History and theory of photography
Interdependencies of art studies and media studies
Image migrations and transculturality
Postcolonial studies, cultural studies gender studies, queer studies, animal studies

• Administration of the professorship for Theory and History of Contemporary Media, Institute of Art and Visual Culture, University of Oldenburg (since October 2019)
• Administration of the professorship for art history with a focus on the history and theory of visual culture, University of Oldenburg (2016-2019)
• Director of the ZFG - Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies, University of Oldenburg (since April 2015)
• Administration of the professorship for Theory and History of Contemporary Media, University of Oldenburg (2014-2016)
• Visiting Professor "New Technologies, Media Ethics and Gender", Berlin University of the Arts (2011)
• Deputy Junior Professor for Media History, University of Paderborn (2010-2011)
• Research assistant, University of Oldenburg (2009-2014)
• Doctorate with a thesis on photography and identity constructions in artistic works of the 1980s and 1990s (2008)
• Co-editor of the journal FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, www.fkw-journal.de (since 2005)
• Teaching assignments at universities and art universities/colleges in Bremen, Oldenburg, Hamburg and Vienna (1998-2009)
• Doctoral scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation (1998-2001)
• First State Examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools (1996)
• Studied art and English in Oldenburg and Leeds (1989-1996)

• "The Animal: Discourses in Art and Media History", lecture series, University of Oldenburg, summer semester 2018
  
• Interdisciplinary event series "Wo Gender brennt", Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG), University of Oldenburg, since winter semester 2017/18
  
• "Queer as ... Questioning Representations of 'African' Sexualities", interdisciplinary event series, University of Oldenburg, October-November 2013
  
• "Securityless. Precarisation, the Arts and their Gender Relations", Interdisciplinary conference, Berlin University of the Arts, October 2011
  
• "Visual Migrations - Images in Motion", interdisciplinary exhibition project in co-operation with the artist-scientist collective Eurozentrika, LEAP (Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance), Berlin, July 2011, funded by the Commission for Artistic and Scientific Projects (KKWV) of the Berlin University of the Arts
  
• "ReSaVoir. Images in the field of tension between culture, politics and memory", International Symposium, University of Oldenburg, January 2009

MONOGRAPHY

• The "Hottentotten-Venus" - Transculturality, Mediality, Image Circulations, in preparation, expected to be published at the end of 2020.
  
• Photography and "Identity" - Visual Politics of Representation in Artistic Works of the 1980s and 1990s. Bielefeld: transcript, 2010.

EDITORSHIPS

• FKW // Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture, www.fkw-journal.de

• Germany: (post)colonial? Visual memory cultures and interwoven history(ies) [=FKW // Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture, No. 59], www.fkw-journal.de, 2016 (with Kea Wienand).
  
• Securityless. Precarisation, the arts and their gender relations [= FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 53], Marburg 2012 (with Miriam Dreysse and Linda Hentschel).
  
• Visual Migrations - Image Movements between Times, Media and Cultures [= FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 51], Marburg 2011.
  
• "Indem es sich weigert, eine feste Form anzunehmen" - Kunst, Sichtbarkeit, Queer Theory [= FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 45], Marburg 2008 (with Sigrid Adorf).

ESSAYS IN ANTHOLOGIES AND JOURNALS

• The Goose Lives ... Studies in Visual Culture and Feminist Photography Research. In: Photographic History. Contributions to the history and aesthetics of photography. Issue 155. topic: Why gender? Gender Theoretical Approaches in Photography, ed. by Katharina Steidl, to be published January 2020.
  
• Images of Khoikhoi and others at the Cape of Good Hope - visual migrations and cultural translation. In: Sigrid Adorf/ Kathrin Heinz (eds.): Signs/Moments. Vergegenwärtigungen in Kunst und Kulturanalyse, to be published in October 2019.
  
• "You thrive on mistaken identity" - image politics, visual agency and the de/fixation of the Other. In: Ilka Becker/ Bettina Lockemann/ Astrid Köhler/ Ann Kristin Kahn/ Linda Sandrock (eds.): Fotografisches Handeln. Marburg: Jonas, 2016, pp. 208-225.
  
• Germany (Post)Colonial? Visual Cultures of Memory and Interwoven Histories - An Introduction. In: Kerstin Brandes/ Kea Wienand (eds.): Germany: (post)colonial? Visual Memory Cultures and Interwoven Histories [=FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, Nr. 59], www.fkw-journal.de, 2016, pp. 5-23 (with Kea Wienand).
  
• Studies in visual culture. In: Stephan Günzel/ Dieter Mersch (eds.): Image. An interdisciplinary handbook. Stuttgart/Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 2014, pp. 446-452 (with Sigrid Adorf).
  
• Cultural Identities, Gender and the Politics of Images. In: "DIVERCITY": Realitäten - Konzepte - Visionen, 4th Bundesfachkongress Interkultur 24-26 October 2012, ed. by Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Hamburg 2014, pp. 69-74 (also: www.bundesfachkongress-interkultur-2012.de).
  
• Visual Migrations of the "Hottentot Venus" - Towards a Research Perspective. In: Annika McPherson/ Barbara Paul/ Sylvia Pritsch/ Melanie Unseld/ Silke Wenk (eds.): Wanderungen. Migrations and Transformations from a Gender Studies Perspective. Bielefeld: transcript 2013, pp. 19-34.
  
• Contingent Pictures Decentering Lines. Works by Laylah Ali. In: Bossing Images. Macht der Bilder, queere Kunst und Politik / The power of images, queer art and politics. Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V. (NGBK) Berlin (ed.), edited by Jess Dorrance/ Antke Engel (Institute for Queer Theory). Berlin 2012, pp. 84-91.
  
• Securityless. Precarisation, the arts and their gender relations (introduction). In: Kerstin Brandes/ Miriam Dreysse/ Linda Hentschel (eds.): Sicherheitslos. Precarisation, the arts and their gender relations [= FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 53], Marburg 2012, pp. 7-11 (with L. Hentschel, M. Dreysse).
  
• Queer/ing art and visual culture. In: Martin Schneider/ Marc Diehl (eds.): Gender, Queer and Fetish. Construction of identity and desire. Hamburg: Männerschwarm, 2011, pp. 68-90.
  
• Introduction. Seeing - Power - Knowledge. In: Angelika Bartl/ Josch Hoenes/ Patricia Mühr/ Kea Wienand (eds.): Seeing < > Power < > Knowledge - ReSaVoir. Images in the field of tension between culture, politics and memory. Bielefeld: transcript, 2011, pp. 11-27 (with A. Bartl, J. Hoenes, P. Mühr, K. Wienand).
  
• "From here I saw what happened" - Photographic evidence, framing games and de/fixing in Carrie Mae Weems. In: Angelika Bartl/ Josch Hoenes/ Patricia Mühr/ Kea Wienand (eds.): Seeing < > Power < > Knowledge - ReSaVoir. Images in the field of tension between culture, politics and memory. Bielefeld: transcript, 2011, pp. 157-174.
  
• Visual Migrations - Image Movements between Times, Media and Cultures (Introduction). In: Kerstin Brandes (ed.): Visuelle Migrationen - Bild-Bewegungen zwischen Zeiten, Medien und Kulturen [= FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 51], Marburg, 2011, pp. 5-11.
  
• Portraits, travelogues and weblogs - on visual migrations of the "Hottentot Venus". In: Kerstin Brandes (ed.): Visuelle Migrationen - Bild-Bewegungen zwischen Zeiten, Medien und Kulturen [= FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 51], Marburg, 2011, pp. 73-87.
  
• The Others of the Others - "Hottentot Venus", Advertising Campaigns and Visual Politics. In: Stefanie Kron/ Birgit zur Nieden/ Stephanie Schütze/ Martha Zapata Galindo (eds.): Diasporic Movements in the Transatlantic Space. Diasporic Movements - Movimientos diaspóricos, Berlin: edition tranvia 2010, pp. 233-252.
  
• At some point you don't (accept) just anything any more - exoticism, elitism and the limits of what is tolerable. Or: the powerful wink of advertising images. In: Hanne Loreck/ Katrin Mayer (eds.): Visuelle Lektüren - Lektüren des Visuellen. Hamburg: textem, 2009, pp. 207-226. ("GfM Best Publication Award Gender&Medien" 2010)
  
• "By refusing to take on a fixed form" - Art, Visibility, Queer Theory (Introduction). In: Sigrid Adorf/ Kerstin Brandes (eds.): "Indem es sich weigert, eine feste Form anzunehmen" - Kunst, Sichtbarkeit, Queer Theory [= FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 45], Marburg, 2008, pp. 5-11 (with Sigrid Adorf).
  
• Refreshingly different - Ines Doujak's "friends 1-3" (2008). In: Edith Futscher/Elisabeth Mixa (eds.): Bilder von Freund/innen/schaft. Art, Sociology and Aesthetics [= FKW // Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture, No. 46], 2008, pp. 39-44.
  
• "Exotic Savages" - Borderline Figures as Symptoms of a Neoliberal Image Politics? In: Location(s): Gender - Image - Politics [= FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 44], Marburg 2007, pp. 23-30.
  
• "Hottentot Venus. Re-Considering Saartjie Baartman: Configurations of the "Hottentot Venus" in Contemporary Cultural Discourse, Politics, and Art. In: Helene von Oldenburg/Andrea Sick (eds.): Virtual Minds. Congress of Fictitious Figures. Bremen: thealit, 2004, pp. 40-55.
  
• "What you lookn at" - Photography and the traces of the mirror(s). In: Susanne von Falkenhausen/ Silke Förschler/ Ingeborg Reichle/ Bettina Uppenkamp (eds.): Medien der Kunst: Geschlecht, Metapher, Code. Marburg: Jonas, 2004, pp. 148-163.
  
• Morimura / Duchamp: Image Recycling and Parody. In: Judith Still (ed.): Men's Bodies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2003, pp. 52-64.
  
• The finger on the trigger - photography, subject, time. In: Ulrike Bergermann/ Andrea Sick/ Andrea Klier (eds.): Hand - Medium, Body, Technique. Bremen: thealit: 2001, pp. 61-73.
  
• "Every photograph of people is made in order to recognise them" - The photographic portrait and the idea of identifiability. In: Elke Bippus/Andrea Sick (eds.): Seriality: Series and Networks. CD-ROM, Bremen 2000.
  
• Cultural myths and semiological adventures - thoughts on Roland Barthes' drafts of a theory of meaning. In: Künstlerhauszeitung, newspaper of the Künstlerhaus Bremen, January 2000, pp.4-6.
  
• "Auf denn - keine Frage, Frauenkampftag alle Tage" - Die Plakate der autonomen FrauenLesben-Bewegung. In: HKS 13 (ed.): hoch die kampf dem - 20 Jahre Plakate autonomer Bewegungen. Hamburg 1999, pp. 44-63.

REVIEWS

• Image Politics in Times of War and Terror. Media, power and gender relations. Edited by Linda Hentschel. In: Edith Futscher, Elisabeth Mixa (eds.): Bilder von Freund/innen/schaft. Kunst, Soziologie und Ästhetik [= FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 46], 2008, pp. 84-87.

• Überdreht - Spin Doctoring, Politics, Media. Edited by Ulrike Bergermann, Christine Hanke, Andrea Sick. Bremen 2006. H-ARTHIST. Humanities-Net Discussion List for Art History, www.arthist.net/DocBookD.html, 28.09.2006.
  
• Alice Creischer - Apparatus for the osmotic pressure equalisation of wealth when considering poverty. Exhibition, GAK Bremen, 17 June - 21 August 2005. In: Camera Austria, No. 91, 2005, p. 79.
  
• Cindy Sherman: Clowns. Exhibition, Kestnergesellschaft Hanover, 24 September - 7 November 2004. In: Camera Austria, No. 88, 2004, pp. 85-86.
  
• The end of a dialogue? The exhibition "Foto text Text foto - Synthese von Fotografie und Text in der Gegenwartskunst" at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, 21 January - 9 March 1997. In: FrauenKunstWissenschaft, No. 24, 1997, pp. 83-86.

• Becoming an image: Photographic staging between self-assertion and heteronomy. Exhibition "Works on Gender - Photographs by Jodi Bieber". Vegesacker Geschichtenhaus and Bremen Chamber of Labour (25.01. - 29.03.2019), February 2019.
  
• "Hottentot Venus" and "Sara Baartman" - cultural imagery, visual archives, and the politics of representation. Series of lectures "Heritage, Conflict, and Belonging", BTU Cottbus, January 2018
  
• "Hottentotten-Venus" and "Sara Baartman" - (Post)colonialism, cultural appropriation, artistic thematisation. Series of lectures "Inter- and Transculturality", Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences, November 2017
  
• "Black photos white views". Exhibition "INTER.VIEW - Perspectives on contemporary photography in Senegal and Mali", Schule des Sehens, Mainz University of Art and Design, June 2017 (with Linda Hentschel)
  
• "Art against marginalisation". Round table discussion on the occasion of the BCP Alumnae Network Meeting "Equal Opportunities in Science Policy and at Art Colleges", UdK Berlin, April 2018
  
• Photography and "Identity" - Critical artistic practices in contemporary art. Supporting programme of the exhibition "Dancing with Myself. Self-portrait and self-invention. Works from the Pinault Collection", Folkwang Museum Essen, January 2017
  
• "Hottentotten-Venus" and "Sara Baartman" - visual migrations, cultural appropriations, artistic thematisations. Lecture series on the exhibition "Kabbo ka Muwala - The Girl's Basket. Migration and Mobility in Contemporary Art in Southern and Eastern Africa". Travelling exhibition, Städtische Galerie Bremen, November 2016
  
• Postcolonialism, art and visual culture. Series of lectures on "Inter- and Transculturality", Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences, October 2016
  
• "Image" and image research in visual culture studies. Workshop "Iconography and Iconology Today - Approaches, Methods, Perspectives" on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Aby Warburg, Leuphana University Lüneburg/University of Hamburg, Warburg-Haus Hamburg, June 2016
  
• Reading images and seeing meaning - On the negotiation of invisibility/visibility in visual culture. Series of lectures "Recognition and Visibility in Media Cultures", Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, June 2016
  
• Subtly destabilising the position of ... A conversation with Ken Lum and guests on the ambivalent impact of images in which everything is only "okay" at first glance, Kunsthalle Wien, March 2015
  
• From art historical women's studies to studies of visual culture: How gender has changed art history. Series of lectures "The Gender of Science", University of Erfurt, May 2014
  
• Cultural translation, visual strategies: Images of Khoikhoi and others at the Cape of Good Hope. Conference "Signs/Moments. Visualisations in Art and Cultural Analysis", Zurich University of the Arts, Jan/Feb 2014
  
• The "Hottentot Venus": Transculturality, Mediality and the Migration of Images. The Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative, University of Cape Town, July 2013
  
• Visual Migrations of the "Hottentot Venus" - image circulation, gender, and the politics of representation. Centre for Humanities Research and the Women's and Gender Studies Department, University of the Western Cape, July 2013
  
• Revisiting Cultural Diversity and the Art System - International Expert Meeting, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, April 2012
  
• The Facebook person. How are social networks changing our lives? Feature by Johannes Nichelmann, Deutschlandradio Kultur, broadcast 18 July 2011, interview contribution
  
• Visual migrations. Introduction to the exhibition "Visual Migrations - Images in Motion" and the release of FKW 51 - Visual Migrations. Image Movements between Times, Media and Cultures, LEAP (Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance), Berlin, July 2011
  
• The "Hottentot Venus" - appropriation strategies and migrating images. Workshop "Coloured Image Politics. Workshop on post/colonial image production", Braunschweig University of Art, June 2010
  
• "Staged beauty". Talk on the occasion of the exhibition "Helmut Newton - Fotografien", Weserburg - Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, November 2008
  
• The "Hottentot Venus" - Medial (re-)constructions of a historical figure: plaster cast, drawing, stage, photography, film. University of Hamburg, Art History Seminar, January 2006
  
• Formations of the documentary. 1st Leipzig Photography Workshop of the Institute of Art History "Fictive Realities: Photography and the Character of the Documentary", University of Leipzig, December 2001
  
• Spaces "in between" - On the consideration of contemporary photo-text works. Berlin University of the Arts, May 1998