Steff Nellis is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Department of Art History, Musicology, and Theatre Studies at Ghent University. His research interests mainly center around theatricality and performativity of religious rituals in the early modern world. He is part of the editorial board of Documenta: Journal for Theater and he has published on a variety of subjects in journals such as Forum Modernes Theater, Sculpture Journal, Critical Stages, Lateral, Forum +, Rekto:Verso, and Etcetera.