Franziska Trapp

Dr. Franziska Trapp is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She is the founder of Circus | Studies and organizer of international conferences, including Semiotics of the Circus (2015), UpSideDown—Circus and Space (2017), Semaine du Cirque (2020), and Écrire l’histoire du cirque (2022) and editor of the recently published anthology 360° Circus. Meaning. Practice. Culture (Routledge 2023). Trapp has worked for various circus productions such as the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain (FR) and Cirque Bouffon (DE) and collaborated as a dramaturge with Tall Tales Company (NL), Sysmo (BE), Julia Berger (DE) among others. She was awarded third place asGermany’s Best Junior Research Talent of 2019 (Academics/Die Zeit) and received theDGS Young Researchers Price 2020 (German Association of Semiotics) for her book entitledReadings of Contemporary Circus. A Dramaturgy (De Gruyter 2020, Routledge 2024 (EN)).