Vanessa Dodd

Dr. Vanessa Dodd is a writer, theatre director, drama practitioner and actor who trained initially at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She has had a lifelong interest in philosophy, particularly in the early Romantic philosophers and American transcendentalists and more recently in consciousness studies. She was formerly a senior lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of South Wales and at the University of Wales, Newport where she was also Programme Leader for the Applied Drama course. She has a first-class degree in English and History, an MA in playwriting studies and a PHD ‘The Theatre of the Mind’ which brought her two interests of theatre and philosophy together. She has a book forthcoming published by Routledge entitled Performing Human Consciousness: A philosophical investigation into the staging of the mind.