Actresses and the Archive

Dr Elizabeth Redwine, “Actresses and the Archive”

Moore Institute and Drama and Theatre Studies

The words of actresses and performers change the way we read and discuss theatre history in Global Irish Studies. Dr. Elizabeth Brewer Redwine will examine how Sara Allgood’s Memoirs caused her to reassess authorship and performance both at the Abbey Theatre and in American midcentury film.

Elizabeth Brewer Redwine, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the English Department and Coordinator of the Core I class Journey of Transformation. In the past two years, Redwine has published two books, Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning, edited with Amrita Ghosh, Ph.D., in 2022, and a monograph, Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre with Oxford University Press in 2021. She edits the online journal, Critical Inquiries into Irish Studies, with Martha Carpentier, Ph.D.. She is under contract with Oxford University to publish Irish Abbey Theatre and film actress Sara Allgood’s Memoirs. Her areas of expertise are Global Anglophone literatures, Irish and Twentieth Century British Literature, Performance Studies, and Gender Studies.