Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Solomon is interested in supervising PhD students in areas aligned to performance studies, activism, and/or sports, specifically:
Performance studies
Performance ethnography
Sport and performance
Narrative identity
Combat sports
Boxing
Hauntology
Performance and activism
Willing to speak to media
Lennox's research focuses on the impact of the performance of shared narrative resources. His research investigates the relationship between narrative resources, repeated physical gestures (such as boxing training, or kneeling in protest) and the enactment of identity. His work is aligned to the fields of performance studies, narrative inquiry, and ethnography. Lennox is the co-author of the monograph Boxing and Performance, the first resource to present a typology of boxing’s narrative resources and to place the experience of male and female fighters in dialogue. Lennox continues to work with his long-standing research collaborator, Dr Sarah Crews (University of South Wales) to explore the impact of the narrative myths on the embodied experience of boxing. Lennox and Crews are currently developing research around the visibility of activism within boxing.
Lennox is published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and edited collections in the fields of performance studies, sport and performance, visual communications, medical humanities, and actor training. He is currently working on a sole-authored monograph, tentatively titled, The Performance of Activism. The work develops a performance analysis methodology for the analysis of social media representations of race, racism, and anti-racist activism.
Lennox currently contributes to three PhD projects. He is the principal supervisor for Anthea Moys and her project ‘Ambiguity and Antiracists Practices of Play in Flux Sports’, a practice-as-research PhD. He is part of the supervision team for Cameron Craggs' CDA, ‘Recreating History’, where Craggs is developing AI and VR technologies and software to (re)create and make visible the often-hidden history of women's boxing. Lennox is also part of the supervision team for Craig Green's CDA, ‘The Emergent Theatre’, where Green is building AI systems to produce an immersive and user-led theatrical experience.
Lennox's research interests include:
Dr Solomon Lennox is Head of Department - Arts, at Northumbria University. He was previously the Head of Subject for Drama. Lennox joined Northumbria in 2014 from the University of East London.
Lennox has an established history of engagement with professional scholarly organisations. He is the former Treasurer of the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD). He is Archivist and on the Board of Directors for Performance Studies international (PSi) and Co-Convenor for the Bodies and Performance Working Group for the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA)
PhD, Narratives of Performance: An Interdisciplinary Qualitative Ethnography Investigating the Storied Lives of Amateur and Professional Boxers.
31 Dec 2012 → 31 Dec 2099
Award Date: 31 Dec 2012
Drama, MFA, Theatre Practice, University of Exeter
1 Sept 2006 → 1 Jul 2008
Award Date: 1 Jul 2008
Drama, BA (Hons), Drama, University of East Anglia
1 Sept 2000 → 1 Jul 2003
Award Date: 1 Jul 2003
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review