Clare Wallace

Clare Wallace is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. She teaches courses on Irish studies, drama (American and British, and theories of performance) and cultural studies. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin (B.A.), University College Dublin (M.A.) and Charles University (PhD). She is the author of Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama (2006) and editor/co-editor of Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig’s Theatre (2011) (with Anja Müller), Stewart Parker Television Plays (2008), Stewart Parker: Dramatis Personae and Other Writings (with Gerald Dawe and Maria Johnston, 2008), Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity (2006), Global Ireland: Irish Literatures in the New Millennium, (with Ondřej Pilný, 2006), Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other (with Louis Armand, 2002; expanded edition 2006). Her essays and articles appeared in Irish Studies Review, Irish Theatre Magazine, Irish University Review, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Litteraria Pragensia, Dialog, and Modern Drama. From 1998 to 2009 she was a member of the steering committee of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS); from 2006 to 2009 she was a Representative for Europe in the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL). Other memberships include the Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE), the German Society for the Study of Contemporary Drama in English (CDE) and the International Federation for Theatre Research. She is currently writing a critical companion to the theatre of David Greig for Methuen, forthcoming 2013.