Britta Lange is an art and cultural scholar. She was a Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna from 2008 to 2010, where she pursued her research project »Captured voices« at the Institute of Social Anthropology. Since 2014, she has been a research associate at the Institute for Cultural Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, and from 2016 to 2018 she was co-collection manager of the university's sound archive. Her research focuses on cultural history from the 19th to the 21st century, the history and theory of early film and early sound documents, concepts of collecting and exhibiting, cultural techniques, and colonial and postcolonial constellations.