In research and teaching, the staff is dedicated to different forms of art and music in diverse social, historical and cultural contexts. The research areas enable cooperation with other scholars across disciplinary boundaries and demonstrate the social and cultural relevance of art and music research. The two sections of the department's work are linked by interdisciplinary focal points such as opera and music theater, film, performance art and installations, as well as contemporary art and music. In addition, there is the examination of art theory and aesthetics.
Researchers from the two sections
Current research focuses on the architecture, sculpture and painting of historicism and modernism
Currently on maternity leave
Engages in various aspects of fundamental relationships between visual arts and techniques as part of research project
Active for many years in the field of modern and contemporary art
Joep Janssen's research interests lie in the interdisciplinary approach to music history, with a particular focus on the analysis of musical topoi and the connection between nature, politics and identity in the 19th century.
The current focus is on the discourses of posthumanism in relation to contemporary phenomena of musical culture
Focus on the topicality of critical theory as well as on possible connections between aesthetics and politics in contemporary art
Her research interests include historiography of modern art, non-Western modern and contemporary art productions, as well as art theory from the global South and postcolonial art history
After working on the reconstruction of the production system of opera in the Eastern Adriatic theaters, the current focus is on Giuseppe Tartini's "School of Nations"
Main research area is the history of opera from the 17th to the 20th century in Europe and the worldwide distribution areas of the genre
Works on the one hand on the composer Franz Waxman and his life and work "between film music and concert hall". Dedicates the new project to the digital edition of Gumpenhuber's theater chronicles