Stefan Andriopoulos (Dr. phil., Hamburg 1998) is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University and the author of Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema (University of Chicago Press, 2008; original German version: Fink 2000). His areas of teaching and research focus on German and European literary, intellectual, and cultural history from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, specifically on media history, interrelations of literature and science, Weimar cinema, occultism, and law and literature. He has held visiting professorships at Harvard University, in the Department of the History of Science, and at Cologne University, in the Research Institute "Media, Culture, Communication." His new book, provisionally titled Ghostly Visions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media, is under contract with Zone Books.

Stefan Andriopoulos's previous books include Unfall und Verbrechen. Konfigurationen zwischen juristischem und literarischem Diskurs um 1900 [Accident and Crime: Configurations between Literary and Legal Discourse around 1900] (Centaurus 1996) and two co-edited volumes, 1929. Beiträge zur Archäologie der Medien [1929: Towards an Archaeology of Media] (Suhrkamp 2002) and Die Adresse des Mediums [Addressing Media]. His articles have appeared in such journals as Critical Inquiry, New German Critique, English Literary History, and the Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift.

List of publications by Stefan Andriopoulos