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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rossella Ferrari
Rossella Ferrari

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I am a Professor of Chinese Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies. I hold a BA and MA (Laurea summa cum laude) from the University of Venice and an MA and PhD from SOAS University of London, where I taught before joining the University of Vienna in September 2020. I specialize in the performance cultures of the Chinese-speaking region. In "Pop Goes the Avant-garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China" (2012), I propose the notion of “pop avant-garde” to understand aesthetic and power relations between performance, politics, and economics in postsocialist China. Research on Hong Kong’s transmedia group, Zuni Icosahedron, has led me to explore connections between theatre and other disciplines (e.g. film, architecture, visual arts) and to think through the idea of what I call “Xiqu 2.0”, namely, how heritage performance genres interact with new techniques and technologies. I have drawn on Asia-focused methodologies to formulate the notion of “Asian theatre as method”, which seeks to destabilize Western-centred approaches to intercultural analysis while investigating processes of informal reconciliation through the arts. My third book, "Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia" (2020), explores transnational performance networks in the contemporary Sinosphere and across East Asia to see how contested historical memories and sociopolitical conflicts are tackled collectively and comparatively through intercultural collaboration. Another book, "Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance Through Hong Kong and Singapore" (2021, co-edited with Ashley Thorpe) proposes the notion of “city as method” to look at city-to-city networks centred on Hong Kong and Singapore. I have also researched strategies of intertextuality and adaptation between Chinese, Asian, and global performance cultures (e.g. Latin America), and I am currently working on a new long-term project on "performing postsocialism" in 21st century China.

Sommersemester 2022
150125 PS Postsocialist Afterlives of Socialist Performance Culture (M2 LK) - Remodelling the Model Works (yangbanxi)
150127 SE Realism and Modern Chinese Theatre (M3 LK) - From Realist Drama to Postsocialist Theatre of the Real

Ferrari, R. (Angenommen/Im Druck). From Realist Drama to Theatre of the Real: Postsocialist Realism in Contemporary Chinese Theatre. in J. Nakamura, & K. Salzman-Li (Hrsg.), Realisms in East Asian Performance University of Michigan Press.

Ferrari, R. (2022). Xiqu 2.0: Expanded Chinese Opera in Digital Times. Manuskript zur Veröffentlichung eingereicht.

Ferrari, R. (2022, Apr). The Spirits Play Online: Hearing What the Spirits Have to Say, Again. Manuskript zur Veröffentlichung eingereicht.





Ferrari, R., & Thorpe, A. (Hrsg.) (2021). Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore. (1 Aufl.) Routledge. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies

Ferrari, R., & Thorpe, A. (2021). Introduction. Mapping the Terrain: Hong Kong, Singapore, and the City as Method. in R. Ferrari, & A. Thorpe (Hrsg.), Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore (1 Aufl.). Routledge. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies

Ferrari, R., & Thorpe, A. (2021). Postscript: Asian City Crossings as a Strategy for Freedom? in R. Ferrari, & A. Thorpe (Hrsg.), Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore (1 Aufl.). Routledge. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies

Ferrari, R., (TRANS.), & Yung 榮念曾, D. (2021). 交流的文化與文化的交流. in R. Ferrari, & A. Thorpe (Hrsg.), Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore Routledge. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies




Ferrari, R. (Autor*in). (2020). Contemporary avant-garde theatre: Meng Jinghui: (MCLC Video Lecture Series). Multimediale Veröffentlichung, MCLC (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture) Resource Centre. https://u.osu.edu/mclc/video-lecture-series/




Ferrari, R. (2019). Asian Theatricalities in the Transpacific: The Hispanophone Transculturation of Nick Rongjun Yu's "The Crowd" or, Performing the Chinese Cultural Revolution in Peru. in J. De Kloet, G. P. L. Chong, & Y. F. Chow (Hrsg.), Trans-Asia as Method: Theory and Practices (S. 115-139). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.. Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches

“Xiqu 2.0: Deconstructing Chinese Classical Theatres in Digital Times”

Rossella Ferrari (Invited speaker)

9 Juni 2022

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“Sinophone Performances in Journey-Form in Times of (Im)mobility"

Rossella Ferrari (Invited speaker)

11 Mai 2022

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"Modern China on Stage: Arts, Politics, Industry"

Rossella Ferrari (Invited speaker)

Mai 2022

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Contemporary Acting Techniques in Eurasian Theatre, Performance and Audiovisual Arts

Rossella Ferrari (Selected presenter)

29 Sep. 2021

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The 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS 20219

Rossella Ferrari (Selected presenter)

24 Aug. 2021

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La rivoluzione maoista in Perù tra rappresentazione teatrale e rievocazione politica

Rossella Ferrari (Vortragende*r)

27 Mai 2021

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Transnationalism, Interculturalism and “Asian Theatre as Method”

Rossella Ferrari (Vortragende*r)

21 Mai 2021

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Transnational Chinese Theatres and People’s Theatre Networks in East Asia

Rossella Ferrari (Vortragende*r)

3 Mai 2021

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Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Milano

Rossella Ferrari (Invited speaker)

Mai 2021

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Transnational Chinese Theatres: Aesthetics, Politics, Methods

Rossella Ferrari (Vortragende*r)

18 März 2021

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Performing Chinese Postsocialism: Hauntology, Futurity, and Theatre of the Real

Rossella Ferrari (Vortragende*r)

20 Jan. 2021

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“Rethinking Chinese Theatres: Inter- and Trans-Asian Perspectives”

Rossella Ferrari (Invited speaker)

27 Feb. 2020

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Trans-Asia as Method: Performing the Chinese Cultural Revolution in Latin America (webinar)

Rossella Ferrari (Vortragende*r)

2020

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