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Dr. Alisa Kronberger serves as Deputy Professor at the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, representing Prof. Dr. Stefan Rieger's professorship for media history and communication theory. She holds consultation hours in room GB 1/54 and will serve as Substitute Professor for Media History and Communication Theory during Summer Semester 2025. Since February 2023, she has been a Research Associate at the Institute and an Associate Member of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Virtual Lifeworlds.' During Winter Semester 2024/25, she will be a Junior Fellow at the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne, hosted by Susanne Völker.
Her research critically examines trust through queer-feminist and new-materialist lenses, challenging economic rationalizations of trust by reconceptualizing it as a situated, affectively imbued process within asymmetrical relationships. Drawing on Husserl's concept of 'world belief,' she explores trust as fundamental to processes of worlding, where spacetime configurations acquire meaning through relational practices. Her doctoral work on new materialist inflections of feminist media art established her interdisciplinary approach bridging media theory, philosophy, and gender studies.
Her upcoming Auerbach Lecture on January 27, 2025, 'Trust in and as World-Becoming,' represents a significant theoretical intervention that questions traditional conceptualizations of trust by examining it within concrete processes of worlding. This work has profound implications for developing an ethics of trust under new-materialist frameworks.
Her scholarly recognition includes:
- PhD Prize of Philipps University of Marburg
Dr. Kronberger's academic trajectory demonstrates consistent interdisciplinary scholarship across media theory, philosophy, and feminist studies, positioning her at the forefront of contemporary media studies research in Germany.
