Current Participants and Topics

Baraniecka, Elzbieta
The Sublime in Contemporary British Drama since 1990
Universität Augsburg
Prof. Dr. Martin Middeke

Boll, Julia
The Contemporary Theatre of War and Conflict (1980-Today)
University of Edinburgh
Dr. Olga Taxidou, Dr. Roger Savage

Georgi, Claudia
The Play within the Play in Contemporary English Drama
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Glaser

Giese, Sarah Christine
Of National Heroes, Blood-Spattered Plutocrats, and Unindicted War Criminals – The Political Dimension in American Drama after 9/11 and the War on Iraq
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer

Gohl, Andrea
Contemporary Post-Political Drama in English
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Peter Paul Schnierer

Merbitz, Anja
The Influence of Samuel Beckett on the English and Irish Drama of the 1990s
Universität Paderborn

Milisavljevic, Maria
The Place Where Lightning Is Made: Drama at the Royal Court Theatre 1956-2006. A New Historical Study of the Playhouse and Various Productions
Universität Passau

Forum for Post-Graduates

CDE's Ph.D. Forum was initiated during the Meissen Conference 2003 and met for the first time at the Bamberg Conference in 2004. Participants include graduate students from various European universities, united in the love of and the struggle with contemporary theatre and drama in English.

As an organisation dedicated to assist and support graduate students working in the area of contemporary drama in English, CDE annually hosts a graduate colloquium in the days immediately prior to each regular annual conferences.

During the forum, students are able to introduce and discuss their research projects as well as individual chapters from their dissertations with each other in an informal and relaxed atmosphere.

The forum is usually moderated by the CDE President and the CDE General Editor.

Students who wish to participate should register their intent with the forum coordinators (see address below).

Students who would like to discuss the their dissertations (or a particular passage or chapter thereof), should send the relevant portion(s) (but not more than 10-15 pages please) to the forum coordinators. These will then be circulated among the participants prior to the colloquium. Texts need to submitted no later than 6 weeks prior to a conference.