Charlotte Purkis

Dr. Charlotte Purkis is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Performing Arts at the University of Winchester. She specializes in the intersections of performing arts and Modernisms, with a focus on music, dance, and theatre history. Her research explores critical writing practices such as autoethnography, and the roles of women in 20th-century avant-garde movements as artists and critics. She holds academic memberships with the British Association of Modernist Studies and the Royal Musical Association.

Her research interests include music in cultural history, theatre historiography, international connections between British, American, and European Modernisms, American drama, and gender studies. She supervises postgraduate research in areas such as music-drama, performative writing, and histories of the performing arts.

Dr. Purkis has presented at numerous conferences, including the Third International Conference on Women’s Work in Music and the Art Writing and The Body symposium. Her work has been supported by grants such as the 2020 Society for Theatre Research UK award. She has contributed to peer-reviewed journals like Journalism Studies and Tate Papers, and authored chapters in volumes like Cultural Convergence: The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1960.

Her consultancy roles include advising the National Council for Drama Training and serving as a subject specialist reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency. She has also contributed to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and other encyclopedic publications.