Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Institut für Kulturwissenschaft
Sophia Lohmann
Associated Researcher
Georgenstraße 47
10117 Berlin
Sophia Lohmann is a cultural scholar and author. She studied Comparative Literature and Political Science at FU Berlin (B.A.), as well as Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Edinburgh (M.A.). In early 2026, she submitted her doctoral thesis on modes of interference in US-American essays at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at HU Berlin. Subsequently, she worked as a freelance curator and, alongside her research activities, is currently writing screenplays and a non-fiction book. She previously worked as a project assistant and editor at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), as a freelance editor, and at the Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature.
Sophia Lohmann’s doctoral thesis, which focused primarily on the US-American authors Joan Didion and Audre Lorde, was initially based at the Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) in the Literary Studies section at FU Berlin. After completing the doctoral program there, she continued and completed her work at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at HU Berlin. Her research was supported by the Humboldt Research Track Scholarship of the Excellence Initiative and a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes; she also spent a research semester as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, California. Her research areas include the history of knowledge, genre and film theory, gender studies, transcultural literature, and practices of resistance in the arts.
Selected Publications
»Faktum und Verwandlung. Essayistische Gegenkräfte und Schreibweisen queerer Relationalität in Maggie Nelsons The Argonauts«, in: Iris Därmann / Sofie Fingado / Andreas Gehrlach / Waldemar Isak (eds.). Gegenkräfte – Gegenkünste. Widerspenstige Perspektiven der kulturwissenschaftlichen Ästhetik. Berlin: Kadmos (forthcoming 2026).
»Welt empfangen, Um/frieden verweigern. Dimensionen des Versammelns, Transformierens und Affizierens im Essay«, in: Sebastian Köthe / Antonio Lucci / Beate Absalon et al. (eds.): Empfangen. Die andere Seite der Gabe. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.
»The phantasmatic and the real. Navigating the essay’s critical potential«, in: Jasper Delbecke (ed.): From the Scenic Essay to the Essay-Exhibition. Expanding the Essay Form in the Arts beyond Literature and Film. Ghent: S:PAM – Studies in Performing Arts & Media, 2023.
Sophia Lohmann
Associated Researcher
Georgenstraße 47
10117 Berlin
Sophia Lohmann is a cultural scholar and author. She studied Comparative Literature and Political Science at FU Berlin (B.A.), as well as Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Edinburgh (M.A.). In early 2026, she submitted her doctoral thesis on modes of interference in US-American essays at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at HU Berlin. Subsequently, she worked as a freelance curator and, alongside her research activities, is currently writing screenplays and a non-fiction book. She previously worked as a project assistant and editor at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), as a freelance editor, and at the Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature.
Sophia Lohmann’s doctoral thesis, which focused primarily on the US-American authors Joan Didion and Audre Lorde, was initially based at the Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) in the Literary Studies section at FU Berlin. After completing the doctoral program there, she continued and completed her work at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at HU Berlin. Her research was supported by the Humboldt Research Track Scholarship of the Excellence Initiative and a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes; she also spent a research semester as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, California. Her research areas include the history of knowledge, genre and film theory, gender studies, transcultural literature, and practices of resistance in the arts.
Selected Publications
»Faktum und Verwandlung. Essayistische Gegenkräfte und Schreibweisen queerer Relationalität in Maggie Nelsons The Argonauts«, in: Iris Därmann / Sofie Fingado / Andreas Gehrlach / Waldemar Isak (eds.). Gegenkräfte – Gegenkünste. Widerspenstige Perspektiven der kulturwissenschaftlichen Ästhetik. Berlin: Kadmos (forthcoming 2026).
»Welt empfangen, Um/frieden verweigern. Dimensionen des Versammelns, Transformierens und Affizierens im Essay«, in: Sebastian Köthe / Antonio Lucci / Beate Absalon et al. (eds.): Empfangen. Die andere Seite der Gabe. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.
»The phantasmatic and the real. Navigating the essay’s critical potential«, in: Jasper Delbecke (ed.): From the Scenic Essay to the Essay-Exhibition. Expanding the Essay Form in the Arts beyond Literature and Film. Ghent: S:PAM – Studies in Performing Arts & Media, 2023.
»Rankine, Claudia: Just Us«, in: H. L. Arnold (ed.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_23193-1.
»Therapie gegen den Terror«, ROM – Gesellschaftsmagazin, print edition 2021.
»Barracoon: Raub, Deportation, Erzählung«, ZEIT Online, 11.07.2018.
»To Show You How I See. A Conversation with Teju Cole«, Epitext, 26.05.2017.
»Nackt im Amerikanischen Apostelkreis«, Epitext, 12.06.2017.