Michal Kobialka

Michal Kobialka is Professor of Theatre in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance at the University of Minnesota.  He has published over 100 articles, essays and reviews on medieval, eighteenth-century contemporary European theatre, and theatre historiography. His book publications include two books on Tadeusz Kantor’s theatre: A Journey through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944–1990 (1993) and Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre (2009). He is a co-editor (with Barbara Hanawalt) of Medieval Practices of Space (2000); (with Rosemarie Bank) of Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter (2015); (with Natalia Zarzecka) of Tadeusz Kantor’s Memory: Other Pasts, Other Futures (2018); and (with Katarzyna Fazan and Bryce Lease) of A History of Polish Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022).