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Dr. Ema Vyroubalova

Asst. Prof. in Early Modern Literature (English)
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Dr. Ema Vyroubalova

Asst. Prof. in Early Modern Literature (English)
ARTS BUILDING

 vyroubae@tcd.ie

 3531896 4722


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.
  17th Century drama   Cinema/Video   Dramatic/Theatre Arts   Early Modern (Renaissance) women writers   Early-modern Drama   English Language/Literature   Global Shakespeare Studies   Language and/or Literature, Comparative Liter   Literary Criticism   Renaissance History   Renaissance literature   Renaissance Studies   Shakespeare   Translation   Travel Literature
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Scientific Bulletin of Kherson State University. Series: Germanic Studies and Intercultural Communication, Kherson, Ukraine: member of international editorial board 2026-present
Folium Journal, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University: member of international editorial board 2025-present
Shakespeare is here: hear, think, create : competition by the Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre for secondary school students: member of the judging panel 04/2025
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
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
Czech Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Fluent Medium Fluent
German Fluent Medium Fluent
Italian Medium Basic Basic
Ukrainian Fluent Medium Fluent
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The Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre 2022 present
International Shakespeare Conference 2024 present
European Shakespeare Research Association 2015 present
Irish Renaissance Seminar 2011 present
Shakespeare Association of America 2006 2022
International Shakespeare Association 2014 2021
Modern Language Association of America 2008 2012
Ema Vyroubalova, 'The Phenomenon of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings', Mokslo taikomieji tyrimai Lietuvos kolegijose, 1, (21), 2025, p39 - 46, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Ema Vyroubalova, 'Methods for a Global Shakespeare Pedagogy', Folium, 6, 2025, p39 - 44, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  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, p154-158 , Review, PUBLISHED
'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, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
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 - 196, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  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 - 68, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Ema Vyroubalova and Gemma Navickiene, 'Shakespeare in Lithuanian', Mokslo taikomieji tyrimai Lietuvos kolegijose, 1, (19), 2023, p12 - 18, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Ema Vyroubalova, 'Translating Shakespeare's Untranslatable Histories', Renaissance Studies, 37-38, (1), 2023, p95 - 108, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Ema Vyroubalova and James Robert Wood, The Literary Papers of the Reverend Jermyn Pratt, 1723-1791, Norwich, Norfolk Record Society, 2022, 1 - 416pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philologia, Cluj, Romania, Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University, 2022-2026, Editorial Board, PUBLISHED
  

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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, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
Ema Vyroubalova, Review, Review of Shakespeare in Bits, by MindConnex Learning Company , This Rough Magic, (December), 2013, Review, PUBLISHED
Ema Vyroubalova, A New and Large Discourse on the Travels of Sir Anthony Sherley, 2012, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Alden Dissertation Prize, Stanford University (awarded for best PhD dissertation in English) 2010
American Council of Learned Societies Early Career Dissertation Fellowship 2008-2009
Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Centre 2007-2008
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.