About
I am an assistant professor in American Studies at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, with a somewhat split interest in film and cinema history and early American (satiric) literature and democracy. My book Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940: Operational Detection will be published with Amsterdam University Press in fall 2018. I am also currently co-editing a volume with Ruth Mayer, titled Modernities and Modernization in North America, which will be published with Winter Verlag in Heidelberg. Publications
Monograph:
Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940: Operational Detection. Amsterdam UP, forthcoming in 2018.
Edited Volume with Ruth Mayer:
Modernities and Modernization in North America. Winter, forthcoming.
Articles:
- With Felix Brinker. “Opening Gambits: Cross-Media Self-Reflexivity and Audience Engagement in Serial Cinema, 1936-2008.” forthcoming.
- With Ruth Mayer. “Modernity Management: 1920s Cinema, Mass Culture and the Film Serial.“ Screen 57.3. (2016): 302-315.
- “‘Let me see her face when he kisses her, please’: Mediating Emotion and Locating the Melodramatic Mode in Stella Dallas.” Film Philosophy 19 (2015): 289-303.
- “Narrative, Technology, and the Operational Aesthetic in Film Serials of the 1910s.” LWU – Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. 47.1/2 (2014): 11-24.
- (In German) “Zur Handschrift in Hollywood – Technischer Fortschritt, Medienkonkurrenz und Authentizität.” Diesseits des Virtuellen: Handschrift im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Eds. Urs Büttner, Mario Gotterbarm, Frederik Schneeweiss, Stefanie Seidel and Marc Seiffarth. Paderborn: Fink, 2015. 155-166.
- “The Impossibility of Silence in Chaplin’s Modern Times.” Pivot 2 (2014): 54-79.
Memberships
Society for Film and Cinema Studies (SCMS)
German Association of American Studies (GAAS)
