Elisa Linseisen is a research assistant at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Paderborn. 12/2019: Doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a dissertation on high definition digital imagery at the Ruhr-University Bochum. 2014–2019: Research assistant at the Institute for Media Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum. 2016–2019: Research Assistant at the DFG Research Group Media and Mimesis. 2008–2013: Master’s Degree in Modern German Literature, Political Science and German Linguistics at the LMU Munich. Research interests, among others: Digital imagery, media philosophy, video essayism, format theory.