Stefan Andriopoulos (Dr. phil., Hamburg 1998) joined Columbia's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in 2000, after holding a position as a member of the Research Institute Media, Culture, Communication at Cologne University. 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 Weimar cinema, media history, occultism, interrelations of literature and science, and law and literature. His new book, provisionally titled Ghostly Visions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media, is under contract with Zone Books. In the spring of 2009, he will be teaching as a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.

Stefan Andriopoulos's previous books include Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema (University of Chicago Press 2008, Original German version: Fink 2000) and Unfall und Verbrechen. Konfigurationen zwischen juristischem und literarischem Diskurs um 1900 [Accident and Crime: Configurations between Literary and Legal Discourse around 1900] (Centaurus 1996). He has also co-edited two volumes, 1929. Beiträge zur Archäologie der Medien [1929: Towards an Archaeology of Media] with Bernhard Dotzler (Suhrkamp 2002), and Die Adresse des Mediums [Addressing Media] with Gabriele Schabacher and Eckhard Schumacher (DuMont 2001). 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