Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
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]
National Theatres in, editor(s)Patricia Gaborik , Pirandello in Context, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp69 - 76, [S E Wilmer]
Yana Meerzon and S E Wilmer, Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and MIgration, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 1 - 775pp
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]
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]
S E Wilmer, Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene, Edinburgh , Edinburgh University Press, 2023, 1 - 298pp
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]
S E Wilmer, Deleuze, Beckett, and the Art of Multiplicity, New Theatre Quarterly, 38, (2), 2022, p186 - 194
S E Wilmer, The Danger of the Foreign, Athena, 17, 2022, p188 - 2000
S E Wilmer, Maciunas: Eccentric Artist and Seminal Influence, Nordic Theatre Studies, 33, (1), 2021, p11 - 23
S E Wilmer, Maciunas: Eccentric Artist and Seminal Influence, Nordic Theatre Studies, 33, (1), 2021, p11 - 23
S E Wilmer, Performing "Polishness", Pamietnik Teatralny, LXX, (2 (278)), 2021, p165 - 169
S E Wilmer, Postmigrant Theatre, Szinhaz.net, 2021
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]
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]
Radek Przedpelski and S. E. Wilmer, Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, 1 - 268pp
Nordic Theatre Studies, 32, 1, (2020), 1 - 178p, S E Wilmer, [eds.]
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]
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]
S E Wilmer, Performing Statelessness in Europe, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 1 - 244pp
stephen wilmer, National Theatres in Smaller European Countries, Szenárium, (April), 2018, p70 - 86
Steve Wilmer, Two East European Festivals, European Stages, 11, (1), 2018
S E Wilmer, After Dada: Fluxus as a Nomadic Art Movement, New Theatre Quarterly, 33, (1), 2017, p59 - 64
S E Wilmer, Greek Tragedy as a Window on the Dispossessed, New Theatre Quarterly, 33, (3), 2017, p277 - 287
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]
stephen wilmer, Nemzeti színházak és identitåsépítés a kisebb európai országokban, Szcenárium, 7, (October), 2017, p5 - 20
Azadeh Sharifi and S E Wilmer, Reflections on Theatre and Statelessness, Critical Stages, 14, 2016
S E Wilmer, "Cultural Encounters in Modern Productions of Greek Tragedy", Nordic Theatre Studies, 28, (1), 2016, p15 - 26
Critical Stages, 14, (2016), S E Wilmer and Azadeh Sharifi, [eds.]
S E Wilmer and Audrone Zukauskaite, Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies, New York, Routledge, 2016, 1 - 306pp
S E Wilmer and Audrone Zukauskaite, Deleuze and Beckett, Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 1 - 253pp
Nordic Theatre Studies, 27, 1, (2015), 1 - 116p, S E Wilmer, [eds.]
S E Wilmer, Introduction: Theatre and the Nomadic Subject, Nordic Theatre Studies, 27, (1), 2015, p5 - 9
Postwar Protest Theatre in, editor(s)Jeffrey Richards , Oxford Handbook of American Drama, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, [S E Wilmer]
S. E. Wilmer, The Spirit of Fluxus as a Nomadic Art Movement, Nordic Theatre Studies, 26, (2), 2014, p84 - 93
Gendering the Nation in Iconography and Historiography in, editor(s)Lisa Fitzpatrick , Performing Feminisms, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2013, [S E Wilmer and Mary Caulfield]
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]
Finland in, editor(s)David Wiles and Christine Dymkowski , Cambridge Companion to Theatre History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp104 - 115, [S E Wilmer]
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]
Stephen Willmer, Subversive Over-identification; or, How to Address the Superego of Nationalism, Impuls: Tidsskrift for psykologi, 2, 2012, p112 - 119
Finland in, editor(s)David Wiles and Christine Dymkowski , Cambridge Companion to Theatre History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, [S E Wilmer]
S E Wilmer, Negotiating the Archival Turn in Beckett Studies, Deleuze Studies, 6, (4), 2012, p585 - 588
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]
Steve Wilmer, Playing with citizenship: NSK and Janez Jan a , Citizenship Studies, 16, (5-6), 2012, p827 - 838
S E Wilmer, Renaming and Performative Reconstructions: the Uncanny Multiplication of Janez Jan a, Theatre Research International, 36, (1), 2011, p47 - 63
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]
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]
S. E. Wilmer and Audrone Zukauskaite, Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, 448pp
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]
Stephen Wilmer, Staging Dissensus: the Baltic Way as a Performative Act to Reframe the Geo-political Sphere , Art History and Criticism, 6, 2010, p122 - 126
S E Wilmer, Theatrical Nationalism: Exposing the 'Obscene Superego' of the System, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 23, (2), 2009, p77 - 87
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]
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]
Anna McMullan and S.E. Wilmer, Reflections on Beckett: A Centennial Celebration, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2009, 256pp
S E Wilmer, Native American Performance and Representation, Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2009, 1 - 296pp
S E Wilmer, Antigone as Homo Sacer in a Modern State of Exception, Amfiteater, 1, (1), 2008, p151 - 166
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]
Introduction in, editor(s)S. E. Wilmer , National Theatres in a Changing Europe, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp1 - 6, [S. E. Wilmer]
S E Wilmer, National Theatres in Transition, Methis, 3, 2008, p138 - 150
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]
S E Wilmer, Performing Statelessness, Amfiteater, 1, (2), 2008, p52 - 66
steve wilmer, kobiety w tragedii greckiej dzis, Didaskalia, 83, 2008, p85 - 90
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]
S E Wilmer, National Theatres in a Changing Europe, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 1 - 244pp
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]
S E Wilmer, Women in Greek Tragedy Today: A Reappraisal, Theatre Research International, 32, (2), 2007, p106 - 118
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]
Kansallisen teatterin historian kirjoittamisesta in, editor(s)Pirkko Koski , Teatterin ja Historian Tutkiminen, Helsinki, Like, 2006, pp90 - 104, [S E Wilmer]
S E Wilmer and Pirkko Koski, Humour and Humanity: Contemporary Plays from Finland, Helsinki, Like, 2006, 1 - 442pp
S E Wilmer, National Theatres in an Era of Transnationalism, Art History and Criticism, 2, 2006, p44 - 50
S E Wilmer and Pikko Koski, The Dynamic World of Finnish Theatre, Helsinki, Like, 2006, 1 - 182pp
John Dillon and S E Wilmer, Rebel Women: Staging Ancient Greek Drama Today, London, Methuen, 2005, 272pp
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]
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]
Pirkko Koski and S E Wilmer, Stages of Chaos: The Drama of Post-War Finland, Helsinki, SKS, 2005, 472pp
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]
S E Wilmer, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories, Iowa City, Iowa University Press, 2004
S E Wilmer, Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 1 - 281pp
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]
Helka Mäkinen, S E Wilmer, W. B. Worthen, Theatre, History and National Identities, Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 2001
S E Wilmer, Restaging the Nation: The Work of Suzan-Lori Parks, Modern Drama, 43, (3), 2000, p442 - 452
S E Wilmer, Partisan Theatre in the Early Years of the United States, Theatre Survey, 40, (2), 1999, p1 - 26
Steve Wilmer, From British Colony to Independent Nation: Refashioning Identity, irish Journal of American Studies, 8, 1999, p119 - 178
Steve E Wilmer, Reifying Imagined Communities; Nationalism, Post-Colonialism and Theatre Historiography, Nordic Theatre Studies, 12, 1999, p94 - 103
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]
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 - 777pp
S E Wilmer, Portraits of Courage: Plays by Finnish Women, Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1997, 1 - 297pp
Steve Wilmer, Federalist and Republican Theatre in the 1790s, Theatre Symposium, 5, 1997, p78 - 94
Steve Wilmer, The War in Northern Ireland as Greek Tragedy, Text and Presentation, 17, 1996, p80 - 87
Steve Wilmer, Europa:una unione di diversitá, Teatro in Europa, 13, 1995, p18 - 21
Steve Wilmer, Censoring Eugene O'Neill, Gramma, 2, 1994, p199 - 212
S E Wilmer, Beckett in Dublin, Dublin, Lilliput, 1992, 1 - 152pp
Stephen Wilmer, Travesties: Ideologies and the Irish Theatre, Krino, 13, 1992, p83 - 92
Steve Wilmer, Women in Irish Theatre, New Theatre Quarterly, 7, (28), 1991, p353 - 360
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
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]
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]
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]
Steve E Wilmer, Irish Medeas: Revenge or Redemption (an Irish Solution to an International Problem), Eirene, 39, 2003, p254 - 263