Leila Michelle Vaziri M.A./M.Sc.
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
English Literature
Phone: | +49 821 598 - 5744 |
Email: | leila.vaziri@philhist.uni-augsburg.de |
Room: | 4033 (D) |
Address: | Universitätsstraße 10, 86159 Augsburg |
Office Hour
During the winter semester 2022/2023:
- Wednesday: 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Please register via Digicampus at least a day beforehand!
Academic Curriculum Vitae
Publications
2022
2022 |
Vaziri, Leila Michelle (2022). "I am the abyss into which people dread to fall": encountering anxiety in dystopian drama. In Merle Tönnies & Eckart Voigts (Eds.), Twenty-first century anxieties: dys/utopian spaces and contexts in contemporary British theatre (pp. 185-200). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110758252-013 BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Vaziri, Leila Michelle (2022). Alienation, abjection, and disgust: encountering the capitalocene in contemporary eco-drama. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 10(1), 231-246. https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2022-0015 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Vaziri, Leila Michelle (2022). Pregnant pain and power: border crossings in Mike Bartlett's 'Earthquakes in London'. Anglistik, 33(3), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.33675/angl/2022/3/11 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Talks
- “’I am the abyss into which people dread to fall:’ Encountering Anxiety in Zinnie Harris’s How to Hold Your Breath and Alistair McDowall’s X.” Dystopian/Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and its Political Spaces. ZIV Bielefeld (online), 13. March 2021.
- “’They’ve built a wall. A plastic wall as high as the canopy:’ Fear and the Crossing of Borders in Thomas Eccleshare’s Pastoral” Intersections 2021: Border Crossings. Central School of Speech and Drama London (online), 14. May 2021
- “Alienation and Disgust: The Capitalocene in Contemporary Eco-Drama.” CDE Conference: Critical Theatre Ecologies. Augsburg (online), 05. June 2021.
- “’Without man, the fox will rule’ – Disgust, Nature and Power in Caryl Churchill’s Far Away and Dawn King’s Foxfinder.” IFTR: Theatre Ecologies: Environment, Sustainability and Politics. Galway (online), 13.07.2021.
Verbandszugehörigkeiten
Verbandszugehörigkeiten
- Deutscher Anglistenverband
- CDE - The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
- Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA)
- International Federation for Theatre Research
- International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung
Current Projects
- Politics, Psychology and Philosophy in Contemporary British Drama: The Theatre of Anxiety (Dissertation project)