Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky was a full Professor of Media Studies and Gender Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum from 2004-2023. She studied philosophy and German literature at the University of Zurich and the Freie Universität zu Berlin. Before joining the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, she taught at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin from 1996 to 2004. She is co-founder and was editor of the journal Die Philosophin. Forum für feminstische Theorie und Philosophie from 1990 to 2004. She was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (2007), visiting professor at the Centre d’études du vivant, Université Paris Cité (2010), senior fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) Weimar (2013), and Max Kade Professor at Columbia University (2012 and 2017), at Northwestern University Evanston/ Chicago (2023) and  Johns Hopkins University (20223/24). She is an external affiliate of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (Goldsmiths University of London), associate member of the Institute for Critical Inquiry (ICI) Berlin, speaker of the scientific board of Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM) Berlin and a member of the scientific board of the Centre d’études du vivant, Institut Humanité Sciences et Sociétés, Université Paris Cité.

Her research focuses on topics in critical, feminist and queer theory, media philosophy, philosophy of technology, epistemology and media aesthetics, theories of play, as well as Jewish philosophy. Her book Der frühe Walter Benjamin und Hermann Cohen. Jüdische Werte, Kritische Philosophie, vergängliche Erfahrung [Verlag Vorwerk 8: Berlin. 2000] was awarded the Humboldt University prize for best dissertation. English translations of her writings include Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine [University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis London, 2005]. Her recent books are entitled Praktiken der Ilusion. Kant, Nietzsche, Cohen, Benjamin bis Donna J. Haraway [Verlag Vorwerk 8: Berlin. 2007] and Queeres Post-Cinema. Yael Bartana, Su Friedrich, Todd Haynes, Sharon Hayes [Berlin: August Verlag, 2017]. Her latest English book will be published at the end of 2024 with the title: Queer Post-Cinema: Inventing the New Resistance [ICI Berlin Press: Berlin. 2024].