Professorship for media studies

Since 2026, Professor of Media Studies, Faculty of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Regensburg

2022–2026, Privatdozentin in Media Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 

2023–2024, Visiting Professor in Film Studies, Institute of Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

2022, Habilitation in Media Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, thesis title: Vitaliy Effects: Cognition and Affect in the Media Culture of Cell Biology

2017–2023, Assistant Professor, Institute of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Freiburg

2013–2017, Assistant Professor, Institute of Media and Cultural Studies, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2011–2013, Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2009–2011, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies / Research Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht University

2008–2009, Associate Postdoctoral Fellow, Film Studies Research Colloquium Prof. Dr Gertrud Koch, Institute of Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

2007, PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, thesis title: Transformations of the Grotesque Body in the Cinema of David Cronenberg, Faculty of Behavioural and Empirical Cultural Studies, Heidelberg University

2003–2007, PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Behavioural and Empirical Cultural Studies, Heidelberg University

2004–2005, Lecturer, Institute of Anthropology, Heidelberg University 

2003–2004, Research Assistant, Institute of Anthropology, Heidelberg University

1997–1999, Postgraduate studies in Social Anthropology, Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University, London, Degree: Master of Science (M.Sc.)

1996–1997, Postgraduate studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, undergraduate studies in Journalism and Communication, Freie Universität Berlin 

1994–1996, Undergraduate studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and Indology, Heidelberg University

2014–2018, Deputy of the German delegation in the steering committee of the COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on "How Matter Comes to Matter" (COST = European Cooperation in Science and Technology) 

2009–2013, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2005–2006, Visiting PhD student, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London

2004–2005, Junior Researcher, Research Centre and Multimedia Lab on Social Representations and Communication, Sapienza University, Rome 

1997–1999, Postgraduate Studies in Social Anthropology, Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University, London

2019–2023, Deputy Central Equal Opportunities Officer, University of Freiburg

2016, Nominee, Teaching Award, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2015, Visiting Fellow, GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Linköping University (Sweden)

2026–2031, Media Epistemology and Digital Cultures of Knowledge, German Research Foundation, Heisenberg Professorship (€800,000)

2026–2029, AI in the Sky, German Research Foundation, Individual Research Grant (€300,000)

2009–2011, Cinematic Representations of the Grotesque Female Body, European Commission, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (€150,000)

2005–2006, Man-Machine-Couplings: Transfigurations of Gender, Berlin Programme, Doctoral Stipend (€13,000)

| 16 in total, 15 of them in English

1. Panel on Media of Environmental Care at the annual conference of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies on "Care", 13-17 June 2023, Oslo, together with Dr Dominik Schrey, University of Passau.

2. Panel on Professional Vision: Reading Epistemic Things at the annual conference of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies on "Epistemic Media: Archive, Atlas, Network", 22-26 June 2022, Bucharest, together with Dr Dominik Schrey, University of Passau.

3. International and interdisciplinary symposium on Queer Pop, 16-18 January 2020, organised at the Centre for Popular Culture and Music (ZPKM) at the University of Freiburg, together with Dr Kathrin Dreckmann, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Documentation of the conference: https: //www.videoportal.uni-freiburg.de/search/title/queer+pop/description/queer+pop/tags/queer+pop/type/all/search/basic/subtitles/queer+pop/referent/queer+pop/categoriesopt/0/groupsopt/0/channelsopt/0.
   Programme: https://www.medienkulturwissenschaft.uni-freiburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Queer_Pop_Tagungsprogramm.pdf.

4. Panel on Affect as a Medium of Knowledge: Magnitude, Immersion, Objectivity, and Atmosphere, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, 14-18 March 2018, Toronto, together with Prof. Dr. Curtis.

5. Panel on The Processes of Imaging, UNESCO, at the annual conference of the COST network New-Materialism on "Environmental Humanities and the New Materialisms: The Ethics of Decolonizing Nature and Culture", 7-9 June 2017, Paris, together with Prof. Dr Liv Hausken, University of Oslo and Prof. Dr Sigrid Schmitz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

6. Lecture series with national and international guests on the topic Things that Move Us: Affect and Authority, winter semester 2016/17, Haus der Universität, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, together with Prof Dr Robin Curtis.

7. Workshop on The Processes of Imaging / The Imaging of Processes, Annual Conference COST Network New-Materialism on "Performing Situated Knowledges: Space, Time, Vulnerability", 21-23 September 2016, Warsaw, together with Prof. Dr. Sigrid Schmitz, Berlin and Prof. Dr. Liv Hausken, Oslo.

8. Lecture series with international guests on "Things that Move Us: Affect and Authority", summer semester 2016, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, together with Prof. Dr Robin Curtis.
   Further information on the lecture series: https: //www.philo.hhu.de/weiterer-service/fakultaet-aktuell-topmeldungen/news-detailansicht/things-that-move-us-affect-and-authority

9. Panel on Motion Pictures: Contemporary Visual Practices of Movement and Stillness, Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA), 12-15 February 2015, New York City, together with Dr Marta Zarzycka, Utrecht University.

10. Workshop on Animating Abstraction, 9-10 May 2014, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, together with Prof. Dr Robin Curtis.

11. Panel on Animating Abstraction, Annual Meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 22 March 2014, Seattle, together with Prof. Dr. Robin Curtis.

12. International Summer School on Stillness and Movement of Images: New Perspec-tives on Temporality, Technology and the Senses in Feminist Theory, 27-31 August 2012, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University, under the auspices of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies, together with Dr Marta Zarzycka, Utrecht.

13. International intensive course for doctoral students on Challenging the Visual in Feminist Analysis, Utrecht University, 16-18 April 2012, together with Dr Marta Zarzycka, conducted in the framework of "InterGender", the Swedish-international research school for interdisciplinary gender studies, funded by the Swedish Research Council.

14. Symposium Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics, 11 March 2011, Utrecht University, in collaboration with the Research Institute for History and Culture, the Priority Programme Cultures & Identities and the Graduate Gender Programme, together with Dr. Marta Zarzycka.

15. Member of the organising team of the Seventh European Conference on Feminist Research, 3-6 June 2009, Utrecht University.

16. Symposium Maschinenkörper - Körpermaschinen: Mediale Transformationen, 12-14 October 2004, Freie Universität Berlin, in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin and the Institute for Ethnology, University of Heidelberg.

• Refereed journals: 
  Parallax 
  Somatechnics Journal 
  Feminist Media Studies 
  Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 

• Amsterdam University Press

• Academic yearbook Song and Popular Culture 

• Society for Media Studies (GfM), working group on Media Aesthetics (since 2021), working group on Animation (2013–2023)

• Centre for Popular Culture and Music, University of Freiburg, 2019–2025

• Centre for Anthropology and Gender Studies, University of Freiburg, 2019–2024

• COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on "How Matter Comes to Matter", 2014–2018 

• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2012–2018

• Postdoctoral media studies colloquium, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Ruhr University Bochum, 2015–2018

• College Art Association,2012–2014

• German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV), since 2012

• European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)

• Netherlands Research School for Gender Studies (NOG), 2009–2013