is a professor of theatre studies at the University of Leipzig. She is a member of the editorial board for the journal Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. She has been an associate director at the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris and a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. The primary concerns of her research are modern concepts and staging of national and transnational communities in Europe and Latin America and a historiography of bodily knowledge and media technologies from modernity to the present.