Lisa Dieckmann

Lisa Dieckmann studied Art History, Humanities Computer Science and German Literature at the University of Cologne and La Sapienza in Rome and graduated in 2004 with a master degree. She wrote her dissertation about “Dream Imagery in German Romanticism”. Since 2005 she has been working as research assistant and since 2008 as managing director for the project “prometheus - the distributed digital image archive for research and studies” (http://www.prometheus-bildarchiv.de) at the Institute of Art History at the University of Cologne. She additionally was working in several research projects (University of Cologne and Marburg) and is currently in charge of the DFG-project “Meta-Image – a virtual research environment for the image discourse” (http://www.meta-image.de) in collaboration with the Leuphana University Lüneburg and the Humboldt University of Berlin. After the collapse of the Cologne Stadtarchiv (city archive) in 2009 she was part of the research group who initiated the digital historical archive Cologne (http://www.historischesarchivkoeln.de). She is also a founder member of the “Cologne Center for eHumanties” and the “Arbeitskreis Digitale Kunstgeschichte”. Her research interests are in particular: 19th century Art (i.e. German Romanticism), Digital Humanities/Digital Art History, New Media.