Fellows

Dr. Tim Altenhof

Akademischer Werdegang 2020 - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Architekturtheorie und Baugeschichte, Universität Innsbruck 2018 Bruno Zevi Prize 2018 Theron Rockwell Field Prize, Dissertationspreis, Yale University 2012-2018 M.Phil, PhD, Yale University;…

Dr. des. Kris Decker

Dr. Emily Doucet

ACADEMIC CAREER Since May 2021 - International Fellow, Institute for Cultural Studies Essen 11/2020 - PhD, University of Toronto, Department of Art History  9/2013 - MA with Distinction, University College…

Azadeh Fatehrad

Academic Career PhD Practice- based, Photography Department, Royal College of Art. (Thesis Unconditional Pass) MRes Art practice, University of the Arts London Master of Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art…

Dr. Petr Gibas

Academic Career Since 2021 Management Committee member, COST Action TRACTS (CA20134): Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice 2018 – 2020 Leader of the research…

Dr. L. Sasha Gora

CV 2022 – present KWI International Fellow, Essen, Germany 2022 Politics of Food Resident, Delfina Foundation, London, England 2021 – 2022 Editorial Director & Lecturer, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich,…

Dr. Kasey Henricks

ACADEMIC CAREER Since 2017  Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee at Knoxville 2017 Visiting Academic, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for…

Dr. Alexandra Irimia

Dr. Sandra Janßen

Akademischer Werdegang WS 2022/23 Thyssen@KWI-Fellow, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen WS 2021/22 Gastprofessorin am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Wien Seit 3/2021 Annemarie-Schimmel-Stipendiatin, Universität Erfurt 2017-2020 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Karlsruher Institut für…

Dr. Gregory Jones-Katz

Academic career 2016-   Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Ph.D. American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Graduation Date: August 2016 Research Interest American…

Dr. Regina Karl

Dr. Verena Kick

CV 2019 - Assistant Professor of German Department of German, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.                                                2019 Ph.D., German Studies University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2015 Graduate Certificate: Cinema & Media Studies…

Dr. Weronika Kobylińska

Academic career since March 2022 – a member of the research team focusing on the problem of visualization of knowledge (program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education), project…

Dr. Nisha Kommattam

Academic Career Employment: Associate Instructional Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, USA Education: Ph.D.  South Asian Studies (summa cum laude), University of Cologne, Germany Research Interests: Gender and…

Dr. Irit Kornblit

Academic Career Higher Education 2011 – 2018    Bar Ilan University, Department of French Culture, PhD. Dissertation: “A Discursive and Rhetorical Analysis of the Keyword Cultural Diversity in Institutional Discourses” (French).…

Dr. Péter Kristóf Makai

ACADEMIC CAREER April - September 2021  KWI International Fellow, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen Project: Theme Parks in an Intermedial Context 2018-2020   Crafoord Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Linnaeus University’ Centre for Intermedial…

Dr. Ryan Nutting

AKADEMISCHER WERDEGANG Seit Oktober 2020 KWI International Fellow at the KWI in Essen, Germany Seit Juli 2019 Unabhängiger Forscher Oktober 2018 bis Juli 2019 Research Assistant in Travel Writing- Nottingham…

Dr. Marissa Petrou

Dr. Tilo Reifenstein

Academic Career Since 2021 Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies, York St John University, UK 2018-2021 Lecturer in Critical Studies, York St John University, UK 2017 PhD in Art Theory and…

Dr. Carla Rodrigues Almeida

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Dr. Chiara Salari

Academic Career - Since April 2021: Thyssen KWI International Fellow, Institut for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen - 2020-2021: researcher at the LARCA (Center for the Studies of the…

Dr. Bécquer Seguín

Academic Career 2021–        International Fellow, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen 2017–        Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2016–17   Assistant Professor of Spanish, Lawrence…

Dr. Avril Tynan

Academic Career 2022- Researcher, Department of Comparative Literature/SELMA Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, University of Turku, Finland 2019-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Turku School of Advanced Studies, University…

Dr. Kathrin Yacavone

Academic Career since April 2022 – Thyssen@KWI International Fellow at the KWI Essen 2019 – 2022 – Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Universities of Constance and Cologne 2011…