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Theatre & the City

Harvie is co-founder and co-editor (with Dan Rebellato, 50%) of the series Theatre & and author of Theatre & the City (2009).

Theatre & launched in 2009 with eight books; by 2013's end, there are twenty-two, with ten more in progress. Forthcoming translations are in Slovakian (two) and Arabic (twelve, including Theatre & the City). The series' research imperatives include: to originate a form that engages critically with complex debates to make original intellectual interventions, but is accessible in length, language and cost; to make explicit why each book's topic is critically and culturally important and why thinking about it in relation to theatre studies matters; to produce critical dialogue between theatre studies and a wide interdisciplinary field; and collectively, to make arguments for the value, distinctiveness and transferability of theatre studies' discourses, tools and insights. Harvie's research contribution includes: devising, developing and securing publication of this original form; closely curating topics through proactive and responsive commissioning practices and doing detailed editorial work developing authors' proposals intellectually and practically; and delivering thorough editorial responses to book drafts. On books Harvie lead edits (approximately half), she regularly responds closely to three drafts.

Theatre & the City's research imperative is to evaluate critical methods for assessing relationships between theatre/performance and the city and to model a hybridized critical methodology with enhanced political purchase. Its wide citation in a range of scholarly contexts, in the UK, Australasia and North America and in geography, urban and theatre studies, suggests its reception as a contribution to research in theatre and urban cultures. Known citations to date include three PhDs (Goldsmiths, Pittsburgh. Calgary); International Journal of Urban Research 2013; Geography Compass 2012; Theatre Journal 2011; Shakespeare Quarterly 2010; RIDE 2011; Studies in Theatre and Performance 2010, 2013; and Haedicke's Contemporary Street Arts in Europe (2012).