Prof.in Juliane Engel

About

Juliane Engel is a professor of education with a focus on schools and cultural transformation at Goethe University Frankfurt and a Distinguished Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute. Her research is situated within the field of critical cultural studies on digitization and transformation, and examines how digital technologies are intertwined with sweeping social and planetary upheavals.

Her project at the Weizenbaum Institute centers on questions of knowledge orders, modes of subjectivation, and cultural practices in the context of digital and ecological transformations. Juliane Engel works at the intersection of social, cultural, and educational research and continues to develop qualitative, reconstructive, and visual research approaches. Her research focuses on relational theories of subjectivation, cultural transformations in the post-digital Anthropocene, and socially critical analyses of digitalization and climate change.

Her academic career is characterized by interdisciplinary research. She is also a co-founder of a Center for Critical Computational Studies and investigates how digital environments transform patterns of perception, thought, and action, as well as social orders. In addition to her research, she is active in academic networks, publishes internationally, and contributes to the further development of critical perspectives on digitalization in the context of planetary transformation.