Clio Unger is a Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Within THEAGENT, she focuses on cultural memory, urban transformation, and international migration in Berlin. She holds a diploma in dramaturgy from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, an MA in theatre and performance studies from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a PhD from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Her research focuses on the intersections of performance, political economy, and politics. Her PhD thesis, entitled ‘Contemporary Lecture Performances and the Politics of Knowledge in Cognitive Capitalism’, highlighted the intersections between knowledge production, theatre, and the economic developments that increasingly commodify knowledge, such as the marketisation of education. Her essay ‘Share Your Work: Lola Arias’s Lecture Performance Series and the Artistic Cognitariat of the Global Pandemic’ won the TaPRA Postgraduate Essay Prize and was published in Contemporary Theatre Review (2021). Clio also works as a freelance dramaturg and translator.

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