Derzeitige Position(en)

Assistant Professor of German

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

Monograph: Critique of Violence: The Trauma of Terrorism. This book-length study examines terrorism in film from 1968 to 2008.

Frühere Position(en)

Columbia University, Visiting Scholar (2008-2010)

Harvard University, Center for European Studies, Visiting Scholar (2008)

Fulbright Commission, Hamburg Institute for Social Research (2007-2008)

Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin Program (2006-2007)

University of California at Berkeley
Department of German (2000-2006)

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Monograph: The Language of Nature in Theodor W. Adorno's Philosophical and Aesthetic Writings.

Artikel

Wining a (Hi)Story out of Places: Petzold's Germany in Etwas besseres als den Tod (2011)." German Studies Review 36.3 (October 2013): 617-25.

"On Natural History: Concepts of History in Kracauer and Adorno."
Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer.
Eds. Gerd Gemünden and Johannes von Moltke. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2012. 225-239.

"Narrating Terrorism: Kristina Konrad's Greater Freedom, Lesser Freedom." Questioning the RAF: The Politics of Culture. Special issue. Ed. Karin Bauer. Seminar 47.1 (2011): 64-80.

“Thinking With: Animals in Schopenhauer, Horkheimer and Adorno.” Critical Theory and Animals. Ed. John Sanbonmatsu. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011. 137-157.

“Working through the Past: Christian Petzold’s The State I am In.” ZeitRäume: Potsdamer Almanach des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung. Ed. Martin Sabrow. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010. 31-42.

"Frankfurt School." The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 to the Present. 8 vols. Ed. Immanuel Ness. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2009. 1253-1257.

"Theodor W. Adorno." The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 to the Present. 8 vols. Ed. Immanuel Ness. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2009. 12-13.

“Surveillance Mechanisms in Literature and Film: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum by Böll and Schlöndorff / Von Trotta." Literature and Film. Special issue. Ed. P.M. Lutzeler. Gegenwartsliteratur 7 (2008): 69-83.

“Transnational Germany: Hito Steyerl’s Die leere Mitte and 200 Years of Border Crossings.” Women in German Yearbook 22 (2007): 205-223.

“Adorno and Ethics: Introduction.” Adorno and Ethics. Special issue. Ed. Christina Gerhardt. New German Critique 97 (2006): 1-4.

“The Ethics of Animals in Adorno and Kafka.” Adorno and Ethics. Special issue. Christina Gerhardt. New German Critique 97 (2006): 159-178.

“The Allied Air Bombing Campaign of Germany in Herzog’s Little Dieter Needs to Fly.” Bombs Away: Representing the Air War over Europe and Japan. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Germanistik 60. Eds. William Rasch and Wilfried Wilms. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 345-354.

“Theodor W. Adorno.” Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. Eds. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. 1-4.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Christina Gerhardt, Ed. Adorno and Ethics. Special Issue of New German Critique 97 (2006).

20th-century literature, theory, and film; film history and theory; critical and aesthetic theory; theories of modernity, modernist literature, and art; Weimar era literature, art, and film; two Germanies: literature, culture and film, 1945-1989; post-1989 literature, culture and film; gender studies; globalization and transnational studies; environmental humanities; theories and representations of social movements.