Department of Performing and Digital Arts

Katerina Kanelli



Rank
Special Research Personnel

Katerina Kanelli has been employed as a special teaching staff in the Department of Performing and Digital Arts of the University of Peloponnese. She completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Paris 8. Studying the body image in the works of Samuel Beckett, she followed an interdisciplinary approach between literature and performing arts. In tandem with her studies in contemporary European literature in Paris and Bologna, she studied in the Performing Arts Department of the University of Paris 8, focusing on contemporary dance. She has also graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature of the University of Thessaloniki. In Paris, she participated in conferences, research groups, dance workshops, and worked in art publications such as RMN (Association of National Museums), Somogy etc. On her return to Greece, she worked as a cultural editor and as an editor in chief and scriptwriter in documentaries and TV shows. She had been employed as teaching staff in the Greek Open University (Section “History of European Literature”, Studies in European Culture) and at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the Department of Theory and History of Art and in the lab of Nikos Navridis.

Field
Performing Arts | Literature-Dance: Theory and Performance
Studies
2007, PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Paris 8, FR
2005, Master in Performing Arts | Dance, University of Paris 8, FR
2002, Master in Contemporary Literature, University of Paris 8, FR
1999, BA: French Language and Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR

Keywords: body image, body in literature/art, gender studies, contemporary philosophy, theory of literature, narratives-storytelling
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