Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
Volume 19 Number 2/3 August/December 2018
(Final Issue)
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Šárka Havlíčková Kysová has studied Theory and History of Theater and Czech Language and Literature at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. She received her PhD from Masaryk University with the doctoral thesis Hastabhinaya. Hand gestures in traditional theatre art of India. From 2009 to 2012 she taught theatre theory at Palacký University in Olomouc. From 2011 to 2015 she worked on two Masaryk University research projects; ‘Czech Structuralist Thought on Theatre: Context and Potency’ and ‘Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness – 2.2 Higher Education’. Since 2012 she has worked as assistant professor at the Department of Theatre Studies at Masaryk University. In her research and teaching, she focuses on theatre theory with an emphasis on the cognitive approach in theatre studies. She also specialises in opera staging and the traditional Indian theatre form – Kootiyattam. Since 2015 she has lead the research project ‘Generation of Miloš Wasserbauer, the theatre director, and progressive dramaturgy of State Theatre in Brno’ which is focused on operatic productions in Brno in the second half of the 20th century (supported by the Czech Science Foundation). Since 2014, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Theatralia.