I am a film historian and cultural studies scholar with special interests in European life and its Jewish cultures. My work on feature film, video testimony, literary texts and live art has focused on Holocaust representations and the dynamics of modern German-speaking Jewish culture. My recent work has looked at intersectional queer and Jewish portrayals in European, Israeli und US cinema, and at manifestations of Jewish dissidence in Soviet-era Eastern Germany (the GDR).

I have supervised a range of PhD theses on topics related to my research and teaching (please see under headings below) and welcome proposals on these and related topics.

PhD, MA Cornell University

Before joining the University of Manchester, I was Research Associate and Director of Research and Educational Programmes at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex. Prior to that I was Research Associate at the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam, where I co-coordinated the first German Holocaust video testimony project, Archiv der Erinnerung (Archive of Memory), in collaboration with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.

I have held, among others, three AHRC grants (2008; 2013-14 and 2021-22), as well as Visiting Fellowships at leading research institutions including the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies Potsdam, the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig, the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg at Humboldt University Berlin, and the Bucerius Institute at the University of Haifa.

I contributed to the 2023-24 special exhibition Another Country. Jewish in the GDR at the Jewish Museum Berlin with my research expertise on the topic, as well as a personal interview and artefacts related to my family history.

• Cultural representations of gender, sexuality, ethnicity / race
• Jewish life and Holocaust representations
• Modern German-Jewish culture

Current undergraduate teaching

• DRAM30481 Screening the Holocaust
• DRAM21262 Horror: Genre, Periods, Styles
• DRAM13331 Introduction to Early & Classical Cinema

 Current postgraduate teaching

• DRAM71331 Film Theories