After temporary professorships at the Kunsthochschule Mainz, at the Gutenberg-University Mainz, the Goethe-University Frankfurt and the Ruhr-University Bochum, I am Heisenberg-Professor for Contemporary Art History at the Institute for Art History of the Goethe-University since June 2021. I studied art/art education, art history and literary studies in Kiel, Vienna and Leipzig and received my PhD from the University of Leipzig with the thesis “Constructions of Identity: Reneé Green, Tracey Emin, Rirkrit Tiravanija.” With my book “Art, Fashion, Magazine. A queer history of images and surfaces,” I completed my habilitation in Mainz, in which I examined magazines as communication platforms of queer subject positions. One focus of mine is on the mediality and materiality of fashion, especially on shine phenomena, with which spaces and relations are imagined.
E-Mail: krause-wahl@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Research interest
My research interests include artists’ identities, subject configurations, body discourses, materiality and mediality of fashion and dress, surfaces and touch, queer theory, and journals with a focus in 20th and 21st century US-American art. My research has been funded by the DFG and the Terra Foundation for American Art.