Mariama Diagne is a Professor of Dance Studies and Performance at the Institute of Theater Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich and a member of the CAS Young Center, Center of Advanced Studies (LMU). As a trained dancer (Dance Theatre of Harlem, NYC) her research investigates the intertwining of theory and practice. In taking a poetological approach and anti-colonial re-readings of cultural history, she is dedicated to the procedures of diasporic writing in the tension between tradition and the transformative withing the performing arts. She is the author of Schweres Schweben (heavy hovering, 2019), Deadline Gladiators. Or: Ecologies of Time and Documentation in Movement Re-Search (2024), co-editor of Queering Dance Modernism. Special Issue. Dance Research Journal (with L. Ruprecht, E. Wittrock, 2022), co-editor of Tanzen/Teilen – Sharing/Dancing (with Y. Hardt, et. al., 2022). Since 2025 she is leading the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “MerFolk between Myth, Everyday Life, and Afterlife: Dance Studies Perspectives on Transfluidity“ (2025-2031), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).