Biography

Lorenz Hegel has joined SUTD as a Lecturer in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) Cluster. He earned his Ph.D. in Film & Media Studies and German Studies from Yale University in 2024, after studying philosophy and literature in Hildesheim, Berlin, and Paris. Lorenz has taught as a Visiting Lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts (2022) and as an Instructor at the Yale Summer Session (2024). He works at the intersection of critical theory, aesthetics, film and media theory, with a particular interest in the form and history of political documentary cinema. His current book project, tentatively entitled In Search of Revolution: Transnational Militant Documentary Practice, traces the history of transnational solidarity filmmaking from the late 1920s to the long sixties. Additional work in progress includes an article on contemporary archival documentaries, and a chapter on ideology critique, affect and film theory in the forthcoming edited volume “Aesthetics After Althusser.”