Dr. Elisabeth Knittelfelder, BA MA

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Telephone: +43 1 4277 43203
E-Mail: elisabeth.knittelfelder@univie.ac.at

Office hours: by arrangement

 Profile

Elisabeth Knittelfelder is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the African Studies Department at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has worked on South African theatre at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa and at Potsdam University in Germany. Her current research explores hydrocolonialism, environmental crises, and climate justice in African literature and theatre.

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  • Publications

    Knittelfelder, Elisabeth. "Re-enchanted Bodies of Water: Towards a Decolonial Tidalectics in Recent African Fiction and Performance".Scrutiny2, 2025, pp. 1–18.
    doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/18125441.2024.2428453

    Knittelfelder, Elisabeth. "Performing the archive: Resisting Black female erasure on stage, page, and fabric" Ruptured Commons, edited by Anna Guttman and Veronica J. Austen, John Benjamins, 2024, pp. 119-137.
    doi:https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.19

    Knittelfelder, Elisabeth. "Interrelating Necrocities and Borderscapes in the Migration Performances The Jungle, Lampedusa, and The Walk" Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, vol. 11, no. 1, 2023, pp. 102-119.
    doi:https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2023-0006

    Knittelfelder, Elisabeth. "The “Ordinary” Cruelty and the Theatre as Witness in Four South African Plays" Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, vol. 8, no. 1, 2020, pp. 160-176.
    doi:https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2020-0012

Last updated: 20.05.2025