Wulf Kansteiner

Wulf Kansteiner is Professor of Memory Studies and Contemporary History at Aarhus University and holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a cultural historian, historical theorist, and memory studies exert whose research focus on representations of history in visual culture, especially in regard to Nazism and the Holocaust; the narrative structures of historical writing; and the methods and theories of memory studies. He is the author of In Pursuit of German Memory: History, Television, and Politics after Auschwitz (2006) and coeditor of Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture (2016) and Agonistic Memory and the Legacy of 20th Century Wars in Europe (2022). He is also cofounder and coeditor of the journal Memory Studies and past President of the Memory Studies Association (MSA).