Komporaly, Jozefina 1969-

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Komporaly, Jozefina 1969-

PERSONAL:

Born August 12, 1969. Education: Attended University of Bucharest; University of Warwick, M.A., 1997, Ph.D., 2001. Hobbies and other interests: Stage translation and adaptation.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Faculty of Humanities, Rm. CL 2.06A, Clephan Bldg., De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, England. E-mail—jkomporaly@dmu.ac.uk.

CAREER:

Educator and writer. University of Warwick, Coventry, England, tutor in English and drama, 1997-2002; University of London, Goldsmiths College, London, England, faculty member; De Montfort University, Leicester, England, senior lecturer in the School of English, Performance, and Historical Studies, 2005—. Also worked at the University of Hull, Hull, England, and University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. Previously worked as an interpreter, teacher of English as a foreign language, and program coordinator for the Soros Foundation for an Open Society.

WRITINGS:

Staging Motherhood: British Women Playwrights, 1956 to the Present, Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributor to books, including Representing the Troubles, edited by Eibhear Walshe and Brian Cliff, Four Courts Press (Dublin, Ireland), 2004; and Lovingagainst the Odds: Women's Writing in a European Framework, edited by Elizabeth Russell and Peter Lang (Frankfurt, Germany), 2006. Contributor to periodicals, including Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, British and American Studies, European Journal of Women Studies, and Journal of Gender Studies.

SIDELIGHTS:

Jozefina Komporaly is an English and drama professor whose primary areas of interest are identity in theater and performance, postwar and contemporary British and European theater, and stage translation. She is particularly interested in gender issues and feminist theory in theater, including drama and gender, women's playwriting, and feminist theater. In her first book, Staging Motherhood: British Women Playwrights, 1956 to the Present, the author examines how motherhood has been represented on the stage through the writings of post-1956 British women playwrights. The author explores how transformations in women's lives have impacted women's theater, and she discusses strategies used by female playwrights and actors. In addition, Komporaly writes about the interactions between the personal, political, and theatrical within the context of a wide range of disciplines, including gender, cultural, and performance studies. Komporaly also has contributed to books, including Loving against the Odds: Women's Writing in a European Framework, edited by Elizabeth Russell. The essays in this volume stem from a 2002 conference focusing on a European network of women's writing that has become a source of consciousness-raising for European female writers and their readers. The author's contribution is titled "Transcending Boundaries: National Identity and Sexual Transgression in Hungarian and English Modernism."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Theatre Research International, October, 2007, Carina Bartleet, review of Staging Motherhood: British Women Playwrights, 1956 to the Present, p. 338.

Women: A Cultural Review, December, 2006, Emily Jeremiah, review of Staging Motherhood, p. 408.