Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: katharina.wessely@oeaw.ac.at
Role in the Project: “Principle Investigator”. Viennese co-operation partner and responsible for input and supervision regarding theatre and Viennese cultural history
Mini CV
Education
- 2001 – 2007: Dr. of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Deptartment of Theater, Film and Media Studies; co-supervised by th Dept. of Contemporary History, summa cum laude
- 1993 – 2001: Magister of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Dept. of Theater, Film and Media Studies
Academic Career, incl. fellowships and awards
- since Sept 2014 Project leader and senior researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- 2011 – 2013 Marie-Curie-Fellow at the Department for Theatre Studies at the University of Berne
- 2008 – 2010 Lecturer at the Dept. of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University Vienna
- 2006 – 2009 Junior Lecturer for German at the Department of Germanic, Nordic and Dutch Studies at the Faculty of Arts at the Masaryk University Brno
- 2005/06 Research Stay in Prague with the Grant MOEL-Plus, Austrian Research Association
- 2005 Theodor Körner Award for Science for the dissertation
- 2004/05 Junior_Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna
- 2002 – 2004 Research Assistant at the Jewish Museum Vienna
Peer Review Activities
- since 2009 GAČR (Grantová agentura České republiky)
- 2015 EURIAS Fellowship Programme (European Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme supported by the European Commission)
Memberships
- International Federation for Theatre Research
Publications
Areas of Specialisation
- Theatre and Cultural History of the Habsburg Monarchy, especially the Bohemian Lands (19th and 20th centuries)
- Theatre Studies as Culture Studies
- Theatre Historiography
- Memory Cultures
- Concepts of Identity
