Prof. Dr. Annika Schlitte

Annika Schlitte (born 1981) completed a teacher-training degree course for philosophy and German at the Ruhr University Bochum between 2001 and 2006, where she also completed her doctorate in 2010 with a thesis on Georg Simmel’s ThePhilosophy of Money. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt from 2011-2016 and coordinated the interdisciplinary Research Training Group ‘Philosophy of Place’ as spokesperson and postdoctoral researcher. Furthermore, she was one of the successful proposers of the DFG Research Training Group ‘Practicing Place: Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations’, which will start at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in April 2021.

Prof. Schlitte did a period of research at the Stony Brook University, New York, in winter semester 2015/16. From 2016 to 2020 she was Junior Professor of Philosophy specialising on the relationship between the social and cultural sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She has been Chair of Aesthetics and Cultural Philosophy at the University of Greifswald since winter semester 2020/21.

Cultural philosophy, aesthetics (in particular aesthetics of nature), philosophy of place and space, philosophical theories of money and questions at the boundary between philosophy and sociology.