Angelica Fenner

Background

I was born to German parents and raised in western Massachusetts. As an undergraduate, I studied music at Oberlin College in Ohio, spent a year in Freiburg, Germany, and later earned an M.A. in German at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. I continued my graduate studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and spent nearly three years in Berlin, as a lecturer in English at Humboldt Universität as well as with the support of a dissertation fellowship from the DAAD. After completion of my Ph.D. German and Comparative Literature, I continued to teach at Minnesota as a lecturer in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and in French and Italian film. Since joining the faculty in German and in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto, I have been covering courses in German film history, race and representation, world cinema, film sound, film theory, documentary, and globalization theory.

Teaching Interests

• German Film History
• History & Theory of  Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
• Weimar Culture
• Race & Representation
• World Cinema
• Film Sound
• Film Theory
• Globalization Theory

Current Research Interests

• The thematics of migration in European cinemas, with particular attention to how spatial, social, and psychical displacement assume narrative form.
• Autobiographical Non-Fiction Film  in Contemporary Germany

Recent Publications

Monographs

• Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema: Robert Stemmle's Toxi. University of Toronto Press (forthcoming September 2010)

Co-Edited Anthologies

• The Auto/Biographical Turn in German Documentary and Experimental Film. Co-edited with Robin Curtis. Camden Press. (In Progress)
• Fascism and Neo-Fascism: Critical Writings
  on the Radical Right in Europe . Co-edited with Eric Weitz. NY: Palgrave, 2004. 284 pp.

Book Chapters and Articles in Refereed Journals

• “Jennifer Fox’s Transnational Talking Cure Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman.” Journal of Feminist Media Studies 9.4 (2009): 427-445.
• "Aural Topographies of Migration in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche." Camera Obscura 66 (2007).
• "The Reterritorialization of Enjoyment in the Adenauer Era." In Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany , eds. John Davidson & Sabine Hake, 166-179. NY: Berghahn, 2007.
• "Repetition Trauma and the Tyrannies of Genre in Frieder Schlaich's Otomo ." In Fascism and Neo-Fascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe , eds. Angelica Fenner & Eric Weitz, 259-278. NY: Palgrave, 2004.
• "Traversing the Representational Politics of Migration in Xavier Koller's Journey of Hope ." In Moving Pictures, Traveling Identities: Exile, Migration, Border Crossing in Cinema , ed. Eva Rueschmann, 18-38. Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 2003.
• "Turkish Cinema in the New Europe: Visualizing Ethnic Conflict in Sinan Çetin's Berlin in Berlin. " Camera Obscura 44 (2001): 105-149.
• "Theorizing the Internet: Scholarly Collaboration, Authorial Identity, and the Bounds of Listserver Culture." In After Postmodernism: Austrian Literature and Film in Transition , ed. Willy Riemer, 348-361. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2001.
• "Versuch eines interkulturellen Dialogs: Mehrstimmigkeit als Erzählstrategie in Helma Sander-Brahms' Shirin's Hochzeit ." Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft Rundbrief 49 (Dezember 1996): 25-29.

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