Peta Tait

Biography

Peta Tait is an Emeritus Professor in humanities at La Trobe University specialising in performance studies. She has published over 70 articles and chapters and 12 books including: the authored ‘Forms of Emotion: Human to Nonhuman in Drama, Theatre and Performance’ (Routledge 2022); the authored ‘Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion’ (Bloomsbury 2021); the authored ‘Fighting Nature’ (Sydney University Press 2016); and the edited ‘The Great European Stage Directors volume one’ (2018). Her plays include: Eleanor and Mary Alice (Currency Press 2018) about Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary Alice Evatt and the co-written Mesmerized as Retrato de Augustine (Praxila, Brazil 2024).