About

Dr Sarah Dellmann is trainee research librarian at Kassel University Library, closely following debates on data management, archiving, publishing ethics and Open Access. She is also a researcher in the fields of cultural heritage, film history and media studies. Her focus lies on West-European visual culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially film and magic lantern. Dr Sarah Dellmann worked as lecturer and editor at the journal Early Popular Visual Culture.
Her Open Access monograph “Images of Dutchness” was nominated for the The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation 2019 Moving Image Book Award. It was reviewed in Early Popular Visual Culture (English), H-Soz-Kult (OA, in English), MEDIENwissenschaft (OA, in German) and Filmkrant #420 (OA, in Dutch).

Education

since 10/2019 Trainee Research Librarian (Referendarin) at Kassel University Library, Kassel (DE)

01/2019-01/2020 Affiliated Researcher ‘Moving Images Research Group’ at Amsterdam University (UvA), Amsterdam (NL)

09/2018-06/2019 Lecturer in Media Studies and Visual Culture at Amsterdam University College, Amsterdam (NL)

06/2015-08/2018 Postdoc Researcher and Project Coordinator of the international research project “A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slide Heritage as Artefacts in the Common European History of Learning”, Utrecht University (NL)

02/2015-05/2015 Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Groningen (NL)

02/2015: Defense of the PhD Thesis “Images of Dutchness: Popular Visual Media, the Emergence of National Clichés and the Creation of Supposed Common Knowledge about the Netherlands and the Dutch (1800-1914)”, Utrecht University (NL)

11/2014-01/2016 Lecturer, Media and Culture, Utrecht University (NL)

05/2010-10/2014 PhD candidate, Utrecht University (NL)

10/2000-01/2006 Studies: Theater-, Film and Media Studies, Sociology and Philosophy, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main (DE). Degree: M.A.

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Monographs
    Dellmann, S. (2018). Images of Dutchness. Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the emergence of a national cliché, 1800-1914. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

    Dellmann, S. (2009). Widerspenstige Körper. Körper, Kino, Sprache und Subversion in Tod Brownings Freaks und Filmen mit Lon Chaney. Marburg: Schüren Verlag.

    Reviewed Articles and Book chapters

    Dellmann, S. (2020). Introduction: The Many Perspectives on A Million Pictures. In Dellmann, S. and Kessler, F. (eds.): A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slides in the History of Learning. John Libbey: New Barnet (p. 3-12).

    Bartlitz, C., Dellmann, S., Vowinckel, A. (2020). Bildethik. Zum Umgang mit Bildern im Internet, in Visual History, 20.07.2020, https://visual-history.de/2020/07/20/bildethik/

    Dellmann, S. (2019). Analogue Objects Online. Epistemological Reflections on Digital Reproductions of Lantern Slides. Early Popular Visual Culture, 17 (3).

    Dellmann, S. (forthcoming 2020). Die Reise nach dem typisch Niederländischen. Die Entdeckung der Niederlande als touristische Attraktion in frühen Publikationen von Thomas Cook (1869-1914). In Morsch, T., (ed.), Der mobile Blick. Film, touristische Wahrnehmung und neue Screen-Technologien. Wiesbaden: Springer/VS.

    Dellmann, S. (2018). Die Glasbilder der Surinam-Expedition des Utrechter Botanikers Prof. August Adriaan Pulle (1920/21). In Seidl, E., Steinheimer, F. and Weber, C. (eds.). Objektkulturen der Sichtbarmachung. Instrumente und Praktiken. Junges Forum für Sammlungs- und Objektforschung, Bd 2 (pp.93-100). Berlin: Gesellschaft für Universitätssammlungen.

    van Dooren, Ine & Dellmann, S. (2018). Las extraordinarias representaciones del cuerpo humano: dando sentido a la colección de placas de linterna mágica de George Henry Falkiner Nuttal. Fonseca, Journal of Communication, 16 (1), (pp. 61-79).

    Dellmann, S. (2016). Beyond and with the object: assessing the dissemination range of lantern slides and their imagery. Early Popular Visual Culture, 14 (4), (pp. 340-358).

    Dellmann, S. (2016). Lecturing without an Expert: Word and Image in Educational “Ready-Made” lecture sets. The Magic Lantern Gazette. A Journal of Research, 28 (2), (pp. 3-14).

    Dellmann, S. (2016). Visuelle Kontinuitäten. Zur (Vor-)Geschichte des Klischees der Niederländerin im frühen Kino. In Schweinitz, J. and Wiegand, D. (eds.), Film Bild Kunst. Visuelle Ästhetik des vorklassischen Stummfilms (pp. 267-294). Marburg: Schüren.

    Dellmann, S. (2015). The Realness of the Dutch: Performing Visual Evidence for National Differences. In Quintana, À. And Pons, J. (eds.), Objectivity and the Effects of Truth – Early Cinema and the Realist Tradition (pp. 163-172). Girona: Fundació Mueseu del Cinema-Col·lectió Tomàs Mallol & Ajuntament de Girona.

    Dellmann, S. (2014). Getting to Know the Dutch: Magic Lantern Slides as Traces of Intermedial Performance Practices. In Curtis, S., Gray, F., Askari, K., Pelletier, L., Williams, T. and Yumiba, J. (eds.), Performing New Media, 1890-1915 (pp. 236-244). New Barnet: John Libbey.

    Dellmann, S. (2011). Creating an event out of nothing happening. An exploration of the category “event” through tourist imagery of the Zuiderzee region (The Netherlands), 1874-1914. In Quintana, À. and Pons, J., (eds.), The Construction of News in Early Cinema (pp. 139-150). Girona: Fundació Museu del Cinema-Col·lectió Tomàs Mallol & Ajuntament de Girona.

    Dellmann, S. and Loewy, R. (2010). Commented Filmography. In Frodon, J.-M. (ed.), Le cinéma et la Shoah: un art à l’épreuve de la tragédie du 20e siècle. Paris: Cahiers du cinéma. Collection Essais. (pp. 283-388).

    Dellmann, S. (2009). Spot the Monster! Oder: Über die Unmöglichkeit von Normalität. In Gebhard, G. and Geisler, O., (eds.), Von Monstern und Menschen: Begegnungen der anderen Art in kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive (pp. 137-152). Bielefeld: transcript.

    Dellmann, S. (2008). You’re better off without your parents – Where East is East seen through a daughter’s eyes. In Herzogenrath, B., (ed.), The Cinema of Tod Browning (pp. 139-150). Jefferson: McFarland.

    Editorials
    Dellmann, S., Kember, J., and Shail, A. (2017). Towards a non-discriminatory, inclusive use of language and images in our journal. Early Popular Visual Culture, 15 (4): (pp. 393-404).

    Dellmann, S. and Kessler, F. (2016). Encounters Across Borders: Introduction. Early Popular Visual Culture 14 (2): (pp. 125-130).

    Book reviews

    Dellmann, S. (2018). Sammelrezension: Laterna Magica. H-Soz-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften

    Dellmann, S. (2017). Auf der Suche nach gendersensiblen Didaktiken für die Medienwissenschaften. Querelles-Net : Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, 18 (4)

    Dellmann, S. (2017). Exposing the film apparatus: the film archive as a research laboratory (book review). Early Popular Visual Culture, 15 (1), (pp. 100-101). Slightly reworked translation of a book review published by the author earlier in German language in the journal MEDIENwissenschaft – Rezensionen – Reviews (04/2016).

    Dellmann, S. (2016). Exposing the Film Apparatus: The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory [Rezension]. Medienwissenschaft: Rezensionen , 2016 (4), (pp. 473-475).

    Dellmann, S. (2014). Erkki Huhtamo: Illusions in Motion. Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles. Medienwissenschaft: Rezensionen, 2014 (1), (pp. 24-26).

    Dellmann, S. (2014). Ludwig Vogl-Bienek, Richard Crangle (Hg.): Screen Culture and the Social Question 1880-1914. Medienwissenschaft: Rezensionen , 2014 (02/03), (pp. 199-202).

    Dellmann, S. (2014). Methodische Mängel der Gender-Gegner/-innen. Querelles-Net : Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, 15 (2).

    Dellmann, S. (2012). Niemals schön genug. Querelles-Net : Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, 13 (3).

    Dellmann, S. (2012). Oliver Kühschelm, Franz X. Eder, Hannes Siegrist (Hg.): Konsum und Nation. Zur Geschichte nationalisierender Inszenierungen in der Produktkommunikation. Medienwissenschaft: Rezensionen , 2012, (pp. 424-426).

    Dellmann, S. (2011). Suffragetten und ihre komischen Verbündeten. Querelles-Net : Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, 12 (2)

    Dellmann, S. (2011). Lars Nowak: Deformation und Transdifferenz – Freak Show, frühes Kino, Tod Browning. Medienwissenschaft: Rezensionen , 2011 (4), (pp. 488-490) (3 p.).

    Dellmann, S. (2010). Was sagen Rezipient/-innen zu Pornografie?. Querelles-Net : Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, 11 (1).

    Professional and Popularizing Publications

    Dellmann, S. & Stegmeijer, Eva (2017). Toverlantaarn-les. Tijdschrift van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 9 (3), (pp. 32-33).

    Dellmann, S. (2016). Exploring Magic Lantern Catalogues Online. The Magic Lantern, 2016 (8), (pp. 6-7).

    Dellmann, S. & Goldschmidt, A. (2012). Sexy meiden gaan voor bèta. Raffia, 24 (3), (pp. 30-31).

    Dellmann, S., Naumann, M. & Plappert, S. (2007). Ich erinnere mich an…etwas, das ich nicht mehr kennen kann. Zeugnisse bewahren. Das Interviewprojekt für das Wollheim-Memorial. Newsletter zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust, 16 (31), (pp. 28-29).

    Upcoming Talks and Conferences

    18 March 2019: “Bildethik – Zum Umgang mit Bildern im Internet“. Workshop at Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (Germany). Keynote at the workshop dedicated to exchange strategies on how historians in academia, museums and archives deal with offensive historical visual material in online environments.

    28 May 2019: 10th Women and the Silent Screen Conference, Amsterdam (NL). Paper and Performance, together with Ine van Dooren and Gwen Sebus: “Kakelen is geen eieren leggen” (1916) [Cackling is not laying eggs]: on the Dutch suffragette’s use of the screen.

    11 July 2019. TRANSFER ZONES – UNIVERSITY | COLLECTIONS | PUBLIC SPHERE University of Münster in cooperation with the University Collections Association Germany. Paper: Künstlerische Arbeiten mit Objekten in universitären Sammlungen: Formen der Wissen(schaft)s-kommunikation mit historischen Lichtbildern.

    Memberships

    One of four directors of the not for profit company “Lucerna – Magic Lantern Web Resource Community Interest Company” that runs the Lucerna Magic Lantern Webresource. Lucerna is an online resource on the magic lantern, slides and lantern culture that is accessible free of charge. See http://lucerna.exeter.ac.uk/

    Member of DOMITOR – international society for the study of early cinema http://domitor.org

    Member of IAWIS/AIERTI – International Association of Word and Image Studies / Association Internationale pour l’Etude des Rapports entre Texte et Image http://www.iawis.org

    Representative in the PhD Student Council of the Research School for Media Studies (December 2012 – April 2014). http://rmes.nl/about

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