Dr. Björn Sonnenberg-Schrank

• Film Studies, Film Theory, Filmgeschichte (US-Amerikanischer und Europäischer Film)
• Gender & Diversity Studies, Feminismus, Intersektionalität
• Populärkultur(en), Massen-, Jugend, und Gegenkultur
• Amerikanische Literatur und Kultur des 19. – 21. Jahrhundert
• Visual Studies und bildende Kunst
• Psychoanalytische Theorie
• Netzwerktheorien
• Raumtheorien 
• Kritische Theorie, (Post)Strukturalismus
• Environmental Humanities, Ecosophy und Ecocriticism
• Marxistische Philosophie

WiSe 2023/24

- "Die Natur greift an" – Eco Horror und das Anthropozän im Film (Seminar)

- Geschlecht, Identität, Körper, Medien: Gender Studies und/als Medienwissenschaften (Basisseminar)

 

SoSe 2023

- Krankheit in/als Kultur (Seminar)

- Geschlecht, Identität, Körper, Medien: Gender Studies und/als Medienwissenschaften (Basisseminar) 

 

WiSe 2022/23

- Die Müllhalde als kulturelles Archiv: Dinge, Wert, Obsoleszenz, Ökologie (Seminar) 

- Ort | Identität: Öffentlicher und privater Raum (Seminar)

- Verstehen Sie: Spaß? Theorie und Humor (Seminar)

- Queer Cinema - Repräsentation von LGBTQIA+ in Film und TV (Aufbauseminar) 

 

SoSe 2022

- Media Studies | Gender Studies – Eine Einführung (Seminar)

 

2022

 - Queering the Screen. LGBTQIA+ Representations in American Cinema & Television (Proseminar)

- Why Gender(s)? - Navigating Gender Studies (Proseminar)

- Being Prec(ar)ious: Poverty in American Literature and Film (Proseminar)

 

2021

- American Greed: Excess and Capitalism in Literature and Film (Proseminar)

- A History of Tenderness: Physical Affection throughout Film History (Proseminar)

- American Culture Wars (Mittelseminar)

- Queering the Screen: LGBTQ+ Cinema and Television (Proseminar)

 

2020

- She Is A Camera: American Women Filmmakers (Proseminar)

 

2019

- American Ailments: Illness and | in Literature&Film (Proseminar)

- Utopian Feminism: Women Writers & the Future (Proseminar)

- What’s so funny about...? Humor in American Film and Literature, mit Michael Göbel (Proseminar)

- Rednecks vs. City Slickers: The Urban and the Rural in American Film and Television (Workshop, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, USA)

 

2018

- Black Hollywood Revisited: African American(s in) Film and Television in Trump's USA

(Proseminar)

- Flappers & Philosophers: American Modernist Women Writers (Mittelseminar)

- The Psychoanalyst at|in the Movies (Proseminar)

- A History of the American Teen Film (Intensive Course, Masarykova Univerzita Brno, CZ)

 

2017

- Stop Making Sense? Experimental 80s Literature and beyond (Mittelseminar)

- Hollywood goes to High School: American Teen Films 1950-2017 (Proseminar)

- Introduction to Literary Studies/Focus on American Studies (Einführungskurs)

- The Pastoral & The Horror: Rural America in Hollywood Cinema (Hauptseminar)

 

2016

- Writing One's Self: American Autobiographies (Proseminar)

- Paranoia in American Literature and Film (Proseminar)

- American Woman Writers from Then to Now (Hauptseminar)

- American Literary Naturalism (Proseminar)

 

2015

- “Back to the Future:” Time Travel in American Literature and Film, mit Moritz Ingwersen (Proseminar)

- Pastoral and Horror: Rural America in Hollywood Cinema (Proseminar)

- Introduction to Literary Studies/Focus on American Studies (Einführungskurs)

- “...all Foolish Young Things:” Youth in 19th Century American Literature (Proseminar)

- The American Nightmare: Theorizing the Horror Film 3 (Übung der Grundstufe)

 

 

2014

- “Straight to the Big House:” Prisons in American Literature, Film, and TV (Proseminar)

- Tutorial American Studies (Tutorium BA-Level)

- Reassembling the Suburbs: Space/Structure/Systems/Theory... and Shopping Malls (Proseminar)

 

2013

- Institutions and Transitions: Adolescence and School Experience in 19th Century American Literature and Beyond (Proseminar)

- The American Nightmare: Theorizing the Horror Film 1&2 (Übung der Grundstufe)

- Black Hollywood: An Introduction to African American(s in) Film and Television (Proseminar)

 

2012

- Prom Night Massacres and High School Musicals: Teenage Culture in American Film and Television (Proseminar)

Monographie

• Actor-Network Theory at the Movies. Reassembling the Contemporary American Teen Film with Latour, mit einem Vorwort von Timothy Shary. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (Dissertation)

 

Sammelband

• Revisiting Style. Interdisciplinary Articulations (Hrsg. mit Jasmin Herrmann, Moritz Ingwersen und Olga Tarapata), Peter Lang, 2020.

 

Artikel/Aufsätze [Auswahl]

• "(Bio-)Matters of Concern. Körperökologien," (mit Stefanie Schrank), Erfinden, Schöpfen, Machen: Körpertechniken und Imaginationstechniken, Hrsg. Nina Engelhardt und Johannes Schick, transcript, 2021.
• "Pathological Philology: Desire, Lack and the Digital Humanities," Philology in the Making. Theories, Materialities, and Media of Reading and Writing, Hrsg. Pál Kelemen und Nicolas Pethes, transcript, 2019.
• "La table du dîner un champ de bataille. L’adolescence et la famille dans  les «teen films» (films d’adolescents) aux Etats-Unis," La familie au cinéma: regards esthétiques et juridiques, Hrsg. Magalie Flores-Lonjou et al, Editions Mare & Martin, 2016, pp. 189-207.
• "Forbidden Bodies: Teens, Taboos, and Porn," Pornorama: American Pornographies: Visual Culture, Literature, History, Hrsg. Claudia Deckers et al, LIT, 2016.
• "Mixing Pop and Politics: Campaign Songs and the Battle for America's Musical Unconscious" (with Jan Niklas Jansen), America and the Musical Unconscious, Hrsg. Julius Greve und Sascha Pöhlmann, Atropos Press, 2016.
• "Blaxploitation Revisited: Foxy & Jackie Brown zwischen Literaturverfilmung und Genrekino," Quentin Tarantino zwischen Komik, Katharsis und Gewalt, Hrsg. Christian Hoffstadt und Nils Bothmann, Projekt Verlag, Reihe Komik und Gewalt, 2016, pp. 39-61.
• "Sex in Riverdale: The Construction and Disruption of Gender Roles in Archie Comics," Breaking the Panel! Comics as a Medium, Hrsg. Klütsch, Nitzsche, Schlensag, LIT Verlag, 2015.
• "My Most Prized Possession, an American Obsession. Virginity and the Sexual Politics of the American Teen Film," Excursions Journal Vol. 4 No. 2, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, November 2013. 124-142.
• Foreword and texts to Fakten und Figuren. Ungewöhnliche Wesen aus Ihrer Umgebung von Stefanie Schrank and Vanessa Gundermann. Some & Sons Verlag der Kunsthochschule Burg Giebichstein, 2011.

Organisation

• "Revisiting Style: Interdisciplinary Articulations. International Symposium." University of Cologne: January 31, 2020. Gemeinsam mit Moritz Ingwersen, Olga Tarapata, Jasmin Herrmann (American Studies, Cologne).

 

Gastvorträge

• "One Divided Nation under God: Hollywood's Construction of The Country." Lycoming College Williamsport, PA, March 2019.
• "Hollywood High School. A History of American Teen Films." Masarykova univerzita Brno, March 2018.
• "Pathological Philology". Philology in the Making Theories, Materialities, and Media of Reading and Writing; Conference of the DAAD-Research-Exchange Program The Practices of Literary Studies. University of Cologne, May 22 2017.
• "Literary Studies with Karen Barad's Agential Realism," From 'distant reading' to the 'collaboratory'. Elementary Practices and Research Infrastructure in Literary Studies, International workshop on new media in literary studies, University of Cologne / Kolleg Morphomata, November 3 2016.
• "Drawing Things Together: A Latourian Philology?" mit Marcus Krause, Philology between Paperwork and Computation; Historical and Methodological Perspectives, International workshop on the effects of media change in literary studies, ELTE University Budapest, May 24 2016.
• "Die Ästhetik des Häßlichen", Kunstnacht des Museum Ludwig, Köln 14.11.2015.
• "Über Charles Laughtons The Night of the Hunter," Painting Movies / Jungekunstfreunde, Filmpalette Köln, 7.12.2014.

 

Konferenzvorträge

• "Mixing Pop and Politics. Politicians’ Battle for the Musical Unconscious and the Construction of an all-American Image." with Jan Niklas Jansen; America and the Musical Unconscious, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / Junior Year in Munich , May 31 2014.
• "The American Teen Film as Negotiation of (Un)Popularity." Unpopular Culture Conference, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, November 3 2013.
• "Life in Disneyland. America's Produced Spaces in Film and Television."  Topographies of Popular Culture Conference, University of Tampere, Finland, October 25 2013.
• "An Obsession With Produced Spaces. The Cinematic Representation of Shopping Malls and Suburban Ideology." Places and Non-places of English, 12th Conference of the Nordic Association for English Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden, October 11 2013.
• "My Most Prized Possession, an American Obsession. Virginity and the Sexual Politics of the American Teen Film." Purity Conference, University of Sussex in Brighton, July 12 2013.
• "The Dinner Table, a Battle Field. Adolescence and Family in American Teen Films." 6th Droit et cinema Conference, Université La Rochelle, France, June 28 2013.
• "Liminality and Fatalism: American Adolescence in the Rural Teen Film." 60th annual conference of the DGfA (German Society for American Studies), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, June 1 2013.
• "The Construction and Disruption of Gender Stereotypes in Archie Comics."  Comics Studies Conference, TU Dortmund, May 10 2013.
• "Rural Teen Film." 34th annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Conference in Albuquerque, NM, USA, Feb 16 2013.

• SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies)
• NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies)
• DGfA (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien)
• MLA (Modern Language Association)