Main Areas of Research
Theatre & Performance of the 20th and 21st Century
Intersectional Perspectives on Greek Tragedy
Perfomativity of Belonging
Interferences between Theatre Theory and Political Theory
Gesture as Travelling Concept
Aesthetic Practices of Ambiguity
Aesthetics of Fear and Hate
Professional Career
Upcoming (February 2020)
Visiting Research Fellow at The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), University of Oxford (UK)
Currently
Elise Richter Position (FWF), Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna.
Research Project:
Travelling Gestures. Elfriede Jelinek’s Rewriting of Tragedy from a Transdisciplinary Perspective
Volume: Euro 155.673,00
June 2016 - June 2019
Hertha Firnberg Position (FWF), Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna.
Research Project:
Dramaturgies of the (Dis-)Continuative. Remnants of Attic Tragedy in the Theatre of Elfriede Jelinek
Volume: Euro 234.210,00
February – April 2018
Visiting Research Fellow at S:PAM, Ghent University (Belgium)
October – December 2017
Visiting Scholar at ITW, University of Bern (CH)
June 2013 - June 2016
Research assistant (Universitätsassistentin postdoc) at the Research Platform Elfriede Jelinek, University of Vienna
February 2013
Viva Voce (Defensio), finish of Doctorate in Philosophy (passed with distinction) at the Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies at University of Vienna (PhD-Supervisor was Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hilde Haider-Pregler). Title of Thesis: Zur szenischen Rezeption österreichischer Gegenwartsdramatik in Italien am Beispiel Thomas Bernhards
January 2008 - May 2013
Head of Production at KosmosTheater, Vienna
2009 - 2013
Various engagements as a freelance dramaturge (for Drama Graz (Ernst M. Binder), Posthof Linz, Paola Bianchi etc.)
January - October 2007
Production Manager of the Dance Company artificial horizon (Milli Bitterli)
January 2008
Master’s Degree in Theater, Film and Media Studies and Romance Studies at University of Vienna (passed with distinction). Title of Thesis (Supervisor was Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hilde Haider-Pregler): Einfluss und Überwindung von Antonin Artauds Theatervisionen im non-teatro Carmelo Benes
October 2004 - June 2005
Studies at DAMS (Dipartimento di Arte, Musica e Spettacolo), University of Bologna, Italy. Erasmus scholarship, funded by European Union
October 2001
Beginning Theater, Film and Media Studies and Romance Studies
at University of Vienna
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
Elise Richter Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund FWF for the habilitation project Travelling Gestures, 2019-2021
Hertha Firnberg-Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund FWF for the habilitation project Dramaturgies of the (Dis-)Continuative , 2016-2019
Wissenschaftsstipendium 2018, provided by Stadt Wien
Excellence of Teaching Award of the University of Bern (Switzerland) (2018)
Fellowship of the Summer Academy of IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, University of Linz) 2018 & 2016
Swiss-European Mobility Programme – Staff Mobility for Teaching (2017)
Travelling Scholarship, provided by ÖFG (Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft) (2014)
Research Scholarship KWA for short-time studies abroad, provided by University of Vienna (2007)
Professional Memberships and Review Activity
DFG Network “Versammeln: Mediale, räumliche und politische Konstellationen”
Research Platform Elfriede Jelinek, University of Vienna
Arbeitsgruppe Dramaturgie, Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft
Arbeitsgruppe Gender, Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft
Austrian Studies Association
German Studies Association
Scientific Advisory Board of SYN. Magazin für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Austria