About Me

I am an Early Career Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning, where I am part of the team developing interdisciplinary modules and skills. I also hold an Early Career Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Study at Warwick. I recently completed my PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, under the supervision of Dr Steve Purcell (ECLS) and Dr Tim White (TPS). Central to my research is how different modes of mediums and artistic forms work with and against each other to shape our cultural and emotional life. My doctoral project, entitled 'Live Is Elsewhere: Mapping Theatreness in National Theatre Live', concerns how mainstream theatre broadcasting programmes like NT Live reconstruct encounters with theatre for the screen. Other fields of interest include affect theory (especially the cultural representation and politics of negative affects), narratives of diaspora and immigration on stage and screen, intermediality, and adaptation studies. Between 2022 and 2024, I worked as a Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant at Theatre and Performance Studies and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies.

Email: Yangzi dot Zhou at warwick dot ac dot uk

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles:

‘“The Closest and the Farthest Away”: Telling Intermedial Spatial Stories in National Theatre Live – the Case of Julius Caesar’. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 19.3 (2023): 296-317 DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2023.2196874.

‘On the Theatrical Possibility of the Affective Turn in Happy Days’. Journal of Nanjing University (Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences) 59.6(2022): 101-10.

'"The Impossible Balancing Act": Reconstructing Liveness with NT Live's Hedda Gabler'. Adaptation 14.3(2021): 416-34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaa002.

'A Carnival with Restraint: Deconstruction of National Identity in Cloud Nine'. Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism 12.1 (2019): 81-96.

Book Chapters:

'Affects in Theatre'. Frontiers of Contemporary Theatre Theories in the West: Volume 2 (Beijing: Peking University Press).

'Theatrical Community and the Emancipated Spectator'. Frontiers of Contemporary Theatre Theories in the West: Volume 2 (Beijing: Peking University Press).

Conference Papers:

‘To leave is to be: Ibsen’s Nora and the East Asian female experience on screen’. The Intermedial Ibsen, the XVth International Ibsen Conference, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, June 2024.

‘The (un)feeling edge of intermedial dramaturgy: organisation of the affective experience in two NT Live productions’. Dimensions of Dramaturgy, 6th EASTAP Conference, Aarhus University, Denmark, June 2023.

'Spatial Stories in the Intermedial Dramaturgy of National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire'. Postgraduate Symposium in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, October 2022.

'“The Closest and the Farthest Away”: National Theatre Live and the Promise of Intermedial Spatial Practice'. Digital Sustainability: From Resilience to Transformation, DRHA 2022, Kingston School of Art, London, UK, September 2022.

'National Theatre Live and the Debates of Intermedial Spatial Practice: the Case of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019)'. Redirections: capturing emergent research practices in response to precarity, TaPRA Online Postgraduate Symposium, June 2022 (virtual).

'Intermedial Spatial Practice in National Theatre Live'. Global Snapshot: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Media, Performativity, and Global Communities, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2022 (virtual).

'Ugly Feelings in Happy Days: the Ecological Possibility of Affective Spectatorship'. IFTR Annual Conference, Galway, Ireland, July 2021 (virtual).

'"Something Must be Fixed On": Observation, Romanticism, and Morality in Mansfield Park'. Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference, Duke Kunshan University, April 2019.

'Deconstruction of National Identity in Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9'. 7th International Undergraduate Conference, Beijing Foreign Studies University, September 2018.

Conference Organisation:

Organising Committee Member, 'Locations of (Dis)embodied Labour in Theatre and Performance', University of Warwick, November 2023

Organiser, Postgraduate Symposium in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, October 2022 (with Prodosh Bhattacharya and Varvara Sklez)

Panel Chair, 'Theatre Histories', Postgraduate Symposium in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, July 2021 (virtual).

Teaching

Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning:

IL102 Navigating Psychopathology

Interdisciplinary Skills Sessions

Theatre and Performance Studies:

TH114 Theatre and Performance in Context (2022/2023 & 2023/2024)

TH256 Adapting Shakespeare for Performance (Spring 2022)

English and Comparative Literary Studies:

EN2D8/EN3D8 European Theatre (Autumn 2023)

Awards and Honours

2024 Humanities Research Fund for attending the XVth International Ibsen Conference

2023 Humanities Research Centre Conference Funding

2023 Humanities Research Centre Visiting Speaker's Fund

2023 Humanities Research Fund for attending the 6th EASTAP Annual Conference

2019 Greta Burkill Fund for Postgraduates, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Qualifications

PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies (Warwick)

MPhil in Criticism and Culture (Cantab.)

BA in English Literature (Nanjing)

Associate Fellowship, Advance HE (AFHEA)

Undergraduate Study-abroad Scheme (Sheffield)

Service

Peer Reviewer: Theatre Research International; International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

Theatre and Performance Studies PGR Representative for Student-Staff Liaison Committee (2021-2023)