The past is not waiting for us back there to recoup our identities against. It is always retold, rediscovered, reinvented. It has to be narrativized. We go to our own pasts through history, through memory, through desire, not as a literal fact.
Stuart Hall
Agata Łuksza
I am a theatre and performance scholar at the University of Warsaw, haunted by nineteenth century history.
Recent Highlights
- On women’s theatre history in Cluj-NapocaI am still at the Universitatea Babes-Bolyai (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where I had a privilege and pleasure to talk about feminism and theatre history in Central-Eastern Europe on the invitation of a brilliant colleague, prof. Cristina Modreanu. Cristina and a group of amazing Romanian scholars at the UBB have just started an ambitious project… Read more: On women’s theatre history in Cluj-Napoca
- Review in The Journal of Popular CultureIt is a wildly exciting moment for any author when her work takes on a life of its own, is read and interpreted by others, starts a dialogue, a discussion, an exchange. An insightful review of Polish Theatre Revisited has just appeared in The Journal of Popular Culture, written by Orel Beilinson from the Yale… Read more: Review in <i>The Journal of Popular Culture</i>
- The History of European Theatre PodcastIf you want to hear me talking about Warsaw theatre fans in the nineteenth-century and my book Polish Theatre Revisited, play on the most recent episode of The History of European Theatre Podcast. The Podcast, which I highly recommend not only to folks interested in theatre history, is run by Philipe Rowe, who turned out… Read more: The History of European Theatre Podcast
