Dr Marilena Zaroulia 

Lecturer 

Arts 

Email:

Marilena.Zaroulia@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 827665 

Address:

Expertise

Performance & Globalisation/National Identities. Global spectacles (Olympic Games, Eurovision). Contemporary Performance Theories & Practices.

Publications

‘Travellers in Globalisation: From Near to Elsewhere and Back’ Contemporary Drama in English 17 (forthcoming, spring 2010); ‘“What is missing is my place in the world”: The Utopian Dramaturgy of David Greig’ in Transnational Identities in David Greig’s Theatre, Clare Wallace and Anja Muller (eds) (forthcoming, 2010); ‘Cosmopolitanism & Utopia: Modernising Traditions’Modernisation and Traditionalism in Greek Theatre (2009) in Greek;
Contextualising Reception: Writing about Theatre and National Identity Platform 2.1 (2007)
Marilena is also working on a monograph with the working title ‘Spaces of Cultural Contestations: Travelling & British Theatre (1989-2009)’. and also researching issues of mobility, utopia and belonging in global spectacles (Olympic Games) and devised performance.
Various papers in international conferences, including IFTR 2006 & 2009, TaPRA 2007 & 2008, CDE 2009.
Dramaturgy of a moment of suitable silence, (monsters and players, Absolut Fringe, Dublin 2009); Dramaturgy and co-directing of what happened to the tyrant (cafila aeterna, 2010)

Research Interests

Contemporary Performance Theory and Practice (cultural politics, globalisation, cosmopolitanism, mobility, belonging), 20th & 21st century British & European Drama and Theatre, Critical Theory and Performance

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Member of Performance Identity community WG
TaPRA
Member of the advisory editorial for Platform journal for Performing Arts
Department of Drama & Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London