Dr L.K. (Lisa) Skwirblies
Lisa Skwirblies is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is a theatre historian with a specific focus on the entanglements of performance aesthetics and European colonial expansionism. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick in 2018.
Faculty of Humanities
Theatre Studies
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18
Postal address
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Postbus 93065
1090 BB Amsterdam
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Profile
Lisa Skwirblies is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is a theatre historian with a specific focus on the entanglements of performance aesthetics and European colonial expansionism. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick in 2018.
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Publications
2024
- Skwirblies, L. K. (2024). From Cape Workers and ‘Carriers of Culture’: Migration, Citizenship, and Race in the German Empire. In B. Szymanski-Düll, & L. Skwirblies (Eds.), European Theatre Migrants in the Age of Empire: Personal Experiences, Transnational Trajectories, and Socio-Political Impacts (pp. 139-153). (Theatre and Migration). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69836-1_7
- Skwirblies, L. K. (2024). Katrin Sieg. Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 60(4), 409-411. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/946301
- Skwirblies, L. K., & Szymanski-Düll, B. (2024). European Theatre Migrants in the Age of Empire: Personal Experiences, Transnational Trajectories, and Socio-Political Impacts. (Theatre and Migration). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69836-1
2023
- Sharifi, A., & Skwirblies, L. (2023). Ist die deutsche Theaterwissenschaft (post)kolonial? Ein Plädoyer für eine Anerkennung von bestehenden, aber marginalisierten Wissensbeständen! Forum Modernes Theater, 34(2), 203-213. https://doi.org/10.1353/fmt.2023.a920444, https://doi.org/10.24053/FMTh-2023-0020 [details]
- Sharifi, A., & Skwirblies, L. (2023). »Man kann nicht behaupten, dass die Arbeit wie eine Bombe einschlug«: Christopher Balmes postkoloniale Forschung und die deutsche Theaterwissenschaft. In U. Otto, D. Roesner, & B. Szymanski-Düll (Eds.), Theaterwissenschaft postkolonial, intermedial, neoinstitutionell : Christopher Balme in der Re-Lektüre (pp. 41-60). (Theater). Transcript . https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839466285-004 [details]
2022
Marschall, A., Sharifi, A., Simke, A.-C., & Skwirblies, L. (2022). Voicing our concerns: Attempts at Decentring German Theatre and Performance Studies. Global Performance Studies, 5(1-2). https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv5n1-2a110 [details]
2021
- Skwirblies, L. K. (2021). Colonial Theatricality. In S. Rai, M. Gluhovic, S. Jestrovic, & M. Saward (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (pp. 27-42). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190863456.001.0001
2025
- van der Zalm, R. G. C., Franzen, R. A., & Skwirblies, L. K. (2025). Hoe verzamel je 'theater' en wat doe je er vervolgens mee? In H. van Keulen, S. van den Berg, R. Milco Feijnenbuik, A. Krans, L. Sterenborg, R. van der Zalm, & D. Zijp (Eds.), Theater verzamelen: (On)grijpbaar erfgoed (pp. 14). WBooks.
Membership / relevant position
- Skwirblies, L. (2024-2027). I became co-convenor of the IFTR Theatre Historiography Working Group, Theatre Historiography Working Group of the IFTR.
- Skwirblies, L. (2023-2024). Chair of the OC of the MA Arts and Performance Research, .
- Skwirblies, L. (2023-2024). Together with Azadeh Sharifi, Ann-Christine Simke and Anika Marschall I founded the research network Neue kritische Theaterwissenschaft (new critical (…), Neue kritische Theaterwissenschaft.
- Skwirblies, L. (2018-2024). I am a member of the Theatre Historiography Working group of the International Federation of Theatre Research, Theatre Historiography Working Group of the IFTR.
Talk / presentation
- Skwirblies, L. (speaker) (19-9-2024). Performing German Empire. Theater ordnen in den Kolonialarchiven des Kaiserreichs, Theater Ordnen, Berlin.
- Skwirblies, L. (speaker) (26-9-2023). Embodied Fabulation - Dancing the Archive Brown in Amanda Pina's "Exotica", Northwestern University.
- Skwirblies, L. (speaker) (23-2-2023). Where do we go from here? Reflections on postcolonial theatre studies in Germany, Deconstructing the Doll's house, Munich.
Others
- Skwirblies, L. (other) (11-2024). Boardmember of Stichting Showmachine (Joachim Robbrecht) (other).
- Skwirblies, L. (participant) (24-7-2023). International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR), Accra (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Skwirblies, L. (participant) (11-1-2023). Ist die deutsche Theaterwissenschaft (post)kolonial? Online book-presentation. Online bookpresentation of the book I co-edited together with Azadeh Sharifi called "Theaterwissenschaft postkolonial/dekolonial" (transcript 2022) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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Ancillary activities
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Marschall, A., Sharifi, A., Simke, A.-C., & Skwirblies, L. (2022). Voicing our concerns: Attempts at Decentring German Theatre and Performance Studies. Global Performance Studies, 5(1-2).