UTAD Conference

Siân Adiseshiah joined Loughborough University as Senior Lecturer in English and Drama in June 2018 as part of its Excellence 100 campaign. She was promoted to Reader in December 2020 and Professor in June 2023. She previously worked at the University of Lincoln (2004-2018), and has taught at the Open University and the University of Birmingham. Her PhD (on the plays of Caryl Churchill) was funded by the AHRB, undertaken at the University of Birmingham, and awarded in 2003. Her research interests lie mostly in contemporary theatre and literary studies, utopianism, and age studies.

Siân is Editor-in-Chief of the Open Library of Humanities journal C21 Literature, Editor of new book series 'Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations' (Liverpool University Press), and sits on the Editorial Boards of Cambridge University Press’ Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts, Bloomsbury’s book series New Horizons in Contemporary Literature, and the Journal of Gender Studies. She was appointed to the AHRC Peer Review College in 2020. She also co-founded the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) and was an elected executive committee member of BACLS from 2017-2019, and re-joined as an ex-officio member in 2023.