Péter P. Müller (HU)

Péter P. Müller is Professor at the University of Pécs in the Department of Modern Literature and Literary Theory and director of the Theatre Studies Program. From 1999 to 2004 he was director of the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute in Budapest. In 1990/91, and 1993/94 he was Visiting Professor in the USA. In 1996 and 1999 he held a research scholarship at Darwin College, Cambridge (UK). In 1998 he awarded the four year long Széchenyi Professorship. His books are, The Dramaturgy of the Grotesque (1990), On Sopianae’s Stages (1992), Central European Playwrights Within and Without the Absurd (in English – 1996), Dramatic Form and Publicity (1997), From Hamlet to the Hamletmachine (2008), From the Rite to the Media (in Croatian – 2009), Body and Theatricality (2009), From the Mask to the Theatre of Death (2010).