Dr Lorna Giltrow-Shaw
Associate Senior Lecturer
Lorna specialises in Shakespeare and early modern drama and has extensive experience in the Higher Education sector at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in universities, training conservatoires, and heritage learning organisations.
Lorna currently teaches on the BA (Hons) Acting for Stage, Screen and Digital Media and the BA (Hons) Musical Theatre and Dance courses at our Birmingham campus. Previous teaching positions include Shakespeare and Contextual Studies Tutor at Drama Studio London, Teaching Fellow in the department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, Postgraduate Teaching Associate at the Shakespeare Institute (UOB), and Visiting Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and the Institute Catholique de Vendee in France. Lorna is also a Visiting Practitioner in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (RSC) and a Visiting Academic in engagement and outreach at Warwickshire Libraries.
Lorna trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and worked professionally in theatre and television before embarking on postgraduate study and HE teaching. She completed both her MA and AHRC funded PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, the University of Birmingham. Her interdisciplinary work examines plague prevention policy and practice in early modern drama (1593-1625). This work has been published in Renaissance Studies (Wiley), and she has forthcoming chapters in volumes by Bloomsbury (Arden Shakespeare) and Edinburgh University Press.
She is currently preparing her first monograph based on her doctoral research. Lorna's research and teaching interests include: Shakespeare and his contemporaries; theatre history; phenomenology and sense studies; verse speaking and Shakespeare performance practice; adapting and editing Shakespeare; acting methodologies; directing; devising; site-specific theatre; the Creative Industries; and theatre and its medical intersections.
