Katharina Clausius
- Professeure agrégée
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de littératures et de langues du monde
Pavillon 3200, rue Jean-Brillant office C8110
Web : Autre site web
Affiliations
- Membre – CRIalt — Centre de recherches intermédiales sur les arts, les lettres et les techniques
- Membre – RCMS — Regroupement interuniversitaire de recherche et création • musiques et sociétés
Research recruitment
PROSPECTIVE MA, PHD, AND HONOURS STUDENTS
I welcome inquiries from students interested in working with me in the Honours, MA, and PhD programs. My own areas of specialization include:
- Intermedial studies, especially the relationships between literature, music, and visual art
- Political philosophy, especially theories of democracy and representation and the politics of aesthetics
- Theatre and opera
- Musical culture
- Early Modern studies
- European modernism
- Research creation, i.e. non-traditional projects using creative methods
- French, English, German, and Italian cultural history
If your work intersects with any of these areas, please get in touch! I will be happy to discuss your project with you, offer advice, and discuss what kind of supervisory fit would be best for you.
Please write me at katharina.clausius@umontreal.ca with the following information:
- The program you wish to pursue
- Your CV and academic transcripts
- A 300-word summary of the project you have in mind
- 2-3 sentences outlining what experience you have in the area already and in what areas you will need to develop your competencies
- Your availability for an in-person or online meeting
You can consult the general study plan my students follow module on this website.
Looking forward to meeting you!
Education Programs
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
Courses
- ANG2322 War, Literature, and the Arts
- LCO1008 Oeuvres de la littérature mondiale 1
- LCO6467 Littérature et philosophie
- PLU6042 Problématiques de l'intermédialité
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural policy
- Theories of democracy
- Theories and practices of intermediality
- Word and Music Studies
- Littérature et peinture
- Politics of aesthetics
- Media Theories
- Musicology
- Aesthetics and visual culture
- Literature criticism
- Intermediality
- Opera
- Visual arts
- Modern and post-modern Theater
- Poetry and poetics
- Literature and philosophy
My research focuses on intermedial studies and the politics of aesthetics in literature, visual art, and music. I am particularly interested in the creation and reform of cultural-political spaces – such as the theatre, the public press, and the museum – and how these spaces are influenced by notions of representation, history, emancipation, sovereignty, and partisanship. Prioritizing a multidisciplinary approach, my projects span the human and social sciences as well as bioethics and seek to understand how and why art and politics collide. Special areas of interest include: theories and practices of intermediality; the philosophy of Jacques Rancière; interwar cultural diplomacy; early modern and modernist art, music, and literature; opera studies. Before joining the University of Montreal in 2019, I was Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria.
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Cultural Diplomacy Lab: Comparative and Intermedial Approaches Act Projet de recherche au Canada / 2026 - 2029
Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique (OICRM) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2024 - 2026
Participatory Democracy and the Canadian Genetic Non-Discrimination Act Projet de recherche au Canada / 2022 - 2026
La politique de la représentation musicale: la tradition culturelle et la nouvelle démocratie autrichienne dans l'entre-deux-guerres Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2026
Participatory Democracy and the Canadian Genetic Non-Discrimination Act Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2026
Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique (OICRM) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2017 - 2025
The Politics of Representation: Old Culture and New Democracy in Interwar Austria Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2022
Weimar in 20/20: The Glamour of the Empty Centre, International Symposium Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2021
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Monographies et Ouvrages collectifs codirigés
- The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Music and Literature. Avec Rachel Durkin, Christin Hoene, Katherine Butler. Taylor & Francis. 2026 (sous presse).
- (Re)Centering the Weimar Republic. Avec Claudia Clausius. University of Toronto Press, German and European Studies Series. 2026 (sous presse).
- Opera and the Politics of Tragedy. University of Rochester Press/Boydell & Brewer. 2023.
- The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature. Avec Rachel Durkin, Peter Dayan, Axel Englund. Taylor & Francis. 2022.
Chapitres de livres
- "Weimar's Political Centrisms." Dans (Re)Centering the Weimar Republic. University of Toronto Press. 2025 (Anticipé).
- "Rancière on Music: Rancière's Non-Music." Dans Rancière and Music, sous la dir. de João Pedro Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson, Chris Stover. Avec un épilogue par Jacques Rancière. University of Edinburgh Press, 2020.
Articles de revues scientifiques
- “Bill S-231: The Ethics of Familial and Genetic Genealogical Searching in Criminal Investigations.” Avec Michael J. Crawford and Erin Kenny. Canadian Journal of Bioethics 6/3-4 (2023): 44-56.
- “An Indistinct Fear: Jacques Rancière and Mary Shelley’s Unrepresentable Aesthetics.” Avec Stefan Sunandan Honisch. Theory & Event 25/3 (2022): 536-564.
- “Translation ~ Politics.” Philosophy Today 61/1 (2017): 249-266.
- “Mit(h)ridate’s Poisoned Roots: Racine, Prose Tragedy, and Opera.” The Opera Quarterly 32/1 (Winter 2016): 1-33.
- “Historical Mirroring, Mirroring History: An Aesthetics of Collaboration in Pulcinella.” Journal of Musicology 30/2 (Spring 2013): 215-251.
- “John Cage’s ‘Whiteness:’ Cheap Imitation.” Tempo 65/258 (October 2011): 11-19.
- “Structural Narratives of Musical Space and Pacing in Mozart’s String Quartets and Quintets.” KronoScope: International Journal for the Study of Time 9/1-2 (2009): 61-80.
Articles de vulgarisation scientifique
- “Conversing with Enlightenment Polemicists.” Proofed: A Boydell & Brewer Blog. 2023.
- “Modern Times.” Verso Table ronde sur Jacques Rancière avec Oliver Davis et Jussi Palmusaari. Verso Books. 2022.
- “Bill S0231 & DNA Evidence: Effective Tool or Discrimination?” Impact Ethics, sous la dir. de Chris Kaposy (Memorial University). Avec Michael J. Crawford and Erin Kenny. 2022.
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