Lucy Weir

Lucy Weir is a specialist in dance and performance. She is the author of 'Pina Bausch's Dance Theatre: Tracing the Evolution of Tanztheater' (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), 'Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury' (Routledge, 2024), and co-editor of 'Performance in a Pandemic' (Routledge, 2021).

Lucy was awarded her PhD in History of Art and Theatre Studies from the University of Glasgow in 2013. She has taught at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, before joining the University of Edinburgh in 2015. She was appointed Chancellor's Fellow in 2021, and promoted to Reader in History of Art in 2024.