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Kathrin Maurer[redigér | rediger kildetekst]
Kathrin Maurer is Professor for Humanities and Technology at the University of Southern Denmark. She is also the current leader of the Center for Culture and Technology[1].
Biography[redigér | rediger kildetekst]
Maurer was born in Bielefeld and grew up in Freiburg, Germany. She attended Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium Freiburg in 1991 and finished her BA in German Studies and Philosophy at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg 1994.
She received her PhD in German Studies from Columbia University in New York in 2002 and her Dr. Phil. Habil. in German Studies from University of Southern Denmark in 2015.
She has served as Assistant Professor in German Studies (tenure track) at the University of Arizona from August 2002 to May 2007. Her work also includes working as Visiting Scholar at New York University from August 2019 to August 2020 and as Visiting Professor at Tokyo University and Meiji University in 2014 and 2010.
Today she lives in Copenhagen with her family.
Work[redigér | rediger kildetekst]
Maurers research focuses on surveillance technology, drones, discourses of war, and visual culture. She is the leader of the research cluster on “Drone Imaginaries and Communities” founded by the Independent Research Foundation Denmark.
She has published widely on civilian and military drones, and their intersections with visual arts, literature, and film.
She is the author of the monograph The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities (MIT Press, 2023) and co-edited the collected volume Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision (Manchester University Press, 2020) and Visualizing War: Emotions, Technologies, Communities (Routledge, 2018).
As she also has a background in German Studies, she has published on nineteenth-century visual culture in Germany, historical prose, as well as travel literature.
Publications[redigér | rediger kildetekst]
Monographs (peer reviewed):
The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (contracted and forthcoming in August 2023)
Visualizing History: The Power of the Image in Nineteenth-Century German Historicism. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. [Habilitation]
Discursive Interaction: Literary Realism and Academic Historiography in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Heidelberg: Synchron Verlag, 2006.
Representing History: Literary Realism and Historicist Prose in Nineteenth-Century Germany. [Dissertation] Columbia University (2002).
Anthologies (co-edited and peer reviewed):
Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision. Co-edited with Andreas Immanuel Graae. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2020.
Visualizing War: Emotions, Technologies, and Communities. Co-edited with Anders Engberg-Pedersen. New York: Routledge. 2018.
Journal Theme Issues (co-edited and peer-reviewed):
“Automatizing Visuality.” Theme Issue The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory 3.1 (2020). Co-edited with Dominique Routhier and Lila Lee-Morrison.
“Machinic Visions of the Planetary,” Theme Issue Media and Environment. Co-edited with Lila Lee-Morrison, Rikke Munch Petersen, and Dominique Routhier. Forthcoming 2023.
“The Sensorial Experience of the Drone,” Theme issue The Senses and Society 3.15 (2021) Co-edited with Kristin Veel and Daniela Agostinho.
“Droner og Krig,” Politik 20.1 (2017). Theme Issue. Co-edited with Andreas Immanuel Graae. [BFI 1]
External links[redigér | rediger kildetekst]
Kathrin Maurer - Research profile