Ewa Bal is a Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where she is Head of the Research Centre of Local Cultures at the Faculty of Polish. Her early research interests focused on Italian drama and theatre, to which she has dedicated two monographs: In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella(Peter Lang, 2020; Jagellonian UP, 2017) and Corporeality in drama: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theatre (Ksiegarnia Akademicka, 2006). Her current research interests include critical methodologies in the fields of (de/post)colonialism, performance studies and indigenous studies, as well as issues of cultural mobility, nationalism, and the dramaturgies of linguistic and ethnic minorities in Ukraine, Poland, Italy and Spain. In these fields, she has published several monographs, most recently with Mateusz Chaberski, Situated Knowing: Epistemic Perspectives on Performance (Routledge, 2021, co-editor), and with Kasia Lech, Feminist Imagining in Polish and Ukrainian Theatres (Cambridge University Press, 2025, co-author). From 2013 to 2023, she was the editor-in-chief of the Nowe Perspektywy – Performatyka series at the Jagiellonian University Press, for which nine volumes were published. She has contributed chapters and articles on Ukrainian Theatre to many co-edited volumes and journals, including:
https://www.critical-stages.org/30/ukrainian-gambit-decolonial-perspectives-on-the-first-shakespeare-theatre-festival-in-ukraine/;
https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/1585/1677;
https://didaskalia.pl/pl/artykul/pokoleniowa-zmiana-warty
Web pages: https://costam.academia.edu/EwaBal; https://www.facebook.com/ewa.bal.58,