Christel Stalpaert

Christel Stalpaert is Senior Full Professor at the Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies at Ghent University (Belgium). She is director of the research centre S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media) and co-founder of the FWO-funded research network CoDa (Cultures of Dance). She was a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) in 2023 and publishes widely in the field, in journals such as Performance Research and The Drama Review. She recently published 'Performance and Posthumanism' (with van Baarle and Karreman, Palgrave 2021) and 'Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Performance' (with Sofie de Smet, Marieke Breyne, and Pedzisai Maedza), and co-edited the volume ‘On Activation’ with Eylül Fidan Akıncı for Performance Research (2023)28:8. She is currently writing her monograph on Hyphenated Thinking: Performance (Studies) Activating Ecological Encounters.