Prof. Dr. Jan-Noel Thon

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheatre and Media Studies,General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
Keywordstransmediality, intermediality, transmaterialization, mediality, postdigitality
Honours and awards

2021: I.K. Lykkes Pris (Humanities) from the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Norway

2015: Award for Outstanding Research Achievement from the Foundation for Communication and Media Studies, University of Mannheim, Germany

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityOsnabrück
InstitutionUniversität Osnabrück
InstituteInstitut für Germanistik

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Frauke BerndtDeutsches Seminar, Abteilung für Neuere deutsche Literatur, Universität Zürich, Zürich
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2023

Programme(s)

2023Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2026Jan-Noël Thon: Postdigitale Ästhetik. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026
2025Jan-Noël Thon: AI Horseplay: Postdigital Aesthetics in AI-Generated Images . In: Jan-Noël Thon/Lukas R.A. Wilde, AI Aesthetics: AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics . New York: Routledge, 2025. 22-58
2025Jan-Noël Thon: Postdigital Aesthetics in Recent Indie Games. In: Theresa Krampe/Jan-Noël Thon, Videogames and Metareference: Mapping the Margins of an Interdisciplinary Field. New York: Routledge, 2025. 221-283