes (ed.) Genet et les Arts. Presses du Reel, pp. 133-47. ISBN 9782840666837
Lavery, C. , Dixon, D. , Hassall, L., Pendleton, M. and Fearnley, C. (2016) Return to Battleship Island. In: Shaw, Debara B. and Humm, Maggie (eds.) Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice. Series: Radical cultural studies. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, pp. 87-108. ISBN 9781783481514
2015
Lavery, C. (2015) Sacred Time/Ecological Time in Beckett's Waiting for Godot (with a little help from Maurice Blanchot). Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, V(1-2), pp. 216-234.
Lavery, C. (2015) Ionesco's green lesson: toxic environments, ecologies of air. In: Lavery, Carl and Finburgh, Claire (eds.) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology and Environment, and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472506672
Lavery, C. and Taylor Batty, M. (2015) The secluded voice: the impossible call home in early Pinter. In: Lavery, Carl and Finburgh, Claire (eds.) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology and Environment, and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781472506672
Lavery, C. (2015) Beckett. In: Gale, Maggie and Deeney, John F. (eds.) Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. Series: Routledge key guides. Routledge: London, pp. 27-32. ISBN 9780415630368
Lavery, C. (2015) Action hero: a lexicon. In: Paintin, Gemma, Stenhouse, James and Lavery, Carl (eds.) Action Plans: Selected Performance Pieces by Action Hero. Oberon Books: London, vi-xxiv. ISBN 9781783195008
Lavery, C. (2015) Introduction: Greening the absurd. In: Lavery, Carl and Finburgh, Claire (eds.) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology and Environment, and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury: London.
Lavery, C. (2015) Walking and ruination. In: Qualmann, Claire and Hind, Claire (eds.) Ways to Wander. Triarchy Press: Axminster, pp. 9-14. ISBN 9781909470729
Lavery, C. and Finburgh, C. (2015) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, Environment and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781472506672
Lavery, C. and Gough, R. (2015) Introduction. Performance Research, 20(3), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1049031)
Lavery, C. and Gough, R. (2015) On Ruins and Ruination [Guest Editors]. Performance Research, 20(3),
Lavery, C. and Gough, R. (2015) Performance Research [Editors] Special issue: On Ruins and Ruination. Performance Research, 20(3),
Lavery, C. and Hassall, L. (2015) A future for Hashima: pornography, representation and time. Performance Research, 20(3), pp. 112-125. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1049045)
Paintin, G., Stenhouse, J. and Lavery, C. (2015) Action Plans: Selected Performance Pieces by Action Hero. Oberon Books: London. ISBN 9781783195008
2014
Lavery, C. (2014) Performing Paris. In: Whybrow, Nicolas (ed.) Performing Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-79. ISBN 9781137032522 (doi: 10.1057/9781137455697.0009)
Lavery, C. (2014) Polar bears, climate change and the ethics of limitropy. Contemporary Theatre Review, 24(4), pp. 535-537. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2014.965415)
Lavery, C. , Dixon, D. P. and Hassall, L. (2014) The future of ruins: the baroque melancholy of Hashima. Environment and Planning A, 46(11), pp. 2569-2584. (doi: 10.1068/a46179)
Lavery, C. (2014) Globalisation, glocal, third space theatre. In: Reynolds, Bryan (ed.) Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts, and Theories. Palgrave: London, pp. 193-200. ISBN 9780230247307
2013
Lavery, C. (2013) The ecology of the image: the environmental politics of Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio. French Cultural Studies, 24(3), pp. 264-278. (doi: 10.1177/0957155813489095)
Lavery, C. (2013) Return to Battleship Island. [Performance]
2010
Lavery, C. (2010) The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719090158
2009
Heddon, D. , Lavery, C. and Smith, P. (2009) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol. ISBN 9781841501550
2008
Chamberlain, F., Haney II, W. S., Lavery, C. , Malekin, P. and Yarrow, R. (2008) Sacred Theatre. Series: Theatre and Consciousness. Intellect Books. ISBN 9781841501536
2006
Finburgh, C., Lavery, C. and Shevtsova, M. (Eds.) (2006) Jean Genet: Performance and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403994806
Articles
Buob, B., Demesmaeker, J., Maillot, L., Lavery, C. and Rioux, V. (2024) Table ronde autour d’une performance dans un panier en osier. Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 54-55, (doi: 10.4000/12z0d)
Lavery, C. (2023) Un petit lexique théâtral pour Gerard Byrne, illustré de dix images de l’artiste et agrémenté de quelques notes de bas de page. Théâtre/Public, 249, pp. 28-44.
Lavery, C. (2022) Bec(h)oming with Simon Whitehead: practising a logic of sensation. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 10(1), pp. 44-67. (doi: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0004)
Lavery, C. and Whybrow, N. (2021) Special Issue: On Foot [Guest Editor]. Performance Research, 17(2),
Lavery, C. (2020) Theatricality and drifting in the Anthropocene: reading Asger Jorn and Guy Debord's Mémoires as ‘earth book’. Nordic Theatre Studies, 32(1), pp. 159-178. (doi: 10.7146/nts.v32i1.120414)
Lavery, C. (2019) Comment penser l’image écologique dans le théâtre contemporain: l’image élémentaire dans Some Things Happen All At Once de Mike Brookes et Rosa Casado. thaêtre,
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2019) From street to screen: Debord’s drifting cinema. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 109-119. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1558427)
Lavery, C. (2019) Rethinking the dérive: Drifting and theatricality in theatre and performance studies. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1557011)
Lavery, C. (2019) Animating tangible futures: Returning (again) to Battleship Island. Performance Research, 24(6), pp. 29-37. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2019.1686591)
Twitchin, M. and Lavery, C. (2019) On animism: introduction. Performance Research, 24(6), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2019.1686590)
Twitchin, M. and Lavery, C. (2019) Special Issue: On Animism [Guest Editors]. Performance Research, 24(6),
Bauer, J.-K. and Lavery, C. (2018) Assister au spectacle. Performance Research, 23(6), pp. 65-68. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1533761)
Lavery, C. (2018) Ecology in Beckett’s Theatre Garden: Or how to cultivate the Oikos. Contemporary Theatre Review, 28(1), pp. 10-26. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2017.1403912)
Lavery, C. (2018) From weather to climate: a note. Performance Research, 23(4-5), pp. 6-10. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1507348)
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2017) Glasgow glam rock dialogues. Drouth, 57, pp. 65-77.
Lavery, C. (2016) Introduction: performance and ecology: what can theatre do? Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 20(3), pp. 229-236. (doi: 10.1080/14688417.2016.1206695)
Lavery, C. (2016) Theatre and time/ecology: deceleration in Stifters Dinge and L’Effet de Serge. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 20(3), pp. 304-323. (doi: 10.1080/14688417.2016.1191997)
Lavery, C. (2015) Sacred Time/Ecological Time in Beckett's Waiting for Godot (with a little help from Maurice Blanchot). Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, V(1-2), pp. 216-234.
Lavery, C. and Gough, R. (2015) Introduction. Performance Research, 20(3), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1049031)
Lavery, C. and Gough, R. (2015) On Ruins and Ruination [Guest Editors]. Performance Research, 20(3),
Lavery, C. and Gough, R. (2015) Performance Research [Editors] Special issue: On Ruins and Ruination. Performance Research, 20(3),
Lavery, C. and Hassall, L. (2015) A future for Hashima: pornography, representation and time. Performance Research, 20(3), pp. 112-125. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1049045)
Lavery, C. (2014) Polar bears, climate change and the ethics of limitropy. Contemporary Theatre Review, 24(4), pp. 535-537. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2014.965415)
Lavery, C. , Dixon, D. P. and Hassall, L. (2014) The future of ruins: the baroque melancholy of Hashima. Environment and Planning A, 46(11), pp. 2569-2584. (doi: 10.1068/a46179)
Lavery, C. (2013) The ecology of the image: the environmental politics of Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio. French Cultural Studies, 24(3), pp. 264-278. (doi: 10.1177/0957155813489095)
Books
Lavery, C. and Finburgh, C. (2015) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, Environment and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781472506672
Paintin, G., Stenhouse, J. and Lavery, C. (2015) Action Plans: Selected Performance Pieces by Action Hero. Oberon Books: London. ISBN 9781783195008
Lavery, C. (2010) The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719090158
Heddon, D. , Lavery, C. and Smith, P. (2009) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol. ISBN 9781841501550
Book Sections
Delgado, M. M. and Lavery, C. (2025) Chéreau, Patrice. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 140-141. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Artaud, Antonin. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 45-46. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Dullin, Charles. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 184. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Jouvet, Louis. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 324-325. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Mesguich, Daniel. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, pp. 446-447. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Planchon, Roger. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 543. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Quesne, Philippe. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 556. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. (2025) Vilar, Jean. In: Delgado, Maria M. and Williams, Simon (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors. Cambridge University Press, p. 713. ISBN 9781108115995 (In Press)
Lavery, C. and Hassall, L. (2024) Scraps from the wreckage: remnants from Hashima Island. In: Gabrielsson, Catharina and Jobst, Marko (eds.) Instituting Worlds: Architecture and Islands. Routledge: London, pp. 216-237. ISBN 9781032498836 (doi: 10.4324/9781003395911-17)
Lavery, C. and Zandieh, R. (2024) Performance and installation art: Re-turning to Artaud through Christian Boltanski. In: Finburgh Delijani, Clare and Biet, Christian (eds.) A New History of Theatre in France. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 276-293. ISBN 9781108842372 (doi: 10.1017/9781108908566.015)
Lavery, C. (2024) I came across the Tell Tale Rooms purely by chance. In: Kotting, Andrew (ed.) The Tell Tale Rooms. Badbloodandsibyl, pp. 248-251.
Lavery, C. (2024) Bits and pieces: Fiona Robertson, the grotesque and the Dave Clark Five. In: Fiona Robertson: Tit-Bits. Glasgow School of Art: Glasgow. ISBN 9780993120817
Lavery, C. (2024) Walking and ruination. In: Jeffreys, Tom (ed.) Walking: Documents of Contemporary Art. Whitechapel Gallery: London, pp. 116-120. ISBN 9780854883165
Lavery, C. and Whitehead, S. (2024) Folding one place within another: Re-thinking site-specificity in the Anthropocene via Simone Forti’s 5 Dance Constructions and Other Things. In: Hunter, Victoria and Turner, Cathy (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance. Series: Routledge companions. Routledge: London, pp. 301-318. ISBN 9781032254104 (doi: 10.4324/9781003283034-28)
Lavery, C. (2023) Avant-garde hygiene and contagion: Artaud's ecology in the chemical century. In: Hopkins, David and Persson, Disa (eds.) Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde. Series: Routledge research in art history. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 182-198. ISBN 9781032284996 (doi: 10.4324/9781003309000-12)
Lavery, C. (2023) Quelques réflexions sur le paysage, le re-enactment et la théâtralité : politique et écologie. In: Théâtre/ Paysage. Series: Alternatives théâtrales (149). Alternatives théâtrales. ISBN 9782874281310
Lavery, C. (2020) To sense the city. In: Whybrow, Nicolas (ed.) Urban Sensographies. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9780367808396 (doi: 10.4324/9780367808396)
Lavery, C. (2020) Ten months of THEN/NOW: An exercise in weathered thinking. In: Donald, Minty (ed.) THEN/NOW. University of Glasgow, pp. 281-298. ISBN 9780852619735
Lavery, C. (2020) Un-thinking The Rubbish Collection: from plastics to plasticity. In: Mock, Roberta and Paterson, Mary (eds.) Joshua Sofaer: Performance, Objects and Participation. Intellect Books. ISBN 9781789380910
Lavery, C. (2020) A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit. In: Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten E. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science. Series: Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance. Cambridge University Press, pp. 55-69. ISBN 9781108676533 (doi: 10.1017/9781108676533.005)
Lavery, C. (2019) Walking and theatricality: an experiment in weathered thinking (kairos). In: Borthwick, David, Marland, Pippa and Stenning, Anna (eds.) Walking, Landscape and Environment. Routledge. ISBN 9781138630109
Lavery, C. and Murray, S. (2019) Thinking like a ruin. In: Mitsi, E., Despotopoulou, A., Dimakopoulou, S. and Aretoulakis, E. (eds.) Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249-270. ISBN 9783030269043 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-26905-0_15)
Lavery, C. (2019) How does theatre think through ecology? In: Bleeker, Maaike, Kear, Adrian, Kelleher, Joe and Roms, Heike (eds.) Thinking Through Theatre and Performance. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472579638
Lavery, C. (2017) The Radical as Syncope: An interruptive history of the Paris Commune in 14 1/2 beats. In: Dalmasso, Fred, Dalmasso, Véronique and Jamet, Stéphanie (eds.) La syncope dans la performance et les arts visuels. Le Manuscrit: Paris, France, pp. 213-217. ISBN 9782304046243
Lavery, C. (2016) Late modernism. In: Gale, Maggie B. and Deeney, John F. (eds.) The Routledge Drama Companion: Modernism to Contemporary Performance. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780415724173
Lavery, C. (2016) Participation, ecology, cosmos. In: Frieze, James (ed.) Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 303-315. ISBN 9781137366030 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_22)
Lavery, C. (2016) To perform Genet: Tranvseralite, Blessure, Pouvoir. In: Vannouvong, Agnes (ed.) Genet et les Arts. Presses du Reel, pp. 133-47. ISBN 9782840666837
Lavery, C. , Dixon, D. , Hassall, L., Pendleton, M. and Fearnley, C. (2016) Return to Battleship Island. In: Shaw, Debara B. and Humm, Maggie (eds.) Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice. Series: Radical cultural studies. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, pp. 87-108. ISBN 9781783481514
Lavery, C. (2015) Ionesco's green lesson: toxic environments, ecologies of air. In: Lavery, Carl and Finburgh, Claire (eds.) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology and Environment, and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472506672
Lavery, C. and Taylor Batty, M. (2015) The secluded voice: the impossible call home in early Pinter. In: Lavery, Carl and Finburgh, Claire (eds.) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology and Environment, and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781472506672
Lavery, C. (2015) Beckett. In: Gale, Maggie and Deeney, John F. (eds.) Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. Series: Routledge key guides. Routledge: London, pp. 27-32. ISBN 9780415630368
Lavery, C. (2015) Action hero: a lexicon. In: Paintin, Gemma, Stenhouse, James and Lavery, Carl (eds.) Action Plans: Selected Performance Pieces by Action Hero. Oberon Books: London, vi-xxiv. ISBN 9781783195008
Lavery, C. (2015) Introduction: Greening the absurd. In: Lavery, Carl and Finburgh, Claire (eds.) Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology and Environment, and Greening of Modern Stage. Series: Methuen drama engage. Bloomsbury: London.
Lavery, C. (2015) Walking and ruination. In: Qualmann, Claire and Hind, Claire (eds.) Ways to Wander. Triarchy Press: Axminster, pp. 9-14. ISBN 9781909470729
Lavery, C. (2014) Performing Paris. In: Whybrow, Nicolas (ed.) Performing Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-79. ISBN 9781137032522 (doi: 10.1057/9781137455697.0009)
Lavery, C. (2014) Globalisation, glocal, third space theatre. In: Reynolds, Bryan (ed.) Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts, and Theories. Palgrave: London, pp. 193-200. ISBN 9780230247307
Book Reviews
Lavery, C. (2021) Re-readings. Contemporary Theatre Review, 31(3), pp. 355-357. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2021.1946932)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Lavery, C. (Ed.) (2018) Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138554719
Lavery, C. (2016) Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? [Guest Editor]. Taylor & Francis.
Chamberlain, F., Haney II, W. S., Lavery, C. , Malekin, P. and Yarrow, R. (2008) Sacred Theatre. Series: Theatre and Consciousness. Intellect Books. ISBN 9781841501536
Finburgh, C., Lavery, C. and Shevtsova, M. (Eds.) (2006) Jean Genet: Performance and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403994806
Performance
Lavery, C. (2021) Text for Brian Sweeney’s photographic exhibition: G20, Trongate 103. [Performance]
Lavery, C. and Whitehead, S. (2021) Re-pair: Soft Matter: 3 Films. [Performance]
Lavery, C. (2020) Covid Dreams. [Performance]
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2020) Drifting with Debord [Film]. [Performance]
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2017) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 5-1967. [Performance]
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 1 - Work. [Performance]
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 2 - Luxury. [Performance]
Archibald, D. and Lavery, C. (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 3 - Commune. [Performance]
Lavery, C. (2013) Return to Battleship Island. [Performance]
Website
Lavery, C. (2024) Gala Water Unbordered. [Website]
Grants
- 2020-: Replaying Performance (LABEX) – CI
- 2016-17: Reviewing Spectacle: The Past, Presents and Futures of the Situationist International in Contemporary Performance (AHRC): CI
- 2013: The Future of Ruins: Reclaiming Abandonment and Toxicity on Hashima Island (AHRC: PI)
- 2013: Creative Resilience Through Community Imaginings (AHRC: CI)
- 2013: Homing in: Sensing, sense-making and sustainable place making (AHRC: CI)
Supervision
I invite PhD projects that look at:
- Ecology and Environment
- Politics and Revolution
- Cities and Urban Experience
- Affect and Sensation
- Ruins and Atmosphere
- Animism
- Anthropocene
- Theatre and Philosophy
Current students include:
- Cowan, Isla
Ecological Consciousness in Contemporary Scottish Theatre - Hao, Bopeng
Symbiosis in performances: The Vital Pulse of Eco-Scenography - Hassall, Lee
More Than a Passing Pleasure: Performing Transmatic Landscapes in Dorothy Wordsworth’s 1803 Tour Of Scotland. - Whitehead, Simon
Soft matter: what does posthuman ecology mean in relation to expanded choreographies of touch and affect?
I have supervised 18 PhDs to completions. These have included work on geochronology, walking, ecology, Absurdism, activism, philosophy, photography, translation, walking, multi-media performance, history and the allegorical image. site-specific performance, postdramatic theatre, participation, space and place, feminism and the abject body. Many of these have been through practice.
I have also examined over 30 PhDs nationally and internationally.
Teaching
I teach on a wide number of under-graduate and MLitt courses, including:
- Performance Theory Analysis
- Space, Place and Landscape
- Making Theatre for Philosophers
- Arts Criticism
- Making Time
- Reading the Stage
- Theatre Dissertation
- Research Methods
- Debating Dramaturgy
- Modernism to the Postdramatic
Additional information
I have given numerous keynote papers and invited lectures at Universities in the UK and elsewhere. Some of these have included: Paris Nanterre, University of Utrecht, University of Antwerp, University of Bucharest, University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, University of Athens, University of Bratislava, Finnish Theatre Academy Helsinki, University of Buenos Aires, University of Thessaloniki, and the Dance Centre in Madrid
I have been involved in numerous arts projects, including Future of Ruins, Return to Battleship Island, the Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues, Mourning Walk. The films Return to Battleship Island and Drifting with Debord have been shown in art galleries and films festival internationally. These were funded by the AHRC and LABEX. My collaboration with Simon Whitehead and Lee Hassall Covid Dreams was exhibited in Finland in December 2020
I am currently involved in a project with the choreographer Simon Whitehead on the topic of Re-pair. The project is funded by the Collaborations & Cultural Activities Committee of the School of Culture and Creative Art at the University of Glasgow.