Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky is Professor em. of Media Studies and Gender Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She studied philosophy and German literature at University of Zurich and Freie Universität zu Berlin. Before joining Ruhr-Universität Bochum, she taught at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft at Humboldt-Universität Berlin from 1996 to 2004. She is co-founder and was editor of the journal Die Philosophin. Forum für feminstische Theorie und Philosophie from 1990 to 2004. She was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (2007), visiting professor at the Centre d’études du vivant, Université Paris VII – Diderot (2010), senior fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) Weimar (2013), and Max Kade Professor at Columbia University (2012 and 2017), UC Berkeley (2022), Northwestern University (2023), Johns Hopkins University (2024) and Yale University (2024). She is also an external affiliate of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London and speaker of the scientific board of the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin. Her research focuses on topics in critical, feminist and queer theory, media philosophy and epistemology, temporality and media aesthetics, media anthropology and theories of play, as well as Jewish philosophy.