Prof.in Dr.in phil. habil. Insa Härtel
Permanent Senior Research Fellow
Insa Härtel, Prof. Dr. phil. habil., is a cultural scientist and Permanent Senior Research Fellow at the University of Arts Linz. She works as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in private practice in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. From 2012, she was Professor of Cultural Studies with a focus on cultural theory and psychoanalysis at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (IPU) for ten years and previously worked for a long time at the University of Bremen (short CV).
Her current work in cultural studies focuses on psychoanalytic cultural research and sexuality research. She has, for example, researchedTV message programs or onimages/discourses of childish-adolescent sexuality (DFG project). She has habilitated on:Rewriting symbolic orders. Authority, authorship and agencyBielefeld 2009), her doctorate was dedicated to the topic:On the production of the maternal (in) architecture(Turia + Kant, Vienna 1999). The current book project deals with the Aesthetics of the Sexual (Bielefeld: transcript, in preparation). Insa Härtel can also be heard in a series of the ifk podcastThinking culture(Season 3), in which she discusses the following under the heading Nothing special she talks to various guests.
A list of publications can be found here: insahaertel.de/index.php/publications, samples of her work: insahaertel.de/index.php/kostproben
