NYU in London 2008-9 Teaching Award
Professor Nesta Jones, our lecturer in Modern Drama in Performance, has won the NYU in London Annual Teaching Award for the academic year 2008-9.
Below are just a few of the students’ comments Nesta has received:
“I wouldn’t have had as fulfilling an experience in London without this course”
“The professor is very encouraging, she really cares about the interests and ideas of the class”
“She’s the best”
“Simply fantastic"
“The course was well-organized – impressively so – and immensely enjoyable. I feel this course was the most culturally interesting and informative of my semester”
“I felt honoured to be taught by her”
Nesta is very committed to helping and engaging her students. However, she also constantly challenges the idea of a theatre class as an ‘easy’ option by exposing her students to theatrical works that are intellectually challenging, sometimes controversial and experimental in form. She has many years of service at NYUL and remains committed to our students and site, while also being made a Professor at her home institution in recent years.
As well as teaching at NYU in London, Nesta is Director of Research at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, an affiliate of the University of Manchester, UK. Formerly, she was Reader in Theatre Arts and Head of Drama for many years at Goldsmiths University of London. She has published on JM Synge, Sean O’Casey and David Mamet (all Methuen) and Brian Friel (Faber & Faber), and acting and production processes in a number of theatre journals; organized projects for and with the British Council, the National Museum for the Performing Arts, Trinity College Dublin, the Council of Europe Cultural Networks, the European Commission, the European Cultural Foundation, Arts Council England, the Royal National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, and London Weekend Television; has been a consultant/adviser to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Wales, University of Surrey, Leeds Metropolitan University, the British Centre of the International Theatre Institute, International Women Playwrights, the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, the Pan Centre for Intercultural Arts, the Centre for Performance Research, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and University of the Arts London; and given papers at international conferences, directed theatre productions of English classics and revivals of modern European plays, and conducted acting, directing and playwriting workshops, at venues across Europe (east and west) and North America. Moreover, she has researched in the USA (mainly Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York) and was a Visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont and Visiting Director for the Potomac Theatre Project. She is currently a Contributing Editor of New Theatre Quarterly (Cambridge University Press) and the Artistic Director of NXT (New Cross Theatre), a company committed to promoting new writing for theatre.
Well done Nesta!
Course: Modern Drama in Performance