Katharina Loew received her joint Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies and Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago in 2011. Her research interests include German silent and early sound film, silent film technology, international film relations and German émigré filmmakers in Hollywood, fantastic literature and film, German modernist theater, art and literature and theories of modernity and mass culture. Her current book project investigates the impact of special effect technologies on German film during the silent era. She has published on the Schüfftan process and various German silent films including Faust (1926) and Der Golem wie er in die Welt kam (1920). She is currently working on a book manuscript that investigates the impact of special effect technologies on German film during the silent era.