Publications / Awards / Research Activities

Publications

(for full texts visit my Academia.edu page)

Books

• (forthcoming 2024, monograph) Paramana, Katerina. Contemporary Performance and Political Economy: Oikonomia as a new ethico-political paradigm. Routledge.
• 2021. Paramana, Katerina and Gonzalez, Anita (eds.). Performance, Dance and Political Economy: Bodies at the End of the World. Bloomsbury Academic.
• 2020. Whatley, Sarah, Racz, Imogen, Paramana, Katerina, and Crawley, Marie-Louise  (eds.). Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body, Space, Object. Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Series

• Co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Book Series Dance in Dialogue; Series co-editor 2018-2021. Bloomsbury Academic. Co-edited with Anita Gonzalez and Victoria Thoms.

Refereed Academic Articles and Chapters 

• 2023. Paramana, Katerina. ‘The Oscillation of Contemporary Bodies Between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Tania Bruguera’s Wrestling with Power Structures‘. Filozofski Vestnik, 44(2), 265-285.
• 2021. Paramana, Katerina. ‘Performance, Dance and Political Economy: A Provocation‘. In Performance, Dance and Political Economy: Bodies at the End of the World. Paramana, K. and Gonzalez, A. (eds.) Bloomsbury Academic.
• 2021. Paramana, Katerina and Gonzalez, Anita. ‘Opening Thoughts and Introductions’. In Performance, Dance and Political Economy: Bodies at the End of the World. Paramana, K. and Gonzalez, A. (eds.) Bloomsbury Academic.
• 2021. Paramana, Katerina, Gonzalez, Anita, Power, Nina, Blanco Borelli, Melissa, Loizidou, Elena, Johnson-Small, Jamila, Seregina, Usva, Hemsley, Alexandrina, and Arthur, Marc. ‘In Conversation: Performance, Dance and Political Economy’. In Performance, Dance and Political Economy: Bodies at the End of the World. Paramana, K. and Gonzalez, A. (eds.) Bloomsbury Academic.
• 2020. Crawley, Marie-Louise, Paramana, Katerina, Racz, Imogen and Whatley, Sarah . ‘Introduction’, in Whatley, S.,  Racz, I., Paramana, K., and Crawley, M. (Eds.) Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body, Space, Object. Palgrave Macmillan.
• 2019. Paramana. Katerina. ‘The Animation of Contemporary Subjectivity in Tino Sehgal’s Ann Lee’, Performance Research 24(6), 114-121.
• 2017. Paramana, Katerina. ‘The Contemporary Dance Economy: Problems and Potentials in the Contemporary Neoliberal Moment’, Special issue ‘Dancing Economies: Currency, Value and Labour’, Dance Research, 35(1), 75–95. (Full text available at my Academia.edu)
• 2017. Georgelou, Konstantina, Hildebrandt, Antje and Paramana, Katerina. ‘The PSi Manifesto Lexicon – An Online Discursive Platform’, GPS: Global Performance Studies, 1(1).  (Full text available at my Academia.edu)
• 2015. Paramana, Katerina. ‘Re-turning to The Show’, Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, 20(5), 116-124. (Full text available at my Academia.edu)
• 2015. Paramana, Katerina. Text contribution to the ‘Acts of Voting: a Lexicon’, curated by Philip Hager & Marilena Zaroulia, Contemporary Theatre Review Interventions (Online), 25(2).
• 2014. Paramana, Katerina. ‘On Resistance through Ruptures and the Rupture of Resistances in Tino Sehgal’s These Associations’, Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, 19(6), 81-89. (Full text available at my Academia.edu)
• 2014. Paramana, Katerina. (Editorial) ‘Solidarity and/in Performance: Rethinking Definitions & Exploring Potentialities’ activate e-journal, 3(1). (Full text available at my Academia.edu)
• 2011. Paramana, Katerina. ‘Muddle, muddle toil and trouble: Disorder and potentiality’, activate e-journal, 1(1).

Published Practice-Based Outputs

(DVDs available at the British Library and the Live Art Development Agency’s Study Room):

• Paramana, Katerina. Talking with Strangers: What is Violence?, Performance Matters – Potentials of Performance, (2012) The White Building, London (http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/catalogue/performance-matters-potentials-of-performance-talking-with-strangers-what-i).
• Paramana, Katerina. Martyro, Performance Matters – Trashing Performance –Trash Salon: How to do things with waste?, (2011) Toynbee Studios, London (http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/catalogue/trashing-performancetrash-salon-how-to-do-things-with-waste-part-2).

Creative Text Online Publications

• Paramana, Katerina. 2013. (Re)definition of the term ‘solidarity’. PSi Manifesto Lexicon. Gigi Argyropoulou, Konstantina Georgelou, Efrosini Protopapa, Danae Theodoridou and Steriani Tsintziloni (eds.).
• Paramana, Katerina. 2012. (Re)definitions of the terms ‘reading’, ‘co-authoring’ and ‘witness’. PSi Manifesto Lexicon. Gigi Argyropoulou, Konstantina Georgelou, Efrosini Protopapa, Danae Theodoridou and Steriani Tsintziloni (eds.).

Recent Awards & Funding

• (2023) Shortlisted for a Research Impact Award, Brunel University London.
• (2022-23) Research Seminar Series Award (Brunel Univ.) for ‘Performance and Political Economy: Bodies, Politics, and Well-Being in the 21st Century‘.
• (2021-23) ‘BRIL’ Research Award (‘Brunel Research Interdisciplinary Lab’) for the interdisciplinary collaborative project ‘The Social, Ecological, Political, and Cultural Implications of Extinction‘.
• (2019-22) Research ‘BRIEF Award’ (‘BRUNEL RESEARCH INITIATIVE AND ENTERPRISE FUND’), Brunel University London
• (2017) British Society of Aesthetics– Grant for the organisation of the conference ‘Dialogues on Dance, Philosophy, and Performance in the Contemporary Neoliberal Moment’ at Coventry University.

Boards & Assessment Panels

• (2020-present) PSi Advisory Committee on Antiracism and Anticolonialism.
• (2018-present) Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Peer Review College – Assessment Panel Member, Performing Arts Subject Group.
• (2018-present) Editorial Board, Body, Space & Technology (BST) Journal
• (2016-2019) Board of Directors, Performance Studies International (PSi)
• (2016-2018) Executive Committee, Society for Dance Research (SDR)

Editorial Roles

• (2022-present) Founding Editor, ‘Political Economy and the Arts’, the new section of Lateral, the refereed journal of the Cultural Studies Association. First issue ‘Performance, Politics and Well-Being’ forthcoming 2024.
• (2018-2021)  Book Series Editor, Interdisciplinary Book Series Dance in Dialogue, Bloomsbury Academic.
• (2018- present)  Editorial Board, Body, Space & Technology (BST) journal.
• (2016- 2019)  General Editor, Performance Studies International, PSi Manifesto Lexicon.
• (2015-16)  Review Editor, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices
• (2013-14)  Guest Editor, ‘Solidarity and/in Performance: Rethinking Definitions & Exploring Potentialities’ activate e-journal, 3(1).
• (2010-13)  Editorial Committee Member, activate e-journal.

Research Projects & Related Activities

• (2022-23) Curated and organised the Research Seminar Series ‘Performance and Political Economy: Bodies, Politics, and Well-Being in the 21st Century‘.
• (2021-23) Co-I, BRIL (‘Brunel Research Interdisciplinary Lab’) for the interdisciplinary collaborative project ‘The Social, Ecological, Political, and Cultural Implications of Extinction‘.
• (2019-22) PI, ‘BRIEF Award’ Project (‘BRUNEL RESEARCH INITIATIVE AND ENTERPRISE FUND’), Brunel University London.
• (2015-18)  Participating Artist, Sadler’s Wells Summer University. Directed by Jonathan Burrows in collaboration with Eva Martinez, Sadler’s Wells, London.
• (2015) Participating Artist, Performing Arts Forum (PAF) with Jonathan Burrows, Jan Ritsema, Mårten Spångberg, and Bojana Cvejic. Siobhan Davies Studios, London.
• (2010-13)  Associate Researcher with Performance Matters, an AHRC-funded Programme. A three-year creative research project and collaboration between University of Roehampton, London, Goldsmiths, University of London and the Live Arts Development Agency investigating the cultural value of performance. Directed by Professor Adrian Heathfield, Dr Gavin Butt and Lois Keidan.

Internal Positions of Responsibility (Brunel University London)

• (2022-present) Research Lead
• (2022-present) Lead of the CBASS Performance, Cultures and Politics Research Group
• (2022-present) PGR Director for the CBASS Global Lives Research Centre
• (2022-present) Lead of the Arts and Humanities Department Research Peer-Mentoring Scheme
• (2022-present) Arts and Humanities Research Committee
• (2022-present) Arts and Humanities EDI Working Group
• (2022-present) Member of the Human Geography: Space, Place and Society Research group
• (2020-22) Arts and Humanities Recruitment Working Group
• (2020-2022) Admissions Tutor
• (2017-present)  Working Group Member for the Design of the new MA in Contemporary Performance programme
• (2017-2020) Chair of Exams
• (2017-2020)  Extenuating Circumstances Panel Member

Peer-Reviewing

• Rowman & Littlefield Press
• Arts Journal (ISSN 2076-0752)
• Bloomsbury Academic
• Routledge 
• GPS: Global Performance Studies journal
• Dance Research Journal
• Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and GPS: Global Performance Studies journal Joint issue
• Performing Ethos: An International Journal of Ethics in Theatre and Performance journal
• Airea, Arts and Interdisciplinary Research Journal, Edinburgh College of Art
• Body, Space & Technology (BST) Journal

Event Organisation

• (2022-23) Curated and organised the Research Seminar Series ‘Performance and Political Economy: Bodies, Politics, and Well-Being in the 21st Century‘.
• (2022) Co-organiser of the international conference ‘Extinction: Implications from the Microbial to the Planetary (ExIMP).
• (2017)  Co-organiser of the Conference ‘Dialogues on Dance, Philosophy, and Performance in the Contemporary Neoliberal Moment’, Coventry University.
• (2016) Co-organizer of the Body, Space, Object Symposium, Coventry University.
• (2016) Working Group Convenor and Panel Chair, ‘The production of the Social in Contemporary Performance’, Body, Space, Object Symposium, Coventry University.
• (2013) Curation & organisation of the symposium ‘Rethinking Economies’, University of Roehampton, London. Co-curated and co-organised with Gigi Argyropoulou. Presentations by Professor Nicholas Ridout, Dr Sophie Nield, Dr Eve Katsouraki, and Tim Jeeves. Funded by Roehampton University’s Centre for Performance and Creative Exchange.
• (2011) Co-curator of the festival ‘Performing Text / Reading Performance’ (PANDEMIC), Bank Street Arts Gallery, Sheffield, U.K.

Recent Invited Talks