Clare Wallace is Associate Professor in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University in Prague.
Clare holds a BA in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in Women’s Studies from University College Dublin and a PhD from Charles University Prague. Her PhD thesis explored questions of narrative, identity and citation in the work of five British and Irish playwrights from the late 1990s and ways of understanding their work in relation to the discourse of postmodernity. Her research is mainly focused on Irish Studies and Theatre Studies.
She has published widely in these areas. She is author of The Theatre of David Greig (2013) and Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama (2006/7) and is editor of Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity and Stewart Parker Television Plays (2008). Co-edited books include Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig’s Theatre (2011) with Anja Müller, Stewart Parker Dramatis Personae and Other Writings (2008) with Gerald Dawe and Maria Johnston, Global Ireland: Irish Literatures for the New Millennium with Ondřej Pilný (2006) and Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other with Louis Armand (2002).
She was a co-investigator for “British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community”, a four-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and the EU European Regional Development Fund (FFI2016-75443). She is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English and is currently Vice President of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English and Co-Chair of its annual PhD Forum.
Contemporary British Theatre
(forthcoming): “Concerns that Matter: Dramaturgies of Double Exposure in Tim Crouch’s Recent Work”, Care Matters in Twenty-First Century British Theatre. Eds. Clara Escoda, José Ramón Prado-Pérez and Verónica Rodríguez.
(forthcoming): “Agonistic Spaces: Dissensus and Ethical Conflicts in Recent Irish Theatre”, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing. Eds. Eugene O’Brien and Anne Fogarty.
(forthcoming): “Retro Magic: Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman (2017)”, The Cambridge Companion to British Playwriting since 1945. Eds. Vicky Angelaki and Dan Rebellato. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
2024: “Lillian Hellman: Plays, Politics and Provocations / Lillian Hellman: Drama, Politika a Provokace,” Moderní Divadlo časopis Městská Divadla Pražská 1, pp. 18-19. https://www.mestskadivadlaprazska.cz/mediateka/casopis/
2022: review of Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction: Ireland in Crisis (Eóin Flannery, 2022), Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) 5:2, pp. 17-20. https://doi.org/10.32803/rise.v5i2.3091
2022: co-editor with Clara Escoda, Enric Monforte and José Ramón Prado-Pérez, Crisis, Representation and Resilience: Perspectives on Contemporary British Theatre. London: Bloomsbury (Methuen Drama). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/crisis-representation-and-resilience-9781350180857/
2022: with Clara Escoda, “States of Emergency: Performing Crisis”, Crisis, Representation and Resilience: Perspectives on Contemporary British Theatre. Eds. Clare Wallace, Clara Escoda, Enric Monforte and José Ramón Prado-Pérez. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-18.
2022: with José Ramón Prado-Pérez, Enric Monforte and Clara Escoda, “Perspectives from the cascade”, Crisis, Representation and Resilience: Perspectives on Contemporary British Theatre. Eds Clare Wallace, Clara Escoda, Enric Monforte and José Ramón Prado-Pérez. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 227-31.
2022: “Crisis, Critique and Community in Contemporary British Theatre”, Studying English Literature in Context: Critical Readings. Ed. Paul Poplawski. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, pp. 439-55.
2022: “Introduction: Dialogue, Performance and the Body Politic in Contemporary Theatre”, Litteraria Pragensia 32: 63, pp. 1-7.
2022: “Embodying Agonism in Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes and The Welkin”, Litteraria Pragensia 32: 63, pp. 24-40.
2021: “Set Piece, Set Peace? Negative Emotions and the Possibility of Change in Recent Stage Images of the North”, Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation. Paul Fagan, Dieter Fuchs and Tamara Radak. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 227-40.
2021: “The Camp and the Journey: Aesthetic Encounters with Forced Migration”, Litteraria Pragensia 31: 61, pp. 60-79.
2021: “Moving Parts: Emotion, Intention and Ambivalent Attachments”, Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. Eds. Mireia Aragay, Cristina Delgado-García and Martin Middeke. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 43-61.
2021: “Disordered States and Affective Economies in Stella Feehily’s O Go My Man (2006)”, The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716-2016. Eds. David Clare, Fiona McDonagh and Justine Nakase. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, pp. 87-98.
2020: “Ambivalent Attachments, Catharsis and Commemoration: David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue at the Abbey Theatre in 2016”, Scene 8 (1-2), pp. 91-103.
2020 : “David Greig”, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature. Eds. Richard Bradford et al. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 491-501.
2019: “Marina Carr’s Hecuba: Agency, Anger and Correcting Euripides”. Irish Studies Review 27: 4, pp. 512-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2019.1663606
2019: “Transpositional Exchanges: Contemporary Anglophone Drama on the Czech National Stage”, special issue on “Crossing Borders: Anglophone Theatre in Europe”, eds. Susan Blattes and Christine Kiehl, Coup de Théâtre HS5, pp. 235-57.
2018: “Společně na rozhraní: Téma nejistého společenství v současném britském divadle” [Together on the Edge: Precarious Community in Recent British Theatre], Divadelní Revue 29: 1, pp. 7-17.
2017: “Hřiště, hry a herci: drama v britském Národním divadle” [Place, Plays and Performers: Drama at Britain’s National Theatre], programme article for Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Night Season, Czech National Theatre season 2017-2018 /Národní divadlo Divadelní sezona 2017-2018, pp. 17-22.
2017: “‘… ultimately alone and walking around in your own private universe’ – Metatheatre and Metaphysics in Three Plays by Enda Walsh”, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 23: 1, pp. 35-50.
2016: “Collaborating with Audiences: David Greig in Conversation with Clare Wallace”, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 4.1, pp. 243-4.
2016: “Yes and No? Dissensus and David Greig’s Recent Work”, Contemporary Theatre Review 26: 1, pp. 31-8.
2015: “Suspect Culture”, British Theatre Companies 1995-2014. Ed. Elizabeth Tomlin. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 179-206.
2014: co-editor with Ondřej Pilný, special issue on “Theatre and Politics: Theatre As Cultural Intervention”, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 2: 1.
2014: with Ondřej Pilný, “Introduction: Intervention, Interaction, Insufficiency: Theatre’s Critical Repertoire?”, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 2: 1, pp. 1-7.
2014: “Playing with Proximity: Precarious Ethics on Stage in the New Millennium”, Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre. Eds. Mireia Aragay and Enric Monforte. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 117-34.
2013: The Theatre of David Greig. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
2013: “Monologue Plays”, Drama Online. Digital Library: Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic-subjects/drama-and-performance-studies
2012: “Uncertain Convictions and the Politics of Perception”, Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama. Eds. Mark Berninger and Bernhard Reitz. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 55-64.
2011: co-editor with Anja Müller, Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig’s Theatre. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books.
2011: with Anja Müller, “Neutral Spaces and Transnational Encounters”, Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig’s Theatre. Eds. Anja Müller and Clare Wallace. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, pp. 1-13.
2011: “Unfinished Business – Allegories of Otherness in Dunsinane”, Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig’s Theatre. Eds. Anja Müller and Clare Wallace. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, pp. 196-213.
2011: “David Harrower”, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights. Eds. Aleks Sierz, Martin Middeke and Peter Paul Schnierer. London: Methuen Drama, pp. 243-62.
2010: “Sarah Kane, Experiential Theatre and the Revenant Avant-Garde”, Sarah Kane in Context. Eds. Laurens De Vos and Graham Saunders. Manchester: Manchester UP, pp. 88-99.
2007: Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books.
2006: editor, Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia.
2006: “Monologue Theatre, Solo Performance and Self as Spectacle”, Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity. Ed. Clare Wallace. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, pp. 1-16.
2005: “Responsibility and Postmodernity: Mark Ravenhill and 1990s British Drama”, Theory and Practice in English Studies 4, pp. 269-75.
2005: “‘Pastiche Soup’, Bad Taste, Biting Irony and Martin McDonagh”, Litteraria Pragensia 15: 29, pp. 3-38.
2004: “Dramas of Radical Alterity: Sarah Kane and Codes of Trauma for a Postmodern Age”, Extending the Code – New Forms of Dramatic and Theatrical Expression. Eds. Hans-Ulrich Mohr and Kerstin Mächler. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 117-30.
Contemporary British Theatre
2024: co-coordinator and chair of PhD Forum, “Theatre in the Digital Age”, 32nd Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Innsbruck, 1-5 May.
2024: “Encounters and Impasses: Ethical Engagements in Contemporary Irish Theatre”, paper presented at the 22nd International Conference of the Spanish Association of Irish Studies (AEDEI), University of Alcalá de Henares, 29-31 May.
2024: “Sites of Conflict, Spaces of Resilience in Northern Irish Fiction”, paper presented at the conference “Space and Place in Contemporary English-Written Literatures”, Charles University, 15-16 November.
2023: “Violence, Care and Improbable Acts of Faith in Jan Carson’s Recent Work”, paper presented at the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) Conference “Unions and Partitions in Ireland”, Queens University Belfast, 24-27 August.
2023: attendance at “Theater & Community: Poetics, Politics, Performances”, 31st Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Erfurt, 8-11 June.
2023: “‘Burning but flourishing’: Violence and Care in Jan Carson’s The Fire Starters“, paper presented at the Spanish Association of Irish Sutdies (AEDEI) Conference, University of València, 31 May – 2 June.
2022: attendance at “Theatre and the City”, 30th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Sorbonne University, 23-26 June.
2022: “Ecologies of Struggle: Dissensual Speech in Recent Irish Theatre”, paper presented at International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) conference, University of Limerick, 25-29 July.
2021: attendance at “Critical Theatre Ecologies”, 29th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Augsburg, 3-6 June [online].
2021: co-convenor, “Dialogue, Performance and the Body Politic in the Twenty-First Century”, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague), 5-6 February [online].
2020: attendance at the symposium “Critical Directions: Where Next for the Drama of Climate Crisis?”, Mid Sweden University, 26 November [online].
2020: attendance at the conference “The New Wave of British Women Playwrights: Experimenting with Forms”, Sorbonne University, Paris, 11-12 December [online].
2019: chair of panel, “Performativity and Creativity in Modern Cultures”, KREAS, Charles University Prague (Czech Republic), 22-24 November.
2019: “Same Again? Negative Emotions and the Possibility of Change in Recent Stage Images of the North”, paper presented at European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies conference (EFACIS), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), 28-31 August.
2019: coordinator of and participant in roundtable “Feminist Wonder? Twenty-First Century Interventions in Irish Studies”, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures conference (IASIL), Trinity College Dublin, 22-26 July.
2019: “Animatedness: Dysphoric Citizenship on the Border”, paper presented at International Federation for Theatre Research conference (IFTR), Shanghai Theatre Academy (China), 8-13 July.
2019: “Affective Manoeuvres on the Border: Performing Northern Ireland”, paper presented at “Crossing Boundaries in Time, Space, and Culture: Global and Local Balancing Acts”, Workshop KREAS (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic) and Brown University (USA), 14 January.
2018: “Anglophone New Writing on the Czech National Stage”, paper presented at “Crossing Borders: Contemporary Anglophone Theatre in Europe”, 40th International Conference of Recherches sur les Arts Dramatiques Anglophones Contemporains (RADAC), organised by Université Paris 13, Université Lyon 2, Université Grenoble-Alpes and RADAC, Paris, 11-12 October.
2018: “Ambivalent Attachments, Catharsis and Commemoration: David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue at the Abbey Theatre in 2016”, paper presented at “Reimagining Traditions”, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures conference (IASIL), Nijmegen University (Netherlands), 23-27 July.
2018: “Performing the Threshold: Community, Hospitality and the Future”, paper presented at “Theatre and Migration”, International Federation for Theatre Research conference (IFTR), University of Belgrade, 9-13 July.
2018: attendance at “Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Drama and Performance”, 27th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Hildesheim, 31 May-3 June.
2017: attendance at “Nation, Nationhood and Theatre”, 26th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Reading, 29 June-2 July.
2017: chair, “Nation and Negation”, keynote lecture by Dan Rebellato, “Nation, Nationhood and Theatre”, 26th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Reading, 29 June-2 July.
2017: “‘a safe and special place’: Activating Audiences in an Age of Truthiness?”, paper presented at “How does performance philosophy act? Ethos, ethics, ethnography”, 3rd Biennial Performance Philosophy Conference, The Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, 22-27 June.
2016: attendance at “Theatre and Mobility”, 25th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 26-29 May.
2016: “Back to Basics – The Dematerialised Theatre of Tim Crouch and Andy Smith”, paper presented at “British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: New Texts, New Identities, New Stages, New Worlds” Conference, Sorbonne University, Paris, 13-15 October.
2015: attendance at “Theatre and Spectatorship”, 24th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Barcelona, 4-7 June.
2015: “Interview with David Greig”, 24th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Barcelona, 4-7 June.
2014: “What happens when we don’t agree? The Energies of Dissonance and the Limits of Empathy”, keynote lecture delivered at “David Greig Festival Symposium”, University of Lincoln, Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, 29 March.
2014: attendance at “Theatre and History: Cultural Transformations”, 23rd Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Hamburg, 30 May-2 June.
2013: “The Precarious Politics of Perception: Re-orientations in British and Irish Theatre”, paper presented at “Re-Routing Performance/Re-caminant l’escena”, International Federation for Theatre Research Conference (IFTR/ FIRT), Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, 22-26 July.
2013: conference convenor with Ondřej Pilný, “Theatre and Politics: Theatre as Cultural Intervention”, 22nd Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Charles University, Prague, 30 May-2 June.
2012: attendance at “Bodies on Stage”, 21st Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Bochum, Mühlheim/ Ruhr, 2-6 June.
2011: “Uncertain Convictions and the Politics of Perception”, paper presented at “Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama”, 20th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Mainz, Mainz, 2-5 June.
2010: attendance at “Narrative in Drama”, 19th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Paderborn (Germany), 3-6 June.
2010: attendance at “Contemporary British Theatre: Towards a New Canon”, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, 16 October.
2009: chair of session, “Migration on stage”, at “Staging Interculturality”, 18th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Vienna, Vienna, 4-7 June.
2009: attendance at “Silent Voices / Forbidden Lives: Censorship and Performance”, International Federation for Theatre Research Conference (IFTR), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 14-17 July.
2008: chair of session, “British adaptations”, at “Adaptations: Performing Across Media and Genres”, 17th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Siegen, Attendorn, 1-4 June.
2007: attendance at “Non-Standard Forms of Contemporary Drama and Theatre”, 16th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre andDrama in English (CDE), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 17-20 May.
2006: “‘All the old ghosts’: Monologue and Memory in Friel, Pinter and Beckett”, paper presented at Prague-Konstanz Annual Workshop, University of Konstanz, 12-14 October.
2005: “Responsibility and Postmodernity: Mark Ravenhill and 1990s British Drama”, paper presented at 8th Brno Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, 2-4 February.
2005: chair of session, “Displacements”, at “Mapping Uncertain Territories: Space and Place in Contemporary Theatre and Drama”, 14th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), International University of Bremen, Bremen, 2-5 June.
Contemporary British Theatre
2023: “Care Entanglements in Tim Crouch’s Recent Work”, paper presented at the symposium Care and/in Twenty-First Century British Theatre within the project “Gender, Affect and Care in Twenty-First Century British Theatre”, organized by the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, 16-17 November.
2023: chair of PhD Forum at the conference “Theater & Community: Poetics, Politics, Performances”, 31st Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Erfurt, 8-11 June.
2023: “Straining the Genre: On Contemporary British Drama”, Cup of Tea Podcast, 17 April, https://open.spotify.com/episode/33SBaw4GMsDt3A7fi2gbtI?si=7d2fe3167e9e4312.
2023: participation in the study day on care in/and twenty-first century British theatre within the project “Gender, Affect and Care in Twenty-First Century British Theatre”, organized by the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, 24 February.
2022: chair of PhD Forum at the conference “Theatre and the City”, 30th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Sorbonne University, 23-26 June.
2021: chair of PhD Forum and panel chair at the conference “Critical Theatre Ecologies”, 29th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Augsburg, 3-6 June [online].
2019: “Performing the Threshold: Community, Hospitality and the Migrant in Contemporary Theatre”, guest lecture and workshop delivered at MOVES European Joint Doctorate Induction Week, Charles University Prague (Czech Republic), 11 September.
2019: chair of PhD Forum at “Theatre of Crisis: Aesthetic Responses to a cross-sectional Condition”, 28th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Graz (Austria), 19-23 June.
2019: “Feminist Attachments and Gender Politics in Twenty-First Century Irish Theatre”, guest lecture delivered at University of Rijeka (Croatia), 28 May, and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), 29 May.
2018: “Together on the Edge? Community, Hospitality and the Future”, guest lecture delivered at “Ethics on Stage” symposium, Anglistik/Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz (Germany), 3 July.
2018: “No Hard Borders: Northern Ireland at the Royal Court”, guest lecture delivered at “The Vienna Irish Studies & Cultural Theory Summer School”, University of Vienna (Austria), 2-6 July.
2018: co-chair, with Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg), of PhD Forum at “Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Drama and Performance”, 27th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Hildesheim (Germany), 31 May-3 June.
2018: “Moving Parts: Emotion, Intention and Ambivalent Attachments”, paper presented at the symposium on affect within the project “British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community”, organized by the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia, 12-13 April.
2018: participation in the study day on crisis within the project “British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community”, organized by the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia, 12 April.
2017: co-chair, with Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway, University of London), of PhD Forum at “Nation, Nationhood and Theatre”, 26th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Reading (UK), 29 June-2 July.
2017: participation in the study day on affect within the project “British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community”, organized by the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia, 24 March.
2017: participation in the first research seminar of the project “British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community”, organized by the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia, 24 March.
2016: co-chair, with Fiona Wilkie (University of Roehampton), of PhD Forum at “Theatre and Mobility”, 25th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany), 26-29 May.
2015: guest seminar on “Community, Dissent and The Events by David Greig”, University of Barcelona, Department of English and German, 3 December.
2015: guest seminar on “Dissensus, Free Speech and the Theatre of David Greig”, University College Dublin, School of English, Drama and Film, 25 February.
2013: guest seminar on “Performing, Processing and Resisting – The Nation and Globalization in the Work of David Greig”, Moore Institute NUI Galway, “Performance, Nation and Globalization” Summer School, Galway, 17-18 July.
2013: co-chair, with Eckart Voigts (University of Siegen), of PhD Forum at “Theatre and Politics: Theatre as Cultural Intervention”, 22nd Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Charles University Prague (Czech Republic), 30 May-2 June.
2012: co-chair, with Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg), of PhD Forum at “Bodies on Stage”, 21st Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Bochum (Germany), 2-6 June.
2011: co-chair, with Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg), of PhD Forum at “Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama”, 20th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Mainz (Germany), 2-5 June.
2010: co-chair, with Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg), of PhD Forum at “Narrative in Drama”, 19th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Paderborn (Germany), 3-6 June.
2009: co-chair, with Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg), of PhD Forum at “Staging Interculturality”, 18th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Vienna (Austria), 4-7 June.
2005: guest lecture on “Spectacular Narratives and Narrative Spectacles: Tendencies in 1990s Drama in Britain and Ireland”, staff exchange with University of Central Lancashire, Preston and University of Ulster, Coleraine, 1-6 November.
Contemporary British Theatre
In progress: Klára Hutková, “Giving Voice to the Outsider: Marina Carr’s Revision of the Other of Classical Athens.”
In progress: Valeriya Sabitova, “Sensation and Affect: Embodiment of Violence in Francis Bacon and Sarah Kane.”
In progress: Elizabet Kovačeva, “The Ethics of Choice in the Theatre of Caryl Churchill: A Xenofeminist Approach”.
2023: Elisabeth Massana Vidal, “The Performance of Racial and Gender Terror in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye (2018) and Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz (2018)”, University of Barcelona (external reader).
2023: Zoheb Mashiur, “Martial Voices: Colonial Discourses of the Indian Sepoy on the Move”, MOVES European Joint Doctorate programme, Charles University and University of Kent (joint supervisor).
2022: Alon Ben Porat, “Speaking for Others: Contemporary British Plays’ Representations of Israel/Palestine”, Tel Aviv University (external examiner).
2022: Galina Nixon Kirvushina, “Cinema, Television and Conceptual Transmutations in Samuel Beckett’s 1960s Prose”, Charles University (external examiner).
2017: Jan Suk, “Alive Here and Now: Space, Time and In-Between in Live Art” Winner of the CDE Award. Published in the CDE Book Series: Jan Suk Performing Immanence: Forced Entertainment (Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2021).
Other
In progress: Ondřej Polák, “Contemporary African American Theatre and Its Relation to the Present and the Past”.
2023: Filip Maša, “References as an Element of Postmodern Drama: Intertextuality in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America“.
Contemporary British Theatre
2023: Rozálie Andělová, “Towards a Neo-Naturalist Theatre? or Staging the World According to Simon Stephens.”
2020: Alena Kopečná, “Formal Experiments in Selected Plays by Tim Crouch”.
2019: Patrik Krejčí, “Reality and Postmodernism in the Plays of Mark Ravenhill”.
2019: Chada Hennawi, “Racism and New Dimensions of Projecting the Multicultural Experience in Contemporary British Drama”.
2017: Elizabet Kovačeva, “Abjection in Selected Plays by Sarah Kane, Caryl Churchill, and Tim Crouch”.
2008: Klára Strnadová, “The Theatre of Martin Crimp”.
2007: Iva Rezková, “Shakespeare Revisited: Rewritings of Shakespeare in Modern British Drama”.
Other
2024: Daria Shakurova, “’Events of Sand’: Affirmative Speculations in Contemporary American Drama”.
2023: Filip Maša, “References as an Element of Postmodern Drama: Intertextuality in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America”.
2021: Klára Hutková, “Shame as a Governing Force in the Writing of Maeve Brennan”.
2020: Daniela Andreea Bălan, “The Functions of Storytelling in Modern American Drama: Mapping Human Consciousness”.
2019: Ondřej Polák, “Wearing the Mask: The Manifestations of Performativity in African-American Drama from 1950 to 1970”.
2017: Tereza Bambušková, “Transformations of the Gothic in Victorian Ghost Stories”.
2013: Lenka Pichrtová, “The Role of Gender in Selected Irish Plays”.
2013: Martin Lauer, “Instability in Sam Shepard’s Work in the 1970s”.
2013: Šárka Homolková, “Another Way Out: Women in Kate O’Brien’s Fiction”.
2012: Alena Skalová, “The Variety of the Female Voice in Contemporary Irish Poetry”.
2012: Michal Sičak, “American Identity in the Work of Sam Shepard and David Mamet”.
2011: Jan Hovorka, “Family in Modern American Drama”.
2009: Andrej Olah, “Power Struggles in the Theatre of David Mamet”.
2007: Barbara Bindasová, “Narrative Strategies and the Themes of Bildungsroman Genre in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy, Roddy Doyle’s Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark and Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes”.
2006: Kateřina Bonnerová, “The Irish Peasant Novels of Emily Lawless: Hurrish: A Study & Grania: The Story of an Island”.
2001: Natálie Schultzová, “Renovating the Big House: The Novels of Jennifer Johnston”.