Ass. Prof. Dr. Philipp Hohmann

Ass. Prof.

hohmann(at)mdw.ac.at

https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5419-2224

 

Philipp Hohmann (Dr. phil.) is a theater and media Studies scholar specializing in gender and queer theory. Since March 2025, he has been working at the International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) at the mdw, initially as university assistant, since July 2026, as assistant professor. Previously, he held a positions as research associate and research coordinator, at the DFG Research Training Group “Documentary Practices. Excess and Privation” at Ruhr University Bochum (2019–2025), where he earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation on queer collectivity. He also taught at the Institute for Film, Theater, Media, and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2024–2025).

Current projects include the publication of his dissertation (Büchnerverlag 2027), as well as editing the special issue “Trans Media Studies” of  Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. He is also embarking on a new research project on the role of bodily practices in contemporary performing and media arts, aesthetic and emancipatory theory, with a particular focus on the relation of epistemology and (non)violence.

Philipp Hohmann is co-editor of the anthology Text\Werk: Readings on Hito Steyerl (2022; with Lilian Haberer, Anna Polze, Julia Reich, and Jolanda Wessel) and author of essays such as “Mourning, Rejection, and Two Forms of Recognition. Reparative Practices and Relational Critique with Lauren Berlant, Talya Feldman, and Boudry/Lorenz” (2024, with Jasmin Degeling).

Since 2023, he has been part of the speaker-collective of the Society for Media Studies’ working group Gender/Queer Studies and Media Studies.

Research interests

  • Media and Theater Studies
  • Gender and Queer Media & Performance Studies
  • Somatics, body practices, histories of the body
  • Media & Performance, scores in the performing arts
  • Affect theory, theories of subjectiviation, questions of collectivity
  • Queer & Trans Studies
  • Climate (Justice) movements, protests, performances and their mediatization

Publications (selection)

Books

  • (in progress) Queere Kollektivität in den Arbeiten von Antonia Baehr und Boudry/Lorenz: Medialität, Performance, (Selbst-)Dokumentation, dissertation, forthcoming in 2027, Büchner
  • (in progress) Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. Vol. 18, No. 35 (2/2026): Trans Media Studies. Joint special issue edited with Jul Tirler, Francis Wagner, Sarah Horn
  • Text\Werk. Lektüren zu Hito Steyerl. Co-edited with Lilian Haberer, Anna Polze, Julia Reich, Jolanda Wessel, Berlin: Hatje Cantz 2022

Articles

  • (forthcoming) “‘Das ist meine Stimme’ – Remediatisierung und Relationalität von (trans*) Männlichkeiten in Neo Hülckers Breaking of the Voice”, in: Justus Heitzelmann/Xenia Müller (Hg.): Tränen aus Stahl — Männlichkeiten zwischen Verletzlichkeit und Gewalt, to be pubished in 2026, transcript
  • (forthcoming) „Hacking Tiktok? Ästhetische und politische Interventionen in die Manosphere mit onlinetheater.live.”, co-authored with Julia Bee, in: Jennifer Eickelmann et al. (Hg.): Plattformforschung nach dem Digital Services Act – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, to be published in 2026, Büchner.
  • (forthcoming)  “Keep up the Make up – Drag ausweiten mit Antonia Baehr, Werner Hirsch und Henry Wilde”,
    „Hard at Work: A Dialogue on Drag and Materialism“, co-authored with Olympia Bukkakis, in: Jenny Schrödl/Samu/elle Striewsky (Hg.), Drag, hier und heute!, to be published in 2026,  Neofelis
  • (forthcoming) „ I am the one who…Zum Verhältnis von (Selbst-)Dokumentation, Autofiktion und Queerer Kollektivität mit Antonia Baehr“, in: Journal for Theater, Film and Media Studies
  • „no one has to be cis. an exhibition review ”, in: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, ZfM Online, GAAAP_ The Blog, June 24, 2025 , https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/no-one-has-be-cis.
  • „Trauer, Verwerfung und zwei Formen der Anerkennung. Reparative Praktiken und relationale Kritik mit Lauren Berlant, Talya Feldman und Boudry/Lorenz“, co-authored with Jasmin Degeling, in: Charlotte Bolwin/Katia Schwerzmann et. al. (eds.), Szenen kritischer Relationalität, Lüneburg: Meson Press, 2024, pp. 79–102.
  • „Ander(e)s bilden. N.O.Body als queere kuratorische Intervention in Magnus Hirschfelds Bilderteil“, in: Medienkomparatistik, 3. Jahrgang „Kuratieren als medienkomparatistische Methode“, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2022, pp. 165–181.
  • „Ein Mangel und ein Begehren: Theaterwissenschaft & Queer Theory“, in: Beate Hochholdinger-Reiterer, Nikolaus Müller-Schöll et. al. (eds.): Zwischenstand: Was heißt es, sich im Forschungsfeld Theaterwissenschaft zu orientieren? Online-Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft, 9 (1), pp. 52–64. https://doi.org/10.21248/thewis.9.2022.110, CC BY4.0
  • „Drag or Drop. Queere Methodologie zum Umgang mit (un-)geliebten Begriffen“, co-authored with Elisa Linseisen, in: nocturne, 2022. Online: http://nocturne-plattform.de/text/drag-or-drop
  • „Theoriepolitiken des Überlebens: Trauerarbeit mit Lauren Berlant“, co-authored with Jasmin Degeling, in: Texte zur Kunst, Vol. 32, No. 126, June 2022, pp. 153–157.