Academics

After a professional career in theatre and television, Grant pursued graduate degrees in performance studies at top research universities in both the United States and in Britain. First, he obtained a Masters degree at University of California, Los Angeles’s Theatre, Film and Television Department under the guidance of Sue-Ellen Case and David Gere. His thesis, “Clubbing Masculinities: Performance of Gender in Gay Male Dance Clubs," was well received at numerous conferences and sections of it were later published in Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education.

Grant then received three years of research funding from the Higher Education Funding Council of England to study one of Britian's longest running street theatre troupes.  This project is being overseen by Dan Rebellato and Chris Megson and will culminate in a PhD degree awarded by the University of London, Royal Holloway.  Grant's research is the first formal study of the forty-year history of Bath's Natural Theatre Company and is projected to become a book sometime after.

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