Kathrin YacavoneKathrin Yacavone is a literary, cultural, and media studies scholar in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany. She received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2008) and was Assistant Professor in French Studies at he University of Nottingham (2011-2019) and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Universities of Konstanz and Cologne (German Habilitation, University of Marburg, 2025). She is the author of Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography (2012), co-editor of Die Fotografie und ihre Institutionen (Photography’s Institutionalization) (2024), and editor of five special journal issues, including “Photography in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures” (2014), Nottingham French Studies, published by EUP. Her current research project concerns the cultural impact of generative AI in relation to the aesthetic category of style. Read More Read Less