Valeriya Sabitova is a PhD candidate at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. She studied for her MA at the department, and her MA thesis examined the transverse, intersectional fields of ‘literature’ and ‘theory’ as mapped out by Félix Guattari and exemplified in the works of Brigit Brophy and Fernand Deligny. Her PhD Research focuses on the interplay of body, violence, and affect across the interdisciplinary continuum of visual arts, theatre, and performance. The dissertation utilises concepts from affect theory and phenomenology of the body and violence, and applies them to the case studies of Francis Bacon, Sarah Kane, Kara Walker, and Marina Abramović.
Contact: valeriya.sabitova@ff.cuni.cz, lera568@hotmail.com
Courses taught:
Corporealities in Post-2000s British and American Drama, Charles University, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Summer Semester 2024/2025
Cinematic Body Horror. BA, MA course. Charles University / Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Winter Semester 2023/2024
Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane: The Media of Violence. BA, MA course, Charles University / Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Winter Semester 2022/2023
Forthcoming Publications:
Review of The Art Gallery on Stage: New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting, by Mariacristina Cavecchi, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (2025).
‘Body-Violence: Precarious Vistas in Visual Arts, Theatre and Performance’ in Slipping through the Cracks: Anomalies in Language, Literature and Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2026).
Publications:
“Precarious Dialogues with “Inner Plantation” in Kara Walker’s Silhouette and Sculpture Installations.” Literaria Pragensia 32: 64 (2022). DOI:10.14712/2571452X.2022.64.6.
“Luigi Pirandello and Francis Bacon: Sensation and Representation.” Pirandello Studies 41 (2021).
Conference Papers:
‘Worlding through Costumes of Conflict in Olga Ntenta’s Greek Precarious Body (2017)’, Performativity and Agonistic Pluralism in a Mediatised Age: Towards a Synthetic Approach, CU FA, Prague, May 2025.
‘Underground Topoi in the Plays and Scenography of Howard Barker’, Underground Imaginaries 2025: Spaces In Between, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli, Naples, April 2025.
‘Staged Body: Challenging Un-Staged Reality’, Minding the Gaps, 12th Brno International Conference of English, American, and Canadian Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, February 2025
‘Body-Violence in Visual Arts, Theatre, and Performance’, Anomalies: Disruptions from Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Norms, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, December 2024.
‘The Space of Disavowed Imagination in Sarah Kane’s Cleansed’, Place and Space in Contemporary English-Written Literatures, CU FE, Prague, November 2024.
‘Sensation and Affect: Embodiment of Violence in Visual Arts, Theatre and Performance’, PhD Forum, 32nd Annual CDE Conference, Department of English, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, May 2024.
‘The Case Study: Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis’, PhD Forum, 31st Annual CDE Conference, Erfurt, June 2023.
‘Theatricality and the Visual’, PhD Forum 30th Annual CDE Conference, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Paris, June 2022.
‘The Art of Kara Walker: Culture as Visual Interface’, Culture as Interface and Dialogue, CU FA, Prague, May 2022.
‘Violence of the Visual,’ Anglophone Conference, University of Hradec Králové, March 2022.
CZASE. Czech Association for the Study of English: Czech Republic (since 2024)
CDE. The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English: Germany (since 2022)
Events:
Interdisciplinary Connections and Ruptures: Arts, Science, Technology. Moderator. Panel Discussion. Prague Microfestival Micro-Lab, October 19, 2023, https://www.praguemicrofestival.com/cs
Awards:
2021 – Vilém Mathesius Foundation for the Promotion of English and American Studies in Prague. 1st Prize for M.A. Thesis Brophy, Deligny, and Guattari: The Avant-Garde as Subsumption and Stratification.