Research Focus

Profilbereich

Gender Studies

Fachgruppe

Humanities

Schwerpunkte

Aesthetic Theories and Body Concepts of the 20th Century, focus on Postmodern and Theory of the Grotesque; Performance and contemporary dance, specially Cultural Semiotics Perspectives on the Phenomenon of the Contingent Body and the Relation between Choreography and Film; Strategies of the Historical Avantgarde with Focus on Theater, Dance and the enactment of Femininity and Mediality; Startegies and Practices of the (feminist) Performance and Body Art since the 1970s; Temporality/Historicity and Media Transfer in Representation in the Context of Aesthetical and Political Orders.