Katharina Pewny

Prof. Dr. Katharina Pewny

Zelfstandig Academisch Personeel


Contactgegevens

E-mail:
Telefoon: 0032-9-2644129
Fax: 0032-9-2744181
Adres: Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Kantoor: Blandijn, gelijkvloers, kantoor 0.33

Spreekuren: donderdag 9u-12u, enkel na afspraak

UITZONDERING: van 1.09.2010 tot en met 23.09.2010: donderdag 14u-17u, enkel na afspraak.

 

Research Interests:

  • Ethics and aesthetics of contemporary theatre, performance and dance
  • Antique tragedy
  • Relational dramaturgies
  • Gender, queer and postcolonial studies

This year, Katharina Pewny organizes panels at the International Federation for Theatre Research and at the congress of the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft on “Transnational Dramaturgy” and on “Das Subjekt der Dramaturgie”.

Research Projects

  • Promotor of Phd. Project Drs. Jeroen Coppens (UGent): De neobarokke blik in de hedendaagse beeldcultuur. Plooien, barsten en mobiliteit in het hedendaagse scopische regime. (Werktitel) (since academiejaar 2009-2010)
  • Co-promotor of Phd. Project Drs. Michael Großschädel (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz): Monografie zu Ewald Palmetshofers Werk (sinds academiejaar 2009-2010)
  • Promotor of 15 Master-and Bachelor Projects (academiejaar 2009-2010)

 
Katharina Pewny invites proposals for MA- and PhD-projects in the above listed areas (see research interests).

 

Services (Academic and Community)
 

Academic Services (since 2007):

  • Promotor of Phd. Project Drs. Jeroen Coppens (UGent): De neobarokke blik in de hedendaagse beeldcultuur. Plooien, barsten en mobiliteit in het hedendaagse scopische regime. (Werktitel) (since 2009-2010)
  • Co-promotor of Phd. Project Drs. Michael Großschädel (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz): Monografie zu Ewald Palmetshofers Werk (since 2009-2010)
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of the Elfriede Jelinek Research Center, University of Vienna (since 2010)
  • Partner in the European Theatre Research Network of the University of Kent at Canterbury (since 2010)
  • Promotor of the Working Group “Dramaturgie” of the “Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft” (with Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner and Peter M. Boenisch, since 2008)
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Research Project ‘Corpodramaturgy’, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Dec. 2009 – Dec. 2012)
  • Member of the ‘Feminist Working Group’ (Promotors: Sue-Ellen Case, Elaine Aston), ‘FIRT/IFTR Fédération International des recherches theatrales/International Federation for Theatre Research’ (since 2007)
  • Promotor of the ‘Werkstatt Tanzwissenschaft’, ‘Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung’ (2005-2006)
  • Chair in the Conference ‘Choreographing Gender’, Kampnagel Hamburg (2008)
  • Chair in the Conference ‘Questioning Choreography’, Kampnagel Hamburg (2008)
  • Chair in the Conference ‘Translati(o)n Tango’, University of Hamburg (2007)
  • Chair in and Organisation of the Conference ‘Dramatic Transformations II’, University of Rouen (2007)
  • Chair in and Organisation of the Conference ‘Masculinity as a Performance’, University of Hamburg (2007)
  • Member of Rabotnice. International Research Group on Gender & Transformation, Vienna (since 2004)


Community Service (since 2006):

  • Dramaturge for Victoria Hauke’s choreography ‘( ) else’, Sprechwerk Hamburg (2009)
  • Member of the Theatre and Performance Jury, City of Hamburg (2006-2008)
  • Curator and chair of theoretical discussions at the international theatre and performance festival ‘Her Position in Transition’ (Vienna 2006)

 

Courses

  • Introduction into Theatre- and Performance Theories / Methodologie van de Podium- en Mediale Kunsten
  • Theatre and Other Realities / Cutuurhistorische en Interculturele aspecten van de Podiumkunsten
  • Dramaturgy / Dramaturgie Master (alternating with Christel Stalpaert)
  • Research Seminar Actual Performance Theories / Onderzoeksseminarie Actuele Performancetheorieën (afwisselend met Christel Stalpaert)

 

Short Biography

Katharina Pewny studied Theater, Film and Media Studies, German Literature and Philosophy at the University of Vienna. She wrote her Masters thesis on ‘Tragedy as a Paradigm and Construction of the Female’ (1993). She holds a PhD (University of Vienna) in Theatre, Film and Media Studies (1999). In her PhD thesis, she applied theories of “mimesis” (Plato, Aristotle, Adorno, Irigaray) to contemporary dramatic art. From 1999, Katharina Pewny was a lecturer and assistant at the University of Vienna, at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz and at the University of Hamburg. She also worked as a research fellow at the University of California Los Angeles, at the Free University in Berlin and at the University of Hamburg.
Katharina Pewny’s Habilitation thesis (2009) on the “Theatre of the Precarious” concerns contemporary European Theatre, Dance and Performance Art. In it, she develops the concept of the “precarious” as a new analytical category for Performance Studies. In the course of this project she has translated Emmanuel Lévinas’ account of the encounter with the “Other” into the realm of performance. For the research project on the ‘Theatre of the Precarious’ she received the highest funding awards given by Austrian funding institutions. Her study on the ‘Ethics and Aesthetics of the Theatre of the Precarious’ will be published in 2010. In addition to this publication, she has edited two books on contemporary theatre and performance art, and she has contributed to numerous European, American and Australian anthologies and journals in the field of Theatre Studies.
In fall 2009, Katharina Pewny was appointed to the faculty of Ghent University.

 

Biografische gegevens

Katharina Pewny studeerde Theater-, Film- en Mediawetenschappen, Duitse literatuur en Wijsbegeerte aan de Universiteit van Wenen. Ze schreef haar masterthesis over ‘Tragedy as a Paradigm and Construction of the Female’ (1993). Ze doctoreerde (Universiteit van Wenen) in Theater-, Film- en Mediawetenschappen (1999). In haar doctoraat paste ze de theorieën van “mimesis” (Plato, Aristoteles, Adorno, Irigaray) toe op de hedendaagse podiumkunsten. Sinds 1999 was Katharina Pewny als docent en assistent actief aan de universiteit van Wenen, de universiteit van Muziek en Podiumkunsten van Graz en de universiteit van Hamburg. Ze werkte ook als geaffilieerd onderzoekster aan de universiteit van California Los Angeles, de vrije universiteit van Berlijn en de universiteit van Hamburg.
Katharina Pewnys postdoctorale habilitatie (2009) over het “Theatre of the Precarious” gaat over hedendaags Europees theater, dans en performancekunst. Ze ontwikkelt er het concept van het ‘precaire’ (‘precarious’) als een nieuwe analytische categorie voor performancestudies. In de loop van dit project heeft ze Emmanuel Lévinas’ concept van de ontmoeting met de ‘Ander’ vertaald naar performances. Voor het onderzoeksproject over het “Theatre of the Precarious” ontving ze de hoogste beurzen van de Oostenrijkse beursinstituten. Haar studie over de ‘Ethics and Aesthetics of the Theatre of the Precarious’ zal in 2010 gepubliceerd worden. Daarnaast werkte ze als redacteur aan twee boeken over hedendaagse theater- en performancekunst, en leverde ze bijdrages aan talloze anthologieën en tijdschriften in het veld van theaterwetenschappen in Europa, Amerika en Australië.
Sinds de herfst van 2009 is Katharina Pewny verbonden aan de Universiteit van Gent.

 

Academische Bibliografie