Postdoctoral Research

• Jeroen Coppens, Images in Time & Space. The Lives of Images in Contemporary Theater.
• Frederik Le Roy, The Performative Reconfiguration of Time in Theatre and Performance.

Doctoral Research

• Marieke Breyne, Masks, Puppets and Performative Objects as Tools of Critique, Resistance and Agency in South Africa.
• 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.
• Jasper Delbecke, Eventization in Contemporary Performing Arts. (Deleuze, Badiou and Stiegler).
• Charlotte Dhont, The Artist as Diplomat in Public Space. Towards an Ethico-ecological Aesthetic in the Works of the City Residents of Vooruit.
• Hasan Isikli, Awareness of Place. An Anthropological Research of Memory and Identity of Izmir city and the International Izmir Festival.
• Laura Karreman, Capturing Dance Movements: Writing Dance in Digital Media.
• Leonie Persyn, The Sound of a Shared Intimacy. Walking, Nourishing, Breathing as Participative, Co-creative, and Boundary-blurring Movements in Performing Arts.
• Goran Petrovic, Choreographing Agonism. Chantal Mouffe's Political Philosophy and Contemporary Performing Arts.
• Melanie Reichert, Scenology of Culture. Towards a Philosophy of Aesthetic Resistance.
• 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.
• Nico Theisen, René Pollesch and Narrative Aspects of Contemporary German Theatre.
• Annelies Van Assche, Choreographies of Precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin.
• Kristof van Baarle, Towards a Critical Posthuman Aesthetic: A Performance-Philosophical Research into the Configuration of Posthuman Figures on the Contemporary Stage of Kris Verdonck.
• Sun Wei Wei, Track and Create "Ritual-like performance based intermedia art".

• Eun Kyoung Shin, Audience Participation in Contemporary European and Korean Theatre, read with Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue

Doctoral Research in the Arts

• Adriana La Selva, What are you training for? The notion/place of presence in postdramatic theatre.
• Renzo Martens, Episode 2. On Art, Social Commitment and Duplicity.
  
• Johan Opstaele, À la recherche du moment - Framing the Moment.

Visiting International Scholars

• Yana Meerzon
• Mateusz Borowski
• Malgorzata Sugiera & Jussi Parikka 

• Marina Albertyn

• Joachim Ben Yakoub
• Ana Cuzovic
• Gerko Egert
• Antonio R. Gázquez
• Irfan Hošić (University of Bihac)
• Jelena Juresa
• Orance Mahaldar (Jadavpur University, India)
• Marko Stamenkovic
• Aneta Stojnic (Belgrade University of Arts)
• Vinicius Torres Machado (University of São Paulo) 

Finished Research

• Charlotte Gruber, Antigone in/as Transition. A Study on the Performing Arts Status Quo in Europe (in its Transcontinental Contexts) (2016). 
• Jeroen Coppens, Visually Speaking. A Research into Visual Strategies of Illusion in Postdramatic Theater (2016). 
• Bruno Forment, The Economical Exuberance of Operatic Illusionism: Towards a New Understanding of the Stock Set (2015).
• An van Dienderen (HoGent), You Turn Me, Similarities and Differences in Art and Anthropological Practices (2015).
• Evelien Jonckheere, A Century of Belgian Variety Theatre: from Rise to Fall (2014). 
• Guy Cools, Dance Dramaturgy: Thinking the Body and Embodying Thinking (2013). 
• 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). 
• Sofie Verdoodt, Et in Arcadia Ego. Onderzoek naar audiovisuele motieven en kunsthistorische sporen met betrekking tot herinneringsmechanismen in de films van Aleksander Sokurov (2012). 
• Katharina Pewny, Elfriede Jelinek: Werk und Wirkung. Annotierte Bibliografie. 2011.
• Stijn Bussels, Van macht en mensenwerk: retorica als performatieve strategie in de Antwerpse intocht van 1549. 2005.
• 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)