Professor Teresa Murjas
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Professor
- Research Impact Lead (Film, Theatre & Television)
Areas of interest
- Artistic research/practice-led research
- Migration and forced displacement
- Memory, materiality and the archive
- Intangible cultural heritage
- Translation and interpreting
- Digital humanities
- European theatre
Please follow the links below for information about my collaborative artistic research:
- War Child: Meditating on an Archive: https://www.rluk.ac.uk/war-child-archive/
- The First World War in Biscuits: https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/10.16995/bst.337/
- Peeling Onions with Granny: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/peet/2019/00000009/00000001/art00004?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf
- Around the Well: https://vimeo.com/395281388/9e7320a956
- Practice-led publications relating to Polish theatre: https://www.intellectbooks.com/teresa-murjas
- I, Sheep: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/merl-collections/research-projects/museum-intangible/i-sheep/
Postgraduate supervision
I have supervised nine PhD students to successful completion, and am currently supervising five. The vast majority of projects have been practice-led, and a number cross-disciplinary (for example, with Film and Art). They focus predominantly on theatre and performance in relation to the following themes: politics and identity; storytelling, autobiography and archives; neurodiversity, disability and mental health; migration and forced displacement; hybrid-media practice, intermediality and adaptation; post-conflict and post-memory; tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Teaching
I have taught on and convened a range of BA and MA modules including:
- World Theatres
- Practical Option: Theatre
- Representing Conflict on Stage and Screen
Research centres and groups
As a creative practitioner I have collaborated with diverse artists and organisations, including: The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL); Reading Museum; The National Archives (TNA); Research Libraries UK (RLUK); Opening Knowledge across Research & Entertainment (OKRE); UNESCO Chair Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (RILA); the Polish Cultural Centre, London (POSK); the Polish Cultural Institute, London (PCI); UNIVERSEUM European Academic Heritage Network; Around the Well Interpreters’ Theatre; Peeling Onions with Granny Artists’ Collective; Essex Book Festival.
Publications
- Murjas, T. (2020) Animating archival histories. University of Reading (Collection)
- Murjas, T. , Rattee, J. , Thacker, J. (2020) I, Sheep (A Filmpoem). [Video]
- Murjas, T. (2020) 'The Biscuit Town': digital practice, spatiality and discoverability in Reading's heritage sector. Body, Space & Technology , 19 (1). pp. 153-173. ISSN: 1470-9120 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/bst.337
- Murjas, T. (2019) I, Sheep.
- Murjas, T. (2019) Between. [Performance]
- Murjas, T. (2019) Peeling onions with Granny: on being moved to collaborate. Performing Ethos , 9 (1). pp. 37-53. ISSN: 1757-1987 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/peet_00004_1
- Murjas, T. (2016) War Child: Meditating on an Archive. University of Reading (https://www.rluk.ac.uk/war-child-archive/)
- Murjas, T. (2013) Invisible country: four Polish plays. Intellect , Bristol. pp 200. ISBN: 9781841504148
- Murjas, T. (2012) Surviving Objects. [Performance]
- Murjas, T. (2011) ‘I suggest a night at the theatre, Mr.Cameron’: memory, history and responsibility in our class (Nasza Klasa, 2009) . Contemporary Theatre Review , 21 (4). pp. 487-510. ISSN: 1477-2264 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2011.610307 (special issue 'Forum: Tim Crouch, the author, and the audience')
- Murjas, T. (2010) Ashanti. [Performance]
- Murjas, T. (2010) Translating Zapolska: research through practice. In: Baines, R. , Marinetti, C. , Perteghella, M. (eds.) Staging and performing translation: text and theatre practice . Palgrave Macmillan pp. 249-266. ISBN: 9780230228191
- Murjas, T. (2009) Zapolska's women: three plays. Playtest Intellect Books , Bristol. pp 192. ISBN: 9781841502366
- Murjas, T. (2007) The morality of Mrs Dulska: a play by Gabriela Zapolska. Intellect Books , Bristol. pp 192. ISBN: 9781841501666
- Murjas, T. (2005) The man. [Performance]
- Murjas, T. (2005) Strindberg i England. Fallet Fröken Julie. Strindbergiana , 20 pp. 93-115.
- Murjas, T. (2004) Bloomers ignite: Zolaesque zealotry in British productions of Miss Julie. Studies in Theatre and Performance , 24 (2). pp. 113-128. ISSN: 2040-0616 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/stap.24.2.113/0
- Murjas, T. (2004) Bring me the head of a greenfinch: Miss Julie in Britain. Studies in Theatre and Performance , 24 (1). pp. 37-54. ISSN: 2040-0616 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/stap.24.1.37/0
- Murjas, T. (2003) 'The Morality of Mrs Dulska' by Gabriela Zapolska. Translated and directed by Teresa Murjas.. [Performance]
- Murjas, T. (2003) Introduction. In: Woolland, B. (eds.) Double Tongue. Border Crossings Publications , London. ISBN: 9781904718017
- Murjas, T. (2003) Translating and directing Mrożek’s 'The Turkey' in London . Slavic and East European Performance , 23 (3). ISSN: 1047-0018