about
Welcome to my website! I am Peter Rehberg, a writer, critic, and curator. I hold a Ph.D. in Literature from New York University and have taught and researched at several universities and institutes in the US and Germany. I published two novels and a collection of short stories. I am also writing regularly for German media, including Zeit Online, Texte zur Kunst, der Freitag, Merkur, Sissy and Siegessäule. In my critical work, I focus on queer theory, pornography, and queer visual culture. I curated exhibitions on contemporary queer art and queer German history. From 2018 to 2022, I worked as head of collections and archives at Schwules Museum, Berlin. Since Fall 2022 I am DAAD Professor in the Department of East European, Asian, and German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Amongst my recent publications are Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine Butt and “Energie ohne Macht: Christian Maurels Theorie des Anus im Kontext von Guy Hocquenghem und der Geschichte von Queer Theory“, the afterword to Maurel‘s Essay Für den Arsch, which was formerly attributed to Guy Hocquenghem. The translation of a chapter from my novel Boymen appeared in Quertext: An Anthology of Queer Voices from German-Speaking Countries.
Greifenhagenerstrasse 45
Germany
10437 Berlin
peterrehberg (at) gmx.net
+49 (0)1512 1206 107
1615 Chase Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45223
USA
www.peterrehberg.de
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Queer Visual Culture, Media Studies, and Theory; Masculinity and Gender Studies; 19th, 20th and 21st Century German and European Literatures and Cultures; Literary and Cultural Theory; Popular Culture; Affect Theory; Postcolonial Studies
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Contemporary Queer Visual Culture
Queering the Archive: Archival Practices and Politics
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Since 2022
DAAD Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, Department of East European, Asian, and German Studies
Affiliated faculty member Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Affiliated faculty member European
Affiliated faculty member Film Studies
2018
Max-Kade-Professor, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies
2016-2018
Affiliated Research Fellow, ICI Berlin – Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin
2011-2016
DAAD Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin,
Department of Germanic Studies
Affiliated faculty member Center for Women and Gender Studies
Affiliated faculty member Program in Comparative Literature
Affiliated faculty member Center for European Studies
Co-Chair LGBTQ Research Cluster (2013-2014)
2008
Research Assistant, Prof. Eva Geulen, Universität Bonn,
Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
2004-2005
Research Assistant, Prof. Eva Geulen, Universität Bonn, Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
2003-2004
Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University, Department of German Studies
2002-2003
Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Department of German
2001-2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Department of German Studies
1997-2001
Ph.D., New York University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Dissertation: Lachen lesen. Konstitutive Komik der Moderne bei Kafka (Advisors: Prof. Avital Ronell and Prof. Eva Geulen)
1995-1996
Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University, Department of German (Advisor: Prof. Werner Hamacher)
1994-1995
Doctoral Student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Kulturwissenschaften (Advisor: Prof. Friedrich Kittler)
1994
M.A. German Literature (Concentration in Theatre and Media), Art History, and Philosophy, Universität Hamburg. Master’s Thesis: Die Nacht des Auges. Kino. Blick. (Advisor: Prof. Marianne Schuller)
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Since 2022
Freelance Curator, Schwules Museum, Berlin
2018-22
Head of Collections and Archives, Schwules Museum, Berlin
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Since 2022
DAAD Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, Department of East European, Asian, and German Studies
2018
Max-Kade-Professor, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies
2016-2018
Affiliated Research Fellow, ICI Berlin – Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin
2011-2016
DAAD Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin,
Department of Germanic Studies
Affiliated faculty member Center for Women and Gender Studies
Affiliated faculty member Program in Comparative Literature
Affiliated faculty member Center for European Studies
Co-Chair LGBTQ Research Cluster (2013-2014)
2008
Research Assistant, Prof. Eva Geulen, Universität Bonn,
Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
2004-2005
Research Assistant, Prof. Eva Geulen, Universität Bonn, Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
2003-2004
Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University, Department of German Studies
2002-2003
Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Department of German
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2017-present
Writer for Merkur and Zeit Online
2004-present
Writer for Freitag
2004-present
Writer for Die Tageszeitung
2006-2011
Editor-in-chief for the gay monthly magazine Männer
2004-2011
Writer for Deutsche Aidshilfe, national German AIDS organization
2005-2006
Editor for the queer Berlin magazine Siegessäule
1997-2001
Writer for daily Handelsblatt
1998-1999
Writer for weekly Die Zeit and Zeitmagazin
1991-1994
Freelance journalist for NDR (North-German Public Radio)
1989-1991
Freelance journalist for Radio 107
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2022
Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine Butt.
London 2022: Routledge
2018
Hipster Porn: Queere Männlichkeiten und affektive Sexualitäten im Fanzine Butt. Berlin: b_books
2007
Lachen lesen: Konstitutive Komik der Moderne bei Kafka.
Bielefeld: Transcript
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2019
Christian Maurel: Für den Arsch. Editorial note and afterword by Peter Rehberg. “Energie ohne Macht: Christian Maurels Theorie des Anus im Kontext von Guy Hocquenghem und der Geschichte von Queer Theory.” Berlin: August Verlag, 91-139
2017
Celebrity Cultures. ZfM 16 – Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaften.
Peter Rehberg, Brigitte Weingart (Eds.)
and Journal Articles
2024
“Affective Sexualities.” In: Papenburg, Bettina und Kathrin Dreckmann (Eds.), Queer Pop: Aesthetic Interventions in Contemporary Culture. Berlin 2024: de Gruyter
“‘Reizend’: German as the language of queer autotheory in Robert Tobin’s ‘Confessional: Sexuality and textuality’.” In: German Quarterly. (2024) 97 (2), 206-9
2023
“Fist.” In: Differences: A Feminist Journal of Cultural Studies. (2023) 34 (1)
“What Remains of AIDS? Trauma and Queer Memory at the Schwules Museum, Berlin.“ In: Kathrin Dreckmann, Linnea Semmerling, Elfi Vomberg (Eds.). Fringe of the Fringe: Queering Punk Media History. Hamburg 2023: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 134-49
2022
“(Wie) funktioniert queere Multiperspektivität? Zum Verhältnis verschiedener queerer Gruppen am Beispiel der Ausstellung ‘Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond’.” In: Anders, Außen, Avantgarde: Zwischen Ohnmacht und Stärke, Mainstream und Subkultur. Hamburg: Männerschwarm
“Andere Medien, andere Körper: Das Männerbild im schwulen Fanzine Butt.” In: Simon Dickel and Rebecca Racine Ramershoven (Eds.), Differenz und Repräsentation. Münster: Edition Assemblage
2021
“Queere Affekte und Sammlungspraxis: Die Porno-Alben von Siegmar Piske in der Sammlung des Schwulen Museums.” In: Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden (Ed.), Sexualitäten Sammeln: Von Körperpraktiken, Beziehungen und grenzüberschreitenden Objekten. Göttingen: Böhlau
“Queer Homelessness: Aesthetic, Curatorial and Political Practices at documenta 14.” In: Field: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism. Learning from documenta. Special Issue
“‘Grunts & Monsters’: Gay Men’s Online Media Practices.” In: Ulrike Bergermann, Erhard Schüttpelz, Monika Dommann, Jeremy Stolow, Nadine Taha (Eds.), Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies. Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes / Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 155-72
2020
“Beyond Butch: Materialität und Männlichkeit im Fanzine Butt.” In: Julia Bee and Nicole Kandioler (Eds.), Differenzen und Affirmationen. Berlin 2020:
b_books, 165-87
2019
“Queer Autofiction as Body Protocol.” In: Texte zur Kunst (115/2019), 102-15
“More than Vanilla Sex: Reading Gay Post-Pornography with Affect Theory and Psychoanalysis.” In: Feona Attwood, John Mercer, Clarissa Smith (Eds.), Porn Studies (6/2019) 114-28
“Male Becomings: Queer Bodies as Aesthetic Forms in the Post-Pornographic Fanzine Butt.” In: David Fancy and Hans Skott-Myhre (Eds.), Art as Revolt: Thinking Politics through Immanent Aesthetics. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 167-82
2018
“Virtuelle Intimität: Sexuelle Begegnungen in Chaträumen und auf Dating-Apps.” In: Carolin Küppers und Martin Schneider (Hg.), Orte der Begegnung, Orte des Widerstands: Zur Geschichte homosexueller, trans*geschlechtlicher und queerer Räume. Hamburg 2018: Männerschwarm, 134-52
2017
“Queer Affect Theory: Zum Verhältnis von Affekt und Trieb bei Sedgwick und Freud.” In: Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (Hg.), ZfM 17 – Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaften: Psychische Apparate (2/2017), 63-71
“Ist der Schwulenporno queer? Von der Obszönität der Pornographie zur Affektivität von Postpornographie.” In: Dagmar Brunow and Simon Dickel (Hg.), Queer Cinema. Mainz: Ventil Verlag, 261-81
Peter Rehberg and Brigitte Weingart: “Einleitung in den Schwerpunkt.” In: Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (Hg.), ZfM 16 – Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaften: Celebrity Cultures (1/2017), 10-21
“Jenseits von homophobem Essentialismus und toleranter Hyperkultur.” In: Detlef Grumbach (Hg.), Demo. Für. Alle: Homophobie als Herausforderung. Hamburg 2017: Männerschwarm, 56-68
2016
“‘God Hates Fa(n)gs!’: Homophobie, religiöse Rechte und die Zukunft von
Sexualität.” In: WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (2/2016),
119-34
“‘Männer wie Du & Ich’: Gay Magazines from the National to the Transnational.” In: German History (2016) 34 (3), 468-85
2014
“Pornographic and Post-Pornographic Utopia.” In: Enrico Biasin, Giovanna Maina, and Federico Zecca (Eds.), Porn after Porn: Contemporary Alternative Pornographies. Milan-Udine: Mimeses International, 257-74
“Pornografie und Bildkritik in Texten des 20. Jahrhunderts.” In: Claudia Benthien and Brigitte Weingart (Eds.), Handbuch Literatur & Visuelle Kultur. Berlin: De Gruyter, 229-46
Peter Rehberg and Bradley Boovy. “Schwule Medien nach 45.” In: Jennifer Evans, Rüdiger Lautmann, Florian Mildenberger, and Jakob Pastötter (Eds.),
Homosexualität im Spiegel der Wissenschaften. Hamburg: Männerschwarm, 529-56
2013
“Taken by a Stranger: How Queerness Haunts Germany at Eurovision.” In: Karen Fricker and Milija Gluhovic (Eds.), Performing The ‘New’ Europe: Identities, Feelings, and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest. Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 178-93
2012
“Hipstersex – postpornografische Erzählungen im schwulen Fanzine Butt.” In: Martina Schuegraf and Angela Tillmann (Eds.), Pornografisierung von Gesellschaft. Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 213-21
2011
“‘… still wonder where his male identity is.’ Bjarne Melgaard’s Ruin of
Masculinity.” In: Andrea Kroksnes (Ed.), Goddesses. A Reader. Oslo: The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, 94-108
“Happy Homos: Über Tom of Finlands schwule Superhelden.” In: Barbara Eder, Elisabth Klar, and Ramón Reichert (Eds.), Theorien des Comics: Ein Reader. Bielefeld: Transcript, 383-400
2007
Peter Rehberg and Mikko Tuhkanen. “Danzing Time: Dissociative Camp and European Synchrony.” In: SQS – Journal of Queer Studies in Finland 2/2007
“Winning Failure: Queer Nationality at the Eurovision Song Contest.” In: SQS – Journal of Queer Studies in Finland 2/2007,
“Homoskin – weder Dramaqueen noch Klon.” In: Robin Bauer, Josch Hoenes, and Volker Woltersdorff (Eds.), Unbeschreiblich Männlich: Hetero-normativitätskritische Perspektiven. Hamburg: Männerschwarm, 121-34
2006
“Der Philosoph als Transvestit: Das Lachen der Magd und der Fall des Philosophen.” In: Friedrich Block (Ed.), Komik. Medien. Gender: Ergebnisse des Kasseler Komik-Kolloquiums. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 305-24
2005
“Queer.” In: Joanna Barck and Petra Löffler (Eds.), Gesichter des Films. Bielefeld: Transcript, 231-43
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2024
“Queerer Optimismus.“ In: Reimers, Lars. Games People Play. Berlin 2024
2023
“A Psychedelic Double.“ In: BPA//Exhibition 2022 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Benjamin Busch, Berlin 2022
2018
“Versatility: Tom of Finlands Superhelden und die Erfindung der schwulen Männlichkeit”. In: Rinaldo Hopf und Axel Schock (Eds.), Mein schwules Auge / My Gay Eye: Tom of Finland Foundation Special. Tübingen 2018: Konkursbuchverlag, 312-18
2017
Interview with Didier Eribon. In: Merkur Heft 07/Juni 2017
“Fan-Mail: Wayne Koestenbaum im Gespräch mit Peter Rehberg und Brigitte Weingart.” In: Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (Ed.), ZfM 16 – Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaften: Celebrity Cultures (1/2017), 89-103
2016
“Post Phallus: Wie queer ist der Hipster?” In: Wespennest: Zeitschrift für brauchbare Texte und Bilder. W 170: Testosteron, 66-73
2015
“Genderfasching.” In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 13: Überwachung und Kontrolle (2/2015), 120-24
“Annotieren: Über die Arbeit mit PDF-Apps und darüber hinaus.” In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 12: Medien / Architekturen (1/2015), 179-83
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2018
“Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung: Schwerpunktheft 40 Jahre Foucaults
‚Sexualität und Wahrheit‘.” In: Jahrbuch Sexualitäten (2018), 291-99
2015
Magdalena Beljan: Rosa Zeiten? Eine Geschichte der Subjektivierung männlicher Homosexualität in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren der BRD.” In: German History (2015) 33 (3), 521-22
2012
“Thomas Hecken: Pop – Geschichte eines Konzepts 1955-2009.” In: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie. 131. Band, 02/2012, 315-319
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2017
Nick Couldry. “Celebrity, Konvergenz und das Schicksal von Medieninstitutionen.” In: Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (Ed.). ZfM 16 – Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaften: Celebrity Cultures. (1/17), 61-78
2005
Carol Jacobs. “Was heißt zählen? W.G. Sebalds Die Ausgewanderten.”
In: Eva Horn, Bettine Menke, and Christoph Menke (Eds.), Literatur als
Philosophie – Philosophie als Literatur. München: Wilhelm Fink, 173-92
2004
Carol Jacobs. “Der Dolch der Sprache: Die Rhetorik des Feminismus.” In: Rüdiger Campe (Ed.), Penthesileas Versprechen. Exemplarische Studien über die literarische Referenz. Freiburg: Rombach Buchverlag, 19-46
2003
Jan Mieszkowski. “Zur ewigen Nachwelt (ohne Frieden).” In: Marianne Schuller and Nikolaus Müller-Schöll (Eds.), Kleist lesen. Bielefeld: Transcript
2000
Lawrence Douglas. “Der Film als Zeuge: Nazi Concentration Camps vor dem
Nürnberger Gerichtshof.” In: Ulrich Baer (Ed.), ‘Niemand zeugt für den Zeugen.’ Erinnerungskultur nach der Shoah. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 197-218
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2021
“From Boymen.” In: Gary Schmidt and Merrill Cole (Eds.), Quertext: An Anthology of Queer Voices from German-Speaking Countries. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 203-221
2011
Boymen. A Novel. Hamburg: Männerschwarm
2005
Fag Love. A Novel. Hamburg: Männerschwarm
2002
Play. Geschichten aus New York. Stories. Hamburg: Männerschwarm
2020
“In Pursuit of Happiness: Gay Intimacy and Relationships in Peter Rehberg’s ‘American’ novels Play, Fag Love, and Boy Men” by Michael Gratzke, in German Quarterly (2020) 93 (4): 519-34
2006
“Queer Berlin: Lifestyles, Performances, and Capitalist Consumer Society” by Rolf J. Goebel, in: German Quaterly (2006) 79 (4): 484-504
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1997-present
Numerous articles on gender, sexuality, US-politics, pop culture, and literature for Handelsblatt, Die Zeit, Zeitmagazin, Zeit Online, Taz, Freitag, Männer und Siegesssäule
Invited Presentations at Conferences
2024
“Jenseits des Hipsters: Queere Positionen im Fanzine Butt im Kontext aktueller Identitätspolitik.” Transnational Periodical Cultures, Universität Mainz
“European Politics & Queer Subjectivities at the Eurovision Song Contest.” Department of German Studies, University of Texas at Austin
2023
“Queer Intimacy/Intimate Queerness: Einige Bilder von Doron Langberg.” Intervenierende Intimitäten (conference). Universität der Künste, Berlin
“Beyond the Hipster: Queer Sexual Politics in Contemporary Visual Culture.” LGBT Center, University of Louisville, KY
“Hipster Porn Revisited: Daddyland and Lesbian Force.” Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University
2022
“Wie queer sind schwule Männlichkeiten? Normativität und Anti-Normativität in Bild- und Medienkulturen des 21. Jahrhunderts“ (Keynote). Queere Männlichkeiten in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
“What Remains of AIDS? Trauma and Queer Memory at Schwules Museum, Berlin.” Ohio German Studies Workshop. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
2021
“What Remains of AIDS? Trauma and Queer Memory at Schwules Museum, Berlin.” Fringe of the Fringe: Die Privilegien der Subkultur im Gedächtnis von Institutionen. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and Stiftung Inter Media Art Institute.
“Clones in the Museum: Exhibiting Gay Masculinities Now.” Hal Fischer Symposium. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Krannart Art Museum.
“Should Schwules Museum be renamed as Queer Museum?” What Happened to Lesbian and Gay Studies? ICI Berlin
“Queere Affekte und Sammlungspraxis: Die Porno-Alben von Siegmar Piske in der Sammlung des Schwulen Museums.” Sexualitäten Sammeln: Von Körperpraktiken, Beziehungen und grenzüberschreitenden Objekten. Hygiene Museum Dresden
2019
“How Queer Matters: Tendenzen und Missverständnisse im deutschsprachigen Queer-Diskurs.” Theater* im queeren Alltag und Aktivismus der 1970er und 1980er Jahre. Institut für Theaterwissenschaft. Freie Universität Berlin
“What is a Queer Archive? Practices and Politics at Schwules Museum, Berlin.” International Memory and History Conference. Kaos GL. Izmir
“Failure as Victory: The Cultural Capital of Queer Desire at Eurovision.” Eurovisions: Perspectives from the Social Sciences, Humanities, and from the Arts. Tel Aviv University
“Was macht ein Archiv queer? Politik und Praxis in der Sammlung des Schwulen Museums.” Was bleibt? What remains? Frank Wagner Symposium. Kunstwerke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“Hipster Porn: Queere Männlichkeiten und affektive Sexualitäten im Fanzine Butt.” Folkwang Universität der Künste
“Celebrities beim Eurovision Song Contest: Queer oder Commodity Camp?” Institut für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften. Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
2018
“Beyond Orientalism and Police Surveillance: The Opaqueness of Male Forms in the Photographs of George Awde.” Gegen /Dokumentation. Ruhr Universität, Bochum
“One-Hit-Wonder oder Micro-Celebrities? Die Produktion von Stars beim Eurovision Song Contest.” Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
“Queering the Spectacle of the Arab Migrant.” Department of German. University of Georgia at Athens
“Hipster or Arab? Queer Male Forms at Schwules Museum, Berlin.” Exhibiting Post-Colonialism: Museum Culture and Public Discourse in Contemporary Germany and Europe. University of Illinois at Chicago and Goethe Institute Chicago
“Queer Celebrities.” School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. University of Chicago at Illinois
2017
“Fag Limbo: Affektive Persönlichkeiten in postpornographischen Medienumgebungen.” Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
“Echt Porno! Zum Verhältnis von Narrativität und Medialität in der Online-Pornographie.” Ruhr-Universität Bochum
“Queer Homelessness.” Learning from Documenta. Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
“Introduction.” Intimacy, Loss, Anonymity: Toward a Theory of Queer Neutrality. ICI Berlin
“Key Note.” What Makes a Man? Sexuality and Representation in Europe-Middle-East Encounters. ICI Berlin
2016
“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: Camp Aesthetics and National Representation at the Eurovision Song Contest.” Popular Music in Postwar German Culture. German Studies Workshop. The University of Texas at Austin
2015
“’The Revolution Is My Boyfriend’: Sexual Utopia in Postpornography.” The German Discovery of Sex: A Workshop. Clark University, Worcester, MA
“Grunts and Monsters: Online Media Practices and Queer Fanzines.” Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies. 3. Medienwissenschaftliches Symposion der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft / German Research Foundation, Chiemsee
2014
“Queer Pleasure in Foucault and Marcuse.” Radical Politics, Critical Aesthetics, Queer Pleasure: A Workshop on Herbert Marcuse. Cornell University
“Gender als ästhetische Form: Männlichkeiten in den Fotografien von Wolfgang Tillmans.” Institut für Medienkultur und Theater, Universität Köln
“Homophobie, Religiöse Rechte und Popkultur in den USA.” Kulturwissenschaftiches Institut Essen
2013
“Homophobie in Europa.” Homophobie, Sexismus unter Männern und andere Heteroängste (workshop). Gunda-Werner-Institut in der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien Humboldt Universität, Berlin
2012
“Gagaism: Self-Fashioning in Pornographie und Pop.” Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
2011
“Popfrauen und Pornomänner: Self-Fashioning in der Postmoderne.”
Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
“Lena – Lolita – Lulu: Or, Eurovision’s Queer Comeback.” Feeling European: The Eurovision Song Contest and the European Public Sphere (international workshop). Fachhochschule Düsseldorf
2010
“Eurovision: It’s Oh So Queer!” Setting the Agenda for Eurovision Studies (international conference). Department for Critical Studies in Television, University of Oslo
2009
“Dancing Europe: Verka Serduchka as Allegory for the (Im)possibility of European Unity.” Eurovision Song Contest and the ‘New Europe’ (international conference). University of Warwick
2008
“Ironische Männlichkeiten: Prollige Homos, dandyhafte Heten – ist das queer?” University of Madrid
2007
“Queer Nationality and Camp Mainstream in the Eurovision Song Contest.” Queer Eurovision Conference. University of Helsinki
“Homoskin: Weder Dandy noch Drag Queen.” Institut für vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Bonn
2002
“Zukunft von Gender: Zeitlichkeit im Kontext von Performativitäts-Konzepten.” Screening Gender: Körper und Geschlecht im Kontext von Kulturwissenschaft, Bio-Technologien und Kunst/Literatur. Universität Hamburg
2001
“German Studies: A Gay Science?” Annual DAAD Weekend. Cornell University
2000
Der Philosoph als Transvestit.” 1. Kasseler Komik-Kolloquium: Haben Frauen nichts zu lachen? Genderstudien zur Kunst des Komischen. Universität Kassel
2023
“Did Ru Paul Kill Eurovision? Fan Culture, New Media and Celebrities.” Eurovisions 6th Edition. “Representing oneself and the other: How Eurovision is shaping the perception of countries and cultures”. Hope University, Liverpool
“Stars on and off the stage: The Eurovision Song Contest in the age of microcelebrity.” ‘Love, Love, Peace, Peace’: Political and Queer Theory in the European Song Contest. The University of Edinburgh. Together with Prof. Karen Fricker
2022
“Stars on and off the Stage: The Eurovision Song Contest in the Age of Microcelebrity.” Universo per Eurovision Song Contest. Università degli Studi di Torino. Together with Prof. Karen Fricker.
2018
“Eurovision’s Failed Celebrities.” 4th Celebrity Studies Conference: Desecrating Celebrity. Sapienza University, Rome
2017
“‘Bärtige Männer nackt auf Matratzenlager.’ Post-and Pre-Aids Representations of Gay Masculinity.” A Golden Age for Queer Sexual Politics? Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film in 1970s Germany. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
“Masochism and the Affective Spectator.” Sensibility & the Senses: Media Bodies Practices. 11. NECS – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies – Conference. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris
2016
“Virtual Intimacies: Gay Men’s Online Media Practices.” Sex and the Cinema Conference. Kent University, Canterbury, UK
“Can Pornography Bring Us Together?” In/Between – Cultures of Connectivity. 10. NECS – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies – Conference. Universität Potsdam
2015
“Drive, Pleasure, Affect: Sexual Temporalities in Post-Pornography.” Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures. Millersville University, Lancaster, PA
“De-activated Masculinities: Male Bodies as Aesthetic Forms in the Queer Fanzine Butt.” Thinking Through Deleuze: Nomadic Subjects, Global Citizenship and Posthumanism. Brock University, St. Catharines, CA
2014
“ “‘We always try to make a connection between sexuality and for instance doing dishes and psychotherapy.’ Affective Sexualities In the Queer Fanzine Butt.” Where Is Frankfurt Now? Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main
2013
“Butch Turn: Schwule Männlichkeitsentwürfe nach Aids.” 1. LSBTI-Wissenschaftskongress. Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld, Berlin
“Transnational Post Porn.” Transnationalisms: Sexualities, Fantasies, and the World Beyond (seminar). German Studies Association Conference, Denver
Queer Fanzines as Post-Pornographic Utopia.” XI MAGIS International Film Studies Spring School. University of Udine, Gorizia
2012
“‘Die Polizei, dein Freund und Helfer’ Tatort’s Impeccable Detectives.” Crime Scene Germany (panel). German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee
“Narratives of HIV in the 21st Century.” Gender and Sexual Health: Literary, Cultural, or Historical Comparisons (seminar). ACLA. Brown University, Providence
“‘It’s Like the Seventies, Just without Hope’: Post-Pornographic Aesthetics in the Queer Fanzine BUTT.” After ‘Homosexual’: The Legacies of Gay Liberation (international conference). Victoria University and La Trobe University, Melbourne
2003
“Understanding Sexuality: Madonna.” MMLA, Chicago
2022
“Matt Lambert & Peter Rehberg“. Queer Festival Heidelberg 2022
2021
“Zum Lachen: Ist Kafka ein komischer Autor?” Museum Folkwang, Essen
2020
“(Wie) funktioniert queere Multiperspektivität? Zum Verhältnis verschiedener queerer Gruppen am Beispiel der Ausstellung ‘Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond’ des Schwulen Museums Berlin.” Akademie Waldschlösschen
2019
“Für den Arsch: Schwule Sexualpolitik damals und heute.” Männerakademie München. Sub-Zentrum
“Queer Fanzines as Post-Pornographic Utopia.” Village Berlin
2018
“Der ‘arabische Mann’: Bilder zwischen Angst und Begehren.” Männerakademie München. Sub-Zentrum
2017
“Virtuelle Intimität: Sexuelle Begegnungen in Chaträumen und auf Dating-Apps.” Akademie Waldschlösschen
“Vom ‘Clone’ zum Hipster: Das schwule Männerbild im Porno.” 20. Pink Apple Lesbian and Gay Filmfestival, Zürich
2016
“Cruising Utopia 2.0.” Lesbisch-schwule Filmtage Hamburg
2013
“It’s Oh So Queer! – Queerness und Mainstream Kultur beim Eurovision Song Contest.” 16. Pink Apple Lesbian and Gay Filmfestival, Zürich
2011
“Moden und Mimosen – Heteronormativität in den Medien.” ‘Die Revolution haben wir uns anders vorgestellt.’ Taz – Medienkongress. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2010
“‘… still wonder where his male identity is’ – Bjarne Melgaard’s Ruin of Masculinity.” Feminism in the Art World – Reflections on Feminist Influences on Art (seminar). Nasjonalmuseet Oslo
2009
“Queer Nation? The United States 40 Years After Stonewall.” Amerikahaus, Tübingen
“Queer Nation? The United States 40 Years After Stonewall.” Amerikahaus, Freiburg
“Pornoautobiographie: Über Todd Verrow’s Film ‘Where Your Heart Should Be’.” Pornonorm – ein Diskurs über Pornografie (symposion). WUK (Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus), Vienna
2008
“Queer Ecstasy.” The Politics of Ecstasy (international cultural festival). Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
“Beyond Pornography – Sexual Culture in Berlin’s Lab.Oratory.” Porn Film Festival, Berlin
2004
“Representing Masculinity in Fassbinder and Sirk.” Nasjonalmuseet Oslo
Discussions, Book Presentations
2024
“Eurovision and the ‘New’ Europe: Identities, Feelings, and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest.” Eu(ro)vision Day at Malmö University. University of Malmö
“Scoping Workshop: Kritische Pornografie Forschung.” Volkswagen-Stiftung, Hannover
2022
“Archiving Queer BIPOC* Histories”, together with Thao Ho and Tarek Shukrallah. Schwules Museum, Berlin.
“Aufarbeitung, Akten, Archive – Zum Umgang mit sensiblen Dokumenten.“ Unabhängige Kommission zur Aufarbeitung sexuellen Kindesmissbrauchs, Berlin.
2021
“Porn Archive Workshop.“ Schwules Museum, Berlin.
“Erfahrungen mit Aufarbeitung.“Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Meike Baader. Sexueller Kindesmissbrauch und pädosexuelle Netzwerke. Unabhängige Kommission zur Aufarbeitung sexuellen Kindesmissbrauchs, Berlin.
2020
“Queer Community: Zusammen oder gegeneinander?” Roundtable discussion together with Dr. Birgit Bosold and Dr. Claudia Reiche. Thealit, Bremen
“Masculinity and National Identity.” Roundtable discussion together with Dr. Ashley Morgan, Dr. João Florêncio, Ben Miller, Dr. Ian Sergent, and Dr. José Arroyo. Masculinity, Sex, and Popular Culture Research Network. Schwules Museum, Berlin
2019
“Die Verqueerung der Welt: Themen und Formen nach Hubert Fichte.” Roundtable discussion together with Prof. Brigitte Weingart, Nadja Abt and Jasco Viefhues. Schwules Museum in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
“Hipster Porn.” Book presentation and discussion. Queeres Verlegen (queer book fair). Aquarium, Berlin
“Für den Arsch.” Book presentation and panel discussion together with Tobias Haberkorn and Morten Paul. Goldrausch, Berlin
“Für den Arsch.” Book presentation and panel discussion together with Morten Paul. Freitagsküche, Frankfurt a.M.
“Queer as German Folk: Queer Culture.” Panel discussion. Goethe Institute, Toronto
“Stonewall was a Riot!“ Panel discussion with Edmund White, Eileen Myles, and Jericho Brown. 20. Poesiefestival Berlin
“Hipster Porn: Queere Männlichkeiten und affektive Sexualitäten im Fanzine Butt.” Book presentation and panel discussion together with Prof. Brigitte Weingart and Dr. Michael Bucher. Schwules Museum, Berlin
2018
“Queer Cinema.” Book presentation and roundtable discussion together with Prof. Simon Dickel and Prof. Dagmar Brunow. Linke Buchtage, Berlin
2017
“Selbstdokumentation und Affektkulturen.” Zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Brigitte Weingart, auf Einladung des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs Das Dokumentarische: Exzess und Entzug, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
“Pugs in Love: Queer Weekend.“ Roundtable Discussion. Gorki Theater,
Berlin
“Queeres Post-Cinema.” Book presentation and discussion with Prof. Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky. Buchhandlung Walther König, Berlin
2016
“Transforming Europe, One City at a Time.” Roundtable Discussion. The Eurovision Song Contest and the Changing Europe. Conference organized by
the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Sverige Television. The Stockholm School of Economics
2014
“Sexual Pathologies.” Workshop. German Studies Association Conference, Kansas City
“Teaching TV: Tatort and Eurovision as Examples of German Popular Culture” (organizer). Proseminar for Faculty and Graduate Students. Dept. of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
“Learning from Jose Munoz”: A Teach-in Symposion. The LGTQ Research Cluster, The University of Texas at Austin
2013
“The Future of German Studies in North America” (organizer). Annual DAAD-Meeting, German Studies Association Conference, Denver
2012
“Sexuality as History” (organizer). Proseminar for Faculty and Graduate Students. Dept. of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
2021
Intimacy. Public lecture series in conjunction with the exhibition Intimacy: New Queer Art From Berlin And Beyond at Schwules Museum, Berlin. A cooperation between Leibniz Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), ICI Berlin, and Schwules Museum. Invited speakers: Prof. Susanna Paasonen (Turku), Prof. Jean-Luc Nancy (Bordeaux), Prof. Tim Dean (Urbana-Champaign).
2019-2021
Research Network Masculinity and Popular Culture (MascNet). Steering committee member. Birmingham, Berlin, and Barcelona
2018
Exhibiting Post-Colonialism: Museum Culture and Public Discourse in Contemporary Germany and Europe. Conference organizer. University of Illinois at Chicago and Goethe Institute Chicago
2017
Intimacy, Loss, Anonymity: Toward a Theory of Queer Neutrality. Workshop organizer (together with Prof. John Paul Ricco, Toronto). ICI Berlin
What Makes a Man? Sexuality and Representation in Europe – Middle East Encounters. Conference organizer (together with Prof. Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmouth and Prof. John Borneman, Princeton). ICI Berlin
2015
Once upon a time in the East: On GDR Culture. Lecture series organizer (together with Prof. Sabine Hake). The University of Texas at Austin
2013-2014
Migration/Immigration. Lecture series organizer (together with Prof. Sabine Hake, Prof. Kit Belgum, and Prof. Hans Boas). The University of Texas at Austin
2022
Mediated Masculinities. Roundtable with Tom Roach, Jamie Hakim and James Cummings. Schwules Museum, Berlin.
2019
Die Verqueerung der Welt: Formen und Inhalte nach Hubert Fichte. Workshop organizer (together with Prof. Brigitte Weingart). Schwules Musuem, Berlin
ALMS Queering Memory Conference Berlin. Steering committee member. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2018
Bilder vom ‘arabischen Mann’: Ängste, Begehren und Herausforderungen. Workshop organzier (together with Ashkan Sephavand). Akademie Waldschlösschen
Doppelpass: Lesben, Schwule und der Feminismus. Conference organizer (together with Dr. Birgit Bosold). Schwules Museum, Berlin
2023
Photography as a Way of Life: The Works of Rüdiger Trautsch. Schwules Museum, Berlin
2020-2021
Intimacy: Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond. Schwules Museum, Berlin.
2020
100 Objects: An Archive of Feelings. Schwules Museum, Berlin (together with Ben Miller)
2019
Instinct # 8: The Cat and the Horse. Village Berlin (together with Eric LeRouge)
2020
Amos Badertscher: The Souls Around Us. Schwules Museum, Berlin
2019
My Dearest Sweet Love: Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy. Schwules Museum, Berlin
2022
Bilder der Lesben- und Frauenbewegung aus dem Nachlass der Fotografin Petra Gall (together with Nicole Otte). Schwules Museum, Berlin. Funded by DIGIS – Forschungs- und Kompetenzzentrum Digitalisierung Berlin
2020
Intimacy: Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond. Schwules Museum Berlin. Funded by Hauptstadt Kulturfond (HKF)
2019
Berlinbestände aus dem Nachlass der Fotografin Petra Gall / Musik- und Veranstaltungsszene (together with Nicole Otte). Schwules Museum, Berlin. Funded by DIGIS – Forschungs- und Kompetenzzentrum Digitalisierung Berlin
2017
Financial support for the publication of Hipster Porn: Queere Männlichkeiten, affektive Sexualitäten und neue Medien through the Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld
2016-2017
DAAD-Rückkehrstipendium für USA-Dozenten
2012
“Best Article in the Area of Media and Gender published in 2011” awarded by Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaften for “Happy Homos. Über Tom of Finlands schwule Superhelden.” In: Barbara Eder, Elisabth Klar, and Ramón Reichert (Eds.), Theorien des Comics: Ein Reader. Bielefeld 2011: Transcript, 383-400.
2005
Writer-in-Residence. Sylt-Quelle. Rantum
1999
New York University Fellowship recipient, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University
1998-1999
Altenhein Fellowship, New York University
1997-1998
Altenhein Fellowship, New York University
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Media & Sexuality. Dept. of Asian, East European and German Studies, Department of Women, Gender and Sexualities Studies, School of Communication, Film, and Media Studies, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2023 (in English)
Exhibiting Postcolonialism. Dept. of East European, Asin and German Studies, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2022 (in German)
Exhibiting Postcolonialism. Dept. of Germanic Studies, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Spring 2018 (in German)
Contemporary Literary Theory. Program in Comparative Literature. The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2015 (in English)
Madness and Modernity. Dept. of Germanic Studies, Program in Comparative Literature, and Center for Women and Gender Studies. The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2015 (in English)
Body and Biopolitics. Dept. of Germanic Studies, Program in Comparative Literature,and Center for Women and Gender Studies. The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2014 (in English)
A Queer History of Pleasure. Dept. of Germanic Studies, Center for Women and Gender Studies. The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013 (in English)
German for Graduate Students. Dept. of Germanic Studies,
The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2012 (in English)
The Gay Critic, Dept. of German Studies and Dept. of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, Fall 2001 (in English)
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Elizabeth Grosz, New Materialism, Affect Theory (with Anna Senuysal, Dept. of East European, Asian, and German Studies, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2023)
Leo Bersani (with Anna Senuysal, Dept. of East European, Asian, and German Studies, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2022)
Queer Theory (with Kate Goodin, Center for Women and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin Fall 2015)
Affect Theory (with William Brewer, Dept. of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2014)
Literary Theory (with Jessica Plummer, Dept. of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin Fall 2012)
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A History of Photography Through a German Lens. Dept. of Asian, East European, and German Studies, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2024 (in German)
The European Vampire. Program in European Studies, Dept. of East European, Asian and German Studies, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2023 (in English)
Exhibiting Postcolonialism. Dept. of East European, Asian and German Studies, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2023 (in German)
A German History of Queer Photography. Dept. of East European, Asian, and German Studies. University of Cincinnati, Fall 2022 (in German)
Crime Scene Europe. Dept. of Germanic Studies, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Spring 2018 (in English)
Crime Scene Europe. Dept. of Germanic Studies, Center for European Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2016, Fall 2014 (in English)
Freud, Feminism & Queer Theory. Dept. of Germanic Studies, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Center for Women and Gender Studies, and Center for European Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013 (in English)
Sexuality and Human Rights (Signature Course for Freshmen). School of Undergraduate Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 (in English)
The German Pop Novel. Dept. of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2015, Fall 2012, (in German)
Contemporary German Civilization. Dept. of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 (in German)
Berlin in the Movies. Dept. of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013 (in German)
Queer Visual Culture. Center for Women and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012 (in English)
Brecht, Sirk, and Fassbinder. Dept. of Germanic Studies and Center for European Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2012 (in English)
Introduction to European Studies. Center for European Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2011 (in English)
Sexual Politics in 20th Century Germany. Dept. of Germanic Studies, Center for Women and Gender Studies, and Center for European Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2011 (in English)
Familienpolitik: Der Familienroman von Mann bis zur Gegenwart. Institut für
Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Bonn, Spring 2008
Sexualität und Popkultur. Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Bonn, Spring 2008
Melodrama und Avantgarde. Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Bonn, Spring 2005
Gender Remixed (team-teaching with Brigitte Weingart). Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Bonn, Spring 2005
Kafka: Unheimlich Komisch. Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Bonn, Fall 2004
Fetischismus: Theoretische Positionen in Filmwissenschaft und Gender Studies. Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Bonn, Fall 2004
Fetishism. Dept. of German Studies, Brown University, Spring 2004 (in English)
Berlin – A City Strives to Reinvent Itself. Dept. of German Studies, Brown University Fall 2003 (in English)
Kafka: From the Uncanny to Comedy. Dept. of German Studies, Brown University, Fall 2003 (in German)
Crisis in Literature. Dept. of German, Northwestern University, Spring 2003 (in English)
Myth and Monumentalism. Dept. of German, Northwestern University, Summer 2003 (in German)
The Age of Reason and Revolution. Dept. of German, Northwestern University, Fall 2002 (in German)
Laughter in German Literature. Dept. of German Studies, Cornell University, Spring 2002 (in German)
From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness (freshmen writing seminar). Dept. of German Studies, Cornell University, Spring 2002 (in English)
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Professional Speaking and Writing in German. Dept. of German Studies, Brown University, Spring 2004
Conversation and Composition. Dept. of German Studies, Cornell University, Fall 2001
Intermediate German II. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, New York University, Spring 2001
Intermediate German I. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, New York University, Fall 2000
Conversation and Composition. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, New York University, Fall 2000
Elementary German II. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, New York University, Spring 2000
Elementary German I. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, New York University, Fall 1999
University of Cincinnati
Dissertation Committees
Dept. of East European, Asian, and German Studies
· Anna Senuysal (2022-24)
Frankfurt am Main
M.A. Committees
Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft
· Nils Meyn (2020-21)
at Chicago
Dissertation Committees
Department of Germanic Studies
· Lucas Riddle (2018-21)
Dissertation Committees
Department of Germanic Studies:
· Cindy Walter-Gensler (2013-16)
· Jessica Plummer (2012-16)
· Bradley Boovy (2011-12)
M.A. Committees
Department of History:
· Christopher Duncan (2013-14)
Center for Women and Gender Studies:
· Nicole Arteaga (chair, 2012-13)
Honors Thesis Committees
Department of Germanic Studies:
· John Henry Roenigk (chair, 2014)
The Humanities Program:
· Sofia Softky (chair, 2014)
Other Committees and Services
Program in Comparative Literature:
· Graduate Students Admission Committee (2014-15)
· Graduate Studies Committee
Department of Germanic Studies:
· Undergraduate Scholarship Committee (2011-16)
· Graduate Studies Committee
The University of Texas at Austin:
· Advisor on DAAD-scholarships and study in Germany (2011-16)
Bachelor and Master’s Students Committees
Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
(2004-08)
Honors Thesis Committees
Department of German Studies
· Stephen Mosblech (chair, 2003-04)
German Studies Review
Porn Studies
Bloomsbury: Bloomsbury’s New Direction in German Studies
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
German Studies Association
2024
Kritische Pornografie Forschung. Funded by Volkswagen Stiftung
2021
Queeres Netzwerk. Freie Universität Berlin. DFG-funded
2020
QueerSearch. Founding member and board member
2019-21
Research Network Masculinity and Popular Culture (MascNet). Steering committee member
2013-14
LGBTQI Research Cluster. The University of Texas at Austin. Co-director (together with Prof. Ann Cvetkovich)
German (native); English (near-native); French (good reading knowledge), Italian, Spanish (basic reading knowledge)
