Senior postdoc, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies

Book Project/FWF ESPRIT grant, mentor Prof. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann, 2025-2028

'The Performance of Critique: AI, Bodily Intelligence, and Posthumanist Aesthetics'

https://www.akbild.ac.at/en/research/projects/research_projects/2025/the-performance-of-critique-ai-bodily-intelligence-and-posthumanist-aesthetics?set_language=en

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Wissenschaftsstipendium, Stadt Wien, September 2023-April 2024

"'Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn": Feminismus, Ausstellungspolitik, und Ästhetische Wahrnehmung'

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Research Residency Fellowship, steirischer Herbst, 2022    

 Project:

'"Sometimes I think I was a parrot, but then I realised I am only a fish":

 On "Animal Art" & its Contemporary Condition'

https://www.steirischerherbst.at/en/program/events/4016/steirischer-herbst-research-fellowship-lecture-lisa-moravec 

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Post-doc Research Grant, OEAD, 2021-22

I am researching ‘feminist animalities’ in a comparative reading of UK and Austrian feminist performances. The project is located at the Academy of Fine Arts, and supervised by Prof. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann.

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EDUCATION

PhD, 2017-21                                                                                                

"Dressaged Animality": Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance'

Royal Holloway, University London, Drama, Theatre, and Dance Department

Supervisor Prof. Jennifer Parker-Starbuck & advisor Dr. Georgina Guy

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MA

Aisthesis: Historische Diskurse in Kunst & Literatur

Bayrisches Elitenetzwerk: Augsburg, Regensburg, Eichstätt, LMU, GER

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MA

Art History

University College London, UK

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BA

Economic Theory with Journalism

Kingston University, UK

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MEMBERSHIPS

AICA, International Association of Art Critics, Austria

Associate Fellowship, Higher Education Academy, UK

Österreichischer Verband für Kunsthistoriker/innnen (VöKK)

International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR)

Minding Animals, Germany

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GRANTS

FWF Esprit Grant, 2025-28.

MA7 Wissenschaftsstipendium, Stadt Wien, 2023-24.

Archival Research fellowship, steirischer herbst, Graz, 2022. 

Post-Doc Ernst-Mach research grant, Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, 2021-22.

University of London PGR Fund, workshop organisation, 2021. 

IFTR, travel bursary, 2020. 

Glynne Wickham Scholarship for international conference participation,  SCUDD, USA, November 2018.

Una Ellis-Fermor Travel Award, research/archive visit, USA, November 2018.

Royal Holloway, fully-funded PhD scholarship, associate of the TECHNE consortium, AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, Sept 2017-21.