Prof. Dr. Julia Bee

From 2022 to 2024, she was Professor of Media Aesthetics at University of Siegen, and from 2016 to 2022 she served as Junior Professor of Image Theory at Bauhaus University Weimar. During this period, Julia Bee also held positions as a visiting professor at Free University Berlin (2020) and University of Vienna (2016), as well as Mercator Fellow in the Collaborative Research Center Media of Cooperation (2020) and postdoctoral researcher in the graduate program The Real in Modern Culture (2016).

Prior to that, Julia Bee worked as a research associate at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf from 2009 to 2016, including in the media studies subproject of the Volkswagen Foundation-funded research project Return of Torture? She also completed her doctorate at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in 2015 under the supervision of Reinhold Görling and Andrea Seier.

Intersectional approaches and gender media theory are central to Julia Bee´s research. From these perspectives, she also examines the climate catastrophe and the ways in which it intensifies social inequalities. Her current research focuses on documentary and ethnographic films, television series, vlogs, installations, literature, and mobile media practices such as cycling. Feminist, anti-racist, antisemitism-critical, and anti-ableist perspectives play an important role in her work. She is currently researching, among other topics, antifascist protests and formats of digital political education on online platforms.

She is engaged in the development of research methods as well as experimental and creative research practices. Processes of mediation and collaboration between academia and society are of particular importance to her.

In teaching, she considers it essential to support and cultivate diverse talents and to foster a culture of recognition, resonance, and collaboration. She has worked extensively on teaching methods and is committed to creating a discrimination-free culture of teaching and learning.