PhD working title
“Staging Women’s Pasts: The Relationship between Feminism and History in Interwar British Drama“
Research Interests
Women studies, British women’s history, British suffrage movement, reception studies, women of antiquity, Theatre History.
Publications
Colbert, V. “Queen Zenobia’s ‘Campaign’ for British Women’s Suffrage.” Thersites – Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date 12 (2020): 71-94. Queen Zenobia’s ‘Campaign’ for British Women’s Suffrage | thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date (thersites-journal.de) (08/11/21)
Colbert, V. and Duffy, S. “'Theodora "Rewritten": An Interview with the Author of two Historical Novels about the Empress Theodora: Stella Duffy.” Thersites – Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date 8 (2018): 127-136. https://www.thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr/article/view/109 (09/10/19)
Carlà-Uhink, F., Colbert, V. et al. “(Alte) Geschichte in der Werbung: Berichte aus einem Heidelberger Seminar.” Thersites – Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date 6 (2017): 366-457. https://www.thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr/article/view/73 (09/10/19)
Reviews
Rev. of Clemence Dane. Forgotten Feminist Writer of the Inter-War Years, Louise McDonald. Women’s History Review 15 March 2021, DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2021.1896435
Education
2019 – Doctoral Student at the Department of British Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2016 – Language Assistant at Nailsea Academy, Nailsea
2014 - 2019 – Student of English, History and Technology (Staatsexamen) at University of Education Heidelberg
2011 - 2014 – Student of English and History (Staatsexamen) at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg