Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies, English Department<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr<\/strong> K\u00e9lina Gotman<\/strong> is Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies in the English Department at King\u2019s, and author of Choreomania: Dance and Disorder<\/em> (Oxford Studies in Dance Theory, Oxford University Press, 2018, winner of the David Bradby Award for outstanding research in international theatre and performance, Theatre and Performance Research Association) and Essays on Theatre and Change: Towards a Poetics Of<\/em> (Routledge, 2018), as well as co-editor of Foucault\u2019s Theatres<\/em> (Manchester University Press, 2019). She is editor of the forthcoming Theories of Performance: Critical and Primary Sources<\/em>, 4 vols. (Bloomsbury, 2021) and translator of F\u00e9lix Guattari\u2019s The Anti-Oedipus Papers<\/em> (Semiotexte(e)\/MIT Press, 2006) as well as playwright Marie NDiaye\u2019s The Snakes<\/em> (Cue Press, 2016). <\/p>\n\n\n\n She has contributed widely to conversation in theatre, dance, performance, critical and cultural studies of science and medicine, the history of disciplines and institutions, writing, translation and critical practice, including for parallax<\/em>, SubStance<\/em>, Textual Practice<\/em>, Choreographic Practices<\/em>, Performance Research<\/em>, About Performance<\/em>, Comparative and Continental Philosophy<\/em>, Performance Philosophy<\/em> and various edited volumes. She has also collaborated widely on theatre, dance and new opera productions across Europe and North America, and consults regularly for theatre and dance companies, galleries and museums. In Summer 2019 she was Friedrich H\u00f6lderlin Guest Professor in Comparative Dramaturgy at the Institut f\u00fcr Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft at the Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt. She has also held visiting positions at Cornell University, Bard College, The Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts at The New School, Columbia University, and The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Choreomania: Dance and Disorder<\/em> (Oxford Studies in Dance Theory, Oxford University Press, 2018) [monograph] <\/p>\n\n\n\n Essays on Theatre and Change: Towards a Poetics Of<\/em> (Routledge, 2018) [monograph] <\/p>\n\n\n\n Foucault\u2019s Theatres<\/em> (Manchester University Press, 2019), co-editor with Tony Fisher [co-edited volume] <\/p>\n\n\n\n Theories of Performance: Critical and Primary Sources<\/em>, 4 vols., editor (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2021) [edited volume] <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Snakes<\/em>, by Marie NDiaye, translator (Cue Press, 2016) [play text, with translator\u2019s introduction] <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapters and articles <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Mallarm\u00e9\u2019s \u201cLivre<\/em>\u201d: notes towards a schizotheatre\u2019, in Textual Practice<\/em> 33.1 (2019): 175-194 [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018On Medicine\u2019, in Performance Research <\/em>23.4 (2019) [100th<\/sup> issue]: 118-126 [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018The Time of Philosophy (with Svetlana Alexievich)\u2019, in Comparative and Continental Philosophy<\/em> (online pub. July 2019) [17pp.] [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018On the Difficult Work of Translating Translation; or, the Monolingualism of Translation Theory. Languaging Acts in (and after) Marie NDiaye\u2019s Les Serpents<\/em>\u2019, in Studies in Theatre and Performance<\/em> (online publ. March 2019) [28pp.] [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Choreic Gesture: Virtuosic Angularity, Alterkinetic Dance (on Platel\u2019s Out of Context: For Pina<\/em>)\u2019, in Christel Stalpaert, Guy Cools and Hildegard De Vuyst, eds., The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel\u2019s Les Ballets C de la B: Emotions, Gestures, Politics<\/em> (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2019) [chapter in book] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Vibrant Affiliations: Family and Society\u2019, in A Cultural History of Tragedy<\/em>, gen. ed. Rebecca Bushnell, 6 vols. Vol. 6, 1920-Present, ed. Jennifer Wallace (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2019) [chapter in book] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Foucault, Oedipus, N\u00e9gritude\u2019, in K\u00e9lina Gotman and Tony Fisher, eds., Foucault\u2019s Theatres<\/em> (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2019) [chapter in book] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Introduction: theatre, performance, Foucault\u2019, with Tony Fisher, in K\u00e9lina Gotman and Tony Fisher, eds., Foucault\u2019s Theatres<\/em> (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2019) [chapter in book] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Anaesthesis: Dance Marathons and the Limits of Sense\u2019, in Eve Katsouraki and Tony Fisher, eds., Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance<\/em> (Routledge, 2018), pp. 119-145 [chapter in book] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Danse et d\u00e9sordre\u2019, in 1518, la fi\u00e8vre de la danse<\/em> (Les \u00e9ditions des mus\u00e9es de la ville de Strasbourg, 2018), pp. 115-130 [contribution to museum catalogue, in French] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Foucault, Aufkl\u00e4rung<\/em>, and the Historical \u201cScene,\u201d\u2019 in parallax<\/em> 24.1 (2017): 45-61 [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Corpus- [corpus]: hand, handiwork, Habitat, gifts, feet, footnotes, and the \u201cob-scene,\u201d\u2019 in SubStance<\/em> 143, vol. 46.2 (2017): 147-165 [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Translatio<\/em>\u2019, in Performance Research<\/em> 21.5 (2016): 17-20 [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018The (Spectral) Lure of the Past: Sadler\u2019s Wells, Capital, and the Institution of Dance\u2019, in Performance Research<\/em> 20.4 (2015): 62-70 [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Exceptionalism, Schizophrenia, Artaud: On Judgment\u2019, in Performance Philosophy <\/em>1.1 (2015): 119-125 [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Krono-Metre, site d\u2019un op\u00e9ra-th\u00e9\u00e2tre r\u00e9cusant, non-lieu de la lecture, et esth\u00e9tisation du sens\u2019, in Lorna Collins and Bandy Lee, eds., Making Sense: Merging Theory and Practice<\/em> (Oxford: Peter Lang), pp. 159-174 [chapter in book, in French] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018The dancing-place: Towards a geocultural and geohistorical theory of performance space\u2019, in Choreographic Practices<\/em> 3 (2012): 7-23 [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Epilepsy, Chorea and Involuntary Movements Onstage: The Politics and Aesthetics of Alterkinetic Dance\u2019, in About Performance<\/em> 11 (2012): 159-183 [peer-reviewed article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018It\u2019s My Show, Or, Shut Up and Laugh: Spheres of Intimacy in the Comic Arena, How New Technologies Play Their Part in the \u201cLive\u201d Act\u2019, with Sam Godin, in Judith Batalion, ed., The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences<\/em> (Parlor Press, 2012), pp. 253-270 [chapter in book] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Chorea Minor, Chorea Major, Choreomania: Entangled Medical and Colonial Histories\u2019, in Johannes Birringer and Josephine Fenger, eds., Tanz und WahnSinn \/ Dance and ChoreoMania<\/em> (Henschel Verlag, 2011), pp. 83-97 [chapter in book] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Other Possible Worlds Onstage,\u2019 in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art<\/em> 96 (2010): 48-54 [review article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Tango Tourism 101: A Photo-Diary, Buenos Aires\u2019, in Conversations across the Field of Dance Studies<\/em> XXIX \u201cDancing Economies\u201d (2009): 18-24 [article] <\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthias Sperling, The Institute of Neurochoreography \u2013 First Open Congress, Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler\u2019s Wells, 2 November 2018. https:\/\/www.sadlerswells.com\/whats-on\/2018\/matthias-sperling-institute-of-neurochoreography-first-open-congress\/<\/a> Semi-fictional symposium imagining an \u2018institute of neurochoreography\u2019, hosted by UK choreographer Matthias Sperling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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