Lindsey Drury and Nina Tolksdorf, Editorial: Conversing the Book

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Lindsey Drury and Nina Tolksdorf, Editorial: Conversing the Book. Interface Critique 5 (2025): 8–18.

DOI: 10.11588/ic.2025.1.113936. 

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Lindsey Drury is an historian and theorist who works on critical/digital research approaches to the colonial histories of dance, performance, and embodiment. She holds a PhD in early modern studies from Freie Universität Berlin and University of Kent-Canterbury and currently works as a Postdoc within Critical Dance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the 2022 Honorable Mention for the Gertrude Lippincott award for best article in the field of dance studies, was awarded an Erasmus Mundus Fellowship (2015-2019) for her PhD research and a Graduate Research Fellowship at the University of Utah (2007-2008). Her forthcoming book analyses the radical materialist, mystical, and medical writings of Theophrastus von Hohenheim in the effort to resurface a history of the early modern cosmological thought on dance.

Nina Tolksdorf is Research Associate at the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities” at the Freie Universität Berlin. She studied German Literature, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy in Berlin and Aberdeen and received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Her research focuses on transdisciplinary approaches to literature, and she is the author of the book Performativity and Rhetoric of Sincerity: Nietzsche – Kleist – Kafka – Lasker-Schüler (De Gruyter 2020) the co-editor of Kollektive Autor*innenschaft: Analog/digital (J.B. Metzler 2024) and Die Sprache im digitalen [technischen] Zeitalter, Nr. 251, 2024.