Viola Karungi is a lecturer at Makerere University, Uganda, who earned her PhD at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research sits between performance and war, examining the causes, nature and impact of war and conflict, and how performance represents and debates the resulting trauma and memory.
She holds a Master of Arts in International Performance Research from the University of Warwick, UK, a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies from the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, and a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from Makerere University. She welcomes research collaboration in the humanities and social sciences.