Jim Davis

Professor Jim Davis holds a BA (Hons) in English and MA from Oxford University and a PhD in Drama from Exeter University.

He joined the School of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick University in 2004 after eighteen years teaching Theatre Studies at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, where he was latterly Head of the School of Theatre, Film and Dance.

In Australia he was also President of the Australasian Drama Studies Association (the tertiary association of drama teachers), and member of the Board of Studies of the National Institute of Dramatic Art.

He was an assessor for the Australian National Playwrights' Conference, and co-organiser of the first conference held in Australia by the International Federation for Theatre Research. Prior to leaving for Australia he spent ten years teaching in London at what is now Roehampton University.

Victor Emeljanow

Victor Emeljanow is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Newcastle.

His interests lie in the rise and development of the director from the 19th century onward, Chekhov on the English stage, the emergence of melodrama as a popular form from the 19th century and its persistence in today's media, modernist developments in dramatic forms and theatrical technology especially in the Victorian and Edwardian periods and finally, the role of the live theatre audience especially its responses to the creation of dramatic meaning.

Other titles by this author

Arrighi G, Emeljanow VE, Entertaining Children: the participation of youth in the entertainment industry, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, (2014)

Arrighi G, Emeljanow VE, A World of Popular Entertainments: An Edited Volume of Critical Essays, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne, (2012)

Emeljanow VE, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Pickering & Chatto, London, (2012)

Emeljanow VE, Davis J, Reflecting the Audience: London theatregoing 1840-1880, University of Hertfordshire Press, (2001)