Jan Hein Hoogstad is assis­tant pro­fes­sor in Com­par­a­tive Lit­er­a­ture and Cul­tural Analy­sis at the Uni­ver­sity of Amsterdam.

In the fall of 2008, he was a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor at the Eng­lish Depart­ment of the Uni­ver­sity of Minnesota.

In 2007 and 2008, Jan Hein was affil­i­ated to the Jan van Eyck Acad­emy in Maas­tricht as a post­doc­toral researcher, where he worked on a project called Intel­lec­tual Image.

Before, he wrote his dis­ser­ta­tion Time Tracks at the depart­ment of Phi­los­o­phy of the Uni­ver­sity of Utrecht, and Media The­ory and Cul­tural Stud­ies at the Humboldt-​University in Berlin.

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Jan Hein has pub­lished on Prince, Mar­vin Gaye, Gilles Deleuze, Wal­ter Ben­jamin, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Kit­tler, Ralph Elli­son, Michel Fou­cault, and the Ol’ Dirty Bas­tard.

He is cur­rently work­ing on a research project called Medial Oper­a­tions and a web­site with the same title, as well as co-​editing a vol­ume called Plu­ral­iz­ing Rhythm.