Members
INHP Founders
PD Dr. Boris Roman Gibhardt
Boris Roman Gibhardt is a member of academic staff at the Department of History of Art at Bielefeld University and at Freie Universität Berlin (FU), where he qualified for tenure position (Habilitation) in General and Comparative Literature and German Studies in 2015. After his Ph.D. in General and Comparative Literature at FU Berlin in 2009, he has been member of academic staff at the German Institute for History of Art, Paris, from 2009 to 2013, and visiting fellow at Stanford University in 2015. Since 2015, he is co-editor of the German and French scientific review journal “Regards Croisés”. His research interests include Word and Image Studies (18th-21th Century), Aesthetics in the Age of Goethe, and Modern Novel. Book Publications: Das Auge der Sprache. Ornament und Lineatur bei Marcel Proust, Berlin 2011; Marcel Proust et les arts décoratifs. Poétique, matérialité, histoire (ed., with Julie Ramos), Paris 2013 ; Nachtseite des Sinnbilds. Die romantische Allegorie (accepted for publication at Wallstein Verlag Göttingen).
Dr. Valérie Kobi
J. Paul Getty Trust, Christine Nguyen.
Valérie Kobi received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Neuchâtel in 2014 (Prix Nexans de la Recherche). Through the example of the French amateur Pierre-Jean Mariette, her dissertation explores the emergence of art history as a scholarly discipline in the eighteenth century (Dans l’oeil du connoisseur. Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) et la construction des savoirs en histoire de l’art, Rennes 2017). She has held fellowships from the Swiss Institute of Rome (2010-2011), the Swiss Science Foundation (2010-2011: Rome; 2014-2015: LMU-München) and the Getty Research Institute (2012-2013). Since May 2015, she has held the post of postdoctoral researcher at the Bielefeld University and is associated with the research project Parergonale Rahmungen. Zur Ästhetik wissenschaftlicher Dinge bei Goethe. Since October 2016, she is as well Fellow of the Young ZiF, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, in Bielefeld.
INHP Members
Dr. Dominik Brabant
Dominik Brabant is an art historian who has specialized and published on modern sculpture (especially Rodin), on the history of art criticism and art history (19th and 20th century) as well as on the history of genre painting. Between 2002 and 2006, he studied art history, psychology and English literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. From 2006 to 2008, he joined the Master program 'Aisthesis. Historische Kunst- und Literaturdiskurse' (University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). In 2009/2010, he was an annual fellow at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art). In 2011, he joined the Department of Art History at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where he teaches today as a lecturer (Akademischer Rat a.Z.). Publications: Rodin-Lektüren. Deutungen und Debatten von der Moderne zur Postmoderne, Köln 2017; „Pathos on the Run: Auguste Rodin, Aby Warburg and the Movement of Images“, in: Michael F. Zimmermann (ed.), Vision in Motion. Streams of Consciousness and Configurations of Time, Zürich/Berlin 2016, p. 561-577.
Dr. Silke Förschler
Since 2013 Academic Researcher at the LOEWE-Research-Training-Group „Human-Animal-Society. Interdisciplinary Perspectives“, University of Kassel (Germany); 2011-2013 Post-Doc at DFG-Research Training Group „Dynamics of Space and Gender“, Universities of Kassel and of Göttingen; 2008-2011 Postdoctoral research Fellow at the Center of Excellence „Enlightment – Religion – Knowledge“, University of Halle-Wittenberg; 2008 Ph.D. in Philosophy, School of Art History, University of Trier, 2004-2008 Academic Researcher at the DFG Research-Training-Group „Identity and Difference. Gender and Race“. 2002 Master of Arts Humboldt-University, Berlin. Current Publications: Akteure, Tiere, Dinge. Verfahrensweisen der Naturgeschichte in der Frühen Neuzeit, Köln/Weimar/Wien 2017 (ed. with Anne Mariss); „Das Horn des Nashorns. Objekt der Parzellierung, Ästhetisierung und Wissensgenese“, in: Annette Cremer/Martin Mulsow (ed.), Objekte als Quellen der historischen Kulturwissenschaften. Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung, Köln/Weimar/Wien 2017, p. 195-207.
PD Dr. Stephan Pabst
Stephan Pabst is Assistant Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. He works on the history of physiognomy, anonymous authorship, and literature after the end of the GDR. His books include: Fiktionen des inneren Menschen. Die literarische Umwertung der Physiognomik bei Jean Paul und E.T.A. Hoffmann, Heidelberg 2007; Anonymität und Autorschaft. Zur Literatur- und Rechtsgeschichte der Namenlosigkeit (ed.), Berlin/New York 2011, and Post-Ost-Moderne. Poetik nach der DDR, Göttingen 2016.
Dr. Julie Ramos
Julie Ramos is Associate Professor in Art History at the University Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her writing and research focus on romantic art and aesthetics, often exploring intermediality (painting and music, tableau vivant). Between 2009 and 2013, she has been Scientific Advisor of Studies and Research at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris, where she led the interdisciplinary research field “L’art par-delà les beaux-arts” as well as the research programs “Le tableau vivant: performance de la présence”, “L’art social en France, de la Révolution à la Grande Guerre” and “Histoire de l’ornement”. Since 2012, she is co-editor of the journal Regards croisés. Deutsch-französisches Journal zur Kunstgeschichte und Ästhetik. Currently, she is writing a book on the relationships between romantic art and ancient India. Selected publications: Nostalgie de l’unité. Paysage et musique dans la peinture de P. O. Runge et C. D. Friedrich, Rennes 2008; Marcel Proust et les arts décoratifs. Poétique, matérialité, histoire, Paris 2013 (ed. with B.R. Gibhardt), Le tableau vivant ou l’image performée, Paris 2014 (in collaboration with L. Pouy); L’art social en France, de la Révolution à la Grande Guerre, Rennes 2014 (ed. with N. McWilliam and C. Méneux).