Kristin Veel is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, German Department in 2008 and has since then focused her research interests on the impact of information and communication technology on the contemporary cultural imagination, with a particular interest in issues of information overload and surveillance, and the way in which these are negotiated in film, art, and literature. She has published the monograph Narrative Negotiations: Information Structures in Literary Fiction (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009) and is co-editor of collected volumes The Cultural Life of Crises and Catastrophes (de Gruyter, 2012) and Invisibility Studies – Surveillance, Transparencey and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture (Peter Lang, 2015).