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Meike Schudy is a Researcher and doctoral candidate at the University of Hildesheim, affiliated with the Faculty of Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Communication and the Institute for Media, Theater and Popular Culture. Since April 2022, she has served as a research assistant in the DFG Research Training Group 2477 "Aesthetic Practice".
Her educational background includes:
- MA "Staging the Arts and the Media" (2015-2019) from the University of Hildesheim
- BA "Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice" (2011-2015) from the University of Hildesheim
Her research centers on gender performances and their socio-political dimensions, with specialized focus on feminist movements like #MeToo and TIME'S UP. Using performance and discourse analysis, she investigates how solidarity is staged across digital and analog spaces, examining medial interactions between online activism and bodily co-presence. Her work critically analyzes inconsistencies in solidarity practices regarding boundary-setting and community formation, while exploring underlying power structures and desire dynamics to evaluate political potentials within contemporary protest cultures as aesthetic practice.
No scientific awards were documented in the source materials.
As a doctoral researcher, Schudy has no advisees. Her work is funded through the DFG Research Training Group 2477, where she contributes to conference organization including the 2023 "Entangled Practices" event. She taught the seminar "#WeStandWithYou! Forms and Processes of Solidarity as Aesthetic Practice" during Summer Semester 2023.
She actively participates in the Research Training Group "Aesthetic Practice", presenting at international conferences such as the 2022 "mimesis - praxis - aisthesis" event with her analysis of #MeToo through mimesis theory, and developing collaborative academic initiatives within the university's cultural research ecosystem.
