University of London, Central School of Speech and Drama

Department Member, Theatre

Other Affiliations: Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics (Instytut Neofilologii i Lingwistyki Stosowanej)

Marie Curie Research Fellow

Thesis Title: Alas poor Hamlet! "Hamlet" and Hamlet Deconstructed in Contemporary Drama

About

ANETA MANCEWICZ is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London and an Assistant Professor at Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland.

http://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff/profiles/aneta-mancewicz

She is a Regional Editor (Europe) of Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive:
http://globalshakespeares.org/#

In 2010-11, she was a Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow at Theatre Department, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

She holds M.A. degrees in English and Polish as well as B.A. in Italian from Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. She was granted a Ph.D. at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. In 2002-03 she studied English and French at Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers, France as an Erasmus student.

She researches on adaptations of Shakespeare (particularly in contemporary drama, performance and cinema), theory of adaptation and intermediality on stage.

Her current research project, funded by the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union, explores forms and functions of digital media in European adaptations of Shakespeare. Making use of, as well as challenging, current theories of “intermediality” and “liveness” from the field of performance studies, it looks at a wide variety of approaches to stage practices and Shakespearean adaptation in diverse cultural contexts over the last twenty years. The project aims to identify new tendencies in contemporary theatre (as evidenced in intermedial Shakespearean production); new turns to Shakespearean interpretation (as reflected in innovative European performance); and new patterns in European artistic and cultural production.

Her doctoral research focused on deconstruction of "Hamlet" in contemporary European drama and its findings were published as a book in Polish, "Biedny Hamlet" (Ksiegarnia Akademicka Press, 2010). She has also published articles and theatre reviews in book collections and performance journals, "Slavic and East European Performance Journal," "Teatr," and "Didaskalia."

Her teaching experience includes courses on history of drama and literature, theory of literature, theory of adaptation and performance of Shakespeare.

Moreover, she has given guest lectures and seminars at City University of New York (USA), University of Padua (Italy), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), University of Greifswald (Germany) and Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Hungary).

As a member of major Shakespeare Associations, she has presented papers at the conferences of International Association of Shakespeare, European Shakespeare Research Association, German Shakespeare Society, Shakespeare Association of America, and Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association.

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