Jozefina Komporály read English and French Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest, and worked as an interpreter, EFL teacher at school and university level, as well as a programme co-ordinator for the Soros Foundation for an Open Society. She came to the UK in 1996, with the aim to enrol in post-graduate studies. She obtained her MA in 'Gender, Literature and Modernity' in 1997 and her PhD, with the thesis 'Configurations of Mothering in Post-war British Women’s Playwriting', in 2001 — both from the Department of English, University of Warwick. Between 1997-2002 she taught drama in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, whilst also acting as a casual interpreter.
Research interests
• Drama (theatre and translation, drama and gender, women’s playwriting, feminist theatre, nineteenth and twentieth century • European theatre, post-war and contemporary British drama, drama and society/drama and politics)
• Gender Studies (feminist theory and literary theory)
• Women's writing (especially contemporary fiction and poetry)
• Mothering/motherhood (theory, literary constructions).
