{"id":1726,"date":"2019-04-12T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturwissenschaften.de\/person\/dr-anja-schuermann\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:45:46","slug":"dr-anja-schuermann","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-anja-schuermann\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Anja Sch\u00fcrmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career (Selection)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Feburary 2023:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Permanent Researcher at KWI Essen (Institut for Advanced Study in the Humanities)<\/p>\n<p><em>From March 2019:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Post Doc Fellow at KWI Essen (Institut for Advanced Study in the Humanities)<\/p>\n<p><em>10\/2009\u201303\/2018:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art History at Heinrich-Heine-University D\u00fcsseldorf<\/p>\n<p><em>10\/2016\u201304\/2017 &amp; 04\/2021\u201308\/2021:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lecturer at the Folkwang University in Essen. 4 hours per week teaching in Faculty 4: Photography | Theory &amp; History of Photography<\/p>\n<p><em>02\/2016:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Talent Art Criticism of the series <a href=\"https:\/\/co-berlin.org\/de\/programm\/ausstellungen\/screen-memories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C\/O Berlin Talents<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>03\/2015:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Defence of PhD thesis in Art History at Heinrich-Heine-University D\u00fcsseldorf. Thesis Title: \u201cConceptual vision. Ekphrasis as an art historical medium in the 19th century\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>10\/2006\u201310\/2009:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DFG-Granted doctorial Research Fellow at Staatliche Hochschule f\u00fcr Gestaltung, Karlsruhe<\/p>\n<p><em>10\/2000\u201303\/2006:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Magister Artium, with Honors at Heinrich-Heine-University D\u00fcsseldorf. Art History, German literature, linguistics and musicology<\/p>\n<p><em>10\/1998\u201310\/2000:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Study of Psychology, University of Konstanz<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cv_21_schuermann.pdf\">Link to the detailed CV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photobooks and Visual Narrration;Photohistory and -theory; Text\/Image research; Aesthetics and Contemporary Art; History and Theory of Science.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications\u00a0(Selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Books<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Together with Ines Barner and Kathrin Yacavone (Ed.): Cooperation, collaboration, co-creation: invisible Authorships and Pluralized Works), Special issue of Journal of Literary Theory, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2022). DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/jlt-2022-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/jlt-2022-2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Together with Steffen Siegel (Eds.): Continue browsing! New perspectives in photobook research, Special issue of Fotogeschichte, Heft 159, Jg. 41 (2021).<\/li>\n<li>Conceptual vision. Ekphrasis as an art historical medium in the 19th century, (Studies on Modern Art Historiography 8), De Gruyter, Boston\/Berlin, 2018. Review by Anne van Dam in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/10.1086\/702000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History of Humanities<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The past is unpredictable &amp; Interview Ver\u00f3nica Losantos, in: Felix Hoffmann for C \/ O Berlin Foundation (ed.), Talents 36: screen memories, Ver\u00f3nica Losantos \/ Anja Sch\u00fcrmann, Heidelberg \/ Berlin, 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Peer-reviewed scientific articles<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of Fast and Slow Pages: Movement in the Photobook, in: <em>photographies<\/em> 16\/3 (2023), 453\u2013481. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17540763.2023.2227634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17540763.2023.2227634.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Et cetera photobooks? Reflections on Conceptual Documentary Photography as visual enumeration, in: Anne Ru\u0308ggemeier et al. (Eds.), The List as Epistemic Practice, Palgrave\/Macmillan: London, 275\u2013300. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-76970-3_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-76970-3_13<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>InDesign as a method? The photobook and displays, in: Zeitschrift fu\u0308r Medienwissenschaft, Heft 22: Medium \/ Format, Jg. 1 (2020), 52\u201366. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/mediarep.org\/handle\/doc\/14588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/doi.org\/10.25969\/mediarep\/13656.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Show, don&#8217;t tell? Research-based photo books by Laia Abril, Christian Patterson and Regine Petersen, in: Karen Fromm, Sophia Greiff and Anna Stemmler (Eds.), image\/con\/text. Komplement\u00e4re Zeugnisse im dokumentarischen Diskurs, Berlin 2020, 162-181. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/arthistoricum\/reader\/download\/674\/674-17-90461-1-10-20201001.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.11588\/arthistoricum.674<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Terminological Careers: Taste and Aesthetic Education in 19th-Century Art Discourses, in: Christof Baier et al. (Eds.), \u201eAbsolutely Free\u201c? Invention und Gelegenheit in der<br \/>\nKunst, Liber Amicorum for Ju\u0308rgen Wiener, Transcript: Bielefeld 2019, 427\u2013442.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Curatorial Projects<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>11\/2017: Curator &#8220;equivalence: contemporary photographic positions of analogy&#8221;. Kunstraum D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/li>\n<li>06\/02\/16\u201324\/04\/16: Co-curation <a href=\"https:\/\/co-berlin.org\/de\/programm\/ausstellungen\/screen-memories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;screen memories &#8211; Ver\u00f3nica Losantos&#8221;<\/a>, c\/o Berlin.<\/li>\n<li>07\/2015\u201309\/2014: Set-up of The PhotoBookMuseum, exhibition 19.8.2014 to 12 October 2014 in Cologne-M\u00fclheim, Link: http:\/\/www.thephotobookmuseum.com\/<\/li>\n<li>04\/2006\u201310\/2006: Catalogue Editing &amp; Assistant Project Management &#8220;Beautiful to die for! Alter, Totentanz und Sterbekunst von 1500 bis heute&#8221; at the Schn\u00fctgen Museum, Cologne.<\/li>\n<li>07\/2003\u201303\/2004: Curatorial assistant and catalogue editor for the exhibition &#8220;Andy Warhol &#8211; The Late Work&#8221;, Museum Kunst Palast D\u00fcsseldorf, 14 February to 31 May 2004.<\/li>\n<li>06\/2001\u201307\/2001: Project assistant of the exhibition &#8220;GeSoLei \u2013 Kunst, Sport und K\u00f6rper&#8221;, Stadtmuseum D\u00fcsseldorf, 28 October 2001-30 January 2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pup_21_eng_schuermann.pdf\">Link to the detailed list of publications<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11991,"template":"","person_category":[293,277],"class_list":["post-1726","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-forschungsorganisation","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}