Dr Lucia Ruprecht (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages) teaches literature, thought, critical theory, and film and performance culture on the nineteenth and twentieth century. Her recent research projects include
‘Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and the Culture of Gestures at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century’ (current book project, under contract with Oxford University Press)
‘19th-Century Virtuosity and its Vicissitudes’, carried out from 2005 to 2010 in collaboration with the project ‘The Virtuoso’s Stage: Performance at the Limit’ (led by Gabriele Brandstetter) at the Research Centre Kulturen des Performativen at Free University Berlin.
For further information please see her full research profile: