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Jochen Hung is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University who specializes in the intersection of media, culture, and society within modern history. His research primarily focuses on gender representations in interwar culture, the German-Jewish publishing landscape, and national identity during the Weimar Republic. Hung is the author of 'Moderate Modernity: Newspaper Tempo and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1928-1933', published by the University of Michigan Press in 2023. This work analyzes the shifts in German media discourses relating to gender, consumption, and democracy in the context of rising Nazism. He received his PhD from the University of London in 2013 and was awarded the joint Essay Prize in 2012 by the German History Society and the Royal Historical Society. As a contributor to various international publications, he has written for the Guardian, BBC, Washington Post, and Die Zeit, documenting and interpreting historical narratives and contemporary issues in European history.
Utrecht University • Utrecht, Netherlands
Teaching and researching European history with a focus on media, culture, and society.
Department of Psychology