Nik Taylor

Dr Nik Taylor is Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Arts and Humanities at University of Huddersfield. He is co-editor of The Journal of Performance Magic.

He has worked as a performer, writer, and director. He is coordinator of the Magic Research Group. He writes on Bizarre Magick, Séance and the Gothic.

He is currently working on a monograph examining the cultural history of performance magic.

As a performer, Nik specializes in Bizarre Magic, Sideshow, Séance and Divination. Nik co-curates Mr Punch’s Cabinet of Curiosities, a dark museum of weird and haunted artefacts and has recently completed a short film on the Victorian Parlour Séance.