Antke Engel

is director of the Institute for Queer Theory in Berlin; a site where academic debate meets up with activism and artistic practices (>queer-institut.de). She holds a PhD in philosophy and works as an independent scholar in the fields of queer theory, poststructuralist philosophy, and visual cultural studies. She has published numerous essays, the monographs: Wider die Eindeutigkeit (2002) and Bilder von Sexualität und Ökonomie (2009), and recently co-edited Bossing Images (NGBK 2012).