Teaching staff

  • Dr Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink (Programme Coordinator)

    Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink is Assistant Professor in theatre and performance studies. Her areas of interest include spatial theory, performance philosophy, relationships beteween dramaturgy and scenography and interdisciplinary research methods. She is also the Programme Coordinator. 

  • Prof. Maaike Bleeker

    Maaike Bleeker is Professor in and Chair of Theatre Studies. In her research she combines performance and dance studies with media theory and philosophy and engages with questions about perception, cognition, embodiment, in particular related to technologies of various kinds and science. 

  • Dr Chiel Kattenbelt

    Chiel Kattenbelt is Associate Professor in media comparison and intermediality. In teaching as well as research, his fields of interest are theatre and media theory, media comparison and intermediality, aesthetics and semiotics, and the role of theatre in today’s performative and media-saturated culture. He is also a member of the board of the International Society for Intermedial Studies.

  • Dr Sigrid Merx

    Sigrid Merx is Assistant Professor in theatre and performance studies. Her areas of interest include performative interventions in public urban space, art and activism, dramaturgy and scenography and performative research methods. In the 2020-2021 season she is also the Head of Education of our Media and Culture Studies department.

  • Dr Konstantina Georgelou

    Konstantina Georgelou works as a performing arts theorist, dramaturge, researcher and lecturer in the field of theatre studies. Her research interests concern modes of working together, dramaturgy, choreography and ethics, while she explores discursive, artistic and activist practices as materialisations of the political.

  • Dr Laura Karreman

    Laura Karreman is a lecturer in dance and performance studies. Her research is situated at the intersection of dance transmission practices, digital technologies and critical approaches of embodiment. She engages with questions about movement and representation and investigates notions of performance as knowledge. Interdisciplinary dialogue is a key feature of her approach.