Joan Kristin Bleicher

Joan Kristin Bleicher (born February 27, 1960 in Berlin ) is Professor of Media Studies at the Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg .

Bleicher is the daughter of the economist Knut Bleicher (1929–2017). She studied German, American and general literature at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , Bloomington and at the University of Siegen . After completing her doctorate at the University of Siegen, she worked between 1986 and 1995 in the Collaborative Research Center 240 (Aesthetics, Pragmatics and History of Screen Media. Focus: Television in the Federal Republic of Germany). After teaching at Saarland University , Philipps University Marburg , Leuphana University Lüneburg and University of Hamburg , she completed her habilitation at the University of Hamburg. From the summer semester 2001 she was a professor at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Hamburg. From spring 2002 to autumn 2007, Bleicher held the professorship for media studies, which was advertised jointly by the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research and the University of Hamburg; since the end of 2007 she has been working at the Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg and an associate at the Hans Bredow Institute.

Her main interests are media aesthetics and media history , narrative theories, contemporary literature and basic research on the Internet .

Web links

• Literature by and about Joan Kristin Bleicher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Joan Kristin Bleicher at the Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg
• Texts by Joan Kristin Bleicher on mediarep.org.