Heike Roms is Professor in Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University.

She has published on contemporary performance practice, the history of performance art in a British context, performance historiography and archiving, performance and ecology and performance as a mode of knowledge formation and dissemination. Her recent work is interested in the relationship between film and the emergence of performance art in the UK. Heike’s research on the historiography of early performance art has been funded by a Large Research Grant from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRC (2009-2011) and won the UK’s Theatre and Performance Research Association TaPRA David Bradby Award for Outstanding Research in International Theatre and Performance in 2011.