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E-Mail: gabriele.schabacher@uni-mainz.de<\/a>
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Institute of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies
Media Culture Studies
Jakob-Welder-Weg 18
55128 Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philosophicum I, 3rd floor
Room 03-548<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gabriele Schabacher is Professor of Media and Culture Studies at the Institute for Film, Theatre, Media, and Cultural Studies (FTMK) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She studied philosophy, psychology, and German philology in Cologne and Bochum. From 1999 to 2009 she was a research assistant and lecturer at the Collaborative Research Centre 427 \u00bbMedia and Cultural Communication\u00ab at the University of Cologne. She received her doctorate from the University of Cologne in 2004 with a thesis on Roland Barthes’ theory of autobiography. From 2009 to 2014, she was scientific coordinator of the DFG Research Training Group \u00bbLocating Media\u00ab and lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Siegen, and from 2014 to 2017, she was Professor of History and Theory of Cultural Techniques at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Since 2017, she is professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where she has established the working unit and Master’s program \u00bbMedia Culture Studies\u00ab. Since 2021 she is deputy speaker of the CRC 1482 \u00bbStudies in Human Categorization\u00ab<\/strong><\/a> and principal investigator of the project \u00bbTypes of Mobility. Infrastructuring Human Differentiation in Urban Road Traffic\u00ab as well as participating researcher of the RTG \u00bbTechnologies of Witnessing\u00ab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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