Dr David Pattie MA, PhD

David Pattie

Department of Drama and Theatre Arts
Senior Lecturer

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414
Email
d.pattie@bham.ac.uk
Address
The Old Library (SOVAC)
998 Bristol Road
Selly Oak
Birmingham
B29 6LG

I've been teaching and researching in drama and theatre studies since 1992. I’m an internationally recognised expert on the work of Samuel Beckett, and I’ve published ground breaking work on live music as a performance. I’ve also written extensively about contemporary British theatre, Scottish theatre, and popular culture.

Qualifications

  • MA (Honours); University of Glasgow
  • PhD; University of Kent

Biography

I鈥檓 from the West of Scotland originally, and I was one of the first people from my family to get in to university. I graduated from Glasgow in 1985 with a degree in English and Drama (coming first in my honours drama class) and went on to do a PhD at the University of Kent (my research topic was the funding of alternative theatre in the UK in the 1980s).

My first full time post was at the University of Ulster (from 1992 to 1997). I moved to the University of Greenwich, where I taught from 1997 to 2001. My most recent post was at the University of Chester, from 2001 to 2017.

Teaching

I lead the third year study option Playwright’s Theatre and I convene the second year Monologue practical option. I teach on the second year Politics of Performance module, and I lecture on the first year Dramatic Medium module.

Postgraduate supervision

Samuel Beckett.
Contemporary British theatre and performance.
Performance and popular culture.

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Research

I鈥檝e got a long-standing interest in the work of Samuel Beckett. I鈥檝e published a book, book chapters and articles on all aspects of his work, and I鈥檝e been asked to speak on his work to academic and non-academic audiences. I was part of the 3-year AHRC Staging Beckett research project; as part of the project, we put together a database which gathered together information about all of the productions of Beckett in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

I鈥檝e also published a book - the first on the subject - on rock music as a performance event, and I鈥檝e co-edited books on the music and art of Kraftwerk and Brian Eno. I鈥檝e also published on British theatre and performance, from the 1950s through to the present day; I鈥檓 an acknowledged expert on the work of the Scots playwright David Greig.聽

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Pattie, D & Albiez, S (eds) 2022, . 1 edn, Bloomsbury, New York. <>

Pattie, D & Stewart, P (eds) 2019, . ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart.

Article

Pattie, D 2018, '', Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd hui, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 227-238.

Pattie, D 2017, '', Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd hui, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 231-242.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Pattie, D 2025, . in J Bolton & N Holden (eds), Beautiful Doom: The Work of Dennis Kelly on stage and screen. 1 edn, Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 184-199. <>

Pattie, D 2025, . in C Anderton & L Burns (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination. 1 edn, Routledge Music Handbooks, Routledge, pp. 349-357. <>

Pattie, D 2023, . in A Feldman & D Rebellato (eds), Terrence Rattigan: New Critical Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Pattie, D 2022, . in U Sch眉tte (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock. Cambridge Companions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 173-186.

Pattie, D 2022, . in C Wallace, C Escoda, E Monforte & R Prado-Perez (eds), Crisis, Representation and Resilience: Perspectives on Contemporary British Theatre. Methuen, London, pp. 109-125. <>

Pattie, D 2022, . in S Morrison & C Hart (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd. Routledge, London, pp. 111-125. <>

Pattie, D 2021, . in U Schutte (ed.), German Pop Music in Literary and Transmedial Perspectives. Studies in Modern German and Austrian Literature, vol. 11, Peter Lang, Berlin, pp. 15-33.

Pattie, D 2016, . in J Bull (ed.), British Theatre Companies: 1965-1979: British Theatre Companies: from Fringe to Mainstream. Methuen, London, pp. 251-274.

Book/Film/Article review

Pattie, D 2022, '', Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 259-260.

Foreword/postscript

Pattie, D 2021, . in Girls and Boys. Methuen Drama Modern Classics, Methuen, London, pp. 1-7. <>

Pattie, D 2021, . in Girls and Boys (Methuen Modern Classics). Methuen Drama Modern Classics, Methuen, London, pp. 1-9. <>