Research Director / Research Associate
Contact
Institute for Human Sciences
Spittelauer Lände 3
1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone +43 1 313 58 0
Research Focus
Katerina's research focus is biblical, feminist and philosophical-theological hermeneutics, afterlife of biblical motifs in Christian culture, existentialism and phenomenology of sacrificial experience. Among her intellectual sources belong Hans-Georg Gadamer, Søren Kierkegaard, Jan Patočka, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray. Her research topics are sacrifice, specifically woman sacrifice, feminine and post-colonial aspects of the promised land as received in Western culture.