My background is in literary, film and television studies with an emphasis on British and American cultural production in general and multicultural Britain in particular. I mainly work on film and television and address questions of cultural and individual memory, predominantly in the context of (Jewish, Black and Asian) migratory and diasporic experiences. A special focus has been on the intersections of different migrations and diasporas; a comparative and transnational perspective underpinned the work of the international AHRC-funded research network Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe, which I co-coordinated from 2006-2008. With colleagues in Leeds, I am currently developing a project that will take up questions of European subjectivity/ies in the 21st century.
A further research area is the memory culture of the First World War in Britain as well as the relationship between war, media and cultural memory in more general terms. As a continental European and native German who relocated to the UK in 2004, I also maintain an interest in German language and culture, the constructions of contemporary ‘Germanness’ and ‘Britishness’ across Europe and the trajectories of continental Jews who settled in Britain throughout the centuries.
Experience
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2012–presentSenior Lecturer, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
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2004–2011Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
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1999–2004Postdoctoral Researcher/Co-Applicant, University of Tübingen (Germany)
Education
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1995PhD English and American Studies, University of Cologne (Germany)
Publications
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2013“British Cultural Studies and the Ethnographic Imagination”, Taking Turns: The Great Variety of British Cultural Studies. Ed. Marie Hologa et al. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
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2010European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
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2005[World War One and the Media Discourses of Memory in Britain: Autobiography, Novel, Film (1919-1999), Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann,
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