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
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
Chapters
- View this article in WRRO
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.
- 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.