Dr. Antje Budde
Antje is a multi-lingual associate professor at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. Previously she studied at Humboldt-University Berlin, the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing and the Theatre Academy "Ernst Busch" in Berlin.
She is the co-founder and artistic research facilitator of the Digital Dramaturgy Lab (DDL) and its Institute for Digital Humanities in Performance (idHIP).
As a queer scholar-artist, she is producing creative work in research, theatre/performance/media, and in her pedagogy.
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Practice-as-research methodology is at the heart of her creative work, academic research and teaching. She has designed international courses for both undergraduate and graduate students and has travelled with them providing experiential and intellectual learning opportunities. Many times she has collaborated with doctoral students who contributed to her courses as teaching assistants or research assistants. This time she is co-teaching with Sebastian Samur, a doctoral candidate of our graduate program. Antje and Sebastian have collaborated previously on several artistic and scholarly projects of the Digital Dramaturgy Lab (DDL).
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Research interests:
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Digital Humanities and literacies in performance
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Feminist-queer gender studies/ theatre, literature, film, TV
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Media studies/ TV history and its artistic representations,
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Intercultural communication with special interest in experimental approaches to theatre/performance
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China and Chinese Diaspora activities in theatre/ performing arts (including Canada)
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European/ German theatre history and contemporary experimental theatre
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Recent publications:
Antje Budde "Affecting the apparatus: Queer feminist re/de-codings in the works of the Digital Dramaturgy Lab (DDL), Toronto" Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times. (Contemporary Performance Interactions Series) Edited by Elin Diamond, Denise Varney and Candice Amich. Palgrave 2017. 189-200
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Antje Budde "Hacking Hacks – Queer observations. - Hacks als Ingenieur querer/queerer Baustellen imaginierter und spielerischer Welten? Hacks. Jahrbuch 2016. Peter-Hacks-Gesellschaft. Edited by Kai Köhler. Eulenspiegelverlag Berlin, 2016. 111-154.
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Groundwork. Chinese Theatre, "World Theatre" ... Beyond? - Teaching cross-cultural narratives of theatre history, theory and performance. Theatre and Learning. Ed. Art Babayants and Heather Fitzsimmons-Frey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2015.185-208.
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Antje Budde (ed.) Fiebach. - Theater. Wissen. Machen. Theater der Zeit, Berlin (2014)
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Antje Budde (ed.) Ibsen intercultural: Nora’s Door Slamming Around the Globe. June 2011, vol. 38.2 (Guest editor for Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/ Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée. Special issue.​
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Antje Budde "Disturbance East. Punks in East Berlin. - Memory, Gender and Cold War in a Post-1989 Television Documentary" When the World Turned Upside-Down: Cultural Representations of Post-1989 Eastern Europe. Ed. Kathleen Starck. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009. 85-100.
Antje Budde "Faust's Spectacular Travels through China: Recent Faust Productions and their History." International Faust Studies : Adaptation, Reception, Translation. Ed. Lorna Fitzsimmons. London: Continuum, 2008. 177-205.