Expert in: Politics of aesthetics
CLAUSIUS, Katharina
Professeure agrégée
- Word and Music Studies
- Theories and practices of intermediality
- Literature criticism
- Littérature et peinture
- Politics of aesthetics
- Cultural policy
- Media Theories
- Musicology
- Aesthetics and visual culture
- Theories of democracy
- Opera
- Visual arts
- Modern and post-modern Theater
- Poetry and poetics
- Early Modern Times
- Baroque Period
- Age of Enlightenment
- 20th century
- 2000 A.D. - Present
- Between the wars
- Intermediality
- 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.