After graduating from UBC in 1991, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young taught at the Universities of Manitoba and Waterloo before returning to UBC in 1995, where he teaches in the German and Scandinavian sections of CENES. His initial area of research was the 18th century, but he is now primarily interested in theory issues at the intersection of media theory, theories of evolution and extinction, and cultural techniques.

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young currently teaches GERM 412: German Media Studies (in English) in the BMS program.