As a media philologist working within the broader field of cultural studies, Johannes seeks to uncover the historical genealogies and structural interconnections of a wide range of contemporary cultural and social phenomena, including cinema, computer games, literature and digital culture. Johannes’ current research interests include various traditions of political cinema, such as the Hollywood populist cinema of the 1930s and the paranoia film of the 1970s; the algorithmization of the public sphere; the Anthropocene in literature and culture; and the transformation of the humanities by artificial intelligence. He is a co-editor of the Lexikon der Filmbegriffe, a living handbook and standard reference work for film academics and practitioners, a member of The Migrants’ Chronicles Project, a serious game collaboration with Game Lab Cologne and Carlton College, and an associate member of the Culture & Computation Lab. Together with Niels-Oliver Walkowski, he supervises Melusina Press, the FHSE Diamond Open Access publishing house.
