Dr. Oliver Kröner

• Fernsehtheorie
• Medienrezeption
• Serielle und transmediale Formen
• Mediale Figuren
• Kognitive Medientheorie
• Medienästhetik
• Populäre Kultur

• seit April 2023: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• Januar 2019—Juli 2020: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Media and Journalism an der Fakultät für Business and Society der Glasgow Caledonian University in Schottland, UK
• September 2014—November 2018: Promotion in Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft an der University of Glasgow in Schottland, UK
• September 2011—November 2013: Master in Filmwissenschaft an der University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Kanada
• Oktober 2004—November 2010: Magister Artium in Amerikanistik und Soziologie an der Johann-Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main

• 2015—2017: College of Arts Screen Praktikum, University of Glasgow, UK
• 2015—2017: AHRC Stipendium, Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities

• Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM)
• The Society of Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI)
• Northern Television Studies Research Group (NTVRG)
• Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC-ACÉCM)
• Professional Wrestling Studies Association

Monographien

• Television Characters, Seriality, and Emotion. Screen Serialities. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press (Erscheint 2024).

Aufsätze

• To Be Continued…on the Football Pitch: Seriality, Transmedia Storytelling, and Viewer Engagement with Non-Fictional Television Characters. Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, Special Issue on Seriality. 2023 (Im Erscheinen).
• Then, Now, Forever—Television Wrestling, Seriality, and the Rise of the Cinematic Match during Covid-19. Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images 2(1): 7. 2022.
• Oh My God, They Didn’t Kill Kenny – Performance, Seriality, and Viewer Engagement in Contemporary Animated Television. Contemporary Serial Television: Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics. Ed. Ted Nannicelli und Hector J. Perez. London: Routledge. 2022. S.68-82.
• The Day May Come When You Won’t Be Quality TV—The Walking Dead and Viewer Engagement. Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, 7:1. 2021.
• Wrestling with Characters. Convergent Wrestling: Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle. Ed. Christopher J. Olson und CarrieLynn D. Reinhard. London: Routledge. 2021. S. 45–58.
• Ringside Reality: Viewer Engagement in Contemporary Television Wrestling. Media Education Journal. Association for Media Education in Scotland. 2019.
• Marnie is the Worst: Antipathetic Characters in Contemporary HBO Programs. HBO’s Original Voices—Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power. Ed. Victoria McCollum und Giuliana Monteverde. London: Routledge. 2018. S.141–155.
• Breaking Narrative – Narrative Complexity in Contemporary Television. Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity. Ed. Valentina Marinescu, Bianca Mitu, und Silvia Branea. Stuttgart: ibidem–Verlag. 2014. S.77–89.

Herausgeberschaften

• Cinephile 9.1: Reevaluating Television. The University of British Columbia’s Film Journal. Zusammen mit Andrea Brooks. Vancouver, Kanada. 2013.

Rezensionen

• Elliot Logan. Breaking Bad and Dignity – Fragmentation in the Serial Television Drama. Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies. Vol.12:3. 2017. S. 313–315.

• 2019: Gutachter für wissenschaftliche Manuskripte für Intellect Books.

Konferenzen

• 4-5 Mai 2016: Film and TV, Theatre, and Centre for Cultural Policy Research Postgraduate Symposium, University of Glasgow, UK.

Vorträge

• Juli 2022: To Be Continued…on the Football Pitch: Lionel Messi, Seriality, and Sentimental Viewer Engagement with Non-Fictional Television Characters (Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference, Online)
• Juli 2022: Grappling with the Pandemic—Contemporary Television Wrestling and the Rise of the Cinematic Match during Covid-19 (Screen, Online)
• Juni 2019: Is Nathan For You? – Schadenfreude and Humanity in One of TV’s Most Controversial Programmes (Cognitive Futures in the Arts and the Humanities, Mainz)
• Juni 2017: Oh My God, They Didn’t Kill Kenny! — Viewer Engagement with Animated Television Characters (Screen, Glasgow, UK)
• Juni 2016: Wrestling with Characters — The Viewer/Character Relationship in Contemporary Wrestling Programmes (The Pro Wrestling Symposium, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK)
• Juni 2016: Hating Contemporary Television Characters (Screen, Glasgow, UK)
• Juni 2015: Wrestling with Characters—Viewer Engagement in WWE Programming (SCSMI, London, UK)
• September 2015: Walter White Is More Important Than Your Mother: The Significance of Caring About Fictional Characters. (Explorathon—European Researchers’ Night, Glasgow, UK, mit Hanna Kubicka)
• Juni 2013: Breaking Narrative—Narrative Complexity in Contemporary Television (Victoria, Kanada)
• Mai 2012: Made in America—The American Dream in Contemporary Television Drama (Vancouver, Kanada)