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Associate Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, University of South Wales

Márta Minier is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Media Drama at the University of South Wales. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Performance Translation and Dramaturgy at the University of Hull. Her PhD thesis discussed the translation of Hamlet into Hungarian culture. Márta’s main research interests span dramaturgy, translation studies, adaptation studies (especially in relation to Shakespeare, women writers and children's literature/culture), Shakespeare studies (Shakespeare reception in particular), European drama, theatre, literature and culture with a special emphasis on the small nations of Central and Eastern Europe and Hungary in particular, biography (on page, stage and screen) and children’s drama and culture.
Márta is co-editor of the Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance and one of the associate editors of the theatre studies journal Symbolon. A recent recipient of the David Almond Fellowship (from Newcastle University and Seven Stories, National Centre for Children’s Books) and the Stephen Joseph Award from the Society for Theatre Research, Márta currently studies the children’s theatre productions of David Wood as case studies of adaptation.

Márta has participated in numerous international conferences, and has so far (co-)organised fourteen academic conferences/symposia/seminars/panels at subject association congresses (about translation, adaptation, dramaturgy, East-Central European drama, Hamlet poetry, the biopic and cultural translation in a Welsh-Hungarian context, among other topics). She has co-edited two thematic volumes on Shakespeare for peer-reviewed journals (New Readings and Multicultural Shakespeare) as well as a journal issue on performing transmedia narratives (for Textus). Her co-edited collection on the contemporary biopic was published by Ashgate (now Routledge).

She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer in Drama, University of South Wales