Clare Finburgh Delijani

Clare Finburgh Delijani is a Professor of European Theatre at the Department of Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths, University of London (2017–present). Previously, she held positions at the University of Kent (2015–2017), University of Essex (2003–2015), and guest-lectured at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre la Défense. Her research spans modern European theatres, ecocriticism, translation studies, and politics of aesthetics in transnational contexts.

• Fluent in five languages, she specializes in Francophone Caribbean and African theatres.
• Her teaching innovations include the MA European Theatre program at Kent and the 'Theatre without Borders' module.

Research themes include:

• 21st-century war theatre (book: Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage)
• Ecocritical readings of the Theatre of the Absurd (e.g., Genet's environmental symbolism)
• Translation and community (SACD grant for play translation)
• Political performance (Situationist International's influence)

Key grants:

• AHRC/ANR £200,000 (2016–2018) for Reviewing Spectacle
• Institut Français £600 (2014) for Thomas Ostermeier symposium

Awards:

• University of Essex Excellence in Teaching Award (2009)
• CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (2012) for Jean Genet monograph

Her public engagement spans institutions like the Royal National Theatre (UK), Festival d'Avignon (France), and Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg (Belgium), with a focus on community dialogue and political theatre.