Jan-Noël Thon#
| Membership Number: | 7074 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://janthon.net |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0358-6209 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 03/2022 - present Full Professor and Chair of Media Studies and Media Education at the Department of German Studies, Osnabrück University, Germany
- 07/2023 - 09/2025 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers for a Project on Postdigital Aesthetics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 02/2023 - 04/2023 AUFF Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Literature between Media, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 07/2020 - 02/2022 Full Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
- 10/2019 - 08/2021 Professorial Fellow at the School of Film, Media and Performance Arts, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
- 08/2019 - 09/2021 Guest Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Media and Theater Studies, University of Cologne, Germany
- 07/2019 - 06/2020 Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
- 09/2017 -06/2019 Assistant Professor in Media Studies and Digital Media Culture (promotion to Associate Professor confirmed 03/2019) at the University of Nottingham, UK)
- 01/2012 - 08/2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Akademischer Mitarbeiter) and Coordinator of the Center for Interdisciplinary Media Research, University of Tübingen, Germany
- 09/2010 - 09/2011 Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Research Unit Media Convergence of the University of Mainz, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Game studies
- Comics studies
- Character studies
- Narratology/narrative theory
- Postdigital culture
- Transmedia studies
- Theory of fiction
- Critical AI studies
- Film studies
- Media aesthetics
Honours and Awards
- 12/2024 Elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Class I)
- 2021 I.K. Lykkes Pris from the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
- 2018/2019 Faculty of Arts Research Leader, University of Nottingham, UK
- 2015 Award for Outstanding Research Achievement, Foundation for Communication and Media Studies, University of Mannheim, Germany
- 01/2009 PhD scholarship from the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
