Dr Jozefina Komporaly

Biography

I am a Reader in Performance & Dramaturgy, based in the School of Performance at Wimbledon Colege of Arts.
As a multilingual migrant scholar-practitioner with an interdisciplinary outlook, my research in Theatre and Performance Studies integrates Dramaturgy, Translation, Adaptation and Gender Studies. My practice as a translator, theatre-maker and writer feeds into my scholarship and teaching, and I examine cultural exchanges between Anglophone, European and global majority performance traditions. In my research, I deploy a transnational perspective and strive to question hierarchies – between cultures, languages, as well theatre systems.
Most recently, I initiated the UAL PhD studentship project 'Transnational Voices in Theatre-making: Access, Belonging, Participation' that I currently supervise, and organised a related public engagment event 'Showcasing Transnational Voices: Access and Participation in the UK Theatre System' (May 2025) - both in collaboration with the London-based theatre company Foreign Affairs.




I welcome enquiries regarding PGR supervision and reserach collaboration in the areas:


- contemporary theatre/performance and dramaturgy;


- feminist and socially engaged practices;
- collaborative cultural production;
- intercultural and transnational practices;
- site specificity;
- politics of spectatorship;


- translation and adaptation;


- European/Eastern European material and visual cultures


- history of communism.

Please email me at j.komporaly@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk