Paul Maloney

Paul Maloney is a theatre historian who was formerly Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and at Queen’s University Belfast. He has written extensively about Scottish popular theatre and entertainment culture, and is the author of Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914 (Manchester University Press, 2003) and The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Most recently he has contributed chapters on Transatlantic Exchanges to Claire Cochrane, Trish Reid et al (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre. Volume One: 1900-1950 (2024), and on Stages, Performers and Audiences in the late c19, and Popular Theatre to the new Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre (Randall Stevenson and Greg Walker eds., OUP, 2025).