Prof. Dr. Petra Löffler

Petra Löffler is a Media and Material Culture Theorist.

She has been Professor for Theory and History of Contemporary Media at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg since May 2020. From 2019–2020 she was Research Associate in the project Filtering at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«.

Petra Löffler has held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Cologne, Regensburg, Vienna, Weimar and Lüneburg and was Guest Professor for Media History and Visual Culture at University of Siegen, for Media Philosophy at Bauhaus University, Weimar and Guest Professor at the Institute for Cultural Theory and History of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

She is author of several edited volumes and books on Media archaeology, Ecology and Media practices: the monograph »Verteilte Aufmerksamkeit. Eine Mediengeschichte der Zerstreuung« (2014) and the collaboration »Bilder verteilen. Fotografische Praktiken in der digitalen Kultur« (2018) among others. 2008–2019 she was editor of »Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft«.