Katrin Köppert is an art and media scholar, focusing particularly on gender/queer studies & post/decolonial theories. Since October 2019 – Junior Professor for Art History/Popular Cultures at HGB (Academy of Fine Arts) Leipzig. Deputy Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum, research assistant at the UdK Berlin, Art University Linz, University of Siegen, visiting scholar at the LSE London and USC Los Angeles.

From April 2024 – VW research project Digital Blackface. Racialised Affect Patterns of the Digital (with Simon Strick). Current research focuses on digital blackface and affect, queer aesthetics of/as AI, digital reproductive technologies and racial capitalism, post/decolonial (media) theories of the Anthropocene in/and digital culture, gender, race and photography. Together with Julia Bee, Katrin Köppert heads the DFG research network Gender, Media and Affect (2020–2025), chairs the Academy for Transcultural Exchange at HGB Leipzig and is a member of the editorial board of Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (Journal for Media Studies) and the open access journal Open Gender Journal. With Jiré Emine Gözen, Katrin Köppert - hosts GAAAP_The Blog of the Journal for Media Studies.