Prof. Dr. Josef Vogl

Joseph Vogl is Professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (since 2006) as well as Regular Visiting Professor at Princeton University (since 2007). He studied modern literature, philosophy, history, and linguistics in Munich and Paris (Promotion 1990, Habilitation 2000), and has taught and researched at various institutions including, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, MSH Paris, the University of California, Berkeley, Indiana University Bloomington, IFK (Vienna), IKKM (Weimar). From 1998 to 2006 he was Professor for “Theory and History of Artificial Worlds” at the Department of Media Studies, Bauhaus-University Weimar. For his work he received several awards: Translation Prize for the Promotion of Franco-German Relations (1988), shortlist for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2015 in the category of non-fiction (“Der Souveränitätseffekt”, 2015), Günther-Anders-Prize for Critical Thinking (2022).

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