Current Work

Nicholas Johnson is Associate Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, where he has worked full-time since 2008. He co-founded the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies, within which he co-directs the Beckett Summer School and the Samuel Beckett Laboratory.

Strategy

Drawing on insights from his research into Beckett and the theatre laboratory, in recent years his work has pivoted to more interdisciplinary research projects in the areas of pedagogy (with Education), acting theory (with Neuroscience), VR and AI (with Computer Science), cultural trauma (with Sociology), and medical humanities (with both Medicine and Nursing/Midwifery). In his capacity as convener of Trinity's Creative Arts Practice research theme, he has discovered many opportunities to extend the impact of his "disciplinary" insights from within Drama.