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Dr. habil. Johanna Pitetti-Heil

Senior Lecturer (Akademische Rätin) in Gender and Diversity 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 during semester break): https://scheduler.uni-koeln.de/

If you need a longer slot (esp. for discussing BA or MA theses), please book two slots.

 


 

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

 

 

General Research Interests (focus on U.S. American studies)

  • literary studies and cultural history: 19th - 21st century
  • 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

Research and CV

Teaching Portfolio and Projects