Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
Raised Faculty Building
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
United Kingdom
- 19th- and 20th-century literature and thought
- film and performance culture
- history and theory of dance
- critical theory
Dr Ruprecht welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to her interests.
- history, theory, and aesthetics of theatre dance
- cultures of gesture
- queer modernism
- virtuosity and charisma
- Weimar film
- 19th-century German literature (among others Kleist, Hoffmann, Heine)
- 20th-century German literature (among others Kafka, Robert Walser, W. G. Sebald)
‘Reenactment as Historiography: A New History of 20th-Century Dance’ (in preparation)
‘Virtuosity and Charisma’, carried out from 2005 to 2010 in collaboration with the project ‘The Virtuoso’s Stage: Performance at the Limit’ (led by Gabriele Brandstetter) at the Research Centre Kulturen des Performativen at Free University Berlin
Monographs
Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)
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Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) (Special citation, de la Torre Bueno Prize for Dance Studies).
Edited Volumes
Towards an Ethics of Gesture, Special Section of Performance Philosophy 3/1 (2017).
New German Dance Studies, edited with Susan Manning (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012).
Special Issue on ‘Cultural Pleasure’, edited with Michael Minden, German Life & Letters 62/3 (2009).
Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies, edited with Carolin Duttlinger and Andrew Webber (Oxford: Lang, 2003).
Articles and Chapters
‘Afterword: Notes after the Fact’, in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment, ed. by Mark Franko (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 607-620.
'Introduction: Towards an Ethics of Gesture', Performance Philosophy 3/1 (2017), 4-22.
‘Gesture, Interruption, Vibration: Rethinking Early Twentieth-Century Gestural Theory and Practice in Walter Benjamin, Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman’, Dance Research Journal 47/2 (2015), 23-42.
‘Crossmapping Grief in William Forsythe’s Three Atmospheric Studies’, Forum for Modern Language Studies 50/3 (2014), 289-304.
‘Anfangsszenen von Autorschaft in Franz Kafka’s Betrachtung’, in Franz Kafka’s ‘Betrachtung’: Neue Lektüren, ed. by Carolin Duttlinger (Freiburg: Rombach, 2014), 37-56.
‘The Imaginary Life of Nineteenth-Century Virtuosity’, DVjs 87/3 (2013), 323-55.
‘Werthers Walzer. Tanz als kulturelle Codierung von Liebe und Intimität’, Goethe Jahrbuch (2011), 44-59.
‘Ambivalent Agency: Gestural Performances of Hands in Weimar Dance and Film’, Seminar 46/3 (2010), 255-75.
‘Virtuoso Servitude and (De)Mobilization in Robert Walser, W. G. Sebald and the Brothers Quay’, The German Quarterly 83/1 (2010), 58-76.
‘Pleasure and Affinity in W. G. Sebald and Robert Walser’, German Life & Letters 62/3 (2009) 311-26.
‘Der Virtuose geht. Waslaw Nijinskys L’Après-midi d’un faune’, Arcadia 43/2 (2008), 237-56.
