Dr. Nina Eckhoff-Heindl was accepted into the DFG’s Emmy Noether Program in 2025 and will soon establish the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Body Shape and Body Norm: Dis/ability in Western European Art and Visual Culture of the Long 19th Century. Since 2021, she has been a postdoctoral researcher in the DFG Research Training Group 2661 Connecting – Excluding. Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks.
She completed her Cotutelle doctorate in art history at the Universities of Cologne and Zurich in 2021 with the thesis Handling and Comprehending Comics. Aesthetic experience through visual-tactile narration in Chris Ware’s Building Stories (in German). In 2022 the book was awarded the Roland Faelske Prize for Comics and Animation Studies as well as in 2023 the Offermann Hergarten Prize. Previously, she was an MSCA Fellow in the “a.r.t.e.s. EUmanities” program at the University of Cologne (Horizon 2020: Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant No. 713600).
Video recordings: Online event series “Aesthetics of Accessibility. Accessibility in Art, Culture, and Research” (in German), 20/04/2023, 25/05/2023, 15/06/2023
