Patrick Vonderau

I am a Professor at the Department for Media Studies (Section for Cinema Studies) at Stockholm University, Sweden. I have also held positions at the University of the Arts in Berlin (2001-2004), and at Ruhr University Bochum (2004-2009). I finished my PhD in 2005 at Humboldt University Berlin. Berlin also is where I am originally from, and where I co-founded what since has become the largest European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, NECS, back in 2006.

I am interested in media and cultural history, technology and social theory, and especially in understanding the multi-faceted relations between “media” and “industries” in their broad historical, aesthetical, theoretical, and technological contexts.