Beckett Research Group in Gdańsk

Prof UG, Dr hab. Tomasz Wiśniewski – Head of the Performing Arts Division at the University of Gdańsk. In years 2016-2019, he was Deputy Director for Research in the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Gdańsk. He is the founder of the Between.Pomiędzy Festival, and the Beckett Research Group in Gdańsk. He has published Complicite, Theatre and Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), a monograph on Samuel Beckett (Universitas, 2006), and (co-)edited several academic publications, including a bilingual edition of The Historie of Lord’s Glorious Resurrection (Teatr Wierszalin, 2017) and interviews and articles that celebrate the 40th anniversary of Włodzimierz Staniewski’s OPT Gardzienice (Konteksty, 2018). A member of the board of the Polish Association for the Study of English (since 2018) and a member of the Program Board of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre (since 2018). Member of the board of the quarterly "Tekstualia", regular cooperation with the quarterly "Konteksty" and the global portal TheTheatreTimes.