Teaching Fellow (2024–2025)

Lisa Kienzl is a researcher in the area of media, religion and culture. From 2018 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for the Study of Religion and Related Didactics, a member of the Lab Media and Religion at the ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication, and Information Research), and part of the interdisciplinary and collaborative research platform WoC (Worlds of Contradiction) at the University of Bremen, Germany. She holds an M.A. (2008) and a Ph.D. (2012) in European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology and an M.A. (2011) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Religious Studies, all from the University of Graz. Her research interests include religion and identity formations in digital media, visual material culture in contemporary and historical settings, qualitative methods, such as digital anthropology, and the transformations of religion, gender, and the notion of the nation in popular and gaming cultures. In the winter semester 2024/25, she teaches the course "Von Mormon TikTok bis Elden Ring: Religion und Medien im 21. Jahrhundert" [From Mormon TikTok to Elden Ring: Religion and Media in the 21st Century].