Viktoria Tkaczyk

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Funded by the Volkswagenstiftung, Dilthey Fellowship

Residence: September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2016

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Viktoria Tkaczyk is Assistant Professor of Arts and New Media at the University of Amsterdam, and a Dilthey Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (Volkswagen Foundation). Viktoria was born in 1976 in Isny im Allgäu. She completed her  study of theatre studies, modern German literature and sociology in Munich, Madrid and Berlin. Her dissertation, “Heavenly Folds. On the Theatricality of Flying in the Early Modern Period” was written in the frame of the graduate seminar "Body Performances" (Freie Universität Berlin), and it was awarded the Ernst Reuter Prize in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, Viktoria Tkaczyk worked as a research fellow on the project "Theatrum Scientarium. Performativity of Knowledge as Agent of Cultural Change", and she taught at the Institute for Theatre Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2011, she carried out her research as a Feodor Lynen Fellow at the Atelier de Recherche sur l’Intermédialité et les Arts du Spectacle (CNRS) in Paris. Viktoria's research and teaching interests are dedicated to theatre and performance art situated within broadly defined cultural, media and science-historical contexts.  The current research project on "Acoustic Theatre” is focused on the reciprocal effects of the ongoing establishment and differentiation of acoustics as a scientific discipline on the one hand, and the increasing intervention of acoustic spaces, media and communication practices in different forms of theatre on the other.