Karolina Lambrou

Profile:

 Dr Karolina Lambrou is a visiting lecturer at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus, where she teaches English for Theology to undergraduate students. She also works at the English School. She has worked in the publishing industry for many years, in Cyprus and the U.K. She has presented her work in numerous international conferences andpublications.

Studies: 

PhD in English Literature and Comparative Studies, University of Cyprus, 2020

MA in English Literature and Comparative Studies, University of Cyprus, 2012

ΜA in European Studies, London Metropolitan, 2006

BA in European Studies, Oxford Brookes University, 2005

 Research Interests:  

Political Philosophy: The concept of (political) society in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Emmanuel Levinas and Judith Butler

Ethics: Ethics in Continental Philosophy

Psychoanalysis: Theory of abjection in the work of Julia Kristeva, the notion of perversion in Jacques Lacan

Postmodern Art: Theories of violence in relation to Performance art

 Selected Publications:

“The Turn to Ritual: The Viennese Actionists’ Performative Violence”, in Expressions of Religion: Ethnography, Performance and the Senses. Lit-Verlag, Berlin: 2019.

“The Traumatized Body of the Performance Artist: Marina Abramovic and Franko B,” in Fear, Horror, Terror. Interdisciplinary. Net, Oxford: 2016.

“Fighting for our Common Vulnerability: The work of Marina Abramovic and Franko B,” in Revisiting Sexualities in the 21^st Century. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge: 2014.