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.