Dr.
Melanie Gruß

Melanie Gruß has been a research assistant at the Institute of Theater Studies at the University of Leipzig and at the Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. since 2018. She studied theater studies, psychology, and general and comparative literature in Leipzig and Paris. With the dissertation "Synästhesie als Diskurs. Sehnsuchts- und Denkfigur zwischen Kunst, Medien und Wissenschaft" she received her PhD in 2015, supported by a scholarship from the Free State of Saxony. Her research focuses on theater, dance, and cultural history of modernity, linkages between cultures of movement and knowledge, and interfaces between the arts, media, and sciences. In addition to teaching at the Institute of Theater Studies, she is currently involved in various projects (evaluation of the Bündnis internationaler Produktionshäuser, development of NFDI4culture, Tanz digital) and is working on her own research project on the history of the Tanzarchiv Leipzig and dance research in the GDR.