Curriculum Vitae Val Meneau

Positions

• 01/2026 – present
  Guest researcher at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute, University of Göttingen, Germany
• 09/2025 – 02/2026
  Lecturer on ‘Queer Nightlife as Joyful Resistance,’ University of Vienna
• 03/2025 – 08/2025
  Guest Lecturer at the University of Salzburg, Austria
• 10/2024 – 01/2025
  Lecturer on ‘The Cultural Politics of Fashion – the Gender Binary, Gender Bending, and Fabulousness’, University of Klagenfurt
• 10/2024 – 01/2025
  Lecturer on ‘The Queer-Feminist Body Politics of Make-up: Aesthetic Labour, Submission or Subversion?’ Institute for European Ethnology, University of Vienna
• 07/2024 – 12/2024
  Research associate at the department for Gender Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2022
  Member of the task force at the Austrian DanceSport Federation for the inclusion of same-sex couples within the competition circuit
• 04/2021 – 09/2023
  Research associate at the Institute for Dance Studies, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Austria
• 10/2020 – 05/2021
  Research associate at the Institute for Sociology, Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Austria; co-organiser of the conference ‘Creative Bodies, Creative Minds’ (2021)
• 10/2020 – 01/2021
  Lecturer on “Gender performances in popular dances” at Paris Lodron Universität, Salzburg, Austria

Awards and third party funds

• 10/2025
  Awarded the Schrödinger scholarship from the Austrian Science Funds for 3 years
• 05/2024
  Awarded the Post-Doc-Track scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Science for 6 months
• 09/2024
  Awarded the DAAD Short Travel Grant to the Humboldt University, Berlin
• 11/2023
  Awarded the Gabriele Possanner-Förderungspreis from the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science, and Research
• 11/2023
  Awarded the Erika-Weinzierl-Preis from the Department of Women, Diversity and Equality of Opportunity of the Federal State of Salzburg
• 06/2020
  Awarded the DOC scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW) for 30 months

Academic experience

• 10/2025
  Presentation at the Department for Ethnomusicology, University of Graz, Austria
• 09/2025
  Presentation at the Conference for Dance Studies (gtf), Vienna, Austria
• 08/2025
  Presentation at the Theater and Performance Research Association conference, Warwick, UK
• 07/2025
  Presentation at the AtGender conference, Barcelona, Spain
• 10/2024
  Presentation at the International Night Studies Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
• 07/2024
  Presentation at the Dance Studies Association conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 04/2024
  Invitation to teach at the Institute for European Ethnology, in Vienna, Austria
• 03/2024
  Presentation at the conference ‘Creative Bodies – Creative Minds,’ in Graz, Austria
• 06/2023
  Presentation at the Talking Bodies conference in Chester, UK
• 10/2022
  Lecture demonstration at the Centre against Discrimination of the University Trieste, Italy
• 10/2022
  Presentation at the Dance Studies Association conference in Vancouver, Canada
• 09/2022
  Lecture demonstration at the symposium ‘Danzas, bailes, género: Role perceptions and systems of knowledge in dance, music and society,’ German Society for Musicology, Berlin, Germany
• 06/2022
  Presentation at the conference ‘Queering Volkskunde,’ Vienna, Austria
• 04/2022
  Participation to a PhD workshop on Queer Epistemologies in Vienna, Austria
• 11/2021
  Participation to a PhD seminar on Queering Autoethnography from the University of Stavanger, Norway
• 10/2021
  Presentation at the Dance Studies Association conference in New Rutgers, USA
• 05/2021
  Presentation at the conference ‘Creative Bodies – Creative Minds,’ in Graz, Austria
• 11/2019
  Presentation at the academic conference ‘Performativity and Creativity in Modern Cultures’ in Prag, Czech Republic
• 04/2019
  Presentation at the academic conference ‘Talking Bodies’ in Chester, UK

Academic publications

• Val Meneau, DanceSport’s Economy of Desire: A Queer Feminist Perspective, Bloomsbury (2026).
• Val Meneau, ‘“We’ve got to take our chances”: Make-up as subversive practice in heteronormative binary DanceSport,’ in Zeman, M., Chmiel, M., & Holy, M. (eds.): Beauty Industry: Gender, Media, and Everyday Life, emerald publishing (2025).
• Val Meneau & Giulia Settomini, Queering DanceSport (website funded by the Austrian Science Funds), www.queeringdancesport.com (2025).
• Val Meneau, ‘Queer Dancers’ Experiences in the DanceSport World: Exclusion, Invisibilisation, and Assimilation,’ Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion 43, no.9 (2024), doi: 10.1108/EDI-11-2023-0376.
• Val Meneau, ‘Complicating the relationship between researcher and research participant: Procedural ethics, relational ethics, and inverted hierarchies,’ The Qualitative Report 29, no.10 (2024), doi: 10.46743/2160-3715/2024.6807.
• Val Meneau, ‘Coding sexual violence as love–choreographed heteronormative gender performances in Latin American competitive dancing,’ Journal of Gender Studies 29, no.8 (2020), doi: 10.1080/09589236.2020.1823824.

Submitted for peer-review publications

• Val Meneau & Sydney Hutchinson, Queering Partner Dance, (edited collection, pre-contract with Bloomsbury).
• Val Meneau & Giulia Settomini, ‘Breaking the Heteronormative Visual Imagery: Queer Utopian Imaginings for a More Inclusive Future in Ballroom Dance,’ (book chapter for Queering Partner Dance).
• Val Meneau, ‘The Transformative Potential of Awareness Labour,’ Social Sciences.