Anna Street

As project leader, Anna coordinates and contributes to all aspects of the research investigations.

Her own workpackages include theater, merfolk cultures, hydrofeminism, and mass entertainment.

Anna Street

Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies

Le Mans University

Anna Street is Senior Lecturer in Theater & Performance Studies at Le Mans University’s English Department. Previously funded projects include the Performing Water project (MSH Ange-Guépin) and AquaArts (MSH Paris-Nord), enabling a network of collaborations with current team members.

Co-convener of the Performance Philosophy network and translator of ten volumes in Les Petits Platons collection, her publications also include the co-edited volumes Inter Views in Performance Philosophy (Palgrave 2017), Genre Transgressions: Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy (Routledge 2023), the forthcoming open access monograph Comedy of the Impossible: The Power of Play in Post-war European Drama (Open Book Publishers) as well as articles on immigrant and refugee theatre. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Kent in Canterbury and a PhD in English Studies as well as a masters in Philosophy from the Sorbonne.

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