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Valerie Keller, PhD (she/her/hers)

Postdoc Lecturer
Institute of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Valerie Keller (*1989) studied Popular Culture Studies, Film Studies and Chinese at the University of Zurich and completed her BA in 2012 with the work "Funny Games und the Tension of Guilt". From 2015 to 2020 she was co-directing the artist-run-space "Milieu" in Bern (CH), within which she realized around 30 exhibitions. 2017 she finished her MA in Popular Culture Studies and Film Studies at the University of Zurich with the thesis "Mighty Tilt. Surgical body practices as techniques of self and external determination". In 2019, Keller was an editorial board member for "Schweizer Volkskunde". From 2018 to 2021, she worked as a PhD researcher with Prof. Dr. Harm-Peer Zimmermann at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich, during which she completed her dissertation entitled "Self-Care in the face of Dementia. Potentials of a Relational Practice" published by Transcript Verlag. Since 2021, Keller has worked as a lecturer in Popular Culture Studies and as a post-doctoral researcher at ISEK, University of Zurich. In addition, Keller is founder of the exhibition space for contemporary art “For” where she works as co-director and co-editor of the magazine series since 2021.

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