Kerstin Schankweiler is Professor of Visual Studies in a Global Context at the Institute of Art and Music Studies at the Technical University of Dresden. Her research focuses on digital image cultures, 20th and 21st century art with a regional focus on African art, art history and transculturality, postcolonial theories and gender studies. She is co-editor of the review journal Kunstform and a member of the DFG network ‘Cultures of Aesthetic Resistance’.

Publikationen (Selection)

Affective Witnessing. Sonderheft der Zeitschrift Parallax, Vol. 26, Issue 3, 2020, hg. v. Michael Richardson u. Kerstin Schankweiler (in Vorbereitung).

Kerstin Schankweiler: Bildproteste. Widerstand im Netz, Berlin: Wagenbach 2019.

Kerstin Schankweiler, Verena Straub, Tobias Wendl (Hg.): Image Testimonies. Witnessing in Times of Social Media, London, New York: Routledge 2019.

Kerstin Schankweiler, Philipp Wüschner: Images that Move. Analyzing Affect with Aby Warburg, in: Antje Kahl (Hg.): Analyzing Affective Societies: Methods and Methodologies, London: Routledge 2019, S. 101-119.

Affect Me. Social Media Images in Art. Ausst.Kat., KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, 11.11.2017-10.03.2018, hg. v. Julia Höner, Kerstin Schankweiler, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf u. Sonderforschungsbereich 1171 Affective Societies, Freie Universität Berlin, Leipzig 2017.