2018 | Dee Heddon

I researched, thought and wrote about the place of forests as sites of loss and renewal: memorials to loss and remembering, environments of devastation and restoration, harbingers of despair and hope. This research contributes to my forthcoming monograph, Performing Landscapes: Forests, which aims to explore the multiple relationships between performance and forests. What can forests and our relationships with them tell us about loss and renewal?

Dee Heddon holds the James Arnott Chair in Drama at the University of Glasgow. She has written widely about autobiography and performance, contemporary performance, and walking as an aesthetic practice, including The Walking Library). Her work on forests is an emerging research venture. Her father was a forester.

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