Research

Research Fields

(Global) Theatre and Media History

Historiography • Visual Culture

Urban Studies  • Intermediality

Digital Humanities(DH) •  Audience Research

photo:  Nic together with Anirban Ghosh after the defense of his PhD thesis "The Tropic Trapeze. Circus in Colonial India" (24 Jan, 2014, Munich; photo: Christine Kneifel, twm)

Current Research Projects: 

• Transatlantic Theatrical Networks (1900-1929)

www.gth.theaterwissenschaft.uni-muenchen.de 

• Theatrescapes. Digital Theatre and Media History (LMUexcellent)

www.theatrescapes.theaterwissenschaft.uni-muenchen.de 

Grants & Awards

• Junior Researcher in Residence, Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), LMU Munich, 1 April-30 September 2014
  

• Karl Ferdinand  Werner Fellowship at the DHI/ German Historical Institute Paris, February-March 2014
  

• research start-up grant LMUexcellent for DH project "Theatrescapes. Mapping Global Theatre and Media Histories" (with Ch. Balme) 
  

• Visiting Fellow Martin Segal Center, CUNY, New York  City,  (January-December, 2013) 
  

• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (GISFOH Symposium 2011 (Israel) & 2012 (Germany) 

• Mentee in the Mentoring Programme "LMU excellent for highly qualified emerging female scholars" (since 2010)  

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

  Bursary for guest lectureship (Gastdozentur) at Columbia University and Barnard College, New York City (2007) 

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

  Bursary for internship with the Goethe Institute, New York City (2004)
  

• German American Fulbright Commission (for attending the Fulbright Professors Summer Institute, “Visual Culture and Media in the United States”, Amherst, Boston, New York City, 2003
  

• M.A. Completion Grant of the University of Mainz (2000)
  

• Travel Stipends by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Scientific Affiliations/ Memberships