Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
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University of Cambridge
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Joseph Prestwich is a Teaching Associate specializing in theatre and performance and works regularly as an actor and theatre practitioner.
He was awarded a PhD in German and Theatre and Performance Studies from King’s College London in July 2022, having previously trained as an actor at the Guildford School of Acting. Prior to joining Cambridge, Joseph worked as a Lecturer in German at King’s College London (2021 – 2022).
Joseph is Assistant Director of the Arts Council England funded improvisation company ShakeItUp Theatre, and is currently working with the Young Vic Theatre on their theatre-in-education project INNOVATE (2021 – 2023).
• German-language theatre and performance (18th-century to the present day)
• Bertolt Brecht’s theatre
• Turkish-German literature and film
• Translation
• Theatre in translation
• Anglo-German theatrical exchange
• European theatre networks
• Goethe’s theatrical practice
Joseph is currently developing a practice-based postdoctoral research project on Goethe’s approaches to acting and theatre-making.
Joseph Prestwich (2022) “Transnational networks and gay subjectivity in the theatre of Thomas Ostermeier, Didier Eribon and Édouard Louis”, Translation Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2022.2114932
Joseph Prestwich (2022) “Interview with ShakeItUp Theatre Artistic Director James Dart”, Comedy Studies, 13:2, 238-244, DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2022.2091884
