Brigitte Peucker

Brigitte Peucker (born 13 April 1948,[1] in Berlin, Germany) is the Elias Leavenworth Professor of German Languages and Literatures and Professor of Film Studies at Yale University. A disciple of Yale University's Geoffrey Hartman, she has written on and teaches in film studies, particularly German cinema, as well as in German lyric poetry and literature.[2] She is an expert on Alfred Hitchcock, horror film, and painting and cinema. She has been Chair of the Film Studies Program at Yale University 1986-2000, and of the German Department 1997-2002, 2003-4.

Selected publications

  • Arcadia to Elysium: preromantic modes in 18th century Germany (Studien zur Germanistik, Anglistik und Komparatistik, ISSN 0340-594X; 81), Bonn: Bouvier, 1980.
  • Lyric descent in the German romantic tradition, New Haven, C.T.: Yale University Press, cop. 1987.
  • The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film, Stanford, C.A.: Stanford University Press, cop. 2007.
  • Incorporating images: film and the rival arts, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, cop. 1995
  • "Female body, textual body : nature, art, and property in Voss's "Luise"", Studies in German and Scandinavian literature after 1500: a festschrift for George C. Schoolfield, ed. by James A. Parente, Jr. and Richard Erich Schade. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, cop. 1993, p. 94-100.
  • "Looking and touching: spectacle and collection in Sontag's 'Volcano lover'", The Yale journal of criticism, ISSN 0893-5378 ; 11(1998):1, p. 159-165

References

  1. ↑ "Peucker, Brigitte". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
  2. ↑ "Brigitte Peucker is new Leavenworth Professor". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. 30 (30). 24 May 2002.


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