Dr Alexandra Supper (A.)

Alexandra Supper is an assistant professor in the Department of Society Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. She is the programme director of the BA Arts and Culture. Her research interests include the role of sound, listening and other bodily skills in scientific practice; the construction of scientific authority; and the formation and consolidation of (inter)disciplinary communities, including the practices and performances through which new members become socialised and encultured into these communities.

She is an editor of the journal Science and Technology Studies and an associate editor of the Journal of Sonic Studies.

Expertise

Expertise in science and technology studies, at the intersection with sound studies, sensory studies, higher education studies.

Research interests include: sound, listening and bodily skills in scientific practice; scientific authority and credibility; sonification and visualisation practices; disciplines and interdisciplinarity; dynamics of academic communities; conference practices.

Professional career history

Education:

2008-2012
PhD (with distinction) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University.

2008-2009
Training programme of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology & Modern Culture (WTMC).

2003-2004
Erasmus exchange student at the Faculty of Arts, Maastricht University

2001-2007
Magistra of sociology (with distinction) at the University of Vienna.
 

Academic Job Experience:

2014-present
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University.

 

May 2013
Visiting Professor of Science-Technology-Society, University of Vienna.

 

2012-2014
Post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University.

2008-2011
PhD researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University.

2006-2007
(Partially funded) research on a master’s thesis at the Department of Social Studies of Science in Vienna.

2005-2006
Research Assistant to Ulrike Felt in a mapping project of research activities and structures in the field of Science-Technology-Society in the EU for the European Commission.

2005- 2006
Teaching Assistant at the Department of Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna.
 

Other Academic Activities:

2019-now
Programme Director, BA Arts and Culture

2018
Assistant Programme Director, BA Arts and Culture

2017-19
Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University

2013-2018
Academic coordinator of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

April 2017
Visiting lecturer, Department of Literature with Art and Media Studies, University of Konstanz

 

2013
Member of the Programme Committee of the First International Conference of the European Sound Studies Association (ESSA) on “Functional Sounds”, Berlin, October 2013.

 

2012-2013
Project coordinator for a sound installation at the Amsterdam Museum based on the NWO project Soundscapes of the Urban Past.

 

2009-2010
PhD Member of the Educational Committee of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology & Modern Culture (WTMC).

 

2006-2007
Student member in the planning committee for an MA program in “Science-Technology-Society” at the University of Vienna.

A. Supper

Assistant Professor
Technology & Society Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences