Academic Staff

Our theatre staff are internationally recognized as experts in their fields and play an important role in shaping theatre and performance studies nationally and internationally. They hold key positions in cultural organizations and are also members of research institutions and advisory or editorial boards of acclaimed academic journals. Their publications appear in leading international journals and with high-ranking publishers.

Research expertise areas of theatre staff include:

• Adaptation of Greek tragedy
• Reception of classical theatre
• Theatre and national identity
• Theatre and totalitarianism
• Theatre and activism
• Exile and post-migrant theatre
• Music theatre, musical theatre and opera
• Voice and aurality in theatre
• Contemporary theatre directing

• Performance analysis and criticism

Recent and current research projects and activities of academic staff include:

• A Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship for “ExiLives”
• The Fascist Archive in Performance
• European Network for Performing Artists at Risk and Activism

For more information about research projects and publications of the theatre staff, please visit the individual pages:

• Dr Eleftheria Ioannidou
• Dr Pieter Verstraete
• drs Lucia van Heteren

Examples of Master's theses can be found in the thesis repository. Several theses by our alumni have won awards for young scholars.