Broderick D. V. Chow
Broderick D.V. Chow is an artist-scholar whose research explores how social, political and historical forces can be understood through performances of the body, and spans theatre and performance studies, anthropology, and sociology. He is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at Brunel University London.
From 2016-2018, he was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded Leadership Fellows research project Dynamic Tensions: New Masculinities in the Performance of Fitness (www.dynamictensions.com). As part of this project he was recently a visiting scholar at the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports, University of Texas at Austin, and a visiting scholar at the Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is co-editor of Žižek and Performance (Palgrave 2014) and Performance and Professional Wrestling (Routledge 2016). He is currently at work on a monograph entitled Dynamic Tensions: Performing Fitness and Masculinity.
Broderick is an amateur Olympic Weightlifter and a BWL Level 1 Qualified Weightlifting Coach. He is originally from Vancouver, Canada, and has lived in London since 2005. He has an undergraduate degree in Theatre and English from the University of British Columbia, and a Masters in Advanced Theatre Practice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He was also the first PhD graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.