Deirdre Heddon

Heddon has written a number of texts about walking and performance, and is connected with the Walking Artists Network.. She contributed a chapter to Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts, and has written a number of articles about walking and performance, including, ‘Walking and Friendship’ (2012); Walking Women: Interviews with Artists on the Move, and Women Walking: Shifting the Tales and Scales of Mobility (2012), with Cathy Turner; and The Horizon of Sound: Soliciting the Earwitness (2010). She also co-edited a themed edition of RIDE: A Journal of Applied Drama, which focused on applied theatre and environmentalism (2012). Heddon is co-editing a newly launched series for Palgrave Macmillan, Performing Landscapes, for which she is writing Performing Landscapes: Forests.

Heddon is the author of multiple books, book chapters and journal articles. She authored Autobiography and Performance, and co-author of Devising Performance: A Critical History (both published by Palgrave Macmillan). Her edited collection, Histories and Practices of Live Art, co-edited with Jennie Klein, was published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Heddon undertakes practice-based research, much of it in relation to walking. Her project, Walking Interconnections, extends her interest in walking and environmentalism to questions around disability as well. With Misha Myers she created The Walking Library (2012-ongoing), an artwork and research project that 'brings libraries into the landscape through site-specific walks.' In recognition of her fortieth birthday she devised 40 Walks, for which she organised forty walks with forty different people.

Deirdre Heddon (born 1969), is Professor of Contemporary Performance at the University of Glasgow (UK). She is a practice-based researcher and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as academic monographs and book-chapters. She is well known for her interest in autobiographical performance, site-specific performance and walking art.