Petra Löffler is a media and cultural studies scholar. She was a research associate in the research group “Media and Cultural Communication” at the University of Cologne, where she received her doctoral degree with an interdisciplinary dissertation on “affective images.” She has taught at the Universities of Regensburg, Vienna, Siegen, and Weimar, and has taught at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2015. She successfully completed her habilitation in 2012 at the University of Vienna in the field of Film and Media Studies.