Stefanie Baumann is currently a contracted researcher at CineLab/IFILNOVA (New University of Lisbon), where she coordinates the working group “Thinking Documentary Film” and conducts a research on the philosophy of documentary formats through the critical theory of the early Frankfurt school. She obtained her PhD in philosophy in 2013, and taught philosophy, aesthetics and contemporary art theory at University Paris VIII (Paris, 2007-2010), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, 2013), ALBA – the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts/ University of Balamand (Beirut, 2012-2015) and the Maumaus Study Program (Lisbon, since 2016).
Research unit: NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA)