Welcome.

Hi. I am a performance historian, trained as an early modernist, who works at the crossroads of dance and art history, literary studies, and media studies. My research coalesces around the history of the body and critically addresses historical relations between colonial sciences and art/performance modernities, transmediation between visual art, performance, and literary forms, migrations and Indigeneity, and the visual cultures and cultural history of dance and embodied performance. To work in such a highly interdisciplinary way, I work to blend historically rigorous storytelling and Digital Humanities methods. Alongside my historical work, I keep engaged in the lively study of contemporary practices of art across its “disciplines”. As an immigrant researcher in Germany, there is also the fact that I’m ever trying really hard improve my deutschkenntnisse.

Bio. — CV.

What’s New:
  • As of December 2025, the special issue of Interface Critique I’ve co-edited with Nina Tolksdorf is finally out!
  • The opening symposium of the three-year collaborative research project Studies in Remoteness is titled “Duplicity/Duplicität: Betwixt intimates and strangers”, and will be held in Berlin at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität on 29-31 January 2026. CfP can be found here.   
  • The new three year project Studies in Remoteness has been selected by the Nordic Summer University as a part of its study programme for 2026-2028. I’ll be co-coordinating the project with the artist Helena Hildur W. Our first winter symposium, on the topic of duplicity, will be held in Berlin. Details forthcoming.
  • I’ve been awarded a short-term fellowship at the Herzog August Bibliothek, where I will be in residence March-April and September-October 2026, working on my second book project. 
  • Stay tuned for the massive two-volume publication on embodiment and the history of imagination co-edited by Elizabeth Claire, Beatrice Delaurenti, Roberto Poma, and Koen Vermeir to be published with Brepols. The first volume will include my chapter on Paracelsus’s late writings on the St Vitus’ Dance.