Promotors

• Prof. Dr. Katharina Pewny
• Prof. Dr. Christel Stalpaert

Postdoctoral Research

• Dr. Jeroen Coppens, Images in Time & Space. The Lives of Images in Contemporary Theater.

Doctoral Research

• Dra. Marieke Breyne, Masks, Puppets and Performative Objects as Tools of Critique, Resistance and Agency in South Africa.
• Drs. Jasper Delbecke, The Essay following the new documentary turn in performing arts: tracing the essay in contemporary theatre and performances practices.
• Dra. Sofie de Smet, Expanding the Notion of Trauma Narration: An Interdisciplinary Research into Post-Narrative Modes of Trauma Recovery in Transcultural Trauma Psychology and Theatre Studies.
• Dra. Sophie Doutreligne, Dadaist gender play and the metaphor of the machine in wartime Europe and America. (1916-1922).
• Drs. Antonio Ramon Gazquez, Conversaciones ritmicas en el teatro del siglo XX.
• Drs. Hasan Isikli, Awareness of Place. An Anthropological Research of Memory and Identity of Izmir city and the International Izmir Festival.
• Dra. Eun Kyoung Shin, Audience Participation in Contemporary European and Korean Theatre, read with Martin Buber's Philosophy of Dialogue.
• Dra. Leonie Persyn, The Sound of a Shared Intimacy. A phenomenological-philosophical research in to the heautonomous function of sound in performing arts.
• Drs. Jay Plaat,  A Rhythm Taxonomomy for the Cinema, Towards a new mode of watching, feeling and analysing films.
• Dra. Melanie Reichert, Scenology of Culture. Towards a Philosophy of Aesthetic Resistance.
• Dra. Hannah Speicher, 1989 and GDR Theatre: The Transformation of Aesthetics and Institution after the System Change at Deutsches Theater in Berlin and the Theaterhaus Jena.
• Dra. Sarah Stark, Learning to be funny. Training and social relationships in Rakugo.
• Drs. Nico Theisen, René Pollesch and Narrative Aspects of Contemporary German Theatre.
• Dra. Annelies Van Assche, Choreographies of Precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin.
• Dra. Sophie Van den Bergh, A Place Like Another: Research into the Representation of Migratory Movement in Contemporary Theatre.
• Dra. Sun Wei Wei, Track and Create "Ritual-like performance based intermedia art".

Doctoral Research in the Arts

• Drs. Thomas Bellinck, Simple as ABC. Paradocumenting the management of Unease.
• Drs. Johan Opstaele,  A la recherche du moment. Framing the moment.
• Dra. Adriana La Selva, What are you training for? The notion/place of presence in postdramatic theatre.
• Drs. Renzo Martens, Episode 2. On Arts, social commitment and duplicity.
• Drs. Joost Rekveld, Dialogues with machines.

Visiting International Scholars

• Dra. Maria Albertyn
• Prof. Dr. Mateusz Borowski
• Dra. Jo-Ann Chan
• Dra. Ana Cuzovic
• Dr. Gerko Egert
• Dr. Silke Felber
• Dr. Irfan Hošić
• Drs. Orance Mahaldar
• Prof. Dr. Yana Meerzon
• Dr. Marko Stamenkovic
• Dr. Aneta Stojnic 
• Prof. Dr. Malgorzata Sugiera
• Prof. Dr. Rita Swanepoel
• Dr. Vinicius Torres Machado 

Completed Research

• Dr. Chokri Ben Chikha, The critical potential of stereotypes as theatre signs. The 'human zoo' as research tool. (2013)
• Dr. Joachim Ben Yakoub, The contrapuntal Aesthetics of Tunisian Uprising.
• Dr. Guy Cools, Dance Dramaturgy: Thinking the body and embodying Thinking (2013).
• Dr. Jeroen Coppens, Visually Speaking. A Research into Visual Strategies of Illusion in Postdramatic Theater (2016). 
• Dr. Silvia Defrance, Her voice, an artistic research into the potential of the sensorial film image in alternative narrative structures. (2012)
• Dr. Bruno Forment, The Economical Exuberance of Operatic Illusionism: Towards a New Understanding of the Stock Set (2015).
• Dr. Charlotte Grüber, Antigone in/as Transition. A Study on the Performing Arts Status Quo in Europe (in its Transcontinental Contexts) (2016). 
• Dr. An van Dienderen, You Turn Me, Similarities and Differences in Art and Anthropological Practices (2015).
• Dr. Stefan Hertmans, Zäsur, difference, ursprung, irony. Hölderlin and the gods of our time (2015).
• Dr. Martine Huvenne, Sound as inner movement in the transmission and experience of film. A phenomenological approach (2012).
• Dr. Julena Juresa, Denkmal oder Mahnmal? How should one come to terms with traumatic pasts and what is human in that context.
• Dr. Evelien Jonckheere, A Century of Belgian Variety Theatre: from Rise to Fall (2014). 
• Dr. Laura Karreman, Capturing Dance movements, intensities and embodied experiences. Research into new possibilities of digital media for dance analysis and notation based on Fase (1982) by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and ROSAS. (2016)
• Dr. Frederik Le Roy, Verknoopte tijd, verfrommelde geschiedenis: Een theaterwetenschappelijk en geschiedfilosofisch onderzoek naar theater en performance als politiek van de herinnering in het modern en presentistisch historiciteitsregime (2012). 
• Dr. Goran Petrovic, Choreographing Agonism. Chantal Mouffe's Political Philosophy and Contemporary Performing arts (2017).
• Dr. Jan Steen, Being in Playing. (2014)
• Dr. Kristof van Baarle, Towards a critical posthuman aesthetic. A performance philosophical research into the configuration of posthuman figuers on the contemporary stage of Kris Verdonck. (2018)
• Dr. Sofie Verdoodt, Marqué par une image. Research into the status of the filmimage in relation to memory regimes in a post-dramatic aesthetic. (2011). 
• Dr. Nele Wynants, Inside the image. Immersion, Theatricality and Narrative in Performance and Media Art. (2013)
• Katharina Pewny, Elfriede Jelinek: Werk und Wirkung. Annotierte Bibliografie. (2011)
• Christel Stalpaert, Donnez-moi donc un corps: Gilles Deleuze's aesthetics of intensities and the possibilities of queer postrepresentations. (2002)

Research Board

Directors

Christel Stalpaert and Katharina Pewny

External Advisory Board Ghent University

Elizabeth Amann, Benjamin Biebuyck, Kristoffel Demoen, Marysa Demoor, Gita Deneckere, Maximiliaan Martens, Freddy Mortier, Jürgen Pieters, Mara Santi, Kristiaan Versluys, Bart Vervaeck, Marc Boone.

External International Advisory Board

Christopher Balme (President of the International Federation for Theatre Research, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität Munich), Ramsay Burt (De Montfort University, Leicester), Sue-Ellen Case (UCLA), Susan Leigh Foster (UCLA), Hans-Thies Lehmann (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main), Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv University), Richard Schechner (New York University), Jung-Soon Shim (Soongsil University, Seoul, Executive Officer of the International Federation for Theatre Research).

Contact Ghent University College (KASK)

Katrien Vuylsteke Vanfleteren (research coordinator)

Contact Sint-Lucas Visual Arts Ghent

Sarah Késenne (research coordinator)