Dr M A Katritzky joined the OU English Department in 2001, as Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies. She specializes in comparative literature and drama and early modern transnational theatre, and warmly welcomes doctoral enquiries in these fields (m.a.katritzky@open.ac.uk).
For publications, see Open Research Online.
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For Theater Without Borders Annual Workshop 2012, download the PDF.
A graduate of UCL and former Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, during the period 2001-2005 Peg Katritzky was a Research Associate and Graduate Advisor at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, where she obtained her DPhil degree in 1995. She currently holds a nine-month Herzog August Library Visiting Fellowship. She peer reviews for journals, academic publishers and national research funding councils in the UK, US, Canada and Europe, and serves on the editorial boards of Early Theatre and Commedia dell'Arte, Annuario Internazionale, on the executive committee of the UK Alexander von Humboldt Association, and on the steering committee of the NYU-based international research collective Theater Without Borders (TWB).
2012 (funding: Herzog August Library, AHRC; British Academy):
Healing, performance and ceremony in the writings of three early modern physicians: Hippolytus Guarinonius and the brothers Felix and Thomas Platter, Ashgate (series: “History of Medicine in Context”; series editors: Ole Peter Grell, The Open University & Andrew Cunningham, University of Cambridge).
2007 (funding: Herzog August Library, AHRC; Elizabeth Howe Fund):
Women, Medicine and Theatre, 1500-1750: Literary Mountebanks and Performing Quacks, Ashgate (series: “Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama”; series editor: Helen Ostovich, McMaster University), Aldershot & Burlington, 368 pages, 60 plates.
Reviews: Archivio storico italiano; Ariadne NewsLetter; Bulletin of the history of medicine; Cahiers élisabéthains; Choice Current Reviews for Academic Libraries; Early theatre; Jahrbuch Literatur und Medezin; Medical history; PSi-performance studies international; Reference and research book news; Renaissance studies; Renaissance Quarterly; Restoration and 18th century theatre research; Seventeenth century; Sixteenth century journal; Social History of Medicine; SEL (Studies in English Literature 1500-1900); Theatre research international; Theatre survey.
2006 (funding: Herzog August Library):
The art of commedia: a study in the commedia dell’arte 1560-1620 with special reference to the visual records, Rodopi (series: “Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft”; series editor: Alberto Martino, University of Vienna).
Reviews: Arbitrium; Canadian review of comparative literature; Early theater; Forum modernes Theater; Germanistik; Music & Letters; Modern Language Review; PSi-performance studies international; Print Quarterly; Reference and research book news; Renaissance Quarterly; Sixteenth century journal; Theatre research international; Theatre survey.
