Axel Fliethmann
Associate Professor Axel Fliethmann
- Post Nominals: FAHA
- Fellow Type: Fellow
- Elected to the Academy: 2018
- Section(s): Philosophy And History Of Ideas, European Languages And Cultures
Biography
Axel Fliethmann is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of literary theory, media philology and theory of the image.
He studied Literature, History and Philosophy at the University of Cologne (Germany) where he also received his PhD (Dr. phil.). Before joining the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash in 2002, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the research centre for “Medien und Kulturelle Kommunikation” (Centre for media and cultural communication) at the University of Cologne.
He is the author of “Stellenlektüre. Stifter. Foucault” (Niemeyer 2001), and of “Texte über Bilder. Zur Gegenwart der Renaissance” (Rombach 2014). He is one of the co-founders/editors of “Limbus. Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.”
He has published widely on literary theory, visual cultures, and media philology. In his current research he investigates connections between material images and concepts of imagination in the Early Modern period, in particular intersections between image technologies, the formation of the modern concept imagination in aesthetic theory, and pathologies of imagination in medical discourse.