Peta Tait

Professor Peta Tait

  • Post-Nominals: FAHA
  • Fellow Type: Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 2013
  • Section: The Arts

Biography

Peta Tait is Professor of Theatre and Drama in the School of Humanities at La Trobe University. She has achieved international recognition for her work in performance scholarship within a socio-historical context and in relation to film and other texts in cultural studies and its theory more broadly, and her analyses of dramatic literature and theatre. She is at the forefront of the field of performance studies in Australia and internationally, and her scholarship engages interdisciplinary approaches to performance, environmental humanities and the analysis of emotion. Her most recent books are 'Forms of Emotion: Human to Nonhuman' (Routledge 2022) and 'Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion' (Bloomsbury 2021). Tait is also a playwright, having written seven produced plays and three contemporary performances.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.