Steff Nellis is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Department of Art History, Musicology, and Theatre Studies at Ghent University. His research interests mainly center around theatricality and performativity of religious rituals in the early modern world. He is part of the editorial board of Documenta: Journal for Theater and he has published on a variety of subjects in journals such as Forum Modernes Theater, Sculpture Journal, Critical Stages, Lateral, Forum +, Rekto:Verso, and Etcetera.

Projects

Projects as PhD researcher

Theatricality and idolatry in Bernard Picart's 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde', 1723-1743 (2020 - 2026)

Publications

Key publications

All rise! Jurisdiction as performance/ performative language(2021)
- Steff Nellis
Theatre strike for climate : lending a voice to nature in tribunal theatre(2021)
- Steff Nellis
Enacting law : the dramaturgy of the courtroom on the contemporary stage(2021)
- Steff Nellis
De Waarheidscommissie reconsidered : tussen realiteit en fictie : een postkoloniaal-marxistische analyse van De Waarheidscommissie van Action Zoo Humain(2019)
- Steff Nellis

Most recent publications

Full bibliography

Teaching

Inleiding in Theaterwetenschappen (2020 - heden)

Dramaturgie (2020 - heden)

Onderzoeksvaardigheden I (2020 - heden)

Rituele aspecten van podium- en mediale kunsten (2020 - heden)

Research Seminar (2020 - heden)

Gastles Onderzoeksvaardigheden II: Historisch onderzoek binnen de Theaterwetenschappen (2021, 2022)

Gastles Danstheater: Ballet, Idolatrie & The Male Gaze (2021)

Services

Part of the editorial board of Documenta: Journal for Theater (General workflow, peer review, contact, communication ...).
AAP Representative
Alternate member of the Faculty Library Committee