is director of the International Research Centre “Interweaving Performance Cultures” and of the International Research Training Group “InterArt” at Freie Universität Berlin. From 1996 to 2011 she was professor of theatre studies at Freie Universität Berlin where she is currently operating as senior professor. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, received the “Berliner Wissenschaftspreis” in 2010, and was visiting professor in Oslo, Beijing, Los Angeles, New Dehli and many other places.
Research areas:
aesthetics and theories of art, theory and history of theatre, aesthetics of contemporary theatre, interweaving performance cultures.
Selected publications:
The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies, New York/London 2014; Performance and the Politics of Space. Theatre and Topology, New York/London 2013 (edited with Benjamin Wihstutz); Performing Ibsen. Performing Multiple Modernities, New York/London 2012 (edited with Barbara Gronau and Christel Weiler); The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics, New York/London 2008.