Cinepoetics – Center for Advanced Film Studies

Mark B. N. Hansen

Mark B. N. Hansen is James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. There, he also directs the Program in Literature at the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. Previously, he held positions at the University of Chicago, the National Humanities Center, and the University of California, where he received his PhD in comparative literature.

Among his research interests are (digital) media theory and aesthetics as well as phenomenology and process philosophy. His major publications include New Philosophy for New Media (MIT Press, 2006) and Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First Century Media (Chicago UP, 2014). His current essay, "Prosthesis for Feeling: Intensifying Potentiality through Media," will appear mid-year in the anthology Anthropologies of Entanglement (Bloomsbury, 2023), edited by Christiane Voss, Lorenz Engell, and Tim Othold.

For the Center for Advanced Film Studies Cinepoetics, the exchange with leading scholars from all over the world is of profound importance.

The fellow program is designed to support academics in their research on audio-visual images and enables them to bring their experience and expertise into the center in order to engage in critical dialogue.

The program is flexible in that it facilitates short-term collaborations as well as longer, project-oriented stays. In addition to inviting exceptional scholars (Senior Fellows) working in the field of research, project-specific calls for proposals explicitly address young academics (Research Fellows and Junior Fellows).

Furthermore, within the framework of selected project foci, the presence of Artists in Residence allows for productive debates with filmmakers and professional artists.