Dr. Simon Strick

Research focus: Gender and critical race studies, popular culture, affect studies, media and cultural analysis.

Dr. Simon Strick directs the project “Digital Blackface. Racialized Affect Patterns of the Digital” at the University of Potsdam, previously a postdoc at the ZeM (Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies). He is independent researcher in cultural and gender studies, and works as a dramaturg. He has held positions at FU Berlin, Paderborn University, JFK-Institute Berlin, ZfL Berlin and the University of Virginia. Simon’s research focuses on gender and critical race studies, popular culture, affect studies, media and cultural analysis. With Susann Neuenfeldt and Werner Türk, he founded the performance group PKRK in 2009. He lives and works in Berlin.

For his outstanding scientific research and publication work, Simon Strick was awarded the Hans Bausch Media Prize 2021.

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