Dr Carmen Levick
School of English
Senior Lecturer in Theatre
+44 114 222 0212
Full contact details
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
- Profile
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I joined the School as Lecturer in Theatre in 2009, after two years teaching drama at University College Dublin.
I completed my PhD in theatre studies, focusing on the Field Day Theatre Company and political theatre in Northern Ireland. My thesis was published as a monograph in 2007 with the title: Clearing the Ground: The Field Day Theatre Company and the Construction of Irish Identities.
My research and teaching interests include heritage studies, holocaust literature, memory and trauma studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies. I am passionate about various aspects of cultural and performance studies.
- Research interests
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I have published chapters and articles on varied topics including contemporary performance studies, physical theatre, political theatre, heritage and museum studies.
My new research project focuses on the tension between Holocaust commemoration and post-communist remembrance in Eastern Europe. It looks at the ways in which different and often competing types of pain and trauma are displayed and interpreted within the framework of museums and memorials. I am interested in how digital display and interpretation practices engage with topics of identity, displacement and belonging.
- Publications
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Books
- The Story of Barabbas: The Company. Dublin: Carysfort Press.
- Clearing The Ground: The Field Day Theatre Company and the Construction of Irish Identities. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Journal articles
- A City in Dérive: Bucharest in Mihail Sebastian’s Journal 1935–1944: The Fascist Years. Genealogy, 7(1, 14).
- Decolonizing remembrance in Eastern Europe: commemorating the Holocaust in post-communist Romania. Holocaust Studies.
- Theatres of revolution: The performativity of public and private memories in Romania after 1989. Maska, 30(172), 108-115. View this article in WRRO
- Contemporary Northern Irish Theatre. TeatrulAzi.
- Languages of Space and Spaces of Language. PaGes Postgraduate Research in Progress Magazine.
Chapters
- Taxonomies of Pain: Museal Embodiments of Identity and Belonging in Post-communist Romania In Eckersley S & Vos C (Ed.), Diversity of Belonging in Europe Public Spaces, Contested Places, Cultural Encounters Routledge
- Against ‘Glocalization’: Issues of Intercultural Performance in Two Gents’ Production Kupenga Kwa Hamlet (The Madness of Hamlet) In Minier M & Kahn L (Ed.), Hamlet Translations: Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe Oxford: Legenda Publishing. View this article in WRRO
- Performance Art in Ireland In Murphy P & Carpenter A (Ed.), Art and Architecture of Ireland Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
- ‘Issues of Narrative, storytelling and Performance in Conor McPherson’s The Actors’ In Jordan, Chambers EL (Ed.), The Theatre of Conor McPherson Dublin, Ireland: Carysfort Press.
- ‘Place and Non-Place: Discussing Physicality and Story in Barabbas Theatre Company’s Circus (2007) In Trench R (Ed.), Staging Thought – Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice Oxford: Peter Lang.
- Between the Living and the Dead: Performative 'in-betweens' in the Work of Alastair MacLennan In Brady S & Walsh DF (Ed.), Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture (pp. 141-152). Palgrave MacMillan
- From Ex Libris to Ex Machina - Two Shakespearean Case Studies at the Dublin Theatre Festival In Grene N, Lonergan P & Chambers L (Ed.), Interactions: Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957-2007 (pp. 143-156). Carysfort Press
- Philoctetes Revisited' - Translating Cultures and Identities in Seamus Heaney's 'The Cure at Troy In Kelly S & Johnston D (Ed.), Betwixt and Between: Place and Cultural Translation Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Doublings: Problematic Identities in Thomas Kilroy's 'Double Cross' and 'The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre' In Cave RA & Levitas DB (Ed.), Irish Theatre in England (pp. 183-194). Carysfort Press
- Against ‘Glocalization’: Issues of Intercultural Performance in Two Gents’ Production Kupenga Kwa Hamlet (The Madness of Hamlet) In Minier M & Khan L (Ed.), Hamlet Translations: Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe (pp. 211-225). Oxford: MHRA Legenda Publishing.
Book reviews
- Reviews. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 10(1), 125-136.
- Jonathan M Hess, Deborah and Her Sisters: How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 46(1), 99-102.
- A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance. By Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 232. £50/$85 Hb.. Theatre Research International, 39(3), 233-234.
- Franklin Furnace and the Spirit of the Avant-Garde – A History of the Future (by Toni Sant). Studies in Theatre and Performance, 33(3), 405-407.
- Literary and Cultural Relations: Ireland, Hungary, and Central and Eastern Europe by Maria Kurdi. Irish University Review: a journal of Irish studies, 40(No. 1), 186-188.
- The Story of Barabbas: The Company. Dublin: Carysfort Press.
- Research group
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I welcome PhD applications on memory studies, performance studies, Holocaust and Jewish studies, globalization, and contemporary European theatre. I am a founding member of the Sheffield Jewish Studies Research Network (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jewish-studies-research/jewish-studies) and I am working with marginalised communities in Sheffield to create heritage walking apps to physically engage with their historical and current impact on the city.
- Teaching activities
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At undergraduate level I teach on a variety of modules, including Studying Theatre, Representing the Holocaust, Shakespeare. At postgraduate level I teach on Writing Identities: Nation, Race, Empire and Memory and Trauma in Contemporary Literature.