Media studies at the University of Siegen

Media theorist Prof. Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz spent 20 years researching and teaching at the University of Siegen. He is now retiring. "Erhard Schüttpelz has had a strong influence on media studies at our university," said Rector Prof. Dr. Stefanie Reese at his farewell. "His expertise and commitment were decisive for the establishment of the Collaborative Research Center Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen."

Schüttpelz was the long-standing spokesperson for the DFG Research Training Group Locating Media and the main applicant and spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) Media of Cooperation, which is now in its third funding phase. As an interdisciplinary research network, the SFB focuses on contemporary digital research.

Erhard Schüttpelz found his academic "home" in media studies, which he says is "a subject that I could not have studied or thought of better to pursue my interest in cooperation opportunities." Schüttpelz originally studied German and English language and literature in Hanover, Exeter, Bonn, Cologne and Oxford and completed his doctorate at the University of Bonn in 1994. He was a scholarship holder at Columbia University, New York, a postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group "Theory of Literature and Communication" at the University of Konstanz and a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center "Media and Cultural Communication" at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn and Aachen. From 2003 to 2005, he was scientific coordinator of the research center "Cultural Theory and Theory of the Political Imaginary" at the University of Konstanz and then took over the professorship for Media Theory at the University of Siegen in 2005.