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Former fellows

Erika Balsom

Film scholar at King's College London and curator of international exhibitions and film programs.

Francesco Casetti

Sterling Professor at Yale University, editor and author of international journals, books, and essays on film and media studies.

Özgür Çiçek

Philipp Schwartz Research Fellow and expert on transnational Kurdish cinema.

Alexander R. Galloway

Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University with leading expertise in the field of digital cultures.

Elena Gorfinkel

Film scholar at King's College London, expert on marginal and independent cinema, and curator of international film programs.

Malte Hagener

Professor of Media Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg with teaching and research foci in history, theory and aesthetics of film.

Mark B. N. Hansen

James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, as well as director of the Program in Literature at the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.

Olivier Aubert

Research engineer at Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique at the graduate school for engineering sciences at the University of Nantes. Auberts research area lies in the Digital Humanities, among them are knowledge engineering and audio-visual annotation.

Adrian Ivakhiv

Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture Culture at the University of Vermont with research foci in the fields of ecophilosophy, Anthropocene humanities as well as cultural and media theory.

Bodo Mrozek

Research associate at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History with leading expertise in the field of pop culture and pop history.

Jennifer Barker

Associate professor of communication at Georgia State University, USA. and director of the Graduate Studies for the Moving Image Studies’ doctoral program as well as the Film, Video, and Digital Image masters program.

Drehli Robnik

Freelance essayist, critic and theorist on history, politics, and film. Writes and publishes extensively on Kracauer and Rancière, popular cinema and horror film.

Christian Rüdiger

Film scholar and expert of German film history. His research interests include film as political experience spaces, as well as German film as a whole.

Heide Schlüpmann

Professor emerita for film studies, curator, and expert for early cinema from a sociological, philosophical, and political perspective

Elisa Linseisen

Professor of digital and audiovisual media at the University of Hamburg with a focus on queer computing and the episteme of the digital.

Thomas Bartscherer

Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College, New York. Expert on political theory, classical philosophy, and digital humanities.

Tatjana Brandrup

Lecturer at several film academies as well as scriptwriter, filmmaker, and Artist-in-Residence at Cinepoetics.

Marshall Brown

Director of the Princeton Urban Imagination Center and Associate Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. His project as Artist-in-Residence at Cinepoetics examines interconnections of architecture, power, and acts of world-making.

Warren Buckland

Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. His career as a film scholar began after he was awarded a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Film Studies in 1994. He spent time teaching at the University of Amsterdam, Liverpool John Moores University, and Chapman University/California.

Robert Burgoyne

Professor of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His work centers on historiography and film, with a special emphasis on American cinema, history and national identity, and the counter narratives of nation that have emerged in many films.

Antonio Somaini

Professor for Film, Media, and Visual Culture Theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).

Erica Carter

Professor of German at King’s College, London. She is also the co-founder of the German Screen Studies Network.

Lynne Cameron

Senior Fellow and Artist-in-residence for the first two years of the Cinepoetics project. As an applied linguist, she has worked for many years on metaphor in spoken discourse, most recently applying this to empathy and post-conflict reconciliation.

Alan Cienki

Professor of Language Use and Cognition at the Vrije Universiteit/VU in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he has worked since 2006. There he established the Amsterdam Gesture Center.

Wout Cornelissen

Wout Cornelissen currently holds a teaching appointment in the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and works on a critical edition of Arendt’s "The Life of the Mind".

Michael Cowan

Head of the Film Studies Department at St Andrews University and renowned expert on early German film theory.

T.J. Demos

Rebele Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and director of the Center for Creative Ecologies.

Richard Dyer

Professor emeritus at King's College London. His research interests focus on the social function of stardom, representation of homosexuality, gender, and race.

Philipp Ekardt

Scholar of literature, arts, and culture with research foci on Walter Bejamin's writings and the image worlds of Alexander Kluge.

Thomas Elsaesser

Professor emeritus at Universiteit van Amsterdam and one of the most important researchers in the international field of film studies.

Kathrin Fahlenbrach

Professor for Film and Media Studies at the University of Hamburg where she is currently director of the Institute for Media and Communication Studies.

Jennifer Fay

Professor of Cinema & Media Arts at Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Her research interests include transatlantic film and media theory, media aesthetics and politics, environmental humanities, and comparative film history.

Barbara Flückiger

Professor at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich.


Gesa Frömming

Literature scholar with a focus on late 18th- and early 19th-Century German literature and aesthetics, contemporary German literature, aesthetics and politics, and aesthetics of music.

Raymond W. Gibbs

Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests focus on embodied cognition, pragmatics and figurative language.

Christine Gledhill

Professor emeritus in film studies and Visiting Professor at the University of Sunderland. She is one of the most prominent experts on the theory of film genres in general and on the theory of melodrama in particular. Her wide-ranging research interests also include feminist film theory and British cinema, especially of the 1920s.

Deniz Göktürk

Associate Professor in the German Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the leading German-language researchers concerned with the complex of cinema and migration.

Catherine Grant

Freelance film scholar, video essayist and pioneer of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies.

Barbara Hahn

Max Kade Foundation Chair in German Studies of the Department of Germanic and Russian Languages and Literatures at Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Also, she is a distinguished expert on the work of Hannah Arendt and Rahel Levin Varnhagen.

Julian Hanich

Associate professor for film studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands. His research focuses on film and emotion, the cinema as a site of collective experience, film-phenomenology, genre and reception theory

Tobias Haupts

Film scholar with research interests in media and film history, the aesthetics of genre, as well as media and cultural studies of the 1980s and 1990s.

Franziska Heller

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich.

Anke Hennig

Lecturer at The Berlin University of Art and at Central Saint Martins College of the University of the Arts London. From January to December 2017 she is a fellow at Cinepoetics. Often working interdisciplinary and collaboratively, her focus of research lies on contemporary literature and visual culture.

Thomas Hensel

Professor of art- and design theory at the University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim, Faculty for Design and co-director of the Institute for Human Engineering and Empathic Design (HEED). His research activities concentrate on Media- and Science/Knowledge history of aesthetics, design theory and game studies (especially imagery of computer games).

Steffen Hven

Film and media scholar with research foci on narratology, media philosophy, and theories of embodiment. Currently, he is a research fellow at Cinepoetics with a return grant by the German Research Foundation.

Daniel Illger

Film scholar and freelance writer. His research foci include the aesthetics and poetics of certain film genres, classical genre theory as well as the historicity of film.

Christian Keathley

Walter J. Cerf Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Daria Khitrova

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Harvard University. Her research interests include Russian poetry and its relationship to the readers of their time, formalist art theories, film history and Russian ballet.

Ingo Kieslich

Ingo Kieslich earned his PhD at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee with a dissertation about Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. Further points of focus in his research work are storytelling, narration and space, as well as the relation of narration and the political. During his stay at the Freien Universität Berlin Kieslich is working on a research project titled “Hannah Arendt: Narrative in Context of Philosophical and Political Thinking”.

Naum Kleiman

As film historian, author, lecturer and curator, he is one of the most important advocates of film culture in contemporary Russia.

Christine Lötscher

Research assistant at the Institute for Popular Culture Studies at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on theory of nonsense, popular genres in literature and film, such as speculative fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller and on media theory and media history.

Oliver Lubrich

Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research revolves around experimental rhetorics, Alexander von Humboldt, Jewish studies and anti-Semitism, travel and contemporary literature, as well as the history and theory of theatre.

James McFarland

Assistant Professor of German, Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His expertise in the field of genre theory and historiography will contribute vastly to the Center’s research focus during the academic year 2016/17.

Irene Mittelberg

Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics at the Human Technology Centre (HumTec) at RWTH Aachen University in Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, where she directs the Natural Media Lab and interdisciplinary research on gesture.

Rachel Moore

Lecturer in International Media for the Media and Communications Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her research covers early film history and theory; the historical and contemporary avant garde film aesthetics.

Cornelia Müller

Professor for Language Use and Multimodal Communication at Viadrina European University in Frankfurt/Oder. From October 2015 to September 2016 she will organize the program for the first annual theme “Metaphor – cognition and cinematic thinking”.

Isabel Mundry

Highly distinguished German composer and professor for composition in Frankfurt, Zürich, Munich.

Karla Oehler

Professor for film and media studies at the University of Stanford. Among her fields of study are visual culture as well as the theory and practice of Sergei Eisenstein.

Eyal Peretz

Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University with research foci in questions of aesthetics and metaphysics in various disciplines.

Christian Pischel

Until recently, he was Research Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His research foci include film theory and history as well as the aesthetic of politics and the works of Hannah Arendt.

Patricia Pisters

Professor of Media Studies (with specialization in Film Studies) at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include: Film-Philosophy, Neuro-filmology, contemporary transnational screen culture and media ecologies.

Ayşe Polat

Internationally acclaimed film director, screenplay writer and film producer. From 1991 to 1993, she studied German, philosophy and cultural studies in Berlin and Bremen. Her films earned several awards and deal with key aspects that are of interest for the analysis of the poiesis of viewing films.

Inga Pollmann

Currently Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, German at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Eric Ritter

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University, Nashville. His research focuses on Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, and the connection between Philosophy and Film.

D. N. Rodowick

Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and one of the internationally leading film philosophers and a central figure in the reception of the work of Gilles Deleuze. He is also an experimental filmmaker, video artist, and curator.

Alexandra Schneider

Professor of Film and Media Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. Her research interests include media archaeology, historiography of film, digital research methods, as well as distribution and format studies.

Birgit Schneider

Professor of Knowledge Cultures and Media Environments at Potsdam University.
Co-speaker of the network Digitale Geisteswissenschaften at Potsdam University.

Erhard Schüttpelz

Professor for Media Theory at the University of Siegen. His research focuses on the history of literature and media, the linguistics and media theory of rhetoric as well as the history of science concerning media theory and ethnology.

Holger Schulze

Professor for music studies at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Sound Studies Lab. Among his research foci are the anthropology of sound, sound art, and meme music.

Robert Sinnerbrink

Australian philosopher and Associate Professor the Macquarie University. His research revolves around cinematic ethics, aesthetics and critical theory.

Anna Steininger

Video artist and graduate “visual artist”. As artist-in-residence at Cinepoetics, Anna Steininger will work on her art project, “Bild-Zeiten”.

Eve Sweetser

Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also the coordinator of the Berkeley Gesture and Multimodality Group, and of the Berkeley Matrix Metaphor Group.

Yuri Tsivian

William Colvin Emeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and expert in the fields of silent cinema, history of film editing, and digital humanities.

Martin Vöhler

Professor of Greek philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research Interests include poetics, rhetorics and the reception of ancient literature in the modern age. During his residence at Cinepoetics he will work on the project titled Enthusiasm and Politics in ancient Poetics, which is concerned with the document About the Sublime.

Jan Völker

Philosopher and researcher at the Institute for Art History, Art Theory and Aesthetics at the Berlin University of the Arts. He studied comparative literature, philosophy and cultural studies in Leipzig, Berlin and Paris. He earned his PhD with a dissertation on Kant’s Critique of Judgment.

Annette Vowinckel

Head of "Contemporary History of the Media and Information Society" at the Centre for Contemporary History Research, Potsdam. Her research focuses on contemporary history, cultural and media history as well as the history of ideas.

Catherine Wheatley

Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London. Wheatley's research interests include film and philosophy, film and religion, European cinema and critical theory, and especially spectator theory.

Serjoscha Wiemer

Media scholar and assistant professor for digital media and mobile media at Department of Media Studies at the Paderborn University. In his works, he combines approaches of media theory, aesthetics and epistemology, to research historical and contemporary viewing conditions, (image-)action and meaning making.

Thomas Wild

Associate Professor of German at Bard College, New York, concentrating his research on the connection of poetry, philosophy, and poetics.

Daniel Yacavone

Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he has been Director of the Film Studies Programme. His research interests include film aesthetics, film theory (and its history), modern and contemporary cinema, intermediality, film emotion and affect, the philosophy of film and art (both Continental and analytic traditions), and semiotics and symbol theory.

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