He received his PhD from the Department of Media Studies of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2004 (cf. bibliography). From 1999 to 2002, he was a lecturer at the Department of Film and Television Studies (transformed 2002 into the Department of Media Studies). From March 2005 to September 2007 and from March 2008 to July 2008, he worked as a Research Assistant in the DFG research project “Media and Cultural Communications” at the Universi-ty of Cologne. From 2007 to 2008, he was a stand-in for the professorship “Media Studies, History and Theory of Visual Media” at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braun-schweig. He also had teaching engagements at the FU Berlin, the University of Luzern and at the University of Dortmund. Markus Stauff co-edited the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft from 2009 to 2012; from 2008 to 2012 he was on the board of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft.