Theresa Eisele is a university assistant (postdoc) at the tfm | Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna and an associate research fellow (senior researcher) at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (LBIDH).

Previously, she worked at the Institute for Theatre Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (Fellow with Marietta Blau Scholarship), as a research fellow at the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf and at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow. She has been a lecturer at the University of Leipzig, the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Vienna and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Since 2022, she has headed the working group on theatre historiography of the Society for Theatre Studies (GTW; together with Lotte Schüssler, Berlin).

Theresa Eisele studied theatre studies and media and communication studies in Leipzig and Madrid and completed her doctorate at the tfm | Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. Her dissertation, “Theater als ‘Spiel- und Spiegelform’ jüdischer Erfahrung, Wien 1890–1920” (“Theatre as a ‘Form of Play and Reflection’ of Jewish Experience, Vienna 1890–1920”) was awarded the Max Herrmann Dissertation Prize of the Society for Theatre History. She has also received scholarships from the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture Brandenburg/Ministry of Culture (DE), the Ministry of Education, Science and Research (AT), the University of Vienna and Literar-Mechana.

Her research is focused on cultural studies and historical theatre research. She researches, teaches and publishes on Viennese modernism and theatre historiography, Jewish (theatre) cultural history and historical anthropology. What all her work has in common is an interest in concepts of the theatrical in cultural and social formations.

Theresa Eisele is currently preparing a new project at the LBIDH.