Nina Wood

Nina Wood is a PhD candidate and Tutor in the Department of Art at Offenbach University of Art and Design, specializing in autotheoretical writing practices and experimental book design. Her interdisciplinary work bridges literary studies, philosophical aesthetics, and material design.

Her educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in Integrated Design from Hochschule für Künste Bremen and a Diploma from Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. These foundations support her current research exploring the intersection of theoretical reflection and autobiographical writing.

Wood's research focuses on autotheory as a queer-feminist practice that challenges traditional narrative structures. Her dissertation examines works by Paul B. Preciado, Maggie Nelson, and Gloria Anzaldúa, analyzing how these authors use fragmented writing to destabilize identity formation while connecting personal experience with social theory. Her artistic practice extends this research through experimental book projects that physically manifest these theoretical concepts through innovative typography, material choices, and spatial arrangements.

Her publications and artistic projects reveal a consistent exploration of how material form influences meaning-making, particularly in how book structures can challenge normative reading experiences. The works demonstrate increasing sophistication in merging theoretical content with experimental form, creating what she terms 'autotheoretical (book) bodies' that resist fixed interpretations.

• Dissertation funding from Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V.

As a tutor in the Philosophy/Aesthetics teaching area, Wood guides students in ideological critique of artistic representation. Her funded dissertation project examines how autotheoretical writing deploys personal experience as theoretical interrogation within social structures. Her collaborative editorial work on 'Postskriptum über ästhetische Ideologien' demonstrates her commitment to interdisciplinary approaches.

Wood's artistic practice functions as her primary research laboratory, where she develops book projects that physically manifest theoretical concepts through experimental binding techniques, spatial arrangements of text, and innovative material treatments. Her work transforms traditional book formats into sculptural objects that invite multiple reading paths and challenge conventional notions of narrative continuity.