Dr L.K. (Lisa) Skwirblies
Lisa Skwirblies is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is a theatre historian with a specific focus on the entanglements of performance aesthetics and European colonial expansionism. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick in 2018.
Faculty of Humanities
Theatre Studies
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18
Postal address
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Postbus 93065
1090 BB Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
Lisa Skwirblies is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is a theatre historian with a specific focus on the entanglements of performance aesthetics and European colonial expansionism. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick in 2018.
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Publications
2023
- Sharifi, A., & Skwirblies, L. (2023). »Man kann nicht behaupten, dass die Arbeit wie eine Bombe einschlug«: Christopher Balmes postkoloniale Forschung und die deutsche Theaterwissenschaft. In U. Otto, D. Roesner, & B. Szymanski-Düll (Eds.), Theaterwissenschaft postkolonial, intermedial, neoinstitutionell : Christopher Balme in der Re-Lektüre (pp. 41-60). (Theater). Transcript . https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839466285-004 [details]
2022
Marschall, A., Sharifi, A., Simke, A-C., & Skwirblies, L. (2022). Voicing our concerns: Attempts at Decentring German Theatre and Performance Studies. Global Performance Studies, 5(1-2). https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv5n1-2a110 [details]
Membership / relevant position
- Skwirblies, L. (2023-2024). Chair of the OC of the MA Arts and Performance Research, .
- Skwirblies, L. (2023-2024). Together with Azadeh Sharifi, Ann-Christine Simke and Anika Marschall I founded the research network Neue kritische Theaterwissenschaft (new critical (…), Neue kritische Theaterwissenschaft.
- Skwirblies, L. (2018-2024). I am a member of the Theatre Historiography Working group of the International Federation of Theatre Research, Theatre Historiography Working Group of the IFTR.
Talk / presentation
- Skwirblies, L. (speaker) (26-9-2023). Embodied Fabulation - Dancing the Archive Brown in Amanda Pina's "Exotica", Northwestern University.
- Skwirblies, L. (speaker) (23-2-2023). Where do we go from here? Reflections on postcolonial theatre studies in Germany, Deconstructing the Doll's house, Munich.
Others
- Skwirblies, L. (participant) (24-7-2023). International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR), Accra (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Skwirblies, L. (participant) (11-1-2023). Ist die deutsche Theaterwissenschaft (post)kolonial? Online book-presentation. Online bookpresentation of the book I co-edited together with Azadeh Sharifi called "Theaterwissenschaft postkolonial/dekolonial" (transcript 2022) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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Ancillary activities
No ancillary activities
Marschall, A., Sharifi, A., Simke, A-C., & Skwirblies, L. (2022). Voicing our concerns: Attempts at Decentring German Theatre and Performance Studies. Global Performance Studies, 5(1-2).