dr Magdalena Szuster

Dr Magdalena Szuster is affiliated with the Department of North American Literature and Culture. She specializes in American theater and drama, and works now in the area of stage adaptations of plays by North American playwrights in Poland. Her most recent work on the production of The Crucible in the Stefan Jaracz Theater in Łódź was published in The Arthur Miller Journal 1(14) 2019. She is a member of the American Theatre and Drama Society and the International Federation for Theatre Research. Since 2014, she has been collaborating with the Music Theater of Łódź.

ORCID: 0000-0002-9648-1894

Education 

PhD thesis: “(Re)defining American popular stage. Contemporary forms of pop theater in the United States and their familiarization in Poland” (2016, supervisor: prof. Agnieszka Salska)

MA thesis: “Eric Bogosian’s Solo Plays and their Polish Reception Based on Wake up and Smell the Coffee” (2009, supervisor: prof. Agnieszka Salska)

Thesis/dissertation supervision 

BA theses in the field of American literature, culture and theater.