Research
I am currently a Junior Research Fellow in Drama at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford. My research interests are in drama and theatre studies. Currently, my research centres around theatre in translation and women’s playwrighting. My PhD thesis proposed and examined strategies for feminist theatre translation, which I explored by translating Minna Canth’s The Worker’s Wife (1885) from Finnish to English. I am currently working on preparing the findings of this research for publication. In addition, I am working on a new project researching and translating the plays of the early twentieth-century feminist-socialist Finnish playwright Elvira Willman.
Conference Papers
“Staging the working-class city in Elvira Willman’s Kellarikerroksessa [The Basement Flats] (1907)”, European Association for the Studies of Theatre and Performance, Institute of the Arts Barcelona, October 2024.
“Political playwriting and precarity in early 20th century Finland: Elvira Willman’s Kellarikerroksessa [The Basement Flats] (1907)”, Theatre and Performance Research Association Annual Conference, University of Northumbria, September 2024.
“Translating turn-of-the-century sex work for the contemporary stage”, Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) discussion group, March 2024.
“Context and Feminist Translation: Minna Canth’s Työmiehen vaimo [The Worker’s Wife] (1885) from Finnish to English”, Theatre and Performance Research Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, August 2023.
“Translating & Staging Historical Political Drama as Utopian Practice”, Worldmaking on Stage: Community-building in and through Theatre Translation, Out of the Wings, Kings College London, July 2023.
“Strategies for Feminist Theatre Translation: A Dramaturgical Toolkit”, Dimensions of Dramaturgy, European Association for the Studies of Theatre and Performance, Aarhus (Denmark), June 2023.
“Feminist Translation as Tapestry: The Worker’s Wife from Finnish to English”, Connections, School of Arts, University of Kent, June 2022.
“Minna Canth’s The Worker’s Wife from Finnish to English”, Migration and Creative Practice, University of Kent, May 2022.
Podcasts
‘Translator as Theatre-Maker: Dr Minna Jeffery on Feminist Theatre Translation,’ Cambridge Centre for International Research, August 2024.
Teaching
2023-2024: Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Lecture series on modern and contemporary drama (English Faculty); undergraduate dissertation supervision on twentieth- and twenty-first century British theatre, class on language and gender, classes and tutorials in twentieth- and twenty-first century British drama (St Anne’s College); tutorials on queer theatre and twentith- and twenty-first century drama (Wadham College).
2023: Assistant Lecturer, University of Kent.
Modules: Making Performance 2 (Undergraduate Year 1) and Sex, Gender and Performance: Beyond the Binary (Undergraduate Year 2). Both modules included a combination of lectures, text and theory-centred seminar-style teaching, and practical, studio-based workshops.
2020 – 2022: Graduate Teaching Assistant & Guest Lecturer, University of Kent.
Modules: Making Performance 1 (Undergraduate Year 1), Making Performance 2 (Undergraduate Year 1), Performing Lives: Biographical and Autobiographical Performance (Undergraduate Year 3). Guest Lecture on the history of feminism and feminist performance for Sex, Gender and Performance: Beyond the Binary (Undergraduate Year 2).
Teaching qualification: Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Association. (University of Kent, 2021)