Draft:Kathrin Maurer

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. Biography

Kathrin Maurer was born in Bielefeld and grew up in Freiburg, Germany. She attended Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium Freiburg 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 an Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Arizona from 2002 to 2007. She also served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark from 2008 to 2012 before she became an Associate Professor from 2012 to 2020. Since 2020 she has been Professor of Humanities and Technology at the University of Southern Denmark.

Her work also includes working as a Visiting Scholar at New York University from 2019 to 2020 and as a Visiting Professor at Tokyo University and Meiji University in 2014 and 2010. Today she lives in Copenhagen with her family. Work

Maurer's 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. Currently she is also the PI of a core group project on "Bio-Machines and the Aesthetics of Life" from the Velux Foundations (2023-2028).

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 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.

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