Andrea Seier

Andrea Seier is a Professor at the University of Vienna's Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies, holding the Professorship for Cultural History of Audiovisual Media. With academic affiliations spanning institutions like the Free University of Berlin and Ruhr University Bochum, her work bridges media theory, gender studies, and socio-political analysis.

• Education:
  • Doctorate (2005), University of Vienna: Remediatization: The Performative Constitution of Gender and Media (summa cum laude)
  • Habilitation (2013), University of Vienna: Micropolitics of the Media

Her research focuses on media self-technologies, micropolitics of media, class relations in audiovisual media, and performativity theories, with a particular interest in affect theory and remediation processes. Recent publications explore topics like poverty representation in documentaries and queer aesthetics in cinema.

She has advised doctoral projects on subjects including post-postfeminism, ghostly social articulation, and media formats of credibility in sexual violence cases. Her team includes researchers like Leonie Kapfer and Olivia Poppe, focusing on media culture and critical theory.