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Univ.-Prof. Susanne Kogler MA PhD is Full Professor of Musicology at the University of Graz, Austria, and spokesperson of the interdisciplinary focus area "Perception: Episteme, Aesthetics, Politics" launched in 2023. She leads the multi-year project "Radical Thinking in the Anthropocene" that re-reads Frankfurt-School critical theory for 21st-century ecological, social and artistic challenges.
Education: Master of Arts and PhD (details not disclosed in source).
Research interests cluster around three poles: (1) Critical Theory—especially Adorno’s aesthetics and materialism—applied to contemporary artistic practices; (2) the nexus of aesthetics and politics after Hannah Arendt, with emphasis on how current art (notably by female composers) re-configures political space through radical listening and ethical engagement; (3) gender and authorship in new music, interrogating canonic formations and creative hierarchies. These strands feed the faculty-wide research focus on perception, epistemology and political imagination.
Her recent publications (2020-23) exhibit a clear trajectory: sustained dialogue between Adorno and Arendt, close readings of Austrian composers Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek, and theoretical essays on gesture, materiality and the politics of hearing. The output maps onto broader fields of music philosophy, sound studies, gender studies and political aesthetics.
Grants & projects: Head of FWF-supported project "Radical Thinking in the Anthropocene" (with Stefan Baumgarten); co-initiator and speaker of the inter-university focus area "Perception: Episteme, Aesthetics, Politics".
Personal website: www.susannekogler.at
