Dr Clare Wright

Clare Wright is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Kent.  Her research focuses on medieval English drama, and particularly on issues of space, place, audiences and embodiment.  She has published on site-specificity and spatial environments, audience response and participation, and the effects of poetic metre and alliteration in performance.  Her first monograph, entitled Sensing, Feeling, Remembering: The Moving Body in Medieval Drama, draws on embodied cognition and performance theory to explore the affective role of movement, posture and gesture in early English drama.  Locating kinesis within medieval social, philosophical, and devotional discourse, the book will consider the ways in which posture and movement might have influenced spectators’ embodied experiences, both within and beyond the theatrical frame.  Clare is the founder and chair of the Early English Drama and Performance Network and is Primary Investigator on a collaborative project examining the potential of cognitive theory and neuroscience in medieval studies.