Professor Catherine Boyle

Catherine Boyle is Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at King’s College London. She has published widely on Latin American culture, theatre and performance. She was a co-founder of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. She is Director of the theatre translation and performance project, Out of the Wings (www.outofthewings.org), and also of the Head for Heights Theatre Company, dedicated to the performance of theatre from cultural extremes and marginality. She is a translator of Latin American theatre and poetry, and her translations have been performed internationally. Her most recent research is on the meeting places of translation and cultural history. Since July 2016 she has been Principal Investigator on the project Language Acts and Worldmaking, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s Open World Research initiative. 

Professor Manfred Schewe

Manfred Schewe is Professor at University College Cork where he served as Head of German (2005-2014) and Head of Theatre (2016-2018). His research continues to focus on innovative connections between the performing arts and education. While his academic home discipline is German Studies/German as a Foreign language, he has always had a keen interest in building bridges to other disciplines, including Drama in Education, ‘Theaterpädagogik’, Literature Studies, Intercultural Studies, Education and Applied Linguistics. In 2007 he founded the SCENARIO PROJECT (http://scenario.ucc.ie) at University College Cork which includes the Online Journal Scenario, a bilingual, peer-reviewed journal with a special focus on performative teaching, learning, research, the Scenario Book Series and Scenario Forum, an international network of researchers which hosts annual symposia and larger international conferences. He is currently involved in a project which aims at the development of an international glossary in the area of ‘Performative Arts and Pedagogy’.

Professor Anne Steiner

Anne Steiner is professor at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg (University of Education, Freiburg), where she teaches German literature and didactics, with a focus on theatre didactics, drama and theatre. She is also leader of an elective study programme on theatre pedagogy, Besonderes Erweiterungsfach Theater.As a drama teacher in adult education, she delivers professional development courses for teachers as well as workshops on theatre and performative teaching / learning strategies. She also teaches workshops for school theatre groups and multilingual learning groups and develops theatre projects with students.