Eve Katsouraki is a senior lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of East London.  Her doctorate studies at the University of Edinburgh and current publications explore issues of performance theory and modernist theatre in relation to politics, aesthetics, and philosophy. Her main research interests concern the intersections between theories of aesthetics and political philosophy, most particularly Giorgio Agamben, Georges Bataille, Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zižek, Chantal Mouffe, Ernesto Laclau and Jacques Rancière, with performance and cultural theory. She is the co-convenor of TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) for the Theatre, Performance & Philosophy Group, and a founding organiser and core convenor of the Performance Philosophy Research Association. At present Eve is working on a book about reconfiguring the radical performatives and aesthetic practices of early modernist theatre and on two edited collections of essays: Failure, Representation & Negative Theatre to be published in 2014 and Theatre, Agonism and Radical Democracy also in 2014. She has recently co-edited a special journal edition themed ‘Bodies of Failure’ for Somatechnics (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).

Eve has delivered numerous conference papers all over the world, has organized several significant conference meetings and symposiums on various subjects from performance and philosophy, including the inaugural international conference of ‘Performance Philosophy – Staging a New Field’ of the Performance Philosophy Research Association in April 2013.  Eve has also trained as a director at the Gate Theatre, BBC and in Greece and her practice includes performance installations, post-dramatic theatre, physical theatre, and film.

Qualifications

• MA Drama & Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
• PhD English Lit (Drama), Edinburgh University

• Admission Tutor to the undergraduate degree BA Theatre Studies
• Acting Programme Leader in BA Theatre Studies
• Acting Programme Leader in MA Directing & MA Acting

• Performance theory and philosophy
• Cultural theory and Post-modernity
• Modernist theatre theory and practice
• Biopolitics and radical political philosophy
• Aesthetic theory and transcendental philosophy

Potential research students with projects in any of the above areas are welcome to get in touch.

• Reading Performance
• Making Performance
• World Theatre II
• Acting Processes
• Performing the Archive
• MA Performance Lab
• MA Dissertations (including practical dissertations)

“Between the ‘performative’ of Nietzschean philosophy and Modernist Theatre Practice,” Ethical Encounters: Boundaries of Theatre, Performance and Philosophy, ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe & Dan Watt(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)

“Acting Transmutations: From Imitation to Interpretation,” Origins of Dramatic Modernism in England 1870-1914, ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe & Gregory Tague (Academica Press, 2010)

‘Bodies of Failure’, Somatechnics, ed. Eve Katsouraki & Daniel Watt (Edinburgh University Press, March 2013)

“Violating Failures: Rosa Luxemburg’s Spartacus and Dada Anti-manifestation,” in Somatechnics, ed. Eve Katsouraki & Dan Watt (March 2013)

“Aesthetic Encounters of a Collective Consciousness,” in Embodied Consciousness: Technologies of Performance ed., Jade Rosina McCutcheon & Barbara Sellers-Young (Palgrave, 2013)

Theatre & Philosophy ed. Eve Katsouraki & Daniel Watt (Cambridge Scholars, 2013)

'A Life that is not Worth Living', Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophy, Politics and Performance ed. Wilmer & Zukauskaite (Routledge 2014).

“Zizek’s Death Drive, the intervention of Grace and the Wagnerian Performative – Conceptualising the Director’s Subjectivity,” in Zizek and Performance, ed. Broderick Chow & Alex Mangold (Palgrave, 2014) forthcoming

“Embodied Manifestations” in Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement, ed. Karin Sellberg (Ashgate, 2014) forthcoming

Current publication projects

Towards a Philosophical Theatre: Aesthetics and Politics of Early Modernism (2014) Forthcoming

Failure, Representation & Negative Theatre, ed. Eve Katsouraki & Daniel Watt (2014) Forthcoming

Theatre, Agonism and Radical Democracy ed. Eve Katsouraki & Tony Fisher (2015) Forthcoming

• Co-convenor to Theatre, Performance & Philosophy Group of TaPRA (Theatre & Performance Research Association)  http://tapra.org/groups/theatre-performance-and-philosophy/
• Core convenor and founding member of Performance Philosophy Research Association http://performancephilosophy.ning.com/page/about