CURRICULUM VITAE
LISA SKWIRBLIES
01.10.1985 in Preetz (Germany)
0031687224959
lisa.skwirblies@gmail.com
PROFILE
Lisa is a researcher, dramaturg and advisor in the realm of theatre and
performance living and working in Amsterdam, London and Berlin. She is
currently conducting her PhD on ‘the affective grid of German colonialism’ at the
University of Warwick (UK). Lisa regularly advises and mentors students from the
School for New Dance Development and from the international Performance
Master DasArts in Amsterdam. She is a board member of the theatre, dance and
performance festival SPRING in Utrecht and brings an international academic as
well as artistic network.
EDUCATION
University of Warwick (UK)
Ph.D Candidate at the School for Theatre and Performance Studies
2013-2017
University of Warwick, University of Amsterdam
M.A. in International Performance Research (MAIPR), with distinction
2011-2013
University of Munich
M.A. in Theatre Studies, Comperative Literature, Germanistik, with distinction
2005-2011
WORK
EXPERIENCE
Mentor / Advisor
SNDO (School for New Dance Development), DASARTS, Amsterdam
Research Assistant
Theatre Spectatorship and Value Attribution, British Theatre
Consortium London
Researcher (Seminar on Art and Activism)
DasArts, Amsterdam
Dramaturg
IOOTCP (Instituut voor onoficieel onderzoek naar de cultuur van
Polen), ongoing performance project by Annefleur Schep
TEACHING
2013 - 2015
Oct 2013 – Jan 2014
Nov – Dec 2013
since Jan 2013
Student Researcher
Global Theatre Histories, Research Project at the University of Munich
(Prof. Christopher Balme)
2010 - 2011
Student Researcher
Reformulating Antiquity, Research Project at the University of Munich
(Prof. Christopher Balme and Prof. Julia Stenzel)
2009 – 2011
“The Document and the Archive in Performance Art”
Taught seminar at DasArts, Amsterdam
Dec 2014
“Exhibit B and contemporary re-engagements with colonial
ethnography”
Research Seminar at the University of Warwick, with Prof. Yvette Hutchison
(Warwick) and Prof. Katrin Sieg (Georgetown University Washington)
“Dance Dramaturgy and Performance Theory”
Taught seminar for 2nd year students at SNDO, Amsterdam
CONFERENCE
PAPERS AND
PUBLICATIONS
MAIPR-symposium at IFTR conference
Organisation and moderation of student symposium at Barcelona
‘The Global Graduate.’ In: Performance Studies – The
Unconditional Discipline? Palgrave: New York 2015.
‘Trauma Tragedy. Symptoms of Contemporary Performance.’
In: Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2014. (Book review)
SCHOLARSHIPS
AND
DISTINCTIONS
Jan – Mar 2014
July 2013
forthcoming
2014
‘Black Bismarck and the Multidirectionality of Memory’
Conference Paper, New Scholars Forum IFTR, Warwick
2014
Performing the Veil. Zur Darstellung ‘muslimischer Verschleierung
Und ‘weiblichem’ Körper in den visuellen Künsten nach 9/11.
Berlin: Tectum-Verlag 2012. (Master Thesis published)
2012
University of Warwick
DARO scholarship for pursuing a PhD
University of Warwick, University of Amsterdam
Award for outstanding MA thesis
Erasmus Mundus
Scholarship for studying in the MAIPR programme
University of Munich
Award for outstanding MA thesis (published)
LANGUAGES
Nov 2014
2013 – 2017
2012
2011 – 2012
2011
The German National Merit Foundation
Provision of scholarships for outstanding students
2009 – 2011
The German-Polish Society
Scholarship for a five-months-stay in Lodz (PL)
2008
German – native speaker
English – excellent
Dutch – fluent
French – passive
Polish – passive