Regina Bendix has been professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen since 2001. She does research in the fields of cultural heritage, cultural property and tourism, history of knowledge and science, as well as communication studies and the study of folklore which have both informed her interest in popular seriality. She is initiator and spokesperson of the interdisciplinary Research Unit "Cultural Property," funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).