Shane was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2009 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.
Shane Boyle began working in the Theatre and Performance Department at Queen Mary, University of London after completing his PhD in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley and his BA in English at Duke University. Before moving to London, Boyle held postdoctoral appointments at Stanford University and Harvard University.
Boyle's research focuses on the political economy of performance from a Marxist and communist perspective. He is particularly interested in postdramatic theatre, live art and activist performance, mostly in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
He supports the research of colleagues in various ways. Currently he is on the editorial board of Theatre Survey and regularly peer reviews manuscripts for journals and presses including Verso, Palgrave Macmillan, Theater Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review, Lateral, among others.
Recently Boyle co-convened CAPITAL FORMS, a postgraduate training programme in the Economic Humanities, funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership.