Dr Susanne Martin
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Curriculum vitae
Academic Career
Summer term 2026 Acting Professor of Political Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Summer term 2025 Acting Professor of Political Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Winter term 2024/2025 Locum for the Chair of Sociology of Knowledge and Social Theory, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Summer term 2024 Locum for the Academic Council Office at the Department of General and Theoretical Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Summer term 2023 Locum for the Chair of Sociology of Knowledge and Social Theory, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Winter term 2022/2023 Locum for the Chair of Political Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Summer term 2022 Locum for the Chair of General Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Winter term 2021/22 Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt
2018 – 2021 Research assistant with a focus on teaching, Department of Political Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2015 – 2017 Lecturer for special tasks at the Department of Political Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Winter term 2014/2015 and Winter term 2013/14 Visiting Professor of Critical Social Research, Department of Social and Cultural Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Winter term 2012/2013 Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt
2012 PhD in Sociology with the thesis Thinking in Contradiction. Theory and Practice of Non-Conformist Intellectuals
2007 – 2012 Research Assistant at the Chair of Deviance and Social Exclusion (Prof. Dr Heinz Steinert), Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt
2005 Master of Arts with the thesis Georg Lukács and Theodor W. Adorno: The (Im)possibility of a Proletarian Revolution. On the Transformation of an Orthodox Marxist Paradigm
1998 – 2005 Studied Sociology, German Studies and Psychology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Frankfurt am Main
Awards, Scholarships and Grants
2021/22 Start-up funding for a project, Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt
2019 Wolfgang Mittermaier Prize for outstanding achievements in academic teaching, spon sored by the Erwin Stein Foundation
2017 Mentee in the ‘Academic Career’ funding stream of the MEWISMA Mentoring Programme, funded by the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts (Mentor: Prof. Dr Thorsten Bonacker)
2013 Scholarship for the transition to the postdoctoral phase, early-career support from the University of Hamburg (Mentor: Prof. Dr. Urs Stäheli)
2012 Final-year scholarship for the doctoral thesis, Qualification Fund of the Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt
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Teaching
Summer term 2026
Bachelor's degree programme
Reading the classics: Hannah Arendt (seminar)
⇒ BASOZ 22 | Thursday 8:00 am- 10:00 am
Classism: a critical review (seminar)
⇒ BASOZ 42, 43, 44, 45 | Wednesday 12:00 pm -2:00 pm
Master's degree programme
Analyses of Fascism in Early Critical Theory: Foundations and Contemporary Relevance (seminar)
⇒ MASOZ 10, 30 | Tuesday 4.00–6.00 pm
National Socialism in film (seminar)
⇒ MASOZ 10, 30 | Thursday 10:00 am -2:00 pm, fortnightly
Summer term 2025
Bachelor's degree programme
The Culture of Remembrance: Historical and Contemporary Debates (seminar)
Forms of poverty (seminar)
Master's degree programme
Contemporary emotions and the politics of emotion (seminar)
Class and classism in autofictional works (seminar)
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Research
Research areas
- Social theory
- Critical theory
- Sociology of emotions and affect
- Sociology of anxiety
- Sociology of intellectuals
- Sociology of social inequality
Memberships
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
- DGS-Sektion Soziologische Theorie
- Arbeitskreis Kritische Soziologie am Institut für Sozialforschung Frankfurt (IfS)
- Redaktionsmitglied der Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie (ZkT)
- Graduiertenakademie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (GRADE)
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Publications
Monograph
2013 Denken im Widerspruch. Theorie und Praxis nonkonformistischer Intellektueller, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot
Publications
2020 (with Thomas Linpinsel) Angst in Kultur und Politik der Gegenwart. Beiträge zu einer Gesellschaftswissenschaft der Angst, Wiesbaden: Springer VS
2016 (with Jörn Ahrens, Paul Fleming and Ulrike Vedder) „Doch ist das Wirkliche auch vergessen, so ist es darum nicht getilgt.“ Beiträge zum Werk Siegfried Kracauers, Wiesbaden: Springer VS
2015 (with Dirk Martin and Jens Wissel) Perspektiven und Konstellationen kritischer Theorie, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot
2014 (with Christine Resch) Kulturindustrie und Sozialwissenschaften, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot
Articles in journals
2022 On the persistence of fear in late capitalism: insights from modernisation theories and affect theories, in: Emotions and Society, 4(3) [Special Issue: Fear: Perspectives from the Social Sciences], 307-322
2022 Begrenzte Möglichkeiten. Zur Kommerzialisierung und Akademisierung der Intellektuellenrolle, in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 32(1), 69-91
2016 Nonkonformismus, der keiner ist. Anmerkungen zum Medienintellektuellen, in: Indes. Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft, Heft 3, 105-112
2012 Intellektuellenportraits. Zur kulturindustriellen (Selbst-)Darstellung von Intellektualität und wissenschaftlicher Arbeit, in: Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, Heft 34/35, 222-234
2012 Der Intellektuelle nach Auschwitz. Über Jean Améry (1912-1978), in: Analyse & Kritik. Zeitschrift für linke Debatte und Praxis, Heft 577, 29
Contributions to anthologies
2021 (with Judith Eckert) Angst als Ursache und Folge gesellschaftlicher Spannungen: Befunde, Kritik und Forschungsbedarf, in: Birgit Blättel-Mink (Hg), Gesellschaft unter Spannung. Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Open Access)
2020 Von der Zeitdiagnose zur Gesellschaftswissenschaft der Angst. Eine Einführung, in: Susanne Martin and Thomas Linpinsel (Hg), Angst in Kultur und Politik der Gegenwart. Beiträge zu einer Gesellschaftswissenschaft der Angst, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 1-19
2019 Kritische Intellektualität, in: Uwe Bittlingmayer, Alex Demirović und Tatjana Freytag (Hg), Handbuch Kritische Theorie, Bd. 1, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 411-430
2018 Kulturindustrie und Herrschaft, in: Tine Haubner and Tilman Reitz (Hg), Marxismus und Soziologie. Klassenherrschaft, Ideologie und kapitalistische Krisendynamik, Weinheim: Beltz-Juventa, 168-182
2017 (with Tilman Reitz) Geistige Produktion auf beschränkten Märkten. Die Intellektuellen der Kulturindustrie, in: Gerhard Schweppenhäuser and Martin Niederauer (Hg), Kulturindustrie. Theoretische und empirische Annäherungen an einen populären Begriff, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 239-258
2017 (with Jörn Ahrens) Kracauer und die Soziologie, in: Stephan Lessenich (Hg), Geschlossene Gesellschaften. Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bamberg 2017 (Open Access)
2016 (with Jörn Ahrens, Paul Fleming and Ulrike Vedder) „Doch ist das Wirkliche auch vergessen, so ist es darum nicht getilgt“. Zur Gegenwart Siegfried Kracauers, in: Jörn Ahrens, Paul Fleming, Susanne Martin und Ulrike Vedder (Hg), „Doch ist das Wirkliche auch vergessen, so ist es darum nicht getilgt.“ Beiträge zum Werk Siegfried Kracauers, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 3-13
2015 (with Tilman Reitz) Personalisierung oder Entpersonalisierung? Ein strukturtheoretischer Ansatz zur Analyse von Intellektuellen, in: Stephan Lessenich (Hg), Routinen der Krise – Krise der Routinen. Verhandlungen des 37. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Trier 2014 (Open Access)
2015 Jean Améry: Blick auf einen anderen nonkonformistischen Intellektuellen, in: Dirk Martin, Susanne Martin and Jens Wissel (Hg), Perspektiven und Konstellationen kritischer Theorie, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 260-276
2015 (with Dirk Martin and Jens Wissel) Vorwort, in: Dirk Martin, Susanne Martin und Jens Wissel (Hg), Perspektiven und Konstellationen kritischer Theorie, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 7-12
2014 Intellektuellensoziologie als Personalisierung von Intellektualität, in: Susanne Martin and Christine Resch (Hg), Kulturindustrie und Sozialwissenschaften, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 120-139
2014 (with Christine Resch) Kulturindustrie und Sozialwissenschaften zur Einleitung, in: Susanne Martin and Christine Resch (Hg), Kulturindustrie und Sozialwissenschaften, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 7-14
Miscellaneous
2016 Kulturindustrielle Wissenschaft, in: Aufsätze zur Ideologiekritik, hg. v. AStA der Universität Münster, 46-55
2012 Der Intellektuelle nach Auschwitz. Über Jean Améry (1912-1978), in: theorie-blog.de. Politische Theorie, Philosophie & Ideengeschichte
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Lectures (selection)
September 2024 “Fun is a trial by fire”. An introduction to the theory of the culture industry. “Contemporary Criticism” lecture series, University of Cologne
June 2024 Anxiety and the politics of fear. An affect-theoretical analysis. Colloquium of the Research Group on the Sociology of Knowledge and Social Theory, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
June 2024 On the affective basis of racket domination. Colloquium on Political Theory, Justus Liebig University Giessen
November 2023 Draft of an affect-theoretical empirical study of everyday anxiety. Conference on Empirical Affect Research, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
October 2022 Fear – Outlines of a Late-Capitalist Regime of Affect. Colloquium organised by the Political Sociology Research Group, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
May 2022 Workshop on Siegfried Kracauer’s *The Ornament of the Masses*. International Siegfried Kracauer Conference, Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt
March 2021 Anxiety in everyday life. A theoretical and empirical analysis of affective anxiety processes in the context of contemporary social and political changes. Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt
September 2020 (with Judith Eckert) Anxiety as a cause and consequence of social tensions: findings, critiques and research needs. 40th Congress of the German Sociological Association
January 2020 What is educational inequality? Lecture series organised by the Institute of Political Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen
January 2020 Panel discussion on ‘Critical Theory and Teaching’. Conference ‘Inside and Outside’: The Academisation of Critical Theory – Critical Theory of Academisation, Justus Liebig University Giessen
November 2019 The Mystery of Academic Reading. Reading Week of Department 03, Justus Liebig University Giessen
July 2019 Professionally homeless: Adorno as a public intellectual. International conference Theodor W. Adorno And His Critical Theory Today/Theodor W. Adorno 2019: Relevance and Perspectives of his Critical Theory, University of Wuppertal
May 2019 Limited Possibilities: (Critical) Intellectuals of the Present. Lecture series on Critical Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt
December 2018 (with Thomas Linpinsel) Anxiety and Regression in Contemporary Society. Interdisciplinary Conference on Anxiety and Regression: Perspectives from the Social and Cultural Sciences, Justus Liebig University Giessen
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Conference and event organisation (selection)
Since September 2021 Critical Sociology. A lecture series organised by the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt, and the Institute of Sociology within the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt (with Laura Hanemann, Stephan Lessenich and Doris Schweitzer)
February 2025 Critical Theory and Sociological Theory. Conference of the DGS Sociological Theory Section, Goethe University Frankfurt (with Ulf Bohmann and Daniel Witte)
February 2024 The Concept of the Culture Industry in Early Critical Theory: Foundations and Contemporary Relevance. Workshop at the Forum for Critical Sciences (FkW), Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt
September 2023 Panel 1: Dissecting Critical Theory. International Conference on Futuring Critical Theory, Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt
September 2020 Anxiety – Cause and Consequence of Social Tensions? Ad hoc group at the 40th Congress of the German Sociological Association, held online (with Judith Eckert)
December 2018 Anxiety and Regression: Perspectives from the Social and Cultural Sciences. Interdisciplinary conference at the Department of Social and Cultural Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen (with Thomas Linpinsel)