Antke Engel
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Antke Engel (born 21 September 1965 in Hamburg) is a German philosopher and publicist. Together with Sabine Hark, she is one of the pioneers of Butler reception in Germany,[1] teaches as a visiting professor for Queer Studies at various universities and is the founder and director of the Institute for Queer Theory[2] in Berlin.
Antke Engel studied philosophy, education and geography in Bielefeld and Hamburg. In 1995, she obtained her Magistra Artium in Philosophy at the University of Hamburg with the thesis "Abschied von der Binarität? Die Kategorie Geschlecht im feministisch-philosophischen Diskurs".[3] In 2001, she received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Potsdam with a queer-theoretical thesis published under the title "Wider die Eindeutigkeit".[4] She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Hamburg (2003/04 and 2005), Vienna (2011),[5] at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (2015) and the TU Darmstadt (2018/2019).[6] From 2007 to 2009 she was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin,[7] which resulted in the publication of her second monograph "Images of Sexuality and Economy" (2009).[8][9] She held further fellowships in 1995 at the Institute for Human Sciences, in 2018 at the London School of Economics[10] and in 2018/2019 as Asa Briggs Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex.
In 2006, Engel founded the Institute for Queer Theory (iQt), which she has headed ever since. Opened in Hamburg in the Prinzenbar of the Dock and launched with lectures by Lisa Duggan and Judith Butler, it is now located on the site of the former Berliner Kindl-Brauerei in Neukölln in the immediate vicinity of the Schwuz. As director of the iQt, Engel conceives and organises events that are oriented towards a "queer politics of representation".[11] She promotes international academic exchange through lecture series and conferences, in which experimentation with event formats and the participatory involvement of visitors play an important role.[12] Together with Jess Dorrance, she organised the project "Bossing Images: The Power of Images, Queer Art and Politics" launched by the New Society for Visual Arts between 2012 and 2016.[13]
Antke Engel is on the scientific advisory board of Femina Politica, the IPAK Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities in Belgrade, an associate member of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a member of the College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation. From 2010 to 2012, she was on the founding board of the Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien.
