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Research Interest / Recherches

Nicholas holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Geneva as well as a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in dramaturgy from the University of Lausanne. My master’s thesis focused on kinesics, i.e. the expressive dynamics of gesture, in the early critical work and fiction of Samuel Beckett. I am currently completing a doctoral thesis entitled “Soyinka’s Gambit: Anthropology, Performance, and Poetics in The Road.” My research interests include postcolonial theory and anthropology, Caribbean and African literatures, as well as contemporary theatre and performance.

PUBLICATIONS

“Le sens des gestes dans le théâtre d’Omar Porras : Vers un enchantement physique” In : MIMOS 2014 : Omar Porras. Joël Aguet, Anne Fournier, Paola Gilardi & Andreas Härter Eds. Bern : Peter Lang, 2014.

RECENT COLLOQUIUMS & RESEARCH BASED PRACTICE / CONFÉRENCES RÉCENTES

“Wole Soyinka’s Aké – A Comparative Reading”
Online lecture, 26 June 2021:
Aké de Soyinka présenté par Nicholas Weeks (2021-06-26 at 01:04 GMT-7)

“A Poetics of Minutiae: Metaphorical Transformations in the Theatre of the Apartheid Era” – Theatre and Stratification, International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) World Congress, University of Warwick (UK), July 2014. 

"The Dynamics of Embodied Gestures in the Theatre of Robert Wilson" – Interdisciplinary Network Conference on Performance, Oxford (UK), Mansfield College, September 2013. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Nweeks_dpaper.pdf

"Making the Body All Eyes", Theatre workshop by Prof. Phillip Zarrilli, Wales (UK), July 2013. http://www.phillipzarrilli.com/trainapp/index.html

RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS / BOURSES DE RECHERCHE

August 2011 – Full Scholarship from the Swiss Embassy in Ireland for the Dublin James Joyce Summer School.