Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid: - Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky is Professor Emerita of Media Studies and Gender Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She has also been a visiting professor at several universities in the United States, Paris, and Indonesia. She is an Associate Member of the ICI Berlin, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Historical Museum, and a member of the board of the Centre d'études du vivant CEV/Université Paris Cité. Her research focuses on topics in critical, feminist, and queer theory, media philosophy and epistemology, temporality and media aesthetics, philosophy of technology, as well as Jewish Philosophy.