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Dr. rer. nat. Dr. phil. Erna Fiorentini holds a substitute professorship at the Department of Art History in the summer semester 2018.
Prof. i. V. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. phil. Erna Fiorentini holds a PhD in Geochemistry and Classical Archaeology and then in Art History from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. From 2003-2009 she worked as a staff member at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin and at the same time as an affiliated scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. After completing her habilitation in art history at Freie Universität Berlin in 2009, she researched and taught as a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the Institute for the History of Art and Images at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 2010-2016. In 2011, 2012 and 2016 she was trimester guest scholar at the History of Art Department - Centre for Visual Studies at the University of Oxford. In the summer semester of 2017, she was a visiting professor of modern and contemporary art history at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin.
In her teaching at KIT's Department of Architecture, she aims to convey basic content and methods to students in dialogue and to share with them aspects of her current research, which - in a transdisciplinary approach based on her background in both the natural sciences and the humanities - focuses on historical, epistemological and aesthetic aspects of image production, with an emphasis on the history and theory of seeing and on problems of visuality and visualization, furthermore on concepts of nature and landscape and the practices of their visualization, as well as on methodological issues between visual disciplines.