BRIAN RIDGERS

London Theatre Program, Midsummer Conservatory Program

Brian Ridgers has worked with American study abroad students for over fifteen years teaching courses in Modern Drama and Performance, Theatre History, Shakespeare and Elizabethan Literature as well as Creative Writing. He has also taught at Queen Mary’s College (University of London), St Mary’s University and is currently teaching at Plymouth University. His interests include Shakespeare and contemporary performance, biography and literature, women’s writing in the nineteenth century as well as psychoanalytic critical theory. The courses he has taught offer students a chance to apply a range of critical perspectives including Gender theory, Psychoanalytic, post-colonial and New Historicist analysis to texts.