Nadja Stamselberg was awarded PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2008. She has taught at Kingston University and Queen Mary, University of London before joining Regent’s University as a visiting lecturer in cultural studies in 2012. Nadja also guest lectures at City University. She interested in identity and exclusion and has published articles and books on the subject. Her most recent book publication (with Juliet Steyn) is Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste, London & New York: IBTauris, 2014.

From December 2011 to March 2015, she worked as a researcher on a long running project on News and Liveness on understanding the meaning and the implications of liveness in the context of media usage focusing on the world of news consumption. The project was a collaboration between Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany; the Centre for Digital Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London; and the BBC.