Barbara Mittler

Barbara Mittler (born 15 February 1968 in Hagen, West Germany) is a German sinologist.

After her dissertation in 1994, Mittler worked as an assistant professor at Heidelberg University, where she was habilitated in 1998.

At the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Mittler became speaker of the research area “Public Spheres” in 2007.

[5] In 2009, Mittler received the Henry Allen Moe Prize of the American Philosophical Society for her paper Popular Propaganda?

Her research focuses on a wide range of topics such as Chinese music, Taiwanese literary and cultural history, encyclopedias and comics, Chinese women's magazines, visuality and historiography, satire and national heroes.