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