Irina Kaldrack studied mathematics (diploma) and theatre studies (minor) in Mainz and Berlin. She earned her doctorate in cultural studies with a dissertation on interactive performances. Since 2009 she has been teaching and conducting researching in media studies, and from 2015 to 2021 also in transformation design.
Since winter semester 2022/23, Irina Kaldrack is lecturer in Society and Digitalization. She was a professor at the Foreign Studies College of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China (spring semester 2022), and held the interim professorship for "Knowledge Cultures in the Digital Age" at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig (2015-2021).
Her research focuses on sustainability and digitalization, the interrelations between digital media cultures, community building and society, as well as methods of media studies at the intersection of design processes, artistic practice, and cultural studies-oriented media research.