Dr Sabine Müller
Dr Sabine Müller
Stipendiary Lecturer in German
Email: Dr Sabine Müller
Teaching
I am responsible for the organisation of the German teaching at St John’s College and St Catherine’s College. I teach a broad range of topics in the modern period of German literature and film from 1730 to the present. Authors include W. G. Sebald, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht and E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Research Interests
I am particularly interested in questions concerning film and literature as social practices: that is, I am not just interested in why we read a novel or watch a film in the first place but also in what we do when we watch or read. In my D.Phil I used cognitive and phenomenological approaches to film to re-describe the relationship between popular cinema and its audience in the period of the Third Reich up to the 1950s. Currently my research focuses on the emergence of classical narrative cinema in the early 20th century in Germany, more specifically the intersection between the theory of film and the development of the narrative system. I have also worked on critics of the first generation of the Frankfurt School such as Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor W. Adorno.
Biography
After my first degree in German Literature, Art History and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen, I completed an M.St. and my D.Phil. at The Queen’s College, Oxford. I worked as tutor and lecturer at a number of Colleges at Oxford before I came to St John’s College in 2010.
Publications
- ‘Finally a Human Being in this Palace!’ – How ‘Sissi’ Dealt with the Past, in ‘New Readings’, 9 (2008).
- Von der »Kunst ohne Anführungsstriche zu zitieren« - Benjamins anthropologischer Materialismus zwischen Methode und Utopie, in: Benjamin and Anthropology, ed. by Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan and Athony Phelan, Series: Litterae (Freiburg: Rombach, forthcoming 2011)
