Elena Vogman is a scholar of comparative literature and media. Since 2021 she is Principal Investigator of the research project »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe« sponsored by the Freigeist Fellowship of the VolkswagenStiftung at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She studied in Berlin and Paris and holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin with a graduate emphasis on Film Theory and Media.

She was Visiting Professor at École normale supérieure, Paris and New York University Shanghai, and has held postdoctoral research positions at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technology and Media Philosophy (IKKM), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and in the DFG project ‘Rhythm and Projection’ at Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin.