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Dr. Ema Vyroubalova

Dr. Ema Vyroubalova

Asst. Prof. in Early Modern Literature, English

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Biography

I joined the School of English in 2011. Originally from the Czech Republic, I completed my undergraduate studies (English and French) at Amherst College in Massachusetts and my postgraduate training in English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • 'Shakespeare in Iran, Afghanistan, and the Persian-speaking Diaspora' in, editor(s)Alexa Alice Joubin , Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2024, pp81 - 102, [Ema Vyroubalova and Shauna O'Brien]Book Chapter, 2024, TARA - Full Text
  • Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS): Special Issue: European Women in English Early Modern Drama, 27, (2017), Ema Vyroubalova, Edel Semple, [Special Issue Editor], 2015-2017Journal, 2017
  • Ema Vyroubalova and Edel Semple, 'Shakespeare and Early Modern Europe', Shakespeare, 14, (1), 2018, p80 - 96Journal Article, 2018
  • Ema Vyroubalova, Edel Semple, Introduction to European Women in Early Modern , Early Modern Literary Studies, (27), 2017, p1 - 10Journal Article, 2017, TARA - Full Text
  • 'Accents yet unknown: In Search of Shakespeare's Foreign Accents' in, editor(s)Adele Lee , Shakespeare and Accentism, New York, Routledge, 2021, pp25 - 41, [Ema Vyroubalova]Book Chapter, 2021
  • Ema Vyroubalova and Gemma Navickiene, 'Shakespeare in Lithuanian', Mokslo taikomieji tyrimai Lietuvos kolegijose, 1, (19), 2023, p12 - 18Journal Article, 2023, URL
  • Ema Vyroubalova, Shauna O'Brien, Mohammadreza Hassanzadeh Javanian, 'This is a Political Play: Making Coriolanus Relevant in Contemporary Iran', Asian Theatre Journal, 41, (1), 2024, p177 - 196Journal Article, 2024, TARA - Full Text
  • Zsolt Almási, Ema Vyroubalova, Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney, Oana-Alis Zaharia, Klára Škrobánková, Madalina Nicolaescu, 'Politics, Shakespeare, East-Central Europe: Theatrical Border Crossings', Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance, 28, 2023, p45 - 68Journal Article, 2023, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai Philologia: Special issue: Theorizing Literary Animals, 67, 2, (2022), 9 - 288p, Ema Vyroubalova, [Guest editor], 06/2021-06/2022Journal, 2022, URL
  • Ema Vyroubalova, 'Translating Shakespeare's Untranslatable Histories', Renaissance Studies, 37-38, (1), 2023, p95 - 108Journal Article, 2023, TARA - Full Text
  • Ema Vyroubalova, 'The Phenomenon of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings', Mokslo taikomieji tyrimai Lietuvos kolegijose, 1, (21), 2025, p39 - 46Journal Article, 2025, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Ema Vyroubalova, 'Methods for a Global Shakespeare Pedagogy', Folium, 6, 2025, p39 - 44Journal Article, 2025, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • The Maori Merchant of Venice (2002) - film adaptation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Rober Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd, The Literary Encyclopedia, London, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2020, [Ema Vyroubalova]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2020, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Someone is Sleeping in My Pain (2001): An East-West Macbeth - film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Rober Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd, The Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2.1.03, London, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2020, [Ema Vyroubalova]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2020, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • The Banquet (2006) - film adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Rober Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd, The Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2.1.03, London, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2020, [Ema Vyroubalova]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2020, URL
  • Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, Rober Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd, The Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2.1.03, London, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2013, [Ema Vyroubalova]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2013, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Korol Lir (1971) - film adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, Rober Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd, The Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2.1.03, London, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2014, [Ema Vyroubalova]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2014, URL
  • Sen noci svatojánské (A Midsummer Night's Dream, dir. Jirí Trnka, Czechoslovakia, 1959), Alexa Joubin and Ema Vyroubalova, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, Palgrave, 2019, [Ema Vyroubalova]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2019
  • Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philologia, Cluj, Romania, Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University, 2022-2026Editorial Board, 2022
  • Ema Vyroubalova, Review of Europe's Languages on England's Stages, 1590-1620, by Marianne Montgomery , English Text Construction, 6, (1), 2013, p206-208Review, 2013, URL
  • Christie Carson, Petru Golban, Francesca Clare Rayner, Ema Vyroubalova, 'King Lear: Who is that can tell me who I am?', Review of King Lear, directed by Tang Shu-wing for Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio (Hong Kong), Teatrul Colibri, Craiova, 17 May 2024; Regele Lear [King Lear], directed by Mihai Tarna for Teatrul National Eugène Ionesco Chisinau, Republic of Moldova), Teatrul Colibri, Craiova, 21 May 2024, Cahiers Elisabéthains, 118, (1), 2025, p154-158Review, 2025
  • William M. Hamlin, J. A. Roe, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Ema Vyroubalova, The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625., 2022, -Miscellaneous, 2022
  • Ema Vyroubalova and James Robert Wood, The Literary Papers of the Reverend Jermyn Pratt, 1723-1791, Norwich, Norfolk Record Society, 2022, 1 - 416ppBook, 2022, URL
  • Ema Vyroubalova and James Robert Wood, 'Propping up the King's Two Bodies in Richard II', Early English Studies, 4, 2011, p1 - 24Journal Article, 2011, TARA - Full Text
  • Ema Vyroubalova, Review of Shakespeare in Transition: Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic, by Marcela Kostihova , The European English Messenger, 24, (1), 2015, p78-79Review, 2015, TARA - Full Text
  • 'Multilingual Ethics in Henry V and Henry VIII' in, editor(s)Alexa Huang and Elizabeth Rivlin , Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp179 - 192, [Ema Vyroubalova]Book Chapter, 2014
  • Ben Jonson, The Irish Masque at Court (1613), Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd, The Literary Encyclopedia, London, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2013, [Ema Vyroubalova]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2013, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Ema Vyroubalova, 'Shakespeare in Changing Times and a Changing World', The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 14, 2014, p167 - 188Journal Article, 2014
  • Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd, The Literary Encyclopedia, London, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2013, pp1140 - 1142, [Ema Vyroubalova]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2013, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Ben Jonson, The English Grammar, Rober Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd, The Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2.1.03, London, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2013, [Ema Vyroubalova]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2013, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Ema Vyroubalova, Review of Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance, by Silverstone, Catherine , Early Modern Studies Journal, 5, 2013, p127-129Review, 2013, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • 'Richard Hakluyt's Babel : Foreign Languages and Historical Consciousness in The Principal Navigations' in, editor(s)Isabelle Bour, Line Cottegnies , Scénographie du recit de voyage et imaginaire viatique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Paris, France, Hermann, 2018, pp137 - 150, [Ema Vyroubalova]Book Chapter, 2018
  • 'Conspiring Languages and Images in Samuel Ward's The Double Deliverance (1621)' in, editor(s)Crawford Gribben and Scott Spurlock , Puritans in the Trans-Atlantic world 1600-1800, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp47 - 65, [Ema Vyroubalova]Book Chapter, 2015
  • Ema Vyroubalova, 'Review: Hamlet at the Mill Theatre Dundrum, October 2019', Shakespeare in Ireland: An academic blog of early modern events and research in Ireland, 2019, -Blog Post, URL
  • Ema Vyroubalova and Kaitlyn Culliton, 'Review: Hamlet, Mill Productions, Hamlet, the Mill Theatre, Dundrum, dir. Geoff O'Keeffe', Shakespeare in Ireland An academic blog of early modern events and research in Ireland, 2017, -Blog Post, URL
  • Ema Vyroubalova, 'Review: Macbeth at the Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin, October 3rd-26th, 2018, directed by Geoff O'Keefe', Shakespeare in Ireland An academic blog of early modern events and research in Ireland, 2018, -Blog Post, URL
  • Ema Vyroubalova, A New and Large Discourse on the Travels of Sir Anthony Sherley, 2012, -Miscellaneous, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Ema Vyroubalova, Review, Review of Shakespeare in Bits, by MindConnex Learning Company , This Rough Magic, (December), 2013Review, TARA - Full Text

Research Expertise

I am a recognised expert in two main areas: the literature of early modern England and Global Shakespeare. My research examines how interactions with other countries, cultures, and languages influenced early modern England's literary culture and how early modern literature has travelled into new contexts worldwide. My monograph, Foreign Tongues in Early Modern English Drama, which I am currently completing and plan to submit to Palgrave Macmillan, develops a new method of reading the multilingual dimensions of early modern English drama and of the disruptive potential of the foreign language elements on English dramatic texts. Two chapters drawn from this project have appeared in cutting-edge collections published by Palgrave and Bloomsbury. I have also established a reputation in the field of Global Shakespeare. Drawing on my fluency in multiple foreign languages, I explore the politics of adaptation in Shakespearean theatrical and cinematic productions worldwide. I have published a number of journal articles, focusing especially on the political significance of Shakespeare adaptations in East-Central Europe and the Middle East. I am the co-editor of an innovative essay collection Performing Global Identities through Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, which is under consideration at Edinburgh University Press. Since 2018, I have served as Associate Editor of the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Global Shakespeare, a groundbreaking reference work already available in electronic format and due for print publication in 2029. I recently collaborated with Dr James Robert Wood from University of East Anglia on an edition of the collected writings of Jermyn Pratt, a Norfolk clergyman, most of whose work had previously been available only in manuscript. The project included a Zoom premiere of Pratt's comedy The Grange. Work for this project drew on my interest in the representation of dialects and in the influence of early modern literature on the literature of later periods.

Languages and literature, Performing arts,

Recognition

  • Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Centre 2007-2008
  • Alden Dissertation Prize, Stanford University (awarded for best PhD dissertation in English) 2010
  • American Council of Learned Societies Early Career Dissertation Fellowship 2008-2009
  • Irish Renaissance Seminar present
  • Shakespeare Association of America 2022
  • International Shakespeare Association 2021
  • European Shakespeare Research Association present
  • International Shakespeare Conference present
  • Modern Language Association of America 2012
  • The Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre present
  • Shakespeare is here: hear, think, create : competition by the Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre for secondary school students: member of the judging panel 04/2025
  • Folium Journal, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University: member of international editorial board 2025-present
  • Scientific Bulletin of Kherson State University. Series: Germanic Studies and Intercultural Communication, Kherson, Ukraine: member of international editorial board 2026-present
  • Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philologia, Cluj, Romania, Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University: member of editorial board 2022-present
  • An Post Irish Book Awards, New Voices Category: member of the judging panel 10-11/2023