Essays

Editorial Introduction to Spectres of Europe: European Theatre between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/ejtp.1.42297

Abstract

This is the introduction to the Essays Section of Issue 1 (2019), titled 'Spectres of Europe: European Theatre between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism’.

Author Biographies

Agata Łuksza, Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw (Poland)

Agata Łuksza is assistant professor at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. She has published  Glamour, kobiecość, widowisko. Aktorka jako obiekt pożądania (Glamour, Femininity and Performance: Actress as an Object of Desire,Warsaw University Press, Theatre Institute 2016) as well as several articles in both international and Polish journals.

Her research interests include the history of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century theatre, particularly theatre fandom history and women’s history; gender, body and sexuality; gothic studies; popular culture. She is the president of Polish Gender Association.

Aldo Milohnić, Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Aldo Milohnić, PhD, is a professor of theatre history at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the head of the Theatre and Film Studies Centre. He has lectured and conducted seminars at the universities in Aarhus (School of Communication and Culture – Department of Dramaturgy and Musicology), Belgrade (University of Arts), Bochum (Ruhr-Universität, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft), Milan (La Statale, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali), Rijeka (Academy of Applied Arts), Skopje (Faculty of Dramatic Arts), Zadar, Zagreb (Academy of Dramatic Art). 

His research interests include the history and theory of theatre, contemporary performing practices and the sociology of culture and arts. He is also a dramaturg and a curator of exhibitions, conferences and symposiums in the field of performing arts. 

He is author of the monographs Theories of Contemporary Theatre and Performance (2009), Art in Times of the Rule of Law and Capital (2016), Theatre of Resistance (2021), I Worked for 40 Years: Dramatisations and Adaptations of Cankar’s The Bailiff Yerney (2022) and co-author of several other books (Culture Ltd. and It’s Time for Brecht, among others ). He is author of numerous articles in academic journals and editor of anthologies and special issues of performing arts journals (Theatre of Resistance; The Politicality of Performance; Pupilcheks Arrived – 40 Years of the Pupilija Ferkeverk Theatre; Artivism; Brecht/Gestus; How to Do Things with Words in Theatre; Women in Theatre).

Published

2019-04-15

Issue

Vol. 1 (2019)

Section

Essays

Copyright (c) 2019 Agata Łuksza

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