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A diverse group of international faculty from performance, media, and literature departments makes up the teaching cohort for Performance and Digital Culture.

Project Leaders

Ramona Mosse

Ramona Mosse

Bard College Berlin

 

Ramona Mosse is the Head of Theater Studies at the Department of Performing Arts and Film at Zurich University of the Arts. She has previously taught at the Freie Universität Berlin, Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main, Bard College Berlin, Barnard College and Columbia University in New York. As PI on the research project “Viral Theatres: Post/pandemic Theatre in the Anthropocene”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, she led a team that documented German theatre during the pandemic. She is on the board of the Swiss Association for Theatre Studies, on the editorial board of the International Journal for Performance Arts and Digital Media and an affiliate of metalab@Harvard & FU Berlin, where she co-curates the Transmedia Arts Seminar.

Ramona holds a Phd in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

For additional information about Dr. Ramona Mosse visit her profile at Zurich University of the Arts.

 

Nina Tecklenburg

Nina Tecklenburg

Bard College Berlin

 

Prof. Dr. Nina Tecklenburg is an artist-scholar and professor of theater and performance at Bard College Berlin. She is a co-artistic director and founder of the performance group Interrobang and has collaborated with performance artists and groups such as Gob Squad, She She Pop, Lone Twin Theatre, Baktruppen, and Rabih Mroué. With Interrobang, she develops participatory immersive setting and installation spaces at the intersection of analogue and digital theatre. Her current research is concerned with new narrative practices, politics of participation, theater and digitality. She is the author of Performing Stories: Narrative as Performance (Seagull Books 2022).

For additional information about Dr. Nina Tecklenburg visit her profile at Bard Berlin.

Faculty

Lewis Church

Lewis Church

Birkbeck, University of London

 

Academic, writer, and dramaturg. His research in concerned with experimental performance, subcultures and censorship, and is currently focused on the new culture war of the early 21st century and its intersections with theatre, performance, and live art.

For additional information about Dr. Lewis Church visit his profile at orcid.

 

Miriam Felton-Dansky

Miriam Felton-Dansky

Bard College

 

Miriam Felton-Dansky is a critic and scholar of contemporary performance based at Bard College. She is the author of Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age (Northwestern, 2018), and criticism in a range of popular and scholarly publications. A former theater critic for the Village Voice, she is currently writing a history of downtown performance from 2000-2019.

For additional information about Dr. Miriam Felton-Dansky visit her profile at Bard.

Carmen Gil Vrolijk

Carmen Gil Vrolijk

Universidad de los Andes

 

Transdisciplinary artist and curator, working in the Art Department of the Universidad de los Andes as an associate professor. Carmen has been working on multimedia projects since the late 1990s. Her interests are especially focused on performing arts projects mediated by technology in experimental and immersive formats, expanded narratives and the poetics of technology. She’s the artistic director of La Quinta del Lobo, an interdisciplinary multimedia ensemble of performing and expanded arts, established in 2010 in Bogotá, Colombia. Their works explore the creative possibilities that emerge from the intersections between the arts, science and technologies that define our era. Since 2014, she is the head curator of Voltaje (Art and Technology Salón). Her creative work has been exhibited in the Americas, Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

For additional information about Carmen Gil visit her profile at OSUN.

 

Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar

Central European University

 

Sanjay Kumar Senior Lecturer at CAW teaches Academic Writing and Co-Director of CEU’s new University Access and Preparatory Programs to be piloted from Fall term, 2024.. He will be in charge of CEU’s new Matura Support Program(MSP) for high school students in Austria. Sanjay holds a PhD in English Literature from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He has 25 years of university teaching experience in courses related to English language, Literature and Culture, Effective Communication Skills, Linguistics, in national technical universities and premier Business schools in India like the National institute of Technology(NIT) and Indian Institute of Management (IIM).He was an Assistant Professor in English in the Department of Modern Philology, Selye Janos University, Slovakia and International Business School(IBS),Budapest. He also taught English and Academic Writing for undergraduate, graduate students and doctoral researchers in Corvinus University, Budapest. He was the Director of Studies (DoS) for the Open Society Foundation(OSF), New York, Pre-Academic summer school in Chiang Mai, Thailand.For additional information about Dr. Sanjay Kumar visit his profile at Central European University.

 

Pedro Salazar

Pedro Salazar

Universidad de los Andes

 

Director of Performing Arts at the Universidad de los Andes. Theatre, opera and musical theatre director and producer. Since 2016 he directs the area of ​​performing arts at the Universidad de los Andes. With a poetic style that articulates classicism and the experimental, he has directed more than twenty plays of different genres. Since 2007 he directs his own production company, La Compañía Estable, in association with some of the main theatres in Bogotá.

For additional information about Pedro Salazar visit his profile at Uniandes.

 

Paschalla Sharpe

Paschalla Sharpe

Birkbeck, University of London

 

Film editor and Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.

For additional information about Paschalla Sharpe visit her profile at Birkbeck, University of London.

 

Myer Taub

Myer Taub

University of the Witwatersrand

 

Dr Myer Taub is an award winning South African academic, multi-disciplinary artist, dramatist, innovator, deviator, goat and perverse-pirate-priest who teaches theatre and performance at the Wits School of Arts.

For additional information about Dr. Myer Taub visit his profile at University of the Witwatersrand.

 

Associate Faculty

Seda Ilter

Seda Ilter

Birkbeck, University of London

 

Programme Director of MA Dramaturgy. Seda’s research primarily focuses on theoretical and aesthetic implications of new technologies and mediatized culture in theatre; new writing and modes of textuality in contemporary performance; new dramaturgies (mediatized, postdramatic, participatory, etc.).

For additional information about Dr. Seda Ilter visit her profile at Birkbeck, University of London.

 

Fintan Walsh

Fintan Walsh

Birkbeck, University of London

 

Reader in Theatre and Performance at Birkbeck, University of London. His research focuses on contemporary theatre and performance, including queer theatre and performance, the medical humanities, and psychosocial issues including experiences of grief, trauma, genorosity, dis/orientation and intimacy. He is director of MA Text and Performance, co-director of Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre and director of BiGS: Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality. <

For additional information about Dr. Fintan Walsh visit his profile at Birkbeck, University of London.

 

Assistants

Renzo Rospigliosi Bustamante

Renzo Rospigliosi Bustamante

Universidad de los Andes

 

Performance and multimedia artist. He holds a degree in Theater from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a Master in Plastic, Electronic and Time Arts from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He has presented his work internationally in spaces such as the Centro Nacional de las Artes and Voltaje – Salón de Arte y Tecnología at the Planetarium in Bogota, the Elfreth’s Alley Museum in Philadelphia, the Centro Cultural de la PUCP in Lima and various festivals. He is also a professor at the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano and director of the Semillero de Escena Intermedial at the Universidad de los Andes. Influenced by his stage training, he builds installations, experimental video, expanded animation, performative and sound pieces using computational logics and putting in tension the human-machine relationship. His creative process criticizes the traditional means of understanding the body, sensitive experiences and the use of space.

 

Zeno Jacobs

Zeno Jacobs

University of the Witwatersrand

 

Zeno is an actress, educator, and artistic researcher based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her undergraduate training in acting took place at the University of Cape Town, during her studies a keen interest in research developed. She graduated with distinction from University of Witwatersrand for her MA research in the Theatre and Performance department at Wits School of Arts. Her research and embodied praxis explore ritual, somatic praxis, performer training, agential realism, transgender identity, and education. This has been refined over years of performance work, teaching, and research that has led her around the globe.

For additional information about Zeno Jacobs visit her Linkedin Page.

 

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