Magda Romanska is an award-winning writer, theatre scholar, and dramaturg.  After studying modern thought and literature at Stanford University and dramaturgy and comparative literature at Yale School of Drama, she earned a Ph.D. in theatre and film at Cornell University. A leading expert on Polish theatre and culture, she is a recipient of the 2011 Aquila Polonica Article Prize from the Polish Studies Association, and the 2010 Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research. Her books include Theatre and Meaning: The Strange Case of Grotowski and Kantor (2012) and Comedy: Theory and Criticism (2012). 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 completed the Mellon School of Theatre and Performance Research at Harvard University (2011) and the School of Theory and Criticism at Cornell (2004). Currently, she is a research associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies and Dramaturgy at Emerson College in Boston, MA.

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