Torsten Jost received his PhD in theatre studies from Freie Universität Berlin. Currently he is a faculty member of the Institute for Theatre Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Research Associate at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures.” His PhD-thesis on “Gertrude Stein: Nervousness and the Theatre. On the genesis of Stein’s transformative aesthetics of theatre out of the spirit of ‘American Nervousness’” will be published in German in spring 2018. In his new research project, Jost is investigating “Intercultural Lecturing: between 1850 and 1950.”