PhD and Post-Doc Projects
Our research team is currently working on the following PhD and Post-Doc projects under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger.
- ‘Being Horizontal’ (monograph / habilitation project)
The standard enlightenment representation of the human body is of a singular, upright, able-bodied, autonomous man. Dr. Nora Heidorn’s medical humanities and visual culture research project Being Horizontal is concerned with imagery of reclined and inclined bodies that contest this ideal. The philosopher Adriana Cavarero, whose book Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude (2016) has informed my thinking, theorises inclination as a model of the subject that is mutually dependent with others and situated in its world. Being Horizontal collects images from the history of… - ‘Making Sense: Deformity in Seventeenth-Century Texts’
Alina Lange’s PhD project explores early modern perceptions of the ‘deformed’ body. - ‘Embodying Long Covid – The Discursive Construction of a Health Movement’
Carina Hilmar’s PhD project focuses on Long Covid patient communities and the surrounding patient activism. - ‘Face Time: The Semiotic Temporalities of Biometric Art’
In his doctoral research project, Devon Schiller proposes that biometric art that uses emotion recognition is fundamentally poly-temporal. - ‘Living Forever: Fictions of Radical Life Extension, 1878-1918’
James Aaron Green’s ÖAW-funded project examines literary thought experiments that pose the question, What would it mean to live forever?