Magda Romanska - writer, dramaturg and theatre scholar

MAGDA ROMANSKA

writer and theatre scholar

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Magda Romanska is an award-winning writer, theatre scholar, and dramaturg. She is a professor of theatre and dramaturgy at Emerson College in Boston, and a research associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center. Her books include The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor (2012) and Comedy: Theory and Criticism (2012). She is a recipient of the 2011 Aquila Polonica Article Prize and the 2010 Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize.

Dr. Romanska has served on the editorial board of Theater Magazine, the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, and Diacritics, a review journal of criticism and theory.

She was also a founding editor of Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, which was featured in Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual (2004) and chosen from among over twenty thousand entries. She has published over a dozen of articles/essays/books chapters on theatre and performance, and has presented at numerous international conferences, most recently at the American Society for Theatre Research Conference in Montreal, and the International Federation for Theatre Research in Munich, Germany.

Former exchange scholar at the Yale School of Drama and fellow at the Mellon School of Theatre and Performance Research at Harvard University, Dr. Romanska graduated with honors from Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

In addition to her scholarly work, Romanska writes creative fiction and non-fiction.

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