is a film and literary scholar and chief coordinator of the research training group »Media Historiographies« at Bauhaus University, Weimar.

Petra Löffler is a film and media theorist who taught at the Universities of Cologne, Regensburg, Vienna, Siegen and Weimar. Her publications comprise studies in Media archaeology, Media history of facial expression, Early cinema, Affect theory and Visual Culture. She is editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft