Stefan Aquilina is a Theatre Studies Senior Lecturer (University of Malta) and Co-Director of the Stanislavsky Research Centre. His research focuses on modern theatre, especially Stanislavsky and Meyerhold, but has wider interest in the transmission of embodied practice, amateur theatre, devised performance, and reflective teaching. Aquilina’s publications include Stanislavsky in the World and The Routledge Comparison to Vsevolod Meyerhold (both with Prof. Jonathan Pitches 2017 and 2022), Modern Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission (2020), Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Primary Sources (2021), and Interdisciplinarity in the Performing Arts (with Dr Malaika Sarco-Thomas 2018). He is also the Editor in Chief of the Stanislavski Studies journal (Routledge).He has undertaken research as a Visiting Fellow at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries (University of Leeds) and as a William Evans Fellow at the Department of Music, Theatre and Performing Arts (University of Otago).

Publications in Progress:
Modern Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission Processes (Bloomsbury; expected publication date 2020)

International Research Networks:
Associate Member, Performer Training, Preparation and Pedagogy Research Group, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds
Theme Member, Performance of the Real, University of Otago
Editorial Board Member, Stanislavski Studies (Taylor and Francis)