Research

Academic and Professional Interests

Film and Media Studies

  • World Cinema: European & American film, Japanese, Chinese & Korean film
  • Theory, history and aesthetics of media/film
  • Martial Arts Film
  • Media anthropology & media avant-garde
  • Intermediality - media relationships: opera & cinema, music & text 1900–2010
  • Opera
  • Performance, Performativity
  • Media art

Cultural studies:

  • Comparative literature & culture in Europe and Eastasia
    Visual culture
    Race - and Gender studies
  • Discourse theory, Theory of modernity & (post-) modernism
    (Inter & Trans)Culturality, cultural globalization
    Postcolonialism, exoticism

Modern German Literature:

  • The fin de siècle
    GDR literature
    Post 1989 German literature, especially former GDR writers
  • Travel literature
  • Autobiography

Projects & Work in preperation

Monograph:

Metamorphosen der Madame Butterfly. Interkulturelle Liebschaften zwischen Oper, Film und Literatur [The Metamorphoses of Madame Butterfly. Intercultural love affairs between opera, film and literature]

Editing books:
Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture [Working title] (with Naomi Segal)
Mörderinnen: Verbrechen – Körper – Inszenierung [Murderesses: Crime – Body – Performance]

Articles: ‘How Exotic is Exoticism? Encountering Visual Butterflies in Film and Opera’, in Lee/Segal (Ed.) : Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture

‘Gender-Performanz als Kulturinszenierungen. Zum medialen Verhältnis von Europa und Japan’, in: Fernando Clara/Peter Hanenberg (Ed.) : Aufbrüche/Kulturwissenschaften, Königshausen & Neumann (forthcoming).