Armen Avanessian
Born in Vienna, Armen Avanessian studied philosophy and political science in Vienna and in Paris with Jacques Rancière. After completing his dissertation in literature, Phenomenology of the Ironic Spirit: Ethics, Poetics, and Politics of Modernity (in Bielefeld, Germany, with Karl Heinz Bohrer), he worked as a freelance journalist and editor (at Le Philosophoire) in Paris, and then in publishing in London. In 2007 he returned to academia to begin his current position as a researcher at the "Collaborative Research Center 626: Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits," and at the Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature at Free University Berlin. In 2011 he was a Visiting Fellow in the German Department at Columbia University and in 2012 at the German Department at Yale University. In 2013/14 he was Visiting Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and currently at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
