Elizabeth Claire, Centre National de la Recherche, EHESS – Paris

Dancing Revolution in Europe: Genius, Vertigo and Cultural Contagion

Dr. Elizabeth Claire, after receiving her Ph.D. at NYU-Performance Studies, conducted postdoctoral research at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and Institut Émilie du Châtelet for gender studies in Paris before receiving tenure at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research). She is currently Assoc. Prof. of Research in History, co-director of the Gender History Research Group (CRH-EHESS), and a founding member of the Cultural History of Dance Workgroup at the Graduate School for Social Sciences (EHESS-Paris). Dr. Claire publishes regularly on the cultural history of dance and recently edited a special issue of Clio. Women, Gender, History: Dancing 46/2017. Current research includes: a manuscript about the medical history of social dancing and the imagination in 18th C Europe; an interdisciplinary book on DisOrienting Bodies with colleagues Mariem Guellouz (France/Tunisia), Prarthana Purkayastha (England/India), and various dance artists and scholars from Europe, Mediterranean Africa, South-East Asia, Iran, and the Balkans; co-editing a book with Xenia von Tippelskirch (Humboldt-Univ. Berlin) uniting German, Italian and French scholarship on the history of dissident bodies and gender; and, with Alessandro Arcangeli, co-editing an issue of the Italian journal Ludica on the cultural history of “Performance, Politics and Play”.