Prof. Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz is Professor of Media Theory at the University of Siegen. His research focuses on postcolonial literary and media history of globalized modernity, history of science of media theory and ethnology, language and media theory of rhetoric as well as media anthropology.

Erhard Schüttpelz studied German and English literature in Hanover, Exeter, Bonn, Oxford and Cologne and completed his doctorate in German literature in Bonn, Oxford and Cologne with a minor in ethnology. In 2003, he habilitated at the University of Konstanz in Modern German Literature and General Literary Studies with the thesis "Die Moderne im Spiegel des Primitiven - Weltliteratur und Ethnologie 1870-1960".

He is a sub-project leader in the Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Media of Cooperation" and was spokesperson for the DFG Research Training Group "Locating Media" at the University of Siegen. His most recent publications include Deutland (2023) and A Kind of World War (2021, together with Anselm Franke).