Professor Sigrid Weigel

About

Sigrid Weigel directed the Research Center for Literature and Culture (ZfL Berlin), which she transformed into a site of radical interdisciplinary work. Prior to that, she taught in Hamburg, Zürich, Berlin and Princeton, and acted as director of the Einstein Forum. She is the author of numerous books, including Body- and Image Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin (1996); Ingeborg Bachmann (1999), Genea-Logik (2006), Walter Benjamin, Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy (2008/2013), Grammatologie der Bilder (2015). She is also editor of a volume of the writings of Aby Warburg, Gershom Scholem and Susan Taubes, and co-editor of several more—such as “Escape to Life”: German Intellectuals in New York (2012), A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Dialogue for Bridging Freud and the Neurosciences (2016), Empathy: Epistemic Problems and Cultural-Historical Perspectives (2017), and Testimony / Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture (2017). She has received several honorary doctorates, and is honorary member of the MLA. She recently organized an exhibition on “The Face”.