Priv.-Doz. Dr. Katharina Christa Schüppel
PD Dr. Katharina Christa Schüppel is an art historian. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, a scientific museum assistant in advanced training (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) and a research assistant at the Institute for Art History at the University of Leipzig and at the Institute for Art and Material Culture at the Technical University of Dortmund. At the Chair of Medieval Art History at the University of Bamberg, she is conducting research in the DFG Heisenberg Program on "Medieval Madonna Sculptures in Performative Contexts. Gold, Silver and Other Metals" and is a member of the MSCA Doctoral Network "StoryPharm: Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond". Her research focuses on object histories and material histories, particularly of medieval artifacts (written, drawn, painted or sculpted) - from their creation to the present day. The performative contexts she investigates include the multisensory medieval church interior as well as the museum or the exhibition, in short: all situations in which artifacts interact with people, other artifacts and external influences and actors such as light, heat, sound, water or plants.
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https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/77640
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