“Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you”: Kelly Hunter on Art, Healing, Trauma and Working with Ukrainian Families. A Conversation with Darya Lazarenko and Imke Lichterfeld

Darya Lazarenko; Imke Lichterfeld

doi:10.18778/2083-8530.31.16

Authors

Darya Lazarenko New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3253-4678
Imke Lichterfeld Bonn University, Bonn, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7315-5519

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.31.16

Author Biographies

Darya Lazarenko, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Darya Lazarenko, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at New Bulgarian University. She also teaches Comparative Literature at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. She is a research associate of the Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre and a member of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA). Her research interests include Shakespeare’s metatextuality, translations, theatrical and intermedial interpretations, and approaches to teaching Shakespeare in broader cultural contexts. Dr. Lazarenko is a member of the organising committee for the International Shakespeare Festival “Tracing Shakespeare” at New Bulgarian University, contributing to its academic and cultural programme. Her publications include research on Hamlet in Ukrainian cultural contexts, intertextual readings of Shakespeare in contemporary literature, and visual interpretations of Shakespeare in the digital age.
Imke Lichterfeld, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany

Imke Lichterfeld, PhD, is the Studies Coordinator at the Department of English, American and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn. Her research interests and teaching include early modern drama, Shakespeare, and his contemporaries, as well as Modernism, and New Nature Writing. She published a monograph called When the Bad Bleeds on English revenge tragedy, co-edited Changing Shakespeare? Female Actors – (Fe)male Characters?, and has contributed to volumes such as The Language of Democratization. Roles, Social Positions, and Discourse (2026) or The Moment of Death in Early Modern Europe (2024), and journals like Cahiers Élisabéthains, Shakespeare en Devenir, and Teaching Shakespeare; she is a member of, among others, ESRA, BSA, SFS, and the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft.