Katia Arfara
Katia Arfara is an Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, New York University Abu Dhabi. She holds a PhD in Art History (Paris I University), a BA in Classical Studies and a BA and MA in Theater Studies (Athens University). Her essays on socially-engaged art, public works, and post-documentary performance have appeared in various journals and critical anthologies. Professor Arfara is a Fulbright fellow, a DAAD and Clemens Heller scholar. In summer 2019, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. She has lectured extensively in France and Greece. As the Theater and Dance Artistic Director and Curator of the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens (2009-2019), she has initiated and curated numerous artistic productions, discursive events and interdisciplinary festivals such as the annual, research-based Fast Forward (2014-2019), an international performing and visual arts festival that commissioned site-specific works at the intersection of art, science and civic practice. Professor Arfara is the author of the book Théâtralités contemporaines (2011), the editor of the special issue “Scènes en transition-Balkans et Grèce” for Théâtre/Public (2016), and the co-editor of Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere (2018).