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Prof. Dr. Johannes von Moltke

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University of Michigan
Film and Media Studies

External Senior Fellow
September 2018 – July 2019

E-Mail: moltke@umich.edu

Last Update: 31.08.2019

Curriculum Vitae

Johannes von Moltke (PhD, Duke University) is a Professor jointly appointed in German and Film/TV/Media at the University of Michigan. His research and teaching focus on film and German cultural history of the 20th and 21st centuries. Professor von Moltke studied in Germany, France, and the US, and previously taught at the University of Hildesheim in Germany. He is the author of The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America(2015), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; and No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema(2005), winner of the MLA Scaglione Prize for Best Book in German Studies. Combining his interests in German, Film, and Cultural Studies, he has published articles in New German Critique, October, Screen, Cultural Critique, Cinema Journal, Germanic Review and other journals, as well as in numerous edited volumes in the U.S. and Germany. Together with Gerd Gemünden Johannes is the series editor for Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visualat Camden House. 

Professor von Moltke currently serves as the Vice President of the German Studies Association, and he is a board member of the American Friends of Marbach. At Michigan, he has served as the organizer of the biannual German Film Institute.

Moltke’s work on Kracauer has also led to the publication of essays by and about this key cultural critic, respectively: together with Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth College), von Moltke assembled an interdisciplinary anthology of essays entitled Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer (University of Michigan Press, 2012); and together with Kristy Rawson, who received her PhD in Screen Arts & Cultures at Michigan, he compiled Siegfried Kracauer’s American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture (University of California Press, 2012). A further anthology, Siegfried Kracauers Grenzgänge: Zur Rettung des Realen, co-edited with Helmut Lethen and Sabine Biebl, is forthcoming from Campus Verlag.

Selected Publications

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