Elena Backhausen M.A.

I am a research associate at the Department for Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies (FTMK) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and at the Collaborative Research Center 1482 “Studies in Human Categorisation,” where I work on Project A02: “Disability Performance as Human Differentiation.”

I studied theater studies and German philology in Mainz and Helsinki, and dramaturgy in Frankfurt and Stockholm.

Research and publications

My research focuses on performance and trust in Paralympic sports. Together with Benjamin Wihstutz and Noa Winter, I am coeditor of the international anthology Out of Time? Temporality in Disability Performance (Routledge 2023).

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