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Professor Stephen Elliot Wilmer

Professor Stephen Elliot Wilmer

Fellow Emeritus, Drama

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Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • S. E. Wilmer, The Spirit of Fluxus as a Nomadic Art Movement, Nordic Theatre Studies, 26, (2), 2014, p84 - 93Journal Article, 2014
  • Nordic Theatre Studies, 27, 1, (2015), 1 - 116p, S E Wilmer, [eds.]Journal, 2015
  • S E Wilmer, Introduction: Theatre and the Nomadic Subject, Nordic Theatre Studies, 27, (1), 2015, p5 - 9Journal Article, 2015
  • S E Wilmer, "Cultural Encounters in Modern Productions of Greek Tragedy", Nordic Theatre Studies, 28, (1), 2016, p15 - 26Journal Article, 2016, URL
  • S E Wilmer, After Dada: Fluxus as a Nomadic Art Movement, New Theatre Quarterly, 33, (1), 2017, p59 - 64Journal Article, 2017
  • Critical Stages, 14, (2016), S E Wilmer and Azadeh Sharifi, [eds.]Journal, 2016
  • S E Wilmer, Performing Statelessness in Europe, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 1 - 244ppBook, 2018
  • Azadeh Sharifi and S E Wilmer, Reflections on Theatre and Statelessness, Critical Stages, 14, 2016Journal Article, 2016
  • S E Wilmer, Greek Tragedy as a Window on the Dispossessed, New Theatre Quarterly, 33, (3), 2017, p277 - 287Journal Article, 2017
  • Greek Tragedy as a Window on the Dispossessed in, editor(s)Małgorzata Budzowska / Burç İdem Dinçel / Jadwiga Czerwińska, / Katarzyna Chiżyńska , The Metamorphoses of Ancient Greek Myths, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2017, pp191 - 205, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2017
  • Unmasking Nationalism: Transnationalism versus National Identities in American Drama in, editor(s)Jose Maria Gutierrez Arranz and José María Gutiérrez Arranz , A Multicultural and Multifaceted Study of Ideologies and Conflicts related to the Complex Realities and Fictions of Nation and Identity represented in Contemporary Literature Written in English, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars, 2008, pp179 - 196, [Steven E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2008
  • stephen wilmer, Nemzeti színházak és identitåsépítés a kisebb európai országokban, Szcenárium, 7, (October), 2017, p5 - 20Journal Article, 2017
  • Steve Wilmer, Two East European Festivals, European Stages, 11, (1), 2018Journal Article, 2018, URL
  • stephen wilmer, National Theatres in Smaller European Countries, Szenárium, (April), 2018, p70 - 86Journal Article, 2018
  • Invisible Mothers: Biopolitical Control in Ireland in, editor(s)Marina Gr inić and Aneta Stojnić   , Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance: Danger, Im/mobility and Politics, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp217 - 230, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2018
  • Playing with Citizenship: NSK and Janez Jan a in, editor(s)Vessela S. Warner and Diana Manole , Staging Postcommunism: Alternative Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe after 1989, Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2019, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2019
  • Radek Przedpelski and S. E. Wilmer, Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, 1 - 268ppBook, 2020
  • Refugees as Multiplicities in, editor(s)Radek Przedpelski and S E Wilmer , Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicities, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp169 - 186, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2020
  • Nordic Theatre Studies, 32, 1, (2020), 1 - 178p, S E Wilmer, [eds.]Journal, 2020
  • Yael Ronen: Devising Dramaturgy for an Interwoven World in, editor(s)Erika Fischer-Lichte, Christel Weiler, Torsten Jost , Dramaturgies of Interweaving: Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, pp148 - 168, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2021
  • S E Wilmer, Performing "Polishness", Pamietnik Teatralny, LXX, (2 (278)), 2021, p165 - 169Journal Article, 2021
  • S E Wilmer, Postmigrant Theatre, Szinhaz.net, 2021Journal Article, 2021, URL
  • S E Wilmer, Maciunas: Eccentric Artist and Seminal Influence, Nordic Theatre Studies, 33, (1), 2021, p11 - 23Journal Article, 2021
  • S E Wilmer, Maciunas: Eccentric Artist and Seminal Influence, Nordic Theatre Studies, 33, (1), 2021, p11 - 23Journal Article, 2021
  • S E Wilmer, Deleuze, Beckett, and the Art of Multiplicity, New Theatre Quarterly, 38, (2), 2022, p186 - 194Journal Article, 2022
  • S E Wilmer, Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene, Edinburgh , Edinburgh University Press, 2023, 1 - 298ppBook, 2023
  • S E Wilmer, Beckett in Dublin, Dublin, Lilliput, 1992, 1 - 152ppBook, 1992
  • S E Wilmer, Restaging the Nation: The Work of Suzan-Lori Parks, Modern Drama, 43, (3), 2000, p442 - 452Journal Article, 2000
  • Steve Wilmer, The War in Northern Ireland as Greek Tragedy, Text and Presentation, 17, 1996, p80 - 87Journal Article, 1996
  • Steve E Wilmer, Reifying Imagined Communities; Nationalism, Post-Colonialism and Theatre Historiography, Nordic Theatre Studies, 12, 1999, p94 - 103Journal Article, 1999
  • German Romanticism and its Influence on Finnish and Irish Theatre in, editor(s)Helka Mäkinen, S E Wilmer, and W. B. Worthen , Theatre, History and National Identities, Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 2001, pp15 - 69, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2001
  • Finland in, editor(s)David Wiles and Christine Dymkowski , Cambridge Companion to Theatre History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp104 - 115, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2013
  • S E Wilmer, Partisan Theatre in the Early Years of the United States, Theatre Survey, 40, (2), 1999, p1 - 26Journal Article, 1999
  • Steve Wilmer, Federalist and Republican Theatre in the 1790s, Theatre Symposium, 5, 1997, p78 - 94Journal Article, 1997
  • Stephen Wilmer, Travesties: Ideologies and the Irish Theatre, Krino, 13, 1992, p83 - 92Journal Article, 1992
  • Steve Wilmer, Europa:una unione di diversitá, Teatro in Europa, 13, 1995, p18 - 21Journal Article, 1995
  • Steve Wilmer, From British Colony to Independent Nation: Refashioning Identity, irish Journal of American Studies, 8, 1999, p119 - 178Journal Article, 1999
  • Steve Wilmer, Censoring Eugene O'Neill, Gramma, 2, 1994, p199 - 212Journal Article, 1994
  • Steve Wilmer, Women in Irish Theatre, New Theatre Quarterly, 7, (28), 1991, p353 - 360Journal Article, 1991
  • Seamus Heaney and the Tragedy of Stasis in, editor(s)Savas Patsalidis and Elizabeth Sakellaridou , (Dis) Placing Classical Greek Theatre, Thessaloniki, University Studio Press, 1999, pp221 - 231, [Steve E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 1999
  • Yael Ronen: Devising Dramaturgy for an Interwoven World in, editor(s)Erika Fischer-Lichte, Christel Weiler and Torsten Jost , Dramaturgies of Interweaving: Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World, 2022, Routledge, 2022, pp176 - 196, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2022
  • Yana Meerzon and S E Wilmer, Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and MIgration, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 1 - 775ppBook, 2023, URL
  • S E Wilmer, The Danger of the Foreign, Athena, 17, 2022, p188 - 2000Journal Article, 2022
  • Forms of Life in the Posthuman Condition in, editor(s)S E Wilmer and Audrone Zukauskaite , Life in the Posthuman Condition, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2023, pp1 - 11, [Audrone Zukauskaite and S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2023
  • National Theatres in, editor(s)Patricia Gaborik , Pirandello in Context, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp69 - 76, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2024
  • Theatrical strategies addressing migration in, editor(s)Ralf Remshardt and Aneta Mancewicz , Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance, Abingdon, Oxon., Routledge, 2023, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2023
  • The Contagious Foreigner in, editor(s)Malgorzata Sugiera,Mateusz Chaberski and Dorota Sosnowska , Contagion. Between Contiguity and Community., Berlin, De Gruyter, 2024, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2024
  • Pirkko Koski and S E Wilmer, Stages of Chaos: The Drama of Post-War Finland, Helsinki, SKS, 2005, 472ppBook, 2005
  • Herder and European Theatre in, editor(s)Kiki Gounaridou, Jefferson , Staging Nationalism: Essays on Theatre and National Identity, North Carolina, and London, McFarland Publishers, 2005, pp63 - 85, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2005
  • John Dillon and S E Wilmer, Rebel Women: Staging Ancient Greek Drama Today, London, Methuen, 2005, 272ppBook, 2005
  • Introduction in, editor(s)John Dillon and S E Wilmer , Rebel Women: Staging Ancient Greek Drama Today, London, Methuen, 2005, ppxiii - xxv, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2005
  • Irish Medeas: Revenge or Redemption (an Irish Solution to an International Problem) in, editor(s)John Dillon and S E Wilmer , Rebel Women: Staging Ancient Greek Drama Today, London, Methuen, 2005, pp136 - 148, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2005
  • Kansallisen teatterin historian kirjoittamisesta in, editor(s)Pirkko Koski , Teatterin ja Historian Tutkiminen, Helsinki, Like, 2006, pp90 - 104, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2006
  • S E Wilmer and Pikko Koski, The Dynamic World of Finnish Theatre, Helsinki, Like, 2006, 1 - 182ppBook, 2006
  • S E Wilmer and Pirkko Koski, Humour and Humanity: Contemporary Plays from Finland, Helsinki, Like, 2006, 1 - 442ppBook, 2006
  • S E Wilmer, Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 1 - 281ppBook, 2002
  • S E Wilmer, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories, Iowa City, Iowa University Press, 2004Book, 2004
  • Helka Mäkinen, S E Wilmer, W. B. Worthen, Theatre, History and National Identities, Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 2001Book, 2001
  • Hans van Maanen and S E Wilmer, Theatre Worlds in Motion: Structures, Politics and Developments in the Countries of Western Europe, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1998, 1 - 777ppBook, 1998
  • S E Wilmer, Portraits of Courage: Plays by Finnish Women, Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1997, 1 - 297ppBook, 1997
  • S E Wilmer, National Theatres in a Changing Europe, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 1 - 244ppBook, 2008
  • S E Wilmer, Women in Greek Tragedy Today: A Reappraisal, Theatre Research International, 32, (2), 2007, p106 - 118Journal Article, 2007
  • Finding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes in, editor(s)Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie , Classics in Post-colonial Worlds, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp228 - 242, [S. E. Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2007
  • The Development of National Theatres in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in, editor(s)S. E. Wilmer , National Theatres in a Changing Europe, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp9 - 22, [S. E. Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2008
  • Introduction in, editor(s)S. E. Wilmer , National Theatres in a Changing Europe, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp1 - 6, [S. E. Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2008
  • Anna McMullan and S.E. Wilmer, Reflections on Beckett: A Centennial Celebration, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2009, 256ppBook, 2009
  • S. E. Wilmer and Audrone Zukauskaite, Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, 448ppBook, 2010
  • Nationalism in Recent German Theatre: Post-traumatic Drama or Postdramatic Trauma in, editor(s)Mateusz Borowski and Malgorzata Sugiera , Fictional Realities/ Real Fictions: Contemporary Theatre in Search of a New Mimetic Paradigm, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, pp149 - 164, [S. E. Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2007
  • steve wilmer, kobiety w tragedii greckiej dzis, Didaskalia, 83, 2008, p85 - 90Journal Article, 2008
  • S E Wilmer, Native American Performance and Representation, Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2009, 1 - 296ppBook, 2009
  • Nationalism and its Effects on the German Theatre, 1790-2000 in, editor(s)Simon Williams and Maik Hamburger , A History of German Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp222 - 247, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2008
  • S E Wilmer, National Theatres in Transition, Methis, 3, 2008, p138 - 150Journal Article, 2008
  • S E Wilmer, Antigone as Homo Sacer in a Modern State of Exception, Amfiteater, 1, (1), 2008, p151 - 166Journal Article, 2008
  • S E Wilmer, Performing Statelessness, Amfiteater, 1, (2), 2008, p52 - 66Journal Article, 2008
  • S E Wilmer, Theatrical Nationalism: Exposing the 'Obscene Superego' of the System, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 23, (2), 2009, p77 - 87Journal Article, 2009
  • National Theatres and the Construction of Identity in Smaller European Countries in, editor(s)Hans van Maanen, Andreas Kotte, Anneli Saro , Global Changes, Local Stages: How Theatre Functions in Smaller European Countries, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2009, pp23 - 40, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2009
  • Introduction in, editor(s)Anna McMullan and S E Wilmer , Reflections on Beckett: A Centenary Celebration, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2009, pp1 - 5, [Anna McMullan and S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2009
  • Performing Antigone in the Twenty-first Century in, editor(s)S E Wilmer and Audrone Zukauskaite , Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp379 - 392, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2010
  • S E Wilmer, Renaming and Performative Reconstructions: the Uncanny Multiplication of Janez Jan a, Theatre Research International, 36, (1), 2011, p47 - 63Journal Article, 2011
  • Postwar Protest Theatre in, editor(s)Jeffrey Richards , Oxford Handbook of American Drama, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2014
  • Stephen Wilmer, Staging Dissensus: the Baltic Way as a Performative Act to Reframe the Geo-political Sphere , Art History and Criticism, 6, 2010, p122 - 126Journal Article, 2010
  • S E Wilmer, National Theatres in an Era of Transnationalism, Art History and Criticism, 2, 2006, p44 - 50Journal Article, 2006
  • Theatrical Nationalism and Subversive Affirmation in, editor(s)Megan Alrutz, Julia Listengarten, M. Van Duyn Wood , Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp86 - 101, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2011
  • Theatre and Nation: Performing Statelessness in Ireland and Abroad in, editor(s)Rhona Trench , Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2012, [Steve Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2012
  • Gendering the Nation in Iconography and Historiography in, editor(s)Lisa Fitzpatrick , Performing Feminisms, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2013, [S E Wilmer and Mary Caulfield]Book Chapter, 2013
  • Finland in, editor(s)David Wiles and Christine Dymkowski , Cambridge Companion to Theatre History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2012
  • The Baltic Way as a Political Performance of Subjectivization in, editor(s)Friedemann Kreuder, Michael Bachmann, Julia Pfahl, Dorothea Volz , Theater und Subjektkonstitution, Bielefeld, Transcript, 2012, [Steve Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2012
  • Steve Wilmer, Playing with citizenship: NSK and Janez Jan a , Citizenship Studies, 16, (5-6), 2012, p827 - 838Journal Article, 2012
  • S E Wilmer, Negotiating the Archival Turn in Beckett Studies, Deleuze Studies, 6, (4), 2012, p585 - 588Journal Article, 2012
  • Postdramatic Theatre in a time of Social and Cultural Change in Ireland in, editor(s)Guna Zeltina , Text in Contemporary Theater: the Baltics within the Context of World Experience, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2013, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2013
  • Stephen Willmer, Subversive Over-identification; or, How to Address the Superego of Nationalism, Impuls: Tidsskrift for psykologi, 2, 2012, p112 - 119Journal Article, 2012
  • Irish Oresteias, Antigones and Medeas; Or, Women Get Their Own Back in, editor(s)Jan Nelis , Receptions of Antiquity, Gent, Academia Press, 2011, pp197 - 204, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, 2011
  • S E Wilmer and Audrone Zukauskaite, Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies, New York, Routledge, 2016, 1 - 306ppBook, 2016
  • S E Wilmer and Audrone Zukauskaite, Deleuze and Beckett, Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 1 - 253ppBook, 2015
  • Steve E Wilmer, Irish Medeas: Revenge or Redemption (an Irish Solution to an International Problem), Eirene, 39, 2003, p254 - 263Journal Article
  • Refugees and the Right to Have Rights in, editor(s)Y. Meerzon and S.E. Wilmer , Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp67 - 78, [S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, URL
  • Theatre and Migration: Defining the Field in, editor(s)Y. Meerzon and S E Wilmer , Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp1 - 27, [Y Meerzon and S E Wilmer]Book Chapter, URL
  • Women in Greek Tragedy: A Question of Ethics? in, editor(s)Anna Tabaki and Walter Puchner , Theatre and Theatre Studies in the 21st Century, Athens, Ergo Publications, 2010, pp419 - 430, [Steve Wilmer]Book Chapter