Annette Jael Lehmann-Kolesch

Annette Jael Lehmann has studied Comparative Literature, Art History, American Studies and Philosophy in Berlin, Oxford and Berkeley.

In 1996, she received her PhD in comparative literature and aesthetics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Between 1995–1998, she was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Humanities Division of the University of California (UCLA) and Visiting Scholar at the School of Arts, Letters and Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC).

Between 1999–2005, she was Scientific Assistant at the DFG-Collaborative Research Centre SFB 447: Kulturen des Performativen and obtained her Habilitation in Visual Culture at the Freie Universität Berlin (2005). During this time, she was also Executive Manager of the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Kunstwissenschaften und Ästhetik (2006). Between 2007–2019, she was  Professor of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Theater at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2017, she is Principal Investigator (PI) at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF).

In 2019 she became Principal Researcher (PR) at the Excellence Cluster ‘Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective’ at the Freie Universität Berlin and PI at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduierten Schule für Literaturwissenschaftliche Studien. Since fall 2019/20, she has been Professor and Head of the Seminar für Kultur- und Medienmanagement at Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, FU Berlin. She is an affiliate at metaLAB (at) Harvard and the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University.

Annette Jael Lehmann is married, has two children and lives in Berlin.