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Gerd Gemünden

Professor of German Studies, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature
Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professorship in the Humanities
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Departments and Programs

  • Comparative Literature
  • Film & Media Studies
  • German Studies

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Contact Information

Email: gerd@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2491
Office: 6084 Dartmouth Hall

Education

B.A. Universität Tübingen; M.A. University of Oregon; Ph.D. University of Oregon

Areas of Expertise

18th- to 20th-century German literature and culture; history and theory of German film; critical theory and cultural studies

Selected Works

  • Filmemacher mit Akzent: Billy Wilder in Hollywood, (2006).
  • "Hollywood in Altona: Minority Cinema and the Transnational Imagination," in German Pop Culture, A Mueller (ed.) (2004) 180-190.
  • Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections, edited with C Calloway and S Zantop, (2002).
  • Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination, (1998).
  • *Die hermeneutische Wende: Disziplin und Sprachlosigkeit nach 1800, (1990).

Current Projects

Continental Strangers: German Exiles in Hollywood, 1933-1948; Dietrich Icon: Critical Essays on Marlene Dietrich; William Dietterle's anti-fascist Hollywood biopics.