Dr Christopher A. Nixon studied philosophy and general and comparative literature at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where he received his doctorate in 2021 from the Department of Philosophy and Philology. The dissertation entitled Returning the Gaze. Postcolonial Epiphany and Aesthetics (Den Blick erwidern. Epiphanie und Ästhetik postkolonial) was published by Passagen Verlag in 2023.

From 2013 to 2020, Nixon worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy at JGU Mainz and in 2022 at the Chair of Political Science with a focus on political theory and the history of ideas at the Technical University of Dresden. He has also taught in artistic, architectural design, cultural and media studies programmes at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences and the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz. Most recently, he held the professorship for Social Inequality and Social Policy at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences.

As curator for colonial past and postcolonial present at the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation, Nixon realised a major special exhibition project in 2020/21, including an accompanying programme. Since then, he has also worked as a freelance curator and consultant in and for museums.

In 2024, he published the thematic issue Visual Justice (Visuelle Gerechtigkeit) in the critical reports (kritische berichte), which met with broad interest with the question of just visual representations.

His areas of specialisation include aesthetics, postcolonial, critical and political theory, social philosophy and visual studies.

Further information can be found at christophernixon.de.