Vicky Angelaki
Professor|Professor
- Tjänstetitel: Professor
- Akademisk titel: Professor
- Telefon arbete: +46 (0)10-1427822
- E-postadress: vicky.angelaki@miun.se
- Besöksadress: Holmgatan 10, Hus M, 851 70 Sundsvall, Sweden
- Rumsnummer: M508
- Ort: Sundsvall
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- Anställd inom ämnet:
- Litteraturvetenskap
About Vicky Angelaki
I joined the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in January 2020 as Professor. I am an interdisciplinary literary scholar with emphasis on Theatre Studies, translation and adaptation, and the environmental humanities.
Prior to joining MIUN, I was based in the UK for fifteen years, where I held full-time, permanent academic roles at Birmingham City University; University of Birmingham; University of Reading. In Sweden, I have also worked at the Comparative Literature subject at Mälardalen University.
My PhD, funded by a College scholarship at Royal Holloway, University of London, and titled Making Theatre Strange: A Phenomenological Approach to the Work of Martin Crimp, 1985-2008, was awarded in 2009.
My commitment to interdisciplinarity and internationalism informs all aspects of my work. My research, teaching, conference organising and extensive collaborative networks in Sweden and abroad are driven by these principles.
In 2021, I was awarded research funding by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project "Föreställning av mellanrum: social flyktighet i samtidens teater" ("Performing Interspaces: Social Fluidities in Contemporary Theatre"). The project (RJ Sabbatical) was carried out over the 2022 calendar year. The work resulted in the monograph Staging Interspaces in Contemporary British Theatre: Environment and Fluidity, published by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer) in 2024 and available as Open-Access book through the following link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-54892-5
In 2024, I was awarded funding by Stiftelsen Ingrid och Torsten Gihls fond / Vitterhetsakademien, for research carried out (in association with the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome) in 2025 and 2026. The project title was: "Att skriva (om) Italien: Kultur och miljö i svenska kvinnliga författares verk från 1800‑talet". In 2025 I was awarded funding by Stiftelsen Gösta och Susi Enboms donationsfond / Vitterhetsakademien. The project title is "Natur, kultur, tillgång: Hyllning av kvinnor i trädgårdarna vid Villa Doria Pamphilj i Rom" and will be carried out in 2026, including a research stay at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome.
In 2025 I was also awarded funding by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (under "Research Initiation") for the project "Litteratur och översättning i den artificiella intelligensens epok: Utmaningar och agens" ("Literature and Translation in the AI Epoch: Challenges and Agencies"), for which I am leading a network of eight internationally-leading interdisciplinary research scholars and practitioners in the field of literary and artistic translation. The work will be carried out in 2026 and 2027 and involves collaboration with Sweden’s National Library (KB), Royal Holloway University of London, University of the Arts London, Sapienza University of Rome, Sorbonne University, the Swedish Institute in Paris, the Swedish Institute in Rome and Södertorn University.
My latest book is the volume Martin Crimp: The Writer and the Work, in collaboration with Elisabeth Angel-Perez (Sorbonne University) and Clara Escoda (University of Barcelona) published by Liverpool University Press (2026) in the series Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bakgrund
Education
- BA (Hons) English Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2003 (including Erasmus scholarship, Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg)
- MA in Research (Drama and Theatre) with Distinction, Royal Holloway University of London, 2005
- Postgraduate Certificate in Skills of Teaching to Inspire Learning, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2007
- PhD in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2009
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2018
Previous academic roles in the United Kingdom (full-time, permanent):
- Associate Professor of Theatre, University of Reading (2016-20)
- Lecturer in Drama, University of Birmingham (2012-16)
- Lecturer in English and Drama, Birmingham City University (2009-12)
Visiting research roles:
- Guest Researcher, Swedish Institute in Paris (2023)
- Visiting Professor (Research), Sapienza, University of Rome (2022)
- Visiting Research Fellow, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway (2017)
Languages spoken:
English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Swedish
Forskningsområden
I have published extensively in the following areas and their interconnections:
Literature, theatre and performance in their intersection with society and politics
Translation and adaptation
Environmental humanities (focus on the climate crisis; resource drain; landscape studies; classed ecologies)
Cultural sociology (focus on theatre/literature and digital environments; discourses on crisis; class; spatiality; mobility; COVID-19 and the arts)
Literary/critical theory and philosophy
Art history and visual forms of representation
Forskning
Current projects include a number of commissioned peer-reviewed book chapters for edited collections and special issues of leading theatre and interdisciplinary journals, including open access and invited talks/keynotes concentrating primarily on theatre and environment; social and political drama and performance; translation and adaptation; creative collaboration and interdisciplinarity.
I co-edit the series Adaptation in Theatre and Performance (contracted with Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-present, with Kara Reilly). To date, ten books have been published, with more titles forthcoming. Further information is available here: https://link.springer.com/series/14373
For my DiVA list of publications and conference dissemination, please see 'Publikationer' tab.
For my text on the climate crisis as engaged with in contemporary theatre for the Drama Online platform, please visit: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/previously-featured-content
Undervisning
Teaching includes courses and supervision at all levels.
At MIUN, I am the lead supervisor for a PhD thesis focusing on the author Nanny Hammarström (1870 – 1953) (Doctoral researcher: Jan Hansson). I also co-supervise a PhD thesis in collaboration with colleagues at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. I have previously supervised and co-supervised a number of theses to completion internationally. I examine PhD theses regularly in international and Swedish institutions.
Övrigt
I regularly peer review for major arts and humanities funders, publishers and academic journals and collaborate with major theatres on guest talks, research-led curated events and programme essays.
Professional associations have included: European Theatre Research Network (ETRN); German Society for Contemporary Drama in English (CDE); International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT), Political Performances Working Group; Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA); Advisory Committee for the research project “Atmospheric Theatre”, University of Exeter, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; contributor to the international research project “British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community”, University of Barcelona; contributor to the international network “Migrant Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Theatre and Migration”, University of Lisbon. I served as External Examiner for the Undergraduate programmes in Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway (2017-21).
In 2024, I was appointed to serve on the international assessment panel for KoF24, the research evaluation exercise of Uppsala University.
A recent invited talk (2025) capturing aspects of my research on theatre and environment, which took place at the University of Oxford, UK, is available to watch here.
Further details on my most recent book, the co-edited collection Martin Crimp: The Writer and the Work (Liverpool University Press, 2026).
Link to my funded project with Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (1 January - 31 December 2022):
Link to the Open Access monograph, which was the primary output of the above project.
Extra kontaktinformation
Publikationer
Artiklar i tidskrifter
Artiklar, forskningsöversikter
Artiklar, recensioner
Böcker
Kapitel i böcker, del av antologier
Konferensbidrag
Samlingsverk (redaktör)
Övrigt
Artiklar i tidskrifter
Angelaki, V. (2025). Värdet av peer review. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, : 3, ss. 145-150.
Angelaki, V. (2024). Performing Grief Inconsolable : Land, Lament and Love in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan. E-rea, vol. 22.1
Jeffery, L. & Angelaki, V. (2022). Introduction. Green Letters. Studies in Ecocriticism, vol. 26: 3, ss. 203-209.
Angelaki, V. & Sakellaridou, E. (2022). On Theatre and Ecology at Critical Junctions : Editors’ Introduction. Critical Stages / Scènes critiques, vol. 26
Angelaki, V. (2022). Writing in the Green : Imperatives towards an Eco-n-temporary Theatre Canon. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, vol. 10: 1, ss. 26-43.
Angelaki, V. (2019). Performing Migration in Vienna: The Volkstheater Trilogy. Performing Ethos, vol. 9: 1, ss. 9-22.
Angelaki, V. (2016). The (In)Human Condition : Animality in Simon Stephens’s Three Kingdoms. Sillages Critiques, vol. 20
Angelaki, V. (2016). The Space and Culture of Translation : Ferdinand Bruckner’s Pains of Youth by Martin Crimp and Katie Mitchell. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, vol. 9: 1, ss. 67-82.
Angelaki, V. (2015). From History to ‘Ourstories’ in Martin Crimp’s Metanarratives. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, vol. 3: 1, ss. 142-155.
Angelaki, V. (2015). (Up)Setting the Scene : Open Court as Staging and Spectating Intervention. Contemporary theatre review (Hardback), vol. 25: 4, ss. 472-487.
Angelaki, V. (2014). Alles Weitere kennen Sie aus dem Kino : Martin Crimp at the Cutting Edge of Representation. Contemporary theatre review (Hardback), vol. 24: 3, ss. 315-330.
Angelaki, V. (2014). Dealing with Martin Crimp. Contemporary theatre review (Hardback), vol. 24: 3, ss. 309-314.
Angelaki, V. (2014). Introduction : Dealing with Martin Crimp. Contemporary theatre review (Hardback), vol. 24: 3, ss. 309-314.
Angelaki, V. (2013). Whose Voice? Tim Crouch’s The Author and Active Listening on the Contemporary Stage. Sillages Critiques, vol. 16
Angelaki, V. (2011). Martin Crimp and Border Crossing : The Australian Turn. Contemporary theatre review (Hardback),
Angelaki, V. (2010). Lessons from Harold Pinter. Studies in Theatre & Performance, vol. 30: 3, ss. 267-273.
Angelaki, V. (2006). The Private and the Public Wars : A Play by Martin Crimp. Platform, vol. 1: 1, ss. 32-41.
Artiklar, forskningsöversikter
Angelaki, V. (2020). Martin Crimp and Katie Mitchell Twenty Years On. Contemporary theatre review (Hardback), vol. 30: 2, ss. 293-295.
Artiklar, recensioner
Angelaki, V. (2024). Adapting Environments : Simon Stone at the Burgtheater. Contemporary theatre review (Hardback), vol. 34: 1, ss. 96-98.
Angelaki, V. (2020). Book review of : Carl Lavery, ed. Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, xiv + 118 pp., £115 (hardback). Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, vol. 8: 2, ss. 313-317.
Angelaki, V. (2016). Luc Bondy at the Wiener Festwochen. Contemporary theatre review (Hardback), vol. 23: 3
Böcker
Angelaki, V. (2024). Staging Interspaces in Contemporary British Theatre : Environment and Fluidity. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
Angelaki, V. (2022). Martin Crimp’s Power Plays : Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire. Abingdon : Routledge
Angelaki, V. (2019). Theatre & Environment. London : Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Angelaki, V. (2017). Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis. London : Bloomsbury Academic
Angelaki, V. (2012). The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange. Palgrave Macmillan
Kapitel i böcker, del av antologier
Angelaki, V. (2026). "Environmental Justice and Human Rights: Martin Crimp’s Cruel and Tender and The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema". I Martin Crimp : The Writer and the Work. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press.
Angelaki, V. , Angel-Perez, E. & Escoda, C. (2026). Preface. I Martin Crimp : The Writer and the Work. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press. S. xxi-xxiii.
Angelaki, V. (2026). "The Vanishing Point". I Martin Crimp : The Writer and the Work. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press. S. 3-7.
Angelaki, V. (2025). "On Andreas Flourakis's Antigone / Για την Αντιγόνη του Ανδρέα Φλουράκη". I Andreas Flourakis, My Antigone / Ανδρέας Φλουράκης, Αντιγόνη Μου. Athens : Kapa Ekdotiki / Κάπα Εκδοτική. S. 66-75.
Angelaki, V. (2023). Ella Hickson’s ANNA (2019) and Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes (2017) : Staging the Female Body Electric. I The New Wave of British Women Playwrights : 2008 – 2021. Walter de Gruyter. S. 93-110.
Angelaki, V. (2023). From Difficult Pasts to Present Resonance: Performances of Memory and Commemorative Gestures in Contemporary Vienna. I Theatre, Performance and Commemoration : Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood. London : Methuen. S. 97-110.
Angelaki, V. (2022). Creative Contexts and Crises of Care : Ella Hickson's The Writer. I Crisis, Representation and Resilience : Perspectives on Contemporary British Theatre. London : Bloomsbury Academic. S. 39-53.
Angelaki, V. (2022). Environment, Virus, Dystopia : Disruptive Spatial Representations. I Twenty-First Century Anxieties : Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre. Walter de Gruyter (Contemporary Drama in English Studies). S. 43-56.
Angelaki, V. (2021). Adaptation and Environment: Landscape, Community, and Politics in Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm by Duncan Macmillan (2019). I The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance. Oxford : Oxford University Press. S. 437-450.
Angelaki, V. (2014). Witness or Accomplice? Unsafe Spectatorship in the Work of Anthony Neilson and Simon Stephens. I Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan. S. 135-151.
Angelaki, V. (2013). Introduction. I Contemporary British Theatre : Breaking New Ground. Palgrave Macmillan.
Angelaki, V. (2013). Politics for the Middle Classes : Contemporary Audiences and the Violence of Now. I Contemporary British Theatre : Breaking New Ground. Palgrave Macmillan. S. 57-78.
Angelaki, V. (2010). Ethics Take Centre Stage : Issues and Representation for Today’s Political Theatre. I Ethical Encounters: Boundaries of Theatre, Performance and Philosophy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. S. 199-207.
Angelaki, V. (2010). Grenzen hinausschieben, Zuschauer herausfordern : Zur Rezeption Howard Barkers. I Weltbühne Wien/World Stage Vienna : Die Rezeption Anglophoner Dramen auf Wiener Bühnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. S. 297-311.
Angelaki, V. (2009). Breaking Down Barriers High and Low : The Case of the UK’s National Theatre. I High Culture and/versus Popular Culture. Universitätsverlag Winter. S. 85-93.
Angelaki, V. (2008). Subtractive Forms and Composite Contents : Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies. I Contemporary Drama in English 15.. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. S. 31-46.
Angelaki, V. (2008). Taking a Bite of the Big Apple : Martin Crimp’s The Treatment. I Hunger on the Stage. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. S. 257-267.
Angelaki, V. (2007). Performing Phenomenology : The Theatre of Martin Crimp. I Theatres of Thought. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. S. 6-12.
Angelaki, V. (2007). Structuring Consciousness through Objects : Fluctuating Roles and Selves in Crimp, Pinter and Ionesco. I Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. S. 126-133.
Konferensbidrag
Angelaki, V. (2026). Crossing Cultural Borders : Theatre Translation as Undoing of Systemic Gendered Neglect. I BOOK OF ABSTRACTS.. S. 6--6.
Angelaki, V. (2026). Desire, Agency, Access : Troubling Age in the Stage Adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s The Years. Paper presented at the Age Trouble: Performing Body, Identity, Culture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, May 28–30, 2026
Angelaki, V. (2025). ‘Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres’. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception: Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and Its Reception, University of Oxford, 3 - 4 July, 2025
Angelaki, V. (2025). Imag(in)ing Grief : Eco-Mourning Reframed in the Work of Caryl Churchill. Paper presented at the Ecological Grief and Mourning in the Literature and the Arts in the Anglophone World, Paris, France, 3 April, 2025
Angelaki, V. (2025). The Drama of Transformative Teaching (Discussion Panel Title). Paper presented at the Teaching with Drama, Uppsala, 27 februari, 2025
Angelaki, V. (2024). Counter-Actions : Agency, Identity and Sweden’s Transitional Moment. Paper presented at the Identifications: Performing Counter-Discrimination, University of Venice, Italy, 20th November, 2024,
Angelaki, V. (2024). Litteratur som kunskapsskapande : att engagera en bredare publik i miljöfrågan. Paper presented at the Litteratur och kunskap - Nationell ämneskonferens i litteraturvetenskap, Lund, 2-3/10, 2024
Angelaki, V. (2023). Gendered Geopolitics: Chorus and Agency in David Greig’s Version of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus. Paper presented at the Simultaneità e polifonia. Le voci del coro nel dramma contemporaneo e nelle arti. Rocca Malatestiana - Santarcangelo di Romagna, 29-30 settembre, 2023
Angelaki, V. (2023). Staging Scorched Earth : Eco-reading Martin Crimp’s Euripides and Sophocles Adaptations. Paper presented at the Nature and Man in Tragedy conference, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 27.6 – 1.7, 2023
Angelaki, V. (2023). Theatre, Community and Climate Consolation. Paper presented at the Consolation in contemporary British and postcolonial literatures, Lyon, France, 6-7 April, 2023
Angelaki, V. (2023). Towards an Environmental Theatre Community : Crises, Possibilities, Pedagogies. Paper presented at the The 12th National Forum for English Studies “Connecting communities of English – English for connecting communities”, Västerås, 26-28 April, 2023
Angelaki, V. (2023). Towards an Interspatial Ecology in Contemporary Theatre : Theory, Text, Performance. Paper presented at the Theatre in Times of Crisis, Heidelberg, Germany, [DIGITAL], April 22, 2022
Angelaki, V. (2022). Empathy, Environment, Embodiment : Self and Cosmos in Contemporary British Theatre. Paper presented at the Empathy Colloquium, Lisbon, Portugal, october 6, 2022
Angelaki, V. (2022). Engagements with Landscape in Contemporary British Theatre. Paper presented at the Reprising Romanticism: Romantic Re-Creations in Contemporary British Theatre (1980-2020), Parma, Italy, May 10, 2022.
Angelaki, V. (2022). The Pandemic and the Anthropocene. Paper presented at the Viral Theatres: Pandemic Past / Hybrid Futures, Berlin, Germany, [DIGITAL], April 28-30, 2022.
Angelaki, V. (2021). Corroded Landscapes, Eroded Communities. Paper presented at the Crisis, Dying, Apocalypse: Subjectivity, Progress and Ecology in the Light of the Anthropocene, Stockholm/Digital, August 26, 2021.
Angelaki, V. (2021). Disturbing the Binary : Country, City and Environmental Concerns in Contemporary British Theatre. Paper presented at the THEATRE AND DRAMA NETWORK (TDN) HISTORY AND MEMORY CONFERENCE, [DIGITAL], December 3-4, 2021.
Angelaki, V. (2021). Dystopian Place in Contemporary British Theatre : Disruptive Spatial Re-presentations. Paper presented at the Dystopian/Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and Its Political Spaces conference, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld,Bielefeld, Germany, March 11-13, 2021.
Angelaki, V. (2021). “Iterations of Authorship in Martin Crimp’s Theatre: Complex Acts of Storytelling”. Paper presented at the Theatre and the Novel: Stories, Practices and Cultural Models of the European Scene between the 20th and the 21st Century conference, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, May 27-28, 2021.
Angelaki, V. (2021). Redefining Presence and Absence in COVID Times : Performance, Community, Cohesion. Paper presented at the Political Literatures, Mid Sweden University, June 16, 2021.
Angelaki, V. (2021). Writing in the Green : Imperatives towards an Eco-n-temporary Theatre Canon. Paper presented at the Critical Theatre Ecologies (CDE 2021), Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany, [DIGITAL], June 3–6, 2021.
Angelaki, V. (2020). Ella Hickson and the 21st-Century Female Body Electric. Paper presented at the The New Wave of British Women Playwrights conference, Sorbonne University, Sorbonne, France, [DIGITAL], December 11-12, 2020.
Angelaki, V. (2020). Rooms of Our Own : Pandemics, Solitudes, Collectivities. Paper presented at the Political Literatures, Mid Sweden University, [DIGITAL], June 16, 2020.
Samlingsverk (redaktör)
Angelaki, V. (ed.) , Angel-Perez, E. (ed.) & Escoda, C. (ed.) (2026). Martin Crimp : The Writer and the Work. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press (Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations ).
Angelaki, V. (ed.) & Sakellaridou, E. (ed.) (2022). Critical Stages / Scènes critiques. Issue No 26, 2022. International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) (Critical Stages / Scènes critiques 26).
Angelaki, V. (ed.) (2013). Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground. Palgrave Macmillan
Övrigt
Angelaki, V. (2023). Paper contribution to symposium panel on the topic of Ekodramaturgi / Ecodramaturgy.
Angelaki, V. (2022). Explore the Theme of Climate Crisis in Theatre. London : Drama Online..
Angelaki, V. (2021). Reflections on a recent call for papers (Critical Stages Co-Edited Volume), a research grant (RJ Sabbatical award), and applied environmental adaptations..
Angelaki, V. (2020). Contemporary British Drama and Society : Beyond Neoliberalism.