© Univ. Heidelberg, KuM, Klaus LandryProf. Dr. Daniel Winkler
Vita & Research Foci
Daniel Winkler is Professor at the Seminar for Romance Studies at Heidelberg University, where he teaches Italian and French Literature, Cinema and Culture. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna, Lecturer at the University of Innsbruck and Research Fellow at the École normale supérieure and the Institut historique allemand in Paris, at the IZEA in Halle and the Dresden University of Technology. He completed extended research stays in Marseille and Turin and wrote his PhD thesis on Marseille as a cinematic city and his Postdoctoral project on Italian tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment. His Postdoctoral thesis was awarded the Elise-Richter-Preis of the DRV and the University of Innsbruck's Otto-Seibert-Preis. He has co-edited and published 20 books and special issues and more than 60 articles. His publications include papers in refereed international journals such as Annali di Ca' Foscari, CINéMAS or Journal of Film and Video.
The focus of Daniel Winkler's working group is on the question of the societal role and relevance of literature and media with an emphasis on Italy and France, the Mediterranean region, the Alps and Canada. In terms of Romance Media Cultural Studies, this means not only a theoretical and cultural-historical contextualisation of representations, but also their concrete formal-aesthetic, affect-poetic and media-specific analysis. This implies a critically distanced reflection of one’s own approaches, personal positions and ideological contemporary trends in identity politics, into which students shall gain their own insight. At the same time, in the sense of the societal mission of foreign language philologies as teaching subjects, this area of research strives to dovetail teaching with cultural, educational and academic practice, as well as to critically bring it into perspective against the backdrop of the increasing political functionalisation and economisation of these areas. See my page Cinéphilie, where student film reviews and sample papers are published, among other things.
Current Projects
2024- Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1671) "Home(s)", Sub-project "Visual Ciphers of Home" (with Henry Keazor, Alexandra Vinzenz)
2022- Master Project "Popular Cultures" (with Henry Keazor, Andrea Albrecht, Alexandra Vinzenz)
2022- Luis Trenker – (Dis-)Continuities of a Transalpine Media Brand (DFG research grant)
2022- Leo Spitzer Lecture (with Herle Jessen, LMU)
2022- Cinéphile. Heidelberger Forum für Film- und Kinokultur
2022- Blog: Literaturästhetik & Theaterkultur
2010- Annual Graduate Workshops (with Sybille Große, Cora Rok, Sabine Schrader et al.)
Administrative Functions
2023- Executive Director of the Department of Romance Studies
2023- Contact Person of the TRK (Theater im Romanischen Keller)
2022/24- heiDOCS Committee, Advisory Board of the Graduate Academy, Board of Studies (Romance Studies & MA 'Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft'), Examination Board of the Faculty
2022-24 Advisory Board of the Heidelberg School of Education
2021-23 Evaluation Panel Humanities of the Swiss National Science Foundation
Publications (► Complete List of Publications & Downloads)
Monographs
2016 Körper, Revolution, Nation. Vittorio Alfieri und das republikanische Tragödienprojekt der Sattelzeit. Wilhelm Fink. 320 pp. (peer-reviewed)
2013 Marseille! Eine Metropole im filmischen Blick. Schüren.
2007 Transit Marseille. Filmgeschichte einer Mittelmeermetropole. Transcript.
2001 Repräsentationsformen der Pariser Banlieue der 90er Jahre zwischen Dokumentation und Konstruktion: Bertrand & Nils Taverniers Dokumentarfilm ‚De l’autre côté du périph’‘ und Tahar Ben Jellouns Erzählung ‚Les raisins de la galère‘, in: Sammelpunkt. Elektronisch archivierte Theorie
Co-edited Volumes
(in print) Cultures populaires postcoloniales (= HeLix, Ed. with Christoph Vatter)
2024 Luis Trenker. Edition text + kritik (= Film-Konzepte 73, (Ed. with Sophia Mehrbrey)
2023 Armut und Reichtum in Italien. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 74, Ed. with Cora Rok)
2023 ‚Provinz' in Serie. Regionalität und Glokalität in seriellen Erzählungen und TV-Serien seit der Moderne (= HeLix 15, Ed. with V. Camarero Garcia, T. Hiergeist)
2022 Neapel als intermediale Bühne. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 72, Ed. with Sabine Schrader)
2021 Italienisch-österreichische Verflechtungen. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 70)
2020 Rijeka/ Fiume. Italien und Kroatien. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 68, Ed. with Marijana Erstic)
2019 Matera und die Basilikata. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 66)
2018 Geschlechterinszenierungen. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 64)
2018 Serialität und Moderne. Feuilleton, Stummfilm, Avantgarde. Transcript (Ed. with Ingo Pohn-Lauggas, Martina Stemberger)
2017 Gegenwartstheater aus Italien. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 62)
2015 Italienisches Theater. Geschichte und Gattungen von 1480 bis 1890. Theater der Zeit (Ed. with Sabine Schrader, Gerhild Fuchs)
2015 Italo-America. Transatlantic Connections and Italian Cultural Studies (= lettere aperte 2, Ed. with Sabine Schrader)
2014 Prospettive e polemiche per lo studio della letteratura italiana (= lettere aperte 1, Ed. with Fabien Kunz-Vitali)
2014 TV glokal. Europäische Fernsehserien und transnationale Qualitätsformate. Schüren (Ed. with Sabine Schrader)
2013 The Cinemas of Italian Migration. European and Transatlantic Narratives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Ed. with Sabine Schrader)
2013 Marseille und die Provence. Eine literarische Einladung. Wagenbach (Ed.)
2010 Strategien des Entziehens. Löcker (Ed. with Karin Harrasser et al.)
2009 Apropos Canada/À propos du Canada. Fünf Jahre Graduiertentagungen der Kanada-Studien. Peter Lang (Ed. with Eugen Banauch et al.)
2008 Alpine Avantgarden und urbane Alpen. Löcker (Ed. with Karin Harrasser et al.)
2007 Montréal – Toronto. Stadtkultur und Migration in Literatur, Film und Musik. Weidler (Ed. with Verena Berger, Peter Kirsch)
2001 Exil in/aus der Romania. Beispiele aus dem 20. Jahrhundert (= QVR 17, with Anke Gladischefski)
