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PD Dr. Johanna Pitetti-Heil

Senior Lecturer (Akademische Rätin) in Gender and Diversity Studies

American Studies

 

General Co-Editor of gender forum

SLSAeu Board Member, representing feminist science studies

Former EAAS Women's Network Steering Committee Member, Former Co-Editor of WiN

 

Office Hours

Please book a slot via the U Cologne scheduler (zoom appointments): https://scheduler.uni-koeln.de/

If you prefer an appointment on campus, please contact me before you book a slot. If you need more time than 20 minutes (esp. for discussing BA or MA theses), please book two slots.

Conference Announcement


Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Paris, France, October 17-18, 2025

Deadline: 10 Feb. 2025

Contact: criticalhealthconferenceSpamProtectiongmail.com


Further information will be available at: www.criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com

Conference Organizers: Dr. Alice de Galzain (Sorbonne Université) and Dr. habil. Johanna Pitetti-Heil (Universität zu Köln)

Research Interests

  • literary studies and cultural history: 19th - 21st century (U.S. American literature)
  • literary and cultural theory, esp. queer-feminist theory, (feminist) new materialism, posthumanism, critique and post-critique
  • critical dance studies, dance philosophy, dance history
  • body studies and skin studies

     

Current Book Projects

1. Becoming-Body: Practices of Freedom and Technologies of the Self in American Modern Dance

Book project based on Habilitation manuscript.

Becoming-Body: Practices of Freedom and Technologies of the Self in American Modern Dance considers American modern dance as a cultural practice in the context of the larger American history of ideas. Exploring links between modern dance technique and American philosophical discourses including transcendentalism, pragmatism, and new materialist philosophy, the project contributes to the cultural history of American dance, offers an expanded account of the relationship of physical culture to philosophical discourses in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and outlines a new materialist theory of subject formation grounded in an analysis of the identity-shaping potential of physical experiences and their discursive negotiation.

 

2. Materialist Transcendentalism

New book project. 

Forthcoming publication (Feb. 2025): “From Animal Magnetism to Materialist Transcendentalism: Margaret Fuller on Fanny Elssler.” The Articulate Body: Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Lynn Matluck Brooks, Sariel Golomb, and Garth Grimball. Gainesville: UP of Florida

Research and CV

Teaching Portfolio and Projects