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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Joint program in Cinema and Media Studies and Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, expected May 2011.
Dissertation: “The Technological Uncanny: From Trick to Special Effect in German Silent Film.”
Tom Gunning, director; David J. Levin; Yuri Tsivian
MA, Theater Studies, Art History and Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, July 1999.
Thesis: “The Leaveners: On the relationship between Quakerism and Community Theater in Contemporary England.”
Christopher Balme, director; Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, University of Chicago, 2010-2011.
Awarded one-year dissertation fellowship sponsored by the University of Chicago and the Division of the Humanities; among the highest honors awarded by the university to graduate students.
Stuart Tave/Whiting Teaching Fellowship Humanities Collegiate Division, University of Chicago, 2010-2011.
My course, “Expressionism and Film: Stylistic Experiments in German Cinema of the 1920s” received this highly
competitive fellowship awarded to a seminar designed by a graduate student.
Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2010-2011.
Received this competitive travel grant sponsored by the Office of Graduate Student Affairs in order to present at the
Annual Conference 2010 of the Film Studies Association of Canada.
Graduate Student Teaching Award for Excellence in Course Design, Center for Teaching and Learning, University
of Chicago, 2009.
My course, “Focus Genre: The Literary Uncanny” (3rd year German) received this highly competitive award for
outstanding curriculum design and student achievement in a course conceived and taught by a graduate student.
Stuart Tave/Whiting Teaching Fellowship Humanities Collegiate Division, University of Chicago, 2008-2009.
My course, “From Hitler to Hollywood: German Refugees and American Film” received this highly competitive
fellowship awarded to a seminar designed by a graduate student.
Department of Cinema and Media Studies Travel Grant, University of Chicago.
Awarded this competitive travel grant three times to travel to Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy (Winter
2008); to give a lecture at the University of Bielefeld, Germany (Spring 2009); and to present at the 2010 Annual
Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (Spring 2010).
Department of Germanic Studies Summer Grant, University of Chicago, Summer 2007.
Humanities Century Scholarship, Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2003-2007.
PUBLICATIONS
“Unheimliche Geschichten (Richard Oswald, 1919),” “Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (Paul Wegener, 1920),” “Der müde Tod (Fritz Lang, 1921),” and “Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (Paul Leni, 1923),” in Directory of World Cinema: Germany, ed. Michelle Langford (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2011).
“Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926),” “Der Student von Prag (Stellan Rye, 1913),” and “Algol (Hans Werkmeister, 1920),” in
German Cinema: A Critical Filmography to 1945, ed. Todd Herzog (Montréal: Caboose, 2011).
“Salka Viertel” (with Gerd Gemunden, Carrie Collenberg and Charles Marcrum II) and “Fern Andra” (with Sara Hall,
Robert McFarland and Lesley Pleasant), as part of the Women Film Pioneers Project. Women Center for Digital
Research and Scholarship, eds. Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta (New York, NY: Columbia
University Libraries, 2011).
“Nicolaes de Bruyn: Salomos Götzendienst 1606. Verleger Peter Schenk,” (with Susanne Müller-Bechtel) and “Nicolaes
de Bruyn: Abigail vor David 1608. Verleger Gerrit Valk,” (with Susanne Müller-Bechtel), in Es muss nicht immer
Rembrandt sein… Die Druckgraphiksammlung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Universität München, ed. Robert
Stalla, 45-46 and 48-49 (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1999).
PRESENTATIONS
“’Cinema: Our Blind Desire's Eye Candy:’ On Vision, Emotion and Spectatorship in Early German Film Theory and
Practice,” conference presentation, 2010 Film & History Conference. Representations of Love in Film and Television,
Milwaukee, WI, November 11-14, 2010.
“Wunderspiegel: The Schüfftan Process in Weimar Cinema,” conference presentation as part of an interdisciplinary
panel series “New Approaches to Weimar Cinema,” Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference of the German Studies
Association, Oakland, CA, October 7-10, 2010.
“Reflecting Movie Magic: Early Film Theory and the Fantastic”, workshop presentation, Mass Culture Workshop,
University of Chicago, October 1, 2010.
“Magic Mirrors: The Schüfftan Process,“ conference presentation, Annual Conference of the Film Studies Association
of Canada/Association Canadienne d`Études Cinématographiques 2010, held in conjunction with the Congress of the
Humanities and Social Sciences, Montréal, Canada, June 2-4, 2010.
Served as organizer and chair of the panel “Special Effects: Histories and Practices.“
“Scientific Specters: On the Relation between Magic and Technology in German Silent Film,” conference presentation,
2010 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, LA, April 1-4, 2010.
“Modern Magicians: The Development of Special Effect Techniques in German Silent Film”, workshop presentation,
Mass Culture Workshop, University of Chicago, January 22, 2010.
“Visualizing the Impossible: The Fantastic and the Development of Special Effect Techniques in German Silent Film,”
workshop presentation, Mass Culture Workshop, University of Chicago, May 29, 2009.
“The Technological Uncanny: From Trick to Special Effect in German Silent Fantastic Film,” workshop presentation,
Workshop of Historical Semantics, University of Chicago, January 27, 2009.
“Caligari and seine Brüder. Das Unheimliche und das Phantastische im deutschen Stummfilm 1914-1929,” lecture,
University of Bielefeld, Germany, November 19, 2008.
“Heimat in National Socialist Foreign Policy: Conjuring a German-Japanese Axis Through Film,” conference
presentation, Heimat: Utopia or Reality? Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Search for Heimat and National Identity –
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, May 3-4, 2006.
“Exporting Heimat: The Aesthetics and Politics of German-Japanese Film Propaganda,” conference presentation, Forty-
Seventh Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, WI, November 10-13, 2005.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Chicago, Humanities Collegiate Division – Fall 2004-present.
Lecturer
Taught twelve undergraduate content courses of my own design:
• From Hitler to Hollywood: German Refugees and American Film (Film, German, History and English) – Spring 2009.
• Focus Author: Fritz Lang (3rd year German) – Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007 (2 sect.).
• Focus Genre: The Literary Uncanny (3rd year German) – Winter 2007 (2 sect.), Winter 2008, Winter 2009 (2 sect.),
Winter 2010.
• The Haunted Screen (Study Abroad Program in Freiburg, Germany) – Fall 2008.
Taught twelve German language courses of my own design:
• German-American Themes: “Americanization” in Weimar Germany (2nd year German) – Spring 2007.
• German-American Themes: Transatlantic Relations of the 20th Century (2nd year German) – Fall 2004, Winter 2005,
Fall 2005 (2 sect.).
• German Fairy Tales: Enchanted Forests (2nd year German) – Fall 2007.
• German for Research Purposes (Graduate) – Spring 2010.
• Intensive Intermediate German (2nd year German) – Summer 2009, Summer 2010.
• German for Beginners I-III (1st year German) – Summer 2006, Summer 2008, Summer 2009.
University of Chicago, Center for Teaching and Learning – Spring 2009-present.
Graduate Teaching Consultant
Conducted peer-to-peer individual teaching consultations and mid-course reviews, participated in bi-monthly
professional development seminars and served as panelist in the 2009 and 2010 university-wide Workshops on
Teaching in the College (“Self-Assessment” and “Using the Center to Prepare for Careers in Teaching”) and the 2010
Graduate Student Development Conference GradUCon (“Preparing for a Career in Teaching”).
University of Chicago – Winter and Spring 2010.
Writing Intern in the Humanities Common Core
Provided an academic writing instruction component in “Readings in World Literature,” one of the yearlong humanities
common core courses that are mandatory for all University of Chicago first-year students, advised undergraduate
students and graded their papers.
University of Chicago, Humanities Collegiate Division – Fall 2008.
Lecturer and Study Abroad Program Assistant in Freiburg, Germany
Taught one content course (“The Haunted Screen”) on German film and acted as program assistant for a group of five
University of Chicago undergraduates during their stay in Freiburg and on excursions, managed all aspects of the
students’ stay abroad, including program budget and culture/leisure time program.
University of Chicago – Fall 2006 and Winter 2008.
Teaching Assistant
Assisted in conducting two courses in Cinema and Media Studies/Germanic Studies (“German Cinema, 1945-1980”
and “Fassbinder: Melodrama, Politics and the Poetics of Suffering”), advised undergraduate students and graded their
papers.
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Goethe Institutes Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius and Warsaw; Austria Institute Warsaw; University of
Warsaw; Volkshochschule Berlin-Neukölln – September 1999-August 2004.
Instructor and Teacher Trainer
Taught approximately 50 language courses at all proficiency levels and courses in German literature, history, and
civilization; conducted full-time training seminars for the continuing education of international German instructors;
taught literacy courses (also in a team) for adult immigrants as well as German language summer camps for children
and teenagers; served as co-resident head and co-organized and supervised leisure time program, conducted
placement tests and official examinations of the Goethe Institute, the Austria Institute and the University of Warsaw.
Additional information available upon request.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Webmaster, University of Chicago, 2006-2010.
Designed and maintained the Germanic Studies departmental website (see http://german.uchicago.edu/).
Event Assistant and Visitor Liaison, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, 2004-2010.
Co-coordinated departmental events including invited lectures and conferences, designed advertising materials (see
http://german.uchicago.edu/05_events/events_archive.html); served as liaison for visiting professors and fellows.
Author of German language teaching materials, Max-Hueber publishing company, Ismaning, 2002-2005.
Authored materials for textbook Erste Schritte and exam preparation materials for Start Deutsch z, A1 and A2.
Translator (English-German), Forth into Light by Gordon Merrick, Bruno-Gmünder publishing company, Berlin, 2001.
2nd Assistant Director, Continuity, Assistant Editor, Hannes Meier Film, Munich, 1997.
SERVICE AND VOLUNTEER WORK
Curator, Kinotag German Film Series, University of Chicago, 2005-present.
Founded and coordinated a monthly film series of recent German-language movies sponsored by the Department of
Germanic Studies (see past screenings at http://german.uchicago.edu/05_events/events_kinotag.html).
Projectionist (2006-2008) and Member of the Executive Board (2008/2009), Doc Films, University of Chicago.
Projected films in 35mm, 16mm and digital formats, trained apprentice projectionists; designed and maintained website.
Member of the Student Advisory Group of the Dean of the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2007-present.
Graduate Student Representative, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, 2005-2007.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Comparative Literature Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Film Studies Association of Canada/Association Canadienne d’Études Cinématographiques
Modern Language Association
German Studies Association
LANGUAGES AND TECHNOLOGY
German (native), English (fluent), French (proficient); Spanish (proficient); Yiddish (proficient); Latin (reading); Italian
(reading)
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, FileMaker Pro, html,
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