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.