• The concept of fictionality in theatre
• The position of the audience in performance
• The philosophical significance of performance

• Postmodern drama and theatre
• Popular Culture
• Literary Theory

Book chapters:

• Krüger, Lida. 2013. “The visual representation of the boundary between past and present: Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Suzman’s The Free State.” In: Viljoen, Hein. (ed.) Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries. Rodopi: Amsterdam. (Cross/Cultures.) pp. 93-112.

• Krüger, Lida. 2016. “ʻStop putting words in my mouth!’: undermining the binary between the actual and the fictional.” New Theatre Quarterly, 32(3): 244-255. August.
• Keuris, Marisa & Krüger, Lida. 2014. “South African drama and theatre heritage (part I): a map of where we find ourselves. South African Theatre Journal, 27(1): 19-31. March.
• Keuris, Marisa & Krüger, Lida. 2014. “South African drama and theatre heritage (part II): what does the future hold? South African Theatre Journal. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10137548.2014.876805 (Accessed: 5 March 2014.)
• Krüger, Lida. 2013. “‘Wie sal ons onthou?’: die gehoorlid se ongemaklike posisie in Deon Opperman se ‘Tree Aan !’” Litnet Akademies, 10(3): 418-458. December. http://litnet.co.za/assets//pdf/joernaaluitgawe%2010%283%29/10%283%29_GW_Kruger.pdf  (Accessed: 5 March 2014.)
• Krüger, Lida; Viljoen, Hein & Wenzel, Marita. 2013. “Subversion versus inversion: the loss of the carnivalesque in Janet Suzman’s The Free State.” Journal of Literary Studies, 29(3):82-98.

• Thesis Publication Award: Unisa Press (2015)

• The significance of performance in dramatic (and other) texts
• The actual versus the fictional in Betrayal, The Real Thing, and Closer