Publications

Digital Access to the Performing Arts: A Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges. Bristol University Press, 2026.

The book was selected by the Knowledge Unlatched Selection Committee — a global, volunteer group of over 200 libraries — for inclusion in the 2026 Digital Lives: Technology’s Influence on Contemporary Life Collection — a selection of  brings together the 20 most important new books published in 2026 that explore how technology shapes society, culture, governance, and individual lives. The titles chosen are available at Open Research Library.

Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020. Ed. with Kathleen Cioffi.

Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016. Ed. with Alan Ackerman.

The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy. New York, NY: Routledge, 2014.

Korean translation by Yunjeong Lee and Youngju Choi, 루틀리지 드라마투르기 참고서 (양장본). South Korea: 연극과인간. 2016.

Farsi translation by Mehdi Chavoshvar, راهنمای راتلج بر دراماتورژی Iran: Nimaj Publications, 2025.

The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor. London: Anthem Press 2012.

Official selection for the Book Expo of America 2015, the largest publishing event in North America. The Special Exhibit highlighted the best works in English in the field of Polish Studies published in the last decade.

Selected for Humanities and Social Sciences Book Collection by the Knowledge Unlatched Selection Committee and available in open access.

Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology. London: Oberon Books, 2012.  

(2024) “The Bionic Body: Technology, Disability, and Posthumanism” (2024) Body, Space & Technology, 2024, 23 (1): 1-16.

仿生身体：技术、残疾与后人类主义. Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (医学与哲学). ISSN:1002-0772 (in Chinese translation)

(2023) “Body as a Machine: Meyerhold Between Politics and Theory” (2023), Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy, 37: 1–12.

(2023) “Decolonizing Dostoyevsky?” The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, 9 (4): 94–100.

(2022) “Antigone’s Choice: Tragedy and Philosophy from Dialectic to Aporia.” Performance Philosophy Journal, 7 (2): 89–110.

(2020) “Sade/Salò: The Theatre of Cruelty and the Limits of Representation.” Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, (26): 259–284.

(2013) “Grotowski and Kantor: Theatre and Theory.” Grotowski: L’eredita Vivente. Italy: Accademia University Press.

(2010) “Trauma and Testimony in Heather Raffo’s Nine Parts of Desire.” Alif. Journal of Comparative Poetics, 31: 211–39.

(2009) “Between History and Memory: Auschwitz in Akropolis, Akropolis in Auschwitz.”  Theatre Survey, 50 (2):  223–50.

Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize for the Best Essay in a Refereed Scholarly Journal, awarded by the American Society for Theatre Research

Aquila Polonica Prize for the Best Essay, awarded by The Polish Studies Association (PSA)

(2008) “The Instrumental Theatre of Boguslaw Schaeffer.” Slovo: Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Affairs, 20 (2): 119–47.

(2008) “Performing the Covenant: Akedah and the Origins of Masculinity.” Gender Forum, 21: 20–42.

(2007) “The Anatomy of Blasphemy: The Passion and the Trial of Dorota Nieznalska.” TDR: The Drama Review, 51 (2): 176–81.

(2005) “NecrOphelia: Death, Femininity and the Making of Modern Aesthetics.” Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts. Special Issue: On Shakespeare, 10 (3): 35–53.

(2005) “Ontology and Eroticism: Two Bodies of Ophelia.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 34 (6): 485–503.

(2004) “The Theatre of Transition: Boguslaw Schaeffer and the Polish Stage of the Brave New World.” Toronto Slavic Quarterly, No. 9.

(2022) “The Body Dismembered: Allegory and Modernity in German Trauerspiel.” Theatre of the Macabre. Eds. Meredith Conti, and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.  Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 79–93.

(2020) “Tadeusz Kantor and the Posthuman Stage.” Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context.   Eds. Magda Romanska, and Kathleen Cioffi. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 75–87.

(2020) “Introduction.” Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. Ed. with Kathleen Cioffi, xi-xvi.

(2019) “Tadeusz Kantor and the Posthuman Stage” (expanded version). Postdramatic Theatre and Form. Eds. Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish, and Brandon Woolf. London: Bloomsbury Press, 81–95.

(2016) “Disability in Tragic and Comic Frame.” Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Eds. Magda Romanska, and Alan Ackerman. London:  Bloomsbury Press, 358–362.

(2016) Co-authored with Alan Ackerman. “General Introduction.” Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism. London: Bloomsbury Press. Ed. with Alan Ackerman, 1-15.

(2014) “Introduction to Dramaturgy.” The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy. New York: Routledge, 1–15.

(2014) “Drametrics: What Dramaturgs Should Learn From Mathematicians.”  The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy. New York: Routledge, 438–447.

(2013) “Women Directors in Poland.” International Women Stage Directors. Eds. Anne Fliotsos, and Wendy Vierow. Champagne: University of Illinois Press, 237–250.

(2012) “Chekhov in the Age of Globalization: Janusz Glowacki’s The Fourth Sister.” Adapting Chekhov: The Text and Its Mutations. Eds. J. Douglas Clayton, Yana Meerzon.     New York: Routledge, 128–44.

(2009) “Sarah’s Gift: Gender, Agency and the Sacred.” The Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, Qur’an Literature and Culture. Ed. Roberta Sabbath. Boston: Brill, 393–408.

(2008) “OpheliaMachine: Gender, Ethics and Representation in Heiner Muller’s Hamletmachine.” The Cultural Politics of Heiner Müller. Ed. Dan Friedman. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 61–86.

(2007) “Hamlet, Masculinity and the Nineteenth Century Nationalism.” Ghost Stories, Histories, and Alternative Histories. Ed. Sladja Blazan. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 114–41.

(2026) “After Lockdown Streaming, Disabled Audiences Were Shut Out Again.” Transforming Society, May 12.

(2025) “Artificial Intelligence, Totalitarianism, and the Future of Cognitive Liberty.” The Humanist, Sept 2.

(2024) Co-authored with Kasia Lech, “TheTheatreTimes.com: Towards Transnational Digital Infrastructure.” The Theatre Times

“TheTheatreTimes.com: dążąc do ponadnarodowej infrastruktury cyfrowej.” (In Polish) Teatr – Literatura – Zarządzanie. [Theatre – Literature – Management] Ed. Tomasz Wiśniewski Roksana Zgierska Katarzyna Pastuszak Katarzyna Kręglewska. Gdańsk University Press,

Rumo a uma Infraestrutura Teatral Transnacional: a plataforma TheTheatreTimes.com.” (In Portuguese) Entre Almanach 2024: 335-341.

(2023) “Between Pandemic and Democracy: What Antigone Can Teach Us.” Antigone Journal.

(2023) “‘5 Stages of Grief’ Is a Myth — and Knowing That Helps Us Better Cope with Loss.”  Big Think.

(2022) “4 Plays That Dramatize the Kidnapping of Children During Wars.” The Conversation.

Republished by Big News Network, Houston Chronicle, Newsblur, and Hearst Newspapers.

(2021) “A Manifesto for the Future Stage: Performance Is a Human Right.”

Co-authored with Future Stage Research Group. American Theater. November 5.
Translated into thirteen languages and republished by The African Theatre Magazine, Discours.io, Acotaciones, Nachtkritik.de, Tekstualia, Quinte Parallele, Scena.ro, Beijing Foundation Think Tank Research, La gazette des festivals, Játéktér, Theatre Arts Japan, Questão de Crítica, The Korean Theatre Journal, Makkah Newspaper.

(2021) “Runt of the Litter: Disability in the Age of Pandemic.” Reed Magazine.

(2020) “On Screen and on Stage, Disability Continues to be Depicted  in Outdated, Cliched Ways.” The Conversation.

Republished by Salon, PBS, Gizmodo, News Break, Live Wire, and The Aspen Institute (five best ideas of the day)

(2018) “The Comic Frame of Sławomir Mrożek: Or, How to Tell if You Live in a Totalitarian Country.” The Los Angeles Review of Books.

(2018) “Spotlight on Poland: The Context of Contemporary Polish Theatre.” TheTheatreTimes.com.

(2015) “Boston’s Theater Scene: Not All Arts Are Created Equal.” Op-ed. The Boston Globe.

(2015) “Between Art and Science: A Conversation with Roald Hoffmann.” Cosmopolitical Review. <http://cosmopolitanreview.com/roald-hoffman/>

(2014) “Building the Future for Opera in Digital Age.” In the Wings.

(2013) “Last Tango in Poland. Farewell to Sławomir Mrożek: 1930–2013.”  Theater Magazine.

(2013) “The Case for a National Theatre.” National Performing Arts Convention.

(2012) “How I Survived Socialism: A Self–Help Guide for Worried Americans.” Cosmopolitical Review.

(2012) “Boguslaw Schaeffer: Poland’s Renaissance Man.” Cosmopolitical Review.

(2012) “Genuine Illusions of Our Times: Richard Foreman in conversation with Magda Romanska.” HotReview.org

(2002) “Up front: American Theaters Reflect on the Events of September 11.” (with E Grinwis, JJ Hanlon, AR Moore, SA Soloski. Theater Magazine, 32 (1), 1–21.

(2024) Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, June Night. In The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review 10 (1): 6-55. < >

(2023) Andrzej Wajda, Crime and Punishment (adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel). In The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, 9 (4): 101–44.           

(2012) Boguslaw Schaeffer, Monologue for One Actor. In Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology. Oberon Books.

(2012) Boguslaw Schaeffer, Quartet for Four Actors. In Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology. Oberon Books.

(2012) Boguslaw Schaeffer, Script for Three Actors. In Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology.  Oberon Books.

(2008) Boguslaw Schaeffer,  HereThere. In The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, 2 (1): 29–126.

(2008) Boguslaw Schaeffer, Dream and Not. In Slovo: Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Affairs. University College of London, 20 (2): 119–47.

(2004) Boguslaw Schaeffer, Alles. In Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 9.

Routledge Focus on Dramaturgy series publishes concise scholarly monographs and edited volumes that advance new research, theoretical innovation, case studies, and practice-based inquiry across dramaturgy, theatre, performance, opera, history, migration, science, inclusion, and related fields. Designed for scholars, practitioners, researchers, and graduate students, the series provides a focused platform for timely, field-shaping work in dramaturgical theory and practice.

(2025) Dramaturgy and the Anatomy of Dramatic Structures, by Michael Evans.

(2025) Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre, by Kate Mulley.

(2025) The Dramaturgy of History, by Tom Bryant.

(2024) Dramaturgy and History: Staging the Archives, Eds. Caitlin Kane and Erin Stoneking.

(2024) Dramaturgy and Performing Science: New Work in Interdisciplinary Contexts,  by Jules Odendahl-James.

(2024) New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera: The Practitioners’ Perspectives, by Jingyi Zhang

(2023) Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy: Case Studies from the Field, Eds. Philippa Kelly and Amrita Ramanan.

(2023) Dramaturgy of Form: Performing Verse in Contemporary Theatre, by Kasia Lech.

(2021) Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary Theatre, Eds. Yana Meerzon and Katharina Pewny.

(2021) New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting, by Mark Bly.

(2021) Principles of Dramaturgy, by Robert Scanlan.

(2020) Words for the Theatre: Four Essays on the Dramatic Text, by David Cole.

(2020) Shakespeare in Three Dimensions: The Dramaturgy of Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, by Robert Blacker.