Järvinen, Hanna

Dr Hanna Järvinen is the Head of the Performing Arts Research Centre and University Lecturer at the doctoral programme of the Theatre Academy of UNIARTS Helsinki, Finland. She is also Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance at De Montfort University, Leicester, and holds the title of Docent in Dance History at the University of Turku. The author of Dancing Genius (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) and eight edited books as well as a number of articles and book chapters, her research combines dance scholarship with performance studies, history, cultural studies, and artistic research. In particular, she has been interested in authorship and canonisation, postcolonialism and decolonisation, and questions of materiality and contemporaneity in art practice. She enjoys making performances and collaborating with artists and her recent research projects include the Swedish Research Council workshop project Spectral Collaborations (2019–2020) and the Academy of Finland project How to Do Things with Performance (2016–2021).