Susan Broadhurst

Susan Broadhurst is a performance art practitioner, writer, and academic, She is Professor of Performance and Technology and leads the division ofProduction and Performance (Film and TV, Music and Theatre) at Brunel University London, where she co-founded the university's Body, Space & Technology Research group (now the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance).

Broadhurst joined Brunel University in 1999 and was appointed to a full professorship in 2008.

She is the author of two books, four edited collections, and multiple papers on performance, with an emphasis on live art, dance, music, film, aesthetics, neuroesthetics, technology, and bio-technology. Broadhurst is co-editor, with Barry Edwards, of the Body, Space & Technology Journal (Open Library of Humanities), and of the Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology book series with Josephine Machon.

In 2008, Broadhurst organized ‘'Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction and Performance’', a series of performances and installations exploring the interface between physicality, digital interactivity, AI technology, and biotechnology in contemporary and performance art. This concluded with a symposium held at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.

• Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory (1999, Bloomsbury) ISBN 9781441144713
• Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology (2007, Palgrave Macmillan) ISBN 978-0-230-58984-1

Edited works

• Performance and Technology: Practices of virtual embodiment and interactivity (2006, Palgrave Macmillan) co-edited with Josephine MachonISBN 978-1-4039-9907-8
• Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance (2009, Palgrave Macmillan), co-edited with Josephine Machon ISBN 978-0-230-24853-3
• Identity, Performance and Technology: Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity (2012, Palgrave Macmillan), co-edited with Josephine Machon ISBN 978-1-137-28444-0
• Digital Bodies: Creativity and Technology in the Arts and Humanities (2017, Palgrave Macmillan), co-edited with Sara Price ISBN 978-1-349-95241-0