Guest, Winter 2025/26
monika.ankele[at]charite.de

Monika Ankele is head of the Berlin Museum of Medical History and professor of medical history and medical museology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She is co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research, affiliated with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Ottersberg.

Photo: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Artur Krutsch

Guest, Winter 2025/26

I am Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany, and full professor of English literature at the University of Duisburg-Essen. My research interests include the contemporary literary industry, science policy, and the institutions and frameworks that enable literature and literary studies.

Photo: KWI Essen, Alexander Muchnik

Guest, October 2025
mathias.grote[at]uni-greifswald.de

Mathias Grote is Heisenberg Professor of the History of Knowledge at the University of Greifswald, funded by the DFG. After his PhD in microbiology, he retrained as historian of science and knowledge. He researches the recent life and earth sciences, and modern encyclopedic projects from handbooks to computers.

Photo: University of Greifswald

Associate Scholar,
Winter 2024/25–present
jhaid[at]mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

I am a doctoral candidate, focusing on the intersection of media studies and the history of science. At Humboldt-Universität Berlin, I work in the DFG-funded research project “Raw Materials of the Humanities.” I am part of the International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities” at the MPIWG Berlin.

Photo: Sabine Mittermeier

Guest, Winter 2025/26
katrin.koeppert[at]hu-berlin.de

An art and media scholar, I am acting professor of media theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and junior professor of art history and popular cultures at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. I co-lead the VW-funded research project “Digital Blackface: Racialized Affective Patterns of the Digital.”

Photo: private

Associate Scholar,
Winter 2024/25–present
lotte.schuessler[at]hu-berlin.de

I am a media and theatre scholar, currently conducting postdoctoral research in the DFG-funded project “Raw Materials of the Humanities” at the Department of Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I also co-direct the theatre historiography working group of the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft e.V.

Photo: Sabine Mittermeier

Guest, October 2025
sarine.waltenspuel[at]unilu.ch

I am a historian of media, science, and technology at the University of Lucerne, specializing in scientific films, cultural heritage, visual collections, and archives in digital contexts. Alongside my academic work, I am also active as a filmmaker and curator, with a particular interest in practice-based research.

Photo: David Dick

Guest, Summer 2025
philipp.felsch[at]hu-berlin.de

Philipp Felsch, Professor of Cultural History at Humboldt-Universität Berlin, examines the social life of the ideas that have shaped the postwar period up to the present. Among his recent books in English are The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960–1990 (2021) and How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold (2024).

Guest, Summer 2025
sekretariat[at]zfl-berlin.org

I have been director of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research and Professor of European History of Culture and Knowledge (HU Berlin) since 2015. Among my publications are Aus dem Leben der Form: Goethes Morphologie und die Nager (2016) and The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after Hegel (2006). 

Guest, Summer 2025
steffen.martus[at]rz.hu-berlin.de

Steffen Martus is Professor of Modern German Literature at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research focuses on literary and cultural history from the eighteenth century to the present day and the history and theory of science. His most recent book is Geistesarbeit: Eine Praxeologie der Geisteswissenschaften (2022, with C. Spoerhase).

Guest, Summer 2025
benno.nietzel[at]hu-berlin.de

During the academic year 2024–25, I am a guest professor of German history at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. My research focuses on the history of the social and historical sciences, the restitution of cultural property, and public representations of history.