Felix Lüttge is a historian of science and information. He studies the history of the marine, earth and life sciences, the media history of archaeology and the history of environmental thought and practice in the sciences and humanities. His first book, Auf den Spuren des Wals ("Tracing the Whale"), published with Wallstein in 2020, is an epistemic history of whaling in the nineteenth century and shows how knowledge moved between whalers, naturalists and administrative institutions. A book-in-progress looks at the media history of  archaeology's environments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Felix’s research has been published by Configurations, The British Journal for the History of Science, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Fotogeschichte.

Felix received his PhD in Cultural History and Theory from Humboldt University Berlin in 2018. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University and has taught at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt University Berlin. He joined the University of Basel in 2018.

Felix is the Director of Studies for the Graduate Program in Cultural Techniques and Academic Advisor for graduate students in Media Studies and in Cultural Techniques.

On leave fall 2023–fall 2024.

• "Seas of Data; or, The Oceanographer in the Archive." Configurations 31, no. 3 (2023): 197–227, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/904488.
• Was ist Universität? Zwölf Antworten aus Basel (=Æther 05), edited by Felix Lüttge and Felix Vogel. Zurich: intercom, 2021, https://aether.ethz.ch/ausgabe/was-ist-universitaet/.
• Auf den Spuren des Wals: Geographien des Lebens im 19. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020.
• "Jagende Forschung: Walfang und Fotografie." Fotogeschichte 40 (2020): 33-42.
• "Whaling Intelligence: News, Facts and US-American Exploration in the Pacific." The British Journal for the History of Science 52, no. 3 (2019) 3: 425–445, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087419000177.

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