Christiane Schlote

Christiane Schlote teaches drama and postcolonial literatures and cultures at the University of Zurich. She has published extensively on postcolonial and transnational literatures, British Asian theatre, postcolonial cityscapes, documentarism, war and commemoration and Latina/o American and Asian American drama. She is the author of Bridging Cultures: Latino- und asiatisch-amerikanisches Theater in New York (1997) and co-editor of New Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama (2003) and Constructing Media Reality. The New Documentarism (2008). She is currently editing the manuscript for a book on transnationalism in the work of South Asian writers and playwrights and co-editing a study on literature from the Middle East and its diasporas.

Selected Publications

• “Representational Ambiguities and the ‘Dictator Play’. Carmen Rivera’s Dictator: The Downfall of the Dominican Dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina.” Journal of Haitian Studies 16.1 (Spring 2010): 70-86.
• Constructing Media Reality. The New Documentarism. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 56.2 Special Issue ed. with Eckart Voigts-Virchow. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2008.
• “Interpreters of Transnationalism: South Asian American Women Writers.” Amerika-studien/Journal of American Studies. 51.3 (2006): 387-409.
• “Either for Tragedy, Comedy, History or Musical Unlimited: Women Playwrights in British South Asian Theatre.” Staging New Britain. Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice. Ed. Geoffrey V. Davis and Anne Fuchs. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2006. 65-85.
• “From Displacement to Arrival: Reflections on Exile and Diaspora in the Theatre” (with Kathleen Starck). Staging Displacement, Exile and Diaspora. Contemporary Drama in English. Vol. 12. Ed. Christoph Houswitschka and Anja Müller-Muth. Trier: WVT, 2005. 25-52.
• “Staging Heterogeneity: Contemporary Asian American Drama.” Asian American Literary Studies. Ed. Guiyou Huang. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2005. 225-245.
• “‘The Sketch’s the Thing Wherein We´ll Catch the Conscience of the Audience’ - Strategies and Pitfalls of Ethnic Television Comedies in Britain, the United States, and Germany.” Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial. Ed. Susanne Reichl and Mark Stein. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2005. 177-190.
• “Bhangra Fever and Royal Raï: Music as a Tool for Creating New Cultural and Political Spaces?” Minorités postcoloniales anglophones et francophones: études culturelles comparées. Ed. Alec G. Hargreaves. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2004. 137-158.
• “‘How Many Things Make a Home, and How Many Can We Carry?’: Staged Migrations and Globalised Aesthetics in Tara Arts’ Journey to the West.” Extending the Code: New Forms of Dramatic and Theatrical Expression. Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 11. Ed. Hans-Ulrich Mohr and Kerstin Mächler. Trier: WVT, 2004. 197-210.
• “Confrontational Sites: Cultural Conflicts, Social Inequality, and Sexual Politics in the Work of Rukhsana Ahmad.” Contemporary British Women Writers. Ed. Emma Parker. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2004. 85-103.
• New Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama. Ed. with Peter Zenzinger. Trier: WVT, 2003.
• “Transatlantic Documentary Theatre: Dramatic Gleanings of Racialized Violence and Public Discourses.” New Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama. Ed. Christiane Schlote and Peter Zenzinger. Trier: WVT, 2003. 345-364.
• “‘I’m British But ...’: Explorations of Identity by Three Postcolonial British Women Artists.” EnterText. Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2001/02.
• Bridging Cultures: Latino- und asiatisch-amerikanisches Theater und Drama in New York City. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 1997.