Magda Romanska is an award-winning theatre and performance scholar, playwright, dramaturg, and translator. She is a Professor of Performing Arts at Emerson College in Boston, MA, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and a Principal Researcher at metaLAB (at) Harvard. Her research focuses on the way digital technologies are changing the nature of theatre and performance, including Transmedia Performance and Digital Ethics; Dramaturgy as Critical Praxis; Technoscience and Posthuman Disability Studies; Transnational Performance, Geopolitics of Memory, and Subaltern Affects (Trauma and Non-human Turn in Eastern European Theatre). Romanska is the author or editor of five critically acclaimed theatre books, including The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor (2012); TheaterMachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context (2020, co-edited with Kathleen Cioffi); Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2016, co-edited with Alan Ackerman); and The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, a leading and best-selling handbook of dramaturgy. She translated a collection of plays by Polish playwright and composer, Boguslaw Schaeffer: Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology (2012).
Her current project includes a two-volume anthology: Decolonizing Dramaturgy in Global Contexts, under contract with Bloomsbury Press. She is also the sole editor of a series Focus on Dramaturgy from Routledge. Her public writing appeared in The Reed Magazine, The LA Review of Books, The Boston Globe, The Conversation, Salon, PBS, and The Cosmopolitan Review. She’s a graduate of Stanford, and of Cornell's doctoral program. She has taught at Yale School of Drama, Harvard, and Cornell University.