Dr Carmen Levick
School of English
Senior Lecturer in Theatre
+44 114 222 0212
Full contact details
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
- Profile
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I joined the School as Lecturer in Theatre in 2009, after two years teaching drama at University College Dublin.
I studied English and Spanish for my undergraduate degree at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and I completed my MA in Irish Cultural Studies at the same University.
I moved to University College Dublin in 2002 where I completed my PhD in theatre studies, focusing on the Field Day Theatre Company and political theatre in Northern Ireland. My thesis was published as a monograph in 2007 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing with the title: Clearing the Ground: The Field Day Theatre Company and the Construction of Irish Identities.
My current research and teaching interests include Holocaust Literature, Memory and Trauma studies, postcolonial literature and adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays.
Given my continuous fascination with Shakespeare´s plays in production and in the classroom, I completed an MA in Shakespeare and Education at the University of Birmingham, the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.
- Research interests
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I have published chapters and articles on varied topics including contemporary performances of Shakespeare´s plays, physical theatre, political theatre, globalization, Irish theatre and performance art.
I am interested in Enterprise Education and the various ways in which it can be embedded in the curriculum. For my story in Enterprise Education see
http://enterprise.shef.ac.uk/success-stories/carmen-szabo-lecturer-theatreMy new research project focuses on the tension between Holocaust commemoration and post-communist remembrance in Eastern Europe. It looks at the ways in which pain and trauma are displayed and interpreted within the framework of museums and memorials. I am currently writing a new monograph entitled: ‘Taxonomies of Pain’: the Holocaust and post-communist remembrance in Eastern Europe.
- Publications
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Books
- The Story of Barabbas: The Company. Dublin: Carysfort Press.
- Clearing The Ground: The Field Day Theatre Company and the Construction of Irish Identities. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Journal articles
- A City in Dérive: Bucharest in Mihail Sebastian’s Journal 1935–1944: The Fascist Years. Genealogy, 7(1, 14).
- Decolonizing remembrance in Eastern Europe: commemorating the Holocaust in post-communist Romania. Holocaust Studies.
- Theatres of revolution: The performativity of public and private memories in Romania after 1989. Maska, 30(172), 108-115. View this article in WRRO
- Contemporary Northern Irish Theatre. TeatrulAzi.
- Languages of Space and Spaces of Language. PaGes Postgraduate Research in Progress Magazine.
Chapters
- Taxonomies of Pain: Museal Embodiments of Identity and Belonging in Post-communist Romania In Eckersley S & Vos C (Ed.), Diversity of Belonging in Europe Public Spaces, Contested Places, Cultural Encounters Routledge
- Against ‘Glocalization’: Issues of Intercultural Performance in Two Gents’ Production Kupenga Kwa Hamlet (The Madness of Hamlet) In Minier M & Kahn L (Ed.), Hamlet Translations: Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe Oxford: Legenda Publishing. View this article in WRRO
- Performance Art in Ireland In Murphy P & Carpenter A (Ed.), Art and Architecture of Ireland Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
- ‘Issues of Narrative, storytelling and Performance in Conor McPherson’s The Actors’ In Jordan, Chambers EL (Ed.), The Theatre of Conor McPherson Dublin, Ireland: Carysfort Press.
- ‘Place and Non-Place: Discussing Physicality and Story in Barabbas Theatre Company’s Circus (2007) In Trench R (Ed.), Staging Thought – Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice Oxford: Peter Lang.
- Between the Living and the Dead: Performative 'in-betweens' in the Work of Alastair MacLennan In Brady S & Walsh DF (Ed.), Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture (pp. 141-152). Palgrave MacMillan
- From Ex Libris to Ex Machina - Two Shakespearean Case Studies at the Dublin Theatre Festival In Grene N, Lonergan P & Chambers L (Ed.), Interactions: Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957-2007 (pp. 143-156). Carysfort Press
- Philoctetes Revisited' - Translating Cultures and Identities in Seamus Heaney's 'The Cure at Troy In Kelly S & Johnston D (Ed.), Betwixt and Between: Place and Cultural Translation Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Doublings: Problematic Identities in Thomas Kilroy's 'Double Cross' and 'The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre' In Cave RA & Levitas DB (Ed.), Irish Theatre in England (pp. 183-194). Carysfort Press
- Against ‘Glocalization’: Issues of Intercultural Performance in Two Gents’ Production Kupenga Kwa Hamlet (The Madness of Hamlet) In Minier M & Khan L (Ed.), Hamlet Translations: Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe (pp. 211-225). Oxford: MHRA Legenda Publishing.
Book reviews
- Reviews. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 10(1), 125-136.
- Jonathan M Hess, Deborah and Her Sisters: How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 46(1), 99-102.
- A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance. By Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 232. £50/$85 Hb.. Theatre Research International, 39(3), 233-234.
- Franklin Furnace and the Spirit of the Avant-Garde – A History of the Future (by Toni Sant). Studies in Theatre and Performance, 33(3), 405-407.
- Literary and Cultural Relations: Ireland, Hungary, and Central and Eastern Europe by Maria Kurdi. Irish University Review: a journal of Irish studies, 40(No. 1), 186-188.
- The Story of Barabbas: The Company. Dublin: Carysfort Press.
- Research group
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I welcome PhD applications on performance studies, physical theatre practice, Shakespeare in performance, globalization and theatre, and contemporary European theatre.
- Teaching activities
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At undergraduate level I teach on a variety of modules, including Interpreting Texts (EGH115), Making Texts (EGH116), Introduction to Theatre (LIT180), Introduction to Cinema (LIT181), Performance One (LIT235), Shakespeare on Film (LIT257), Performing Shakespeares (LIT3042), etc.
At postgraduate level I teach on Theatre Practice I and Theatre Practice II.